Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Tuesday updates

More layoffs at Calhoun's Kobelco Construction Machinery:

The manufacturer has filed noticed with state labor and local officials concerning an extension of some layoffs and overall job separation with other workers, touching 106 employees in all. Kobelco cites a reduction in orders from customers. The first cuts in work force started in January with more posted in early April. That's when Kobelco cut 66 jobs and reduced the hours of 78 others> Kobelco

Bella Roma 'Grill' coming to State Mutual Stadium site: Eddie Hasko says the current location on U.S. 27 "is rocking" and will remain while the new restaurant will feature some familiar menu items and more American food> Dining

-A Moon tweet? Harvest Moon on Broad Street has joined Twitter. To get tweets on what's new, click www.twitter.com/harvestmoon.

Later today/Updates on some surprising real estate listings: Two familiar downtown Rome businesses are popping up on real estate sites this week, joining at least four others. We'll have updates later today.

Tuesday's Buzz:

-Regional honors for Peachtree Planning's 'Wealth Managers'> Business

-7 graduate from Floyd's Medicine Residency Program> Health

-Redmond takes part in program to prevent bloodstream infections> Health

-Parks & Rec announces fall sports signups> Kids

-Shorter's School of Arts calendar for 2009-10 now posted> Link

Downtown Headlines:

-What's ahead in downtown Rome

Weather

-Tuesday: High of 92, low of  67.

-Wednesday: High of 93, low of 69.

-Your extended forecast> Weather / Local radar > Radar

Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable

-Money is what's wrong with college football; do you agree with PETA on Michael Vick?

Rome Braves' updates:

-Greensboro 2, Rome 1.

-Tonight: Rome vs. Greensboro; 1 p.m. game Wednesday.

-Latest Braves' photo gallery by Mills Fitzner> Gallery

More preseason high school football predictions from Football Daily

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