ROME, Ga. -- The last day of school is right around the corner for Floyd County students.

Public schools will dismiss for the summer on Friday, May 25.

The last days of school in other metro Atlanta districts are staggered throughout the second half of May. They include:

Wednesday, May 16
Clarke County

Thursday, May 17
Hall County

Friday, May 18
Bartow County
Clayton County
Fulton County

Tuesday, May 22
Atlanta Public Schools
Barrow County

Wednesday, May 23
Carroll County
Gwinnett County
Newton County

Thursday, May 24
Cobb County
Decatur City Schools
DeKalb County
Rockdale County

ROME, Ga. -- The Rome Rotary Club has given a big gift to Georgia Highlands College.

Rotary Club president Susan Bracken Wright presented the school with a $1,500 check during this year's appreciation barbecue for law enforcement officers in northwest Georgia.

The school, along with the Rome-based Community Criminal Justice Foundation, plan to use the money to establish a criminal justice scholarship named for Judge Norman Fletcher, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who retired in 2006.

The appreciation barbecue was held May 4 at The Forum in downtown Rome. In addition to great food, the hardworking men and women of northwest Georgia law enforcement were treated to music, door prizes and other fun.

ROME, Ga. -- The Berry College Forensics Team placed sixth in this year's Novice National Forensic Tournament.

One team member, freshman Jamie Bingham, took home a number of individual awards. The Dallas, Ga. resident won the top title in the persuasive speaking category and placed second in communication analysis, second in impromptu sales and fourth in after-dinner speaking.

Two other Berry students earned national titles as well. Kim Treese, a senior from Pearl River, La., placed fourth in communication analysis and sixth in prose interpretation. Junior Clay Henry of Blue Ridge came in second in Reader's Theater for his performance in a production of "Appalachian Trials."