Stormy day for Steeplechase? Latest Bartow updates

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Weekend weather could get rough; updates Saturday, Sunday.

The Clydesdales, appearing Thursday night at the Rome Braves' game, are due at Saturday's

Steeplechase. The weather forecast looks dicey. For more Clydesdale and baseball photos,

please see Mills Fitzner's gallery. Click Gallery.

-Saturday's weather looks suspect and the timing couldn't be worse. Scheduled are: Steeplechase at Kingston Downs (click), the International Festival in Rome (downtown), the Cedar Valley Art Festival (details) and More Than a Taste of Calhoun (click)

-Friday: Sunny, high of 82.

-Friday night: 40% chance of rain, low of 60.

-Saturday: 90% chance of thunderstorms, high of 76.

-Saturday night: 80% chance of storms, low of 62.

-Sunday: 30% chance of storms, high of 82.

-Sunday night: 20% rain chance, low of 54.

-Extended forecast> Click  / Regional radar

Friday's Buzz

-Tonight's MegaMillions jackpot: $166 million> Lottery

-United Community Banks Inc. ranked as no. 1 bank in the southeast in terms of customer satisfaction, a J.D. Powers report shows>Chronicle

Bartow County schools to again offer driver's education courses this summer: For the schedule and locations, please click Driver's Ed

-The Fifth Annual Joshua Brown Foundation Banquet is April 29 at the Tellus: Northwest Georgia's Science Museum in Cartersville. It begins at 5:30 p.m. with a social hour. Dinner will begin at 7 p.m. and an auction will follow at 7:30 p.m., featuring a sitting for a family portrait, a truckload of 18 sod pallets, sports memorabilia and local merchandise> Details

Bartow County Jail 'in-take' reports: Click & Click

Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable> Arey 

-No Bible verses or anything else in college football eye black next year.

Rome Braves> Sports 

-Kannapolis whallops Braves, 9-3.

-Friday: Kannapolis at Rome, 7 p.m.

-Mills Fitzner's latest game photos> Click

What's head this week:

-April 24: Bartow County GOP, 9 a.m., party headquarters at 162 W. Main St. Speakers: Insurance commissioner candidate Maria Sheffield and state Sen. Preston Smith> Bartow GOP

-April 25: Earth Day paddle trip on the Etowah River set for Sunday: It will take paddlers on a six-mile journey down the Etowah near Euharlee on what is arguably the most scenic six-mile stretch of the river in Bartow and Floyd counties> Coosa