Thursday updates

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Tonight/Cartersville Christmas Parade, 6 p.m. Sponsored by Cartersville Exchange Club. Rain date: Dec. 10, 6 p.m.  Click

-Not too late to enter: The deadline is noon today. Click

-Parade judges include:

• Matt Santini, Cartersville mayor and judge for best float.
• Dr. John Harper, Superintendent, Bartow County Schools: judge for best float.
• Ray Thacker, owner, Grand Oaks: judge for best float.
• Santa Claus (Guest of Honor)

-The Bartow Business Connection will be networking at Stonewall Manor beginning at 5 p.m. $10 for adults, $5 for children 6 to 12, and kids under 6 free.

-The parade forecast: The Weather Channel says 45 degrees with no chance of rain at 6 tonight. Dress warmly! Hourly forecast

Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 51.

-Extended forecast> Click  /  Local radar  / regional radar

What's ahead in Bartow County:

-Dec. 3: Cartersville City Council meeting. 9 a.m.. regular meeting. Hear the meeting live on WBHF 1450 AM or here via Web cast on Bartow Headlines.

-Dec. 4-6, 10-13 Pumphouse Players to stage 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever' > Details

-Dec. 5: Cartersville's Downtown Annual Holiday Open House and Christmas Tree Lighting presented by the Cartersville Downtown Development Authority. Open House festivities from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Christmas Tree Lighting events from 4:30-6:30 p.m. with tree lighting at 6:30 p.m.> Details

-Dec. 10: Ribbon cutting, business after hours at Chattahoochee Technical College's Health Education Center: The center is at the North Metro Campus. Ribbon cutting is set for 4:30 p.m. followed by the Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours from 5 to 7 p.m. Details: Chattahoochee Tech or the chamber

Former lawman charged with rape, sexual battery: (MR) Bartow County sheriff's investigators have arrested a former Cartersville man on rape, sexual battery charges. According to Sheriff's Clark Millsap, Vincent Michael Palmarini, 38, of Skylark Circle, Chatsworth, surrendered Wednesday afternoon after being charged with one count of rape and one count of sexual battery.  Investigators say Palmarini allegedly assaulted a 28-year-old woman near Adairsville on Nov. 17. Palmarini, a former law enforcement officer, is being held in the Bartow County Jail pending a bond hearing in magistrate court Thursday.

Snowy Saturday in the forecast:

-Saturday's Jingle Jog at Berry College could indeed come with all the fixings, including snow and temperatures in the 30s. The latest forecast:

-Friday night: A slight chance of rain before 1 a.m., then a 50% chance of rain and snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 35.

-Saturday: 70% chance of rain and snow before 1 p.m., then a chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 42. Gusts to 15 mph. Saturday night: 26 degrees. More weather below.

John McClellan's take on the new high school football regions:

-Cedartown's new region includes schools in Columbus and LaGrange.

-Cartersville is lumped in  with Gilmer, Pickens and Chattanooga/Dalton schools.

-Rome is in s region that stretches to Alpharetta and Forsyth County, and that doesn't include the Paulding County schools.

-Darlington's region keeps who they had and adds Mount Paran.

-Schools can petition for a new region in the same classification through Dec. 15.

-The full report from Georgia High School Football Daily> Details

-John McClellan's picks for this Friday: Darlington advances to title game; Calhoun stumbles> Football Report

Gingrey makes statement about Mammogram Recommendations at the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health> Statement

Your latest forecast:
-Thursday: Partly sunny, with a high near 54.  Low of 36.

-Friday:  Party sunny, high of 50, low of 34. 50% rain, snow chance overnight.

-Extended forecast> Click  /  Local radar  / regional radar

Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable> Arey

-Florida State officials should be ashamed; is Favre the greatest of them all?

Sports/Rome Braves/State Mutual Stadium> Sports

-Dec. 5/Annual half-price sale at The Trading Post.

-Rome Braves offer new 12-pack flex ticket plans.

-NAIA playoffs set with final two winners due in Rome for national football championship game on Dec. 19> NAIA

-Registration, training begin for 3rd Berry Half Marathon March 6.