The Foundry Growler Station just about ready. Piece of the Twin Towers now in Cartersville; remembering Sept. 11. Weather: On the heat goes on. Sports: Norman's No-Nos and high school preview.

Today's first headlines and continuing news updates all day at www.hometownheadlines.com

 

Ware Mechanical forecast:

• And the heat goes on and the heat goes on. Mid 90s through the weekend. Weather
• 'Code orange' smog conditions Friday in Bartow County, metro Atlanta. Smog

Latest local headlines:

• Business: The Foundry Growler Station almost ready in Rome. Foundry
• Piece of the Twin Towers from the Sept. 11 attack now on permanent display at Cartersville's Public Safety Building. Steel
• Remembering Sept. 11, 2001: Downtown service this morning. On Saturday: 'March to the Mountain' in Cartersville; Unity Christian's Young America's Foundation chapter will display 2,977 flags. Sept. 11
• Buzz: Berry College Chapel to celebrate 100 years on Sept. 18. Rome Police Explorer meeting Tuesday. Where to donate blood today. Buzz
• Weekend: Free outdoor movies in Rome. Final Euharlee Food Truck Friday. The zoo comes to the DeSoto Sunday. Pine Log arts and crafts festival. Weekend.
• Remembering Mrs. Josephine DeBenney, Nevin Randolph "Randy" Garrett Jr., Mrs. Vivian Ann Richardson Smith. Obituaries
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores.  Dining
  
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch
  

Advertising:

• Hardy Realty open house gallery for Sunday: Six Rome area homes, from $168,900 to $495,000.
• Posting at 3 this afternoon.

Also today:

• Fall festivals, pumpkin farms and leaf season. Your Northwest Georgia wrap-up. Fall
• Traffic: Georgia DOT, Google Maps or Waze.
• State business headlines: Georgia Trend
  
• Northwest Georgia jobs: Career Builder
  

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report

HIGH SCHOOL

• Friday night preview: Best night yet of local high school football. Radio updates. Weather: 84 degrees, clear at kickoff. Preview
• John McClellan's high school picks: Close games for Rome, Darlington this Friday; Pepperell over Cedartown; trouble for Model? McClellan
• Georgia High School Football Daily.

BASEBALL

• Rome Braves at Charleston RiverDogs tonight at 7; lead best-of-three series, 1-0.
• Mills Fitzner's Rome Braves' home game photo gallery.
• Atlanta Braves: Host the Mets Friday-Sunday.

COLLEGES

• Norman Arey's Norman's No Nos: You want to bet that this week is better than .500? No-nos
• Berry College - Next: 7 p.m. Saturday at LaGrange. Roster | Schedule |Gameday
• Shorter University - Next: 1 p.m. Saturday at Mars Hill.  Roster / Schedule
• UGA: At home vs. Nichols. Saturday, noon. SEC Network.
• Georgia Tech: At home Saturday vs. Mercer.

COMMUNITY

• The Atlantic profiles Paralympic Soccer team training at Darlington.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, 7-9 a.m., WRGA 98.7 FM.

• Please join our guests including:
• 7:40 a.m.: Berry College sophomore Maddie Bess on her upcoming seminars about hydraulic fracturing in Northwest Georgia, starting Sept. 14 and continuing through Oct. 9.
• 8:10 a.m.: Shane Hendrix, environmental health manager at the Floyd County Health Department, and Alison Watson, nurse manager at the health department, on the upcoming rabies-flu vaccination clinic.
• 8:40 a.m.: Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable.