2025-2026
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Town of Taylorsville hosted a cleanup on March 28, 2026. The volunteers cleaned up parts of Euharlee Street, Church Street, Old State Highway 113, Old Alabama Road, & Taylorsville Road. Volunteers arrived at 9 am for sign-in and concluded at 12 pm. After volunteers completed the cleanup, lunch was provided. This concluded Taylorsville’s 14th Great…
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51 Adairsville JROTC cadets, reported for duty on Friday, March 20, 2026. Their mission was to clean up trash and debris from the roadside of the 6.2-mile Lance Corporal Seth Sharp Memorial Highway. The cadets were deployed at 8:30 am and the cleanup concluded at 11:30 am. There was a total of 153 volunteer hours…
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Citizens of GA Power helped remove 26 bags (520 lbs.) of trash from Covered Bridge Rd. on March 6, 2026. They mainly focused on the entrance area of Plant Bowen (down to the training building and railroad tracks). They met at the Bowen training building at 8:30 am for sign-in and concluded at 10:30 pm.…
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24 Bartow County Master Gardeners (MG’s) volunteered to man 6 sites throughout the county to distribute 2,000 seedlings. Bartow MG’s always make sure the program runs smoothly, and volunteered a total of 91.5 hours the day of Arbor Day. All sites started at 9 am with the exception of Doug’s starting at 8 am. The…
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The 2026 Chipper Project was conducted on Jan. 22 & 23, 2026. The event had to be rescheduled due to rain. Lake Allatoona is a flood controlled lake, meaning the water drops to normal river flow in the winter months. This winter we have had too much rain, which has made the lake rise. The…
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Starting in September KBB had 3 garden workdays. On September 9, 2025 there was a workday at Hayes Park Rain Garden. There were 4 Bartow County Master Gardeners (Christina Anderson, Missy Phillips, Susan Gilmore, & Alicia McMahan) & 2 KBB staff (Katie Martin & Gracie Jordan). The workday started at 9:00am & concluded at 11:00am…
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On October 11th Keep Bartow Beautiful, Bartow Grant Writing Department, & Bartow County Solid Waste conducted a scrap tire amnesty week, which concluded on October 18th. An amnesty event is an effective way to remove and recycle scrap tires that blight our community and pose health hazards for residents. During this event, only Bartow County…
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The City of Emerson held a Great American Cleanup event in the fall of 2025 (Saturday October 11, 2025). The cleanup had two main locations: Waterside Estates (Oct. 25) and Downtown Emerson (with registration at Emerson City Hall). The cleanup began at 9:00 am and concluded at 12:00 pm. The waterside site had 7 volunteers,…
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This year was the celebration of the 40th Great Lake Allatoona Cleanup! The cleanup was held on September 27, 2025. There was a total of 1,350 volunteers signed up to volunteer at GLAC, and 1,160 showed up. Volunteers completed 3,480 volunteer hours. There was a total of 2.99 tons of trash and 15 tires removed…
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On September 26th, 2025 Keep Bartow Beautiful and Anheuser-Busch conducted a river cleanup, land cleanup, and restoration of the rain garden at Hardin Bridge. There were a total of 13 volunteers and 1 Keep Bartow Beautiful staff, who worked for a total of 4 hours*14 volunteers=56 man hours. The “water team” began at Euharlee Creek…
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