Thursday, October 22, 2020

Business: New dermatology office due on Riverbend; Downtown FIT is women only; Jersey Mike's coming to East Bend. Local COVID rates outpace state; latest on Rome High cases. Final presidential debate tonight.

Today's first headlines:

  • Business: PhyNet Dermatology coming to Riverbend Drive. Downtown FIT, a women's training studio, opens in Bridgepoint Plaza.
  • Dining: Bids sought on Jersey Mike's Subs at East Bend, latest restaurant in emerging dining hub.
  • COVID on campus: Quarantines jump at Rome High; 2 positive tests (RHS, Rome Middle). Floyd students return; report pending.
  • NW Georgia counties' positivity rate much higher than state average; more than double in some. State shows 3.8% increase in cases; Floyd, Bartow, Gordon, Polk all above 5%.
  • Voting: Presidential debate tonight at 9. State tops 2 million ballots cast so far; expects 5 million when polls close Nov. 3. Bartow Elections Chief Joseph Kirk named to state panel.
Also today:
  • Harbin Cancer Center's Dr. Gregory Harris named a 2020 State Emerging Leader by the American Osteopathic Foundation. Also: Crush the Crisis this Saturday.
  • Buzz: Salvation Army to use $12,500 grant from International Paper to provide food, clothing for those in need. Fall color winners for 4-H.
  • Ware Mechanical Weather Center: Mostly in the low 80s through the weekend with perhaps two tenths of an inch of rain.
  • Obituaries: Harold A. Coker, Dean C. Deterding, Shirley Jean Dunbar, Alice Marie Evans, Harold J. Johnson, Letha Mae Oakes, Kathy Sexton, Charles M. Shank.
  • Dining: Public Health restaurant inspection scores, Tuesday-Saturday.
  • Crimewatch: Updates on area arrests.

Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports Report:

  • John McClellan's high school picks for Friday, Saturday, Monday.
  • High school sports roundup. Volleyball, softball scores.
  • Update on Berry's Mason Kinsey, back with the Patriots.
  • Georgia Tech at Boston College, 4 p.m. Saturday, ACC. Notre Dame game update.
  • Georgia is off Saturday; at Kentucky, noon Oct. 31.
  • SEC TV times for Saturday.
  • Falcons (1-5) host Detroit Sunday, 1 p.m., Fox.

 

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