Carroll County Courthouse grand opening May 12
The new Carroll County Courthouse has been open for several weeks but the official grand opening of the facility will be on May 12. This event will allow the general public for the first time to tour the building and receive demonstrations of the state-of-the-art technology throughout the $16.9 million complex.
The event will run from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with guided tours of the five-story building. Notably, the tour will allow visitors to see the inside of the county’s emergency operations center (dubbed the McIntosh Room) where emergency crews will gather in the event of a storm or other potentially dangerous situation. The tour will also include demonstrations of some of the technology employed in the building, including the massive smart board in the McIntosh Room, the top-of-the-line security system and advanced sound and visual systems in all the courtrooms. The League of Women voters will be on hand as tour guides, and department heads who have offices in the building will be on hand to answer questions. The tours and demonstrations are absolutely free, and everyone is welcome to attend. Parking is available at the parking garage directly adjacent to the building in downtown Carrollton.
The building was paid for entirely out of SPLOST funds, which is a 1 percent sales tax that applies equally to residents, visitors and tourists alike.
In the coming months, crews will demolish the pre-existing courthouse annex, which will be replaced with a glass atrium and a new public entrance to the building itself.
Say, "cheese," Carroll County
The new issue of Georgia Magazine is in the stands, in the mail and online. Absolutely great article on page 30 about artisan cheese making in GA with Carroll County's Capra Gia Cheese Company and Udderly Cool Dairy featured prominently. Check it out!:
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/gemc/georgia_201205/#/42
CVB launches new lodging search and booking tool
Look up. Just under the banner at the top of this page, check out the latest feature on www.visitcarrollton.com. The Carrollton Area Convention and Visitors Bureau is partnering with BookDirect/JackRabbit Systems to add a hotel searching and booking tool to our site. This new "widget" brings our visitors and the area lodging they need together in an exciting new way. Using the widget empowers our visitors to search our local lodging properties for availability, price, location and more, plus they can book rooms directly with the lodging property through the widget. As the official destination marketing organization of the Greater Carrollton Area/Carroll County, we at the CACVB are proud to offer this new service to our visitors and our lodging properties. Try it out today!
Chattahoochee Pot Luck & Story Night is June 6th
Mark June 6th on your calendars and meet at the river! The Chattahoochee Pot Luck & Story Night is the first gathering for an idea that's been growing within the Friends of McIntosh Reserve and the Friends of the WhItesburg Library communities. The idea is to ultimately bring our local communities together at McIntosh Reserve for a day of telling our stories of the river - stories that reveal our personal, historical, ecological and cultural connections to this ever-dynamic natural resouce in our midst. It's an idea that sprang from the river stories of local children at the Whitesburg Elementary School. Hearing their funny, sad, scary, awestruck tales made us realize the river is a very real presence in these kids' lives. A day of storytelling by the river would strengthen and deepen all of our ties to it. And there are so many ways to tell these stories: through music, oral histories, explorations of nature, crafts, and fun, to name a few.
To begin to create such a day requires creating this first night. We invite you to join us from 6-9pm on Wednesday June 6 at the Council Bluff Pavilion at McIntosh Reserve. Bring a dish to share and a story of the river to tell. Bring an oldtimer and a youngtimer. Bring anyone who you think might enjoy being part of this night and the larger project. Come to tell a story or just to listen. But please come and share this evening by the river that flows through all our lives.
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