Tuesday, October 05, 2010

Some Good News

Rome News-Tribune
October 5, 2010

CAVE SPRING has been on something of a roll lately. The groundbreaking Thursday for the new $10 million, 52-bed Cave Spring Rehabilitation Center, part of a 2008 state bond issue for infrastructure improvements, will be but the latest.

Just the past couple of years has seen — and we’re probably overlooking something — the opening of the SPLOST-funded community center, of the new gymnasium at the Georgia School for the Deaf, the appearance of the Cave Spring Welcome Center and Museum, a Presidential Citizens Medal being awarded to Kimberly McGuiness, chairwoman of GSD’s School Council, lots of new business activity in the postage-stamp downtown ... even the discovery of what appears to be a Cherokee era two-story log cabin and potential tourist magnet.

The sleepy little (population 1,000) city with the long history sure seems to be rousing from what most Floyd Countians seemed to consider Rip Van Winkle status.

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