Q & A on education tax, operations with first round of Rome School Board candidates. Your Two Cents: Push begins on twin tax extensions. 13-year-old bowler rolls perfect game. Rain, cooler temps -- and watching Irma. Rome Braves end 2017 season in style.

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Rome Board of Education: Profiles, Q&As on education tax, school system's direction with candidates Collins, Dixon, Ehrler, Fisher, Seifert (one of three parts). Politics 

Your Two Cents: Push begins from all sides on $100-plus million government, education sales tax extensions on the Nov. 7 ballot. Politics

Call him kingpin: Rome's Lawton Beasley rolls his first perfect game -- 12 consecutive strikes. Perfect game

Buzz: Vinings at Oxford bringing 62 units to Cedartown to help with low-incoming housing needs. Arey to speak to Marine Corps League Saturday. Buzz

Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Cooler temperatures, around two thirds of an inch of rain on the way through Wednesday. Weather

Obituaries: Mrs. Joan Paulette Edwards Barger, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bishop, Mr. Godfary Tyrell Finley Jr., Ms. Michelle F. Turner.  Obituaries

Public Health restaurant inspection scores return Wednesday. Dining

Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. Crimewatch

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report: 

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Rome Braves end the season with a W; changes due by first pitch in April.

 

Georgia Tech opened its season Monday night vs. Tennessee; hosts Jacksonville State this Saturday.

 

Latest high school football updates.

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

-7:40 a.m. Christina Bucher on the Floyd County Democratic Party's Georgia Giants dinner set for Sept. 22.

-8:10 a.m. Detective Rich Wistocki of the Naperville, Ill., police department on "cyper bullying."

-8:40 a.m. Joe Costolnick, new director of Harbor House, on the 2017 Roman Rumble.

 

Talk of the Town with Nelle Reagan, noon-1 p.m.

-The latest on Jesus Jam.

-Loresa Heyward from Haven Health on the upcoming Friends for Life Banquet with Pam Tebow as the guest speaker.