No 'dam' joke -- Cleverly named food truck park/beer garden opens in Cartersville. Buffalo Wild Wings due by March in Rome. It's twins: Million-square-foot complex to join another planned Gordon development.

Today's first headlines:

• Business: A. Dam Food Truck Park and Beer Garden opens in Cartersville. Rome's Buffalo Wild Wings to open in March. Karma Sports Bar to replace buffet; entertainment site OK'd.
• Business: Union Grove North, a 'cousin' to the slightly smaller south proposed campus, up for review. 1 million square feet under roof; more than $80 million to develop.
• COVID claims 5 more area residents; 3 more probable deaths as well. 28 COVID patients at Atrium Health Floyd, Redmond on Wednesday, lowest level since late July.
• First look at October employment updates for Northwest Georgia.
• Buzz: Red Kettles back in force starting Friday; how to help. DOT update on Thanksgiving traffic.
• Ware Mechanical Weather:  70 today with light rain possible and then mid 50s Friday and Saturday.
• Obituaries: Rev. Earnest Diamond Jr., Ms. Joyce Marie Forrister, Mr. Edward Thomas Jackson, Mr. Julius Avery Warren.
• Dining: Public Health restaurant inspection scores, Tuesday-Saturday.
• Crimewatch brought to you by Big Dan's Car Wash. Updates on arrests.

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Truett's Chick-fil-A Sports Report

• John McClellan's picks. 6 area high schools remain in football playoffs; after Friday, only 3 will survive. McClellan
• High school teams still in the hunt: Darlington, Cartersville, Unity Christian, Cedartown, Calhoun, Trion.
• High School Association to hear region appeals today, two of which have ties to NW Georgia.
• Falcons host Patriots tonight.
• Berry Volleyball in Elite Eight this evening.