August jobless rate improves, falls to 9.3%. Weekend air show already buzzing. Weekly public health restaurant reports. Summer's back? 87 degrees.

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Latest employment report:

-Floyd, Gordon and Chattooga counties continued to post jobless rates of 10.3 percent or higher in August while Polk was at 9 percent and Bartow at 9.3 percent.

-County-by-county comparison.

-Links to who's hiring.

 

They got the name right: Wings over North Georgia.

-That was evident by the bombastic flyover of East Rome on Wednesday by some of the aircraft due at the airshow opening Friday night at Russell Airport.

-Link to weekend calendar.

 

Weekly public health restaurant scores from Floyd, Bartow, Gordon, Polk and Chattooga counties.

  

The forecast: Another cool-down starts Saturday.

-Thursday: Sunny, high of 87, low of 58.

 

Today's community updates.

 

Latest Bartow County Jail reports.

 

Powerball jackpot: Iowa ticket to claim $202 million.

 

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, 7-9 a.m., WRGA 1470 AM

-Please join our guests today including:

-Tim Hensley of Floyd County Schools on the recent SAT scores and the system's upgraded website.
-Dr. John Barge, Georgia's superintendent of schools, with a statewide perspective of the SAT scores and the latest on the charter school amendment.
-Dr. David Campbell, senior pastor at Trinity United Methodist Church, on the arrival of this year's pumpkin crop -- and how you just saw last year's proceeds put to great use.