Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Arts Festival at Roselawn updates. Air quality alert for Bartow County. Pet Supermarket opens.

Another air quality alert for Bartow County, metro Atlanta. Click

-Forecast: Mid-90s during the day, 59 tonight. Details below.

Sept. 18/19: Arts Festival at Rose Lawn tuning up: More than 85 artists have been selected for the 35th Annual Arts Festival at Rose Lawn to be held in Cartersville on Sept.18-19. "We are excited in our 35th year that 30% of the artists exhibiting are first-time attendees at Rose Lawn," said Rose Lawn Executive Director Jane Drew. "We are pleased with the diversity and talent shown in the juried arts & crafts this year." The show takes place Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday Noon-5 p.m. on the spacious lawn of historic Rose Lawn, the home of evangelist Sam Jones. Admission is free. Details

-Barefoot, Warren to judge Arts Festival at Rose Lawn. Click

Business buzz

-Pet Supermarket in full swing in Cartersville: The new pet shop is at 873 Joe Frank Harris Parkway in Felton's Crossing shopping center. The hours are 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, and 10 a.m.-7 p.m.  Sundays. 678-721-9260. Click

-Petsense is coming to West Rome: The shop is part of a growing national chain of discount pet supply stores that focus mostly on rural areas. Gala Shopping Center is the spot of the new business. For more, click Petsence.

Big win for McHenry Primary, community:

-Through Facebook, e-mails and the original form of social networking--word of mouth, McHenry Primary School has secured a $25,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project to build a playground for handicapped children. The final votes

trickled in Tuesday night; the challenge website wasted no time in listing McHenry as the finalist. Those votes came from throughout the community, thanks to a concentrated effort by the school's PTO, students, faculty, staff and friends. Details

No indoor football?

-Southern Indoor Football League says no to Rome ownership group: The Southern Indoor Football League has pulled its support of Professional Sports & Entertainment Group's bid to bring an SIFL team to Rome Click SIFL

-Football group: we were 'prematurely disenfranchised. 'The team was prematurely disenfranchised." Details

Tuesday's Bartow County Jail reports. Intake reportsIncident reports

Your latest forecast:

-Wednesday: Sunny with a high of 95, low of 59.

-Thursday: More sun and heat. High of 95, low of 61.

-Forecast: Click  / Regional radar

John McClellan's High School picks, updates for week two. McClellan  

-Rome by 9 over Cass.

-Darlington by 2 over Cartersville.

-Adairsville by 4 over Dade County.

-Woodland defeats S. Forsyth by 7.

Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable. Arey   

-Are you drinking the Florida Kool-Aid or will somebody else win the SEC East?

Shorter Hawks football. Hawks

-No rest for 0-1 Hawks; at Georgia Dome vs. Georgia State Thursday.  

Rome Braves. Click Sports

-Rome Braves bounce back, beat W. Virginia Power, 3-1.

-Today-Thursday in West Virginia; Friday-Monday in Lexington. 

-Mills Fitzner's 2010 home game photos. Click  

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