Rockmart

You know, I got a funny story.

Um, before I even thought about taking the Rockmart job, I was speaking at a clinic up at Coosa High School, um, back in February.

May have been late January.

Um, and, and I'm a defensive guy.

It had to be one of the five home games.

You know, uh, it just happens to be Murray County.

Um, is there any unique traditions for Rockmart on homecoming?

Well, we've got a dance on Saturday, and you know, we do a lot of the dress up stuff during the week.

I just w- I just wanna drive that home, 'cause I don't think anybody talked about them on, on, on the broadcast.

Although I didn't hear the broadcast, 'cause I was at Jefferson's in Rockmart with my far left Dodgers friend, Devin, and it was bingo night at Jefferson's in Rockmart, which was super annoying.

And by bingo night, I mean it was classic rock bingo night, so it was a bunch of boomer rednecks from Rockmart.

Not that I don't love boomer rednecks.

I know many of them and am friends with many of them.

[upbeat music] Welcome in to another episode of the Rockmart Yellow Jackets Football Report for week eight.

Lord, if this season is flying by already.

[clears throat] But this week, Coach Rich Finley and I discuss the bye week, and we look ahead to this week's matchup for basically the region championship in the region, um, against the Ringgold Tigers.

I thought their student section was really good.

Um, that place was rocking.

It's gonna be rocking here Friday night, but we need to make sure, you know, for our, our Rockmart community, if, if you are in town and, and you ain't sure what you're, you're gonna do, you need to be in that stadium at 7:30 for kickoff.

It, it needs to be a home field advantage.

It needs to be rocking at our place.

He lived with his owner and his owner is adamant about what she believes happened.

Hee Haw is a pet that belongs to Hannah Israel at Elsberry Riding and Farm in Rockmart, Georgia.

Hannah says she bottle fed that little donkey from the day he was born and she raised him inside her home.

He participated in petting zoos at the farm and then she also took him on mobile petting zoos around the community.

And so I was door-knocking factories.

I was door-knocking, uh, businesses in, like, Rockmart, Marietta, Cedartown, Dalton, Calhoun, Cartersville, for anybody I know, a couple of Atlanta folks here.

Like, way out in the boonies, way out in the country.

And I also got the wonderful world of Fulton Industrial Boulevard.

Who was Rick Carroll at that point, and how in the world did you end up becoming a firefighter?

Well, at that time, in 1975, I was 23 years old, and, uh, when, uh, earlier than that, we had lived in, uh, when I was small, I guess I, we moved from Rockmart and, uh, I was in the third grade, but, uh, it was always a big deal to hear that fire truck leaving-

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... down to old city hall, and, uh, me and the kids in the neighborhood would run out and watch the fire truck or whatever.

The headline, Justice for Hee Haw? Donkey shooting may shift how courts view police searches.

Back on August 29th, late at night, officers in Georgia were out searching for a missing 12-year-old girl near Rock Mart.

And that is exactly what I want police doing at midnight.

A little girl is missing.

guy.

I think he was from Rock Mart.

Rock Mart.

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