As of 1:16 p.m., summer is here; summer heat began Memorial Day. 60% rain chance Wednesday. Henger Rast gets new name, Broad Street address. Sunday package sales vote in Rome Nov. 8

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 Summer goes 'official' by 1:16 this afternoon.

-Last day of spring felt more like late August: 96 degrees and humid.

-Some relief coming this week with storms but not much.

-Your latest forecast:

-Tuesday: 20% rain chance, high of 94, low of 71.

-Wednesday: 60% rain chance, high of 88, low of 71; half inch of rain..

-Thursday: 40% rain chance, high of 90, low of 67.

 

Henger Rast now part of First Bank Mortgage Partners; Rome office moving to 519 Broad St. (right)

-More changes brewing in downtown.

 

Rome voters to decide fate of Sunday alcohol package sales on Nov. 8, WRGA reports.

 

School's out? Not for several hundred incoming Berry freshmen and their families. Two-day orientation sessions continuing this month.

 

Today' s buzz:

-Tea Party lunch; 8th Regiment Performance.

 

Today's Hometown Headlines Radio Edition 7-9 a.m. on WRGA 1470 AM.

-7:10: The Buzz of Northwest Georgia.

-7:40: Tony Miller on Henger Rast Mortgage purchased by First Bank of Lexington, Tenn., and moving to 519 Broad St.

-8:10: Chad Warner, Shorter University, on 2010-11 athletics success.

-8:40: Jeff Lewis, state transportation board, District 11.

-Listen online: http://wrga.streamon.fm/   

 

 

Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable. Arey

-Just what America has been crying for: Notre Dame TV network

Rome Braves: Sports

-South Atlantic League All-Star game.

-'Second' season starts Thursday in Asheville.