Tracking Irma: Updates on what we can expect by Monday in NW Georgia. Plus state, regional updates. All 15 Rome Board of Education candidate profiles, Q & As. Beautiful weekend through Sunday. Local high school football tonight; Berry opens home season Saturday.

Live weather coverage all weekend from Hometown Headlines

Hurricane Irma: Latest updates on what it means to Northwest Georgia, the state and the Southeast. Irma

Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Today through Sunday look great; different scenario possible starting Monday. Weather

Rome Board of Education: 15 candidate profiles, Q&As on education tax, school system's direction, technology. School Board

The Stitchery sews up some national exposure. Call it L2L: Romega Digital designs new River City Bank site (local to local) Goodwill seeks employers for Rome job fair. Business

Buzz: Fall farmers market at Berry on Saturday. Broadcast Theatre Guild plans auditions for 'Sleepy Hollow.' Healthcare Preparedness and Safety Coalition to meet. Buzz

Obituaries: Jerry Lee Stewart. Obituaries

Public Health restaurant inspection scores. Dining

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

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Hardy Realty open house gallery for Sunday: Six homes in Rome and Lindale, priced from $114,900 to $629,900. Posting at 3 this afternoon.

 

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report:  

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Top three games -- Kell at Rome, Cartersville at Westlake, Cedartown at Pepperell.

 

High school updates; scores later this evening.

 

Berry Vikings' home opener is 6 p.m. Saturday at Valhalla.

 

Shorter Hawks on the road.

 

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7:40 a.m. Floyd County Sheriff Tim Burkhalter from Conroe, Texas, as Rome Cares wraps up its trip there and continues accepting donations back home for the next trip -- but will it be to Texas or Florida/Georgia as Irma begins its run.

 

8:10 a.m. Tim Herrington, Floyd County's emergency management director, on watching Irma's potential impact in Northwest Georgia early next week.

 

8:40 a.m. Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable.