Downtown Cartersville 'Going Nuts' with new popcorn business, plus new bridal boutique. Life Church of Rome hosting community back-to-school prayer event. When local students return to class. Latest grand jury indictments. Weekend photos. Scattered storms possible all week. Sports updates.

LATEST HEADLINES

• Updates from the Floyd County and Bartow County jails.

MORNING REPORT

• Business: Downtown Cartersville is "Going Nuts" with new business specializing in popcorn, roasted nuts. Plus new bridal boutique now open. Business
• Education: Life Church of Rome hosting community back-to-school prayer event on July 26. Rundown of when students return to class. Education
• Latest Indictments: Wallace Chambers Jr., indicted in May shooting death of 74-year-old Rome man. Indictments
• Weekend! presented by The Forum River Center: Weekend photos. Coming next weekend: Berry Farmer's Market, summer movie series, Homespun in Rockmart and Hamiltunes. Weekend

From Hometown Headlines Podcast Center: Click Podcasts

• New Rome beer festival date, new office, new director and new chair: Changing times for RACA. HHPodcast interview with Ali Booker and Chris Kerr.
• 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.
•  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.

Also today:

• Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Slightly cooler at 89 today, 40% rain chance. Scattered storms possible all week with highs in 90s. Forecast
• Obituaries: Mr. Wayne Diamond, Sam Pappalardo, Jr., Mrs. Patricia Kirkpatrick Robinson, Mr. Terry Thompson, Mr. Edward Lynn Toles, Mary Edna Ballard Vaughn and Mrs. Stacey (Grace) Weaver. Obituaries
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores return Tuesday. 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 today: Your first look at 14 homes in Rome and Cave Spring, priced from $129,900 to $695,000. Open Houses

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

Rome Braves at Kannapolis. Final game of series today at 5 p.m. 

 

Braves return home Monday for three-game series against Lexington. Game time 7 p.m. Monday. 

 

Links to fall football:

• 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
• High school schedules.
• Berry, Shorter, Georgia and Georgia Tech.
• Falcons' preseason.

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