Today's Buzz: Restaurant, retail updates. Bad news on AYP scores. Petz expanding in Rome. Weekend: Highs in the 90s, triple-digit heat index, rain. Braves win. Arey on Sports

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What's buzzing:

-Signs of the times -- as in a new look for Applebees.

-One store closing, another coming, a third delayed.

-Read my lips: No sales tax holiday -- in Georgia. But nearby . . .  

-Sunglasses Hut joins Calhoun Premium Outlets. 

-Dining: Partridge update; Siesta Fiesta begins, eat mor' oatmeal?

-Watching the Mohawk numbers.

 

Links to Rome, Floyd Adequate Yearly Performance grades

 

Petz expanding in just one year; more on the way?

 

Floyd opens new office in Centre.  

 

Your latest forecast: 

-Friday: 30% rain chance, high of 93, low of 73. Heat index: 98.
-Saturday: 30% rain chance, high of 96, low of 72. Heat index 102.
-Sunday: 30% chance of rain, high of 96, low of 74.  

 

Today's Hometown Headlines Radio Edition  on WRGA 1470 AM.

-We're live, local and large today with:

-7:10 a.m.: Buzz of Northwest Georgia.

-7:40 a.m. Charles Petz, CFO, Petz Enterprises.
-8:10 a.m. Mike Barger, Kmart, on back to school shopping.
-8:40 a.m. Glenn Getchell, headmaster, Unity Christian School.

-Hometown Radio page now on Facebook. Hometown Radio  

 

Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable. Arey   

-Bengals set mark; experienced college QB isn't necessary.  

 

Rome Braves: Sports.

-Braves get a walk-off win, 3-2. 

-Tonight vs. Delmarva. Saturday-Tuesday home vs. Kannapolis
-Mills Fitzner's latest game photos.