Bartow Buzz: New goal for Advocates for Children. Explore Georgia deadline Tuesday. A look inside LakePoint's new complex. Restaurant scores. Later today: Bartow County Jail reports, Cartersville Police reports.

Where your news day starts: www.bartowheadlines.com:

 

Today's weather:

• Warmer with 58 Saturday, 66 Sunday. Flooding: Warnings for four waterways; three roads closed. Weather

Today's headlines:

• Former owners of The Peach reopening 425 Broad St. under the name Empire on March 5. Business
• Business: Greater Community Bank celebrates 20 years today with assets of $132.6 million. Banking
• Politics: Georgia sets advance voting record for presidential primaries. Floyd's total at 2,395. Final day of advance voting. GOP women meet Tuesday. Vote
• Redmond's new EMS headquarters on John Davenport will centralize key operations. EMS
• Buzz: Floyd School Board to complete hire of Dr. John Jackson Tuesday. River Jam returns to May this year. Buzz
• Bartow Buzz: Advocates for Children adds Parents as Teachers program. 'Explore Georgia' photo deadline is Tuesday. Bartow
• Cast of 'characters' to stage 'Murder Me, I'm Irish' on March 17, benefiting Floyd Against Drugs. Irish
• Unity's Young American's for Freedom chapter hosts former Treasurer Bay Buchanan at high school assembly. Unity
• Georgia Health News: Rural health tax credits approved by Georgia House. GHN
• Remembering Larry Edward Byars, Glenda Fay Wells. Obituaries
• Latest Public Health restaurant inspection scores.  Dining
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch

Regular features:

• Northwest Georgia traffic conditions via Google Maps or Waze.
• Today's business headlines from  Georgia Trend
  
• Northwest Georgia's best source for job leads. Click Career Builder

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report

• High school basketball: Model to play Putnam County today at 4:45 p.m. in Milledgeville; Calhoun boys face Jenkins on tonight at 6:30 p.m. in Augusta.
• Rome Braves' single-game tickets go on sale March 12; other events that day at State Mutual Stadium.
• Tennis updates.
• College and high school updates.
• AAU Basketball tryouts on March 2-3.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition on WRGA 98.7 FM.
-Please join us from 7-9 a.m. with our guests including:

• At 7:40 a.m.: Rome attorney David Guldenschuh, who's supporting John Kasich in the GOP presidential primary.
• At 8:10 a.m.: David Lance of Greater Community Bank on the 20th anniversary of the bank's founding today and what's ahead.
• At 8:40 a.m.: Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable.