Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Late winter chill to give way to perfect Easter weekend. Chicken restaurant surge heats up; Chick-fil-A at LakePoint in Emerson? Gordon Hospital expansion under way. Rome Braves get first home win of '14. Public health restaurant scores

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Ware Mechanical forecast

No record today after all thanks to this hopefully last blast of winter. It was 36 degrees at 5 a.m.; the record for April 16 is 30. We'll have sunny skies with a high of 62 today, dropping to 35 tonight. Easter weekend forecast: Sunny and upper 70s.

Headlines: 

  • Just blocks apart on Ga. 53, chicken war about to escalate in Calhoun; Chick-fil-A adding LakePoint restaurant? Chicken
  • Ground work continues for $37 million expansion to Gordon Hospital; delivery date is July 2015. Health
  • Briefs: Veterans Family day set; also on the way is the wake board park grand opening May 3. Upcoming
  • Community Holy Week service ends at noon today; what's ahead on Holy Thursday, Easter Sunday. Holy Week
  • Public Health restaurant inspection scores for Floyd, Bartow counties. Dining
  • Today's jail reports. Jail
  • Rome Braves get first home win of the new season, 5-3 over Legends.
  • Today: vs. Lexington, 1 p.m. first pitch.
  • Braves' home game photos by Mills FitznerBraves photos
  • Georgia Fire off this week, vs. Columbus April 26.
  • Links to latest updates from Berry, Shorter, Georgia Northwestern and Georgia Highlands.

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  • Berry College senior Sydney Hulebak, who has earned $4,000 for her new business venture, Lion's Thread, thanks to the Clinton Global Initiative University.
  • Jack Dickey, Republican candidate for Post 5 on the Floyd County Commission.
  • Jason Free of Keller Williams Commercial on the growing use of drones, especially in real estate. 

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