New life for onetime Cabela's site in Adairsville? State revenue up in April but still down 28% from 4/08. Best local tweets. Weather: High of 90, storms this weekend.

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New life at the one-time site of Cabela's in Adairsville?

-Fireball Properties is asking Adairsville to annex 180 acres that would have been part of the massive outdoor store's campus and surrounding retail, reports WBHF AM 1450.

-Cabela's withdrew its plans in November 2007, taking with it 400 potential jobs and perhaps as many as two million customers a year.

State monthly revenues up in April vs. 2010 but...

-Hold off on that happy dance. Last month's revenue report is still 28% lower, of $385 million less,  than in April 2008.

 

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Another Code Orange smog alert today for Bartow, metro Atlanta.

 

Your latest forecast:

-Thursday: Sunny, high of 90, low of 62. 20% rain chance.
-Friday: 50% rain chance; high of 86, low of 62.
-Saturday: 70% chance of storms, high of 81, low of 58.  

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Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable. Arey-Fulmer back to UT? Gamecocks may have recruited an animal.

Rome Braves:

-Braves bounce back, win 5-2 vs. Augusta.

-Tonight: In Augusta.