Bucket o Shrimp expects to open on Wednesday. Demolition permits in hand for old Kmart in Rome. Weekend: Superheroes, new folk artist, rodeo, fish fry. Cooler temps by Sunday, Monday.

MORNING REPORT

• Dining: Bucket o' Shrimp expected to open next Wednesday on Dean Avenue in East Rome. Bucket list
• Business: Permits in hand, roughly four months of demolition work begins at former Kmart site (soon to be East Bend). Cartersville's Graham & Turner granted OK to begin. With short video. Demolition
• Weekend! presented by The Forum River Center: A legion of superheroes at Tellus Saturday. Exhibit opening for late-in-life folk artist. Rodeo rides again in Bartow. Plus: Annual fish fry. Home page
• Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Finally, a break from the 90s on Sunday and Monday -- and then right back up again.  Weather

From Hometown Headlines Podcast Center: You don't have to settle for "decaf radio." Here's the news Rome is talking about:

• New Rome beer festival date, new office, new director and new chair: Changing times for RACA. HHPodcast interview with Ali Booker and Chris Kerr. RACA or right to the podcast.
• Why Summerville Park doesn't want Sleep Inn on Charlton Street (that's where the entrance and exit would be). A HHPodcast interview with Penny Evans-Plants. Summerville Park or right to the podcast.
•  Keith Mickler of the county extension office on what this heat does to plants, trees and crops (avoid excess watering!) Plus: How to chase those varmints from your garden. Mickler or right to the podcast.
• Local high school football expert John McClellan breaks down the 2019 season: New coaches, old rivalries and the teams to watch this fall. John McClellan
• Today's newscast: Thursday's top headlines with a rant or two. Newscast

Also today:

• Buzz: Robert Stevenson Memorial Concert returns Saturday, Aug. 3, with an all-star line-up. Busy Monday for Floyd County School Board. Author of 'Smokelore,' a barbecuer's bible, to speak July 25.  Buzz
• Obituaries: Shirley Rice. Obituaries
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores. Dining
• Greater Community Bank CrimeWatch: Updates on area arrests, police reports from across Northwest Georgia. Crimewatch

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• Hardy Realty's open house gallery for Sunday: Your first look at 15 homes in Rome and Cave Spring, priced from $129,900 to $695,000. Open house

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Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports Report: Sports

West named Darlington's head boys' basketball coach, assistant athletic director.

 

Rome Braves wrap up series in Charleston.

-Three-game set tonight through Sunday in Kannapolis.

-Next home stand opens Monday.

 

Links to fall football:

-High school schedules.

-Colleges: Berry, Shorter, UGA and Tech.

-Falcons' preseason.

 

HHPodcast: Local high school football expert John McClellan breaks down the 2019 season: New coaches, old rivalries and the teams to watch this fall. McClellan