Ashley Hamby, agriculture teacher at Rome Middle School, is the Rome City Schools’ Teacher of the Year for 2019. She was honored Tuesday at a special event at the Courtyard by Marriott Rome Riverwalk. Luis Goya, a teacher at Rome High School, was named the runner-up. Honors for the system’s 2019 Support Employee of the Year went to Roderick Ware, a paraprofessional for Elm Street Elementary.