Bids due soon on Kroger Marketplace. Northwest Georgia resident helps with key find in human history. Red Top Mountain among prime life watching sites. Football updates. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports, Cartersville Police arrest reports

For continuing coverage, please stay with www.bartowheadlines.com

 

Ware Mechanical forecast

• Kickoff forecast for tonight's high school games, Saturday's premiere of Valhalla at Berry: Mid 70s, 30% chance of rain.

Headlines:

• Armuchee native Hannah Morris among those who helped find new 'relative' to the human race. 'Underground astronaut'
• Bids due Sept. 23 for massive Kroger Marketplace coming to Cartersville. Marketplace
• New tennis center to host 2016-17 USTA Southern Junior Team Tennis Section Championships. Tennis
• Rome Schools 'will continue to take all steps necessary' to keep students safe amid 'threats.' Floyd: 'No credible evidence to a local threat.' Precaution
• Northwest Georgia pauses today to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001. Remembrance
• Two businesses on the move -- The Season Events and The Sweet Bar -- celebrate new openings. Business
• Coosa Valley: Lessons from GNTC, Georgia Highlands insiders. 40 jobs available in Cartersville. News
• Leaf watch 2015 in Georgia about to get under way. Nearby Red Top Mountain among the top spots to see fall colors. Fall
• Smile Report: Darlington's Dawson Horah of Euharlee among 16,000 students nationwide named a semifinalist in the 2016 National Merit Scholarship Program. Smile
• Georgia Health News: Cancer hospital bid to ease rules takes new route. GHN
• Obituaries:  Remembering Mrs. Nonnie B. Agan.
• Public Health restaurant inspections scores, brought to you by Dr. Miniyar Pediatrics.  Dining
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Midian Roofing. CrimeWatch

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• Hardy Realty's Open House gallery for Sunday: 15 homes in the Greater Rome and Lindale area. Hardy

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• Today's business headlines from  Georgia Trend
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HIGH SCHOOLS

• Friday night football: Your link to all the games, broadcasts and live webcast (Darlington).
• Later today: Northwest Georgia football scores.
• John McClellan's high school picks for this week: One-point edge for Coosa over Rockmart. Winners: Rome, Darlington, Model, Pepperell, Cartersville, Calhoun. McClellan
• Georgia High School Football Daily. 

COLLEGES

• Norman Arey's Norman's No-Nos: Georgia, Tech win. Tennessee pulls out the season's stunner
• Berry College Vikings prepare to host LaGrange at Valhalla Saturday. Vikings 
• Shorter University Hawks hits the road Saturday vs. Carson-Newman. Hawks
• Valhalla Rising, a special digital magazine from Hometown Headlines celebrating the opening of Valhalla, the new football stadium and track and field center on the Berry College campus. Click Valhalla.
• Georgia at Vanderbilt Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
• Georgia Tech hosts Tulane, 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
  

BASEBALL

• Two Rome Braves to be honored by the club's parent organization this month.
• Rome Braves' Gaylor's awesome catch voted play of the week.
• Atlanta Braves lose 7-2. Home vs. the Mets, 7:35 p.m.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM.
Please join our guests including:

• At 7:40 a.m.: Dr. Chris Piller of Harbin Clinic's Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine department on working the sidelines of a Berry football game -- this time from the new Valhalla stadium.
• At 8:10 a.m.: Hannah Morris, an Armuchee High 2005 grad, was among the team that helped recover the artifacts used to discover a new 'cousin' to the human race.
• At 8:40 a.m.: Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable.