Today's vote to decide tomorrow's city government; continuing coverage. Business: Honors for Greater Community Bank; Winthrop Memory Care celebrates. LakePoint Station bowling alley opens Dec. 2. Rome to challenge river polluters. Brian Kemp's Medicaid plan.

MORNING REPORT

• Please vote: 'Equipment all in place' for today's election; precincts open until 7 tonight. Our results coverage starts just after that.
• Business: Greater Community Bank earns 'Banky Award' from The Institute for Extraordinary Banking. LakePoint Station's 12-lane bowling alley opens Dec. 2.
• Business: Winthrop Memory Care Center celebrates ribbon-cutting in East Rome. Labor Department, Juvenile Justice to hold job fair Nov. 19.
• Water concerns: City Commission OKs resolution to get aggressive with recovering costs associated with tainted water in Oostanaula. Likely target: Upstream carpet companies.
• Health: Three-part look at Gov. Brian Kemp's plan to expand Medicaid. Includes the media briefing, a Georgia Health News analysis and Kemp's overall plan.
• Buzz: NAACP Soul Food Dinner is Saturday; tickets $12. DOT: Open house Thursday on road widening; bridge replacement due in Chattooga. Harbin Clinic sponsors Alzheimers film at festival.  Berry tours begin.
• Education: 100-plus students take part in Berry College Mathematics Contest; Rome Middle places second.

DAILY FEATURES:

• Newscast: An audio edition of today's headlines and a centennial rant.
• Ware Mechanical Election Day Forecast: We endorse more days like today -- sunny and upper 60s.
• Obituaries: Mr. Robert Bryant Abney Sr., Mr. Albert Jeffery Estes, Judith Monita Jeter Masters, Mrs. Sara Rebecca Davis Sanders, Ms. Charlotte Marie Williams.
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores. Dining
• Greater Community Bank CrimeWatch: Updates on arrests. Crimewatch

 

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

John McClellan's high school playoffs snapshot plus: Close win for Darlington this Friday; Unity should advance to state; Cartersville, Pepperell, Rockmart earn Ws, too. McClellan

• First College Football Playoff poll due tonight.
• More honors for Berry's Beier.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL/Saturday

• Berry Vikings:  At Centre College, 1 p.m.
• Shorter Hawks. At Barron Stadium vs. Allen University, 1 p.m.
• Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. At Virginia, 12:30 p.m.
• Georgia Bulldogs. At home vs. Missouri, 7 p.m.

ATLANTA FALCONS: Sunday at New Orleans, 1 p.m.