Sunday Edition November 24, 2019 BARTOW COUNTY’S ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER $1.50 SOMBER STATISTICS INSIDE Bartow opioid death rate 60% higher than Georgia average BY JAMES SWIFT 2019, also notes that at least 10 Bartow County Th e 2019
[email protected] residents experienced fatal heroin overdoses be- Winter tween 2010-2018. Numbers from the Georgia Department of While the state opioid death rate for 2018 stood edition of Th e Public Health (DPH) indicate that 170 individu- at 8.2 per 100,000, the rate for Bartow County Daily als in Bartow County died from drug overdoses was 13.2 — a rate almost 61% higher. Meanwhile, Tribune News’ in the last decade — with 105 attributed to opi- the overall drug overdose death rate for Bartow in oids. 2018, 18.8 per 100,000, likewise eclipsed the state magazine, The data culled from the department’s Online average of 13.3. Discover Bartow Analysis Statistical Information System (OASIS), which does not include complete numbers for SEE STATISTICS, PAGE 6A Cartersville child murder TAKING SHAPE trial delayed to next year Downtown BY JAMES SWIFT Adairsville
[email protected] Cherokee Judicial Circuit Judge D. Scott Smith accept- showcases ed a motion for continuance in Bartow Superior Court Tuesday morning, pushing the trial of two artistic additions Cartersville residents accused of murdering a child in early 2018 BY MARIE NESMITH to at least March of next year.
[email protected] Codefendants Pedro Lorenzo Lucas-Lucas and Reynalda Cata- Enhancing downtown Adairsville’s “aesthetic rina Herrera-Gonzales have been beauty,” J.