Careful outside: high of 96 in Cartersville today. Bartow County updates. John McClellan's Northwest Georgia football picks.

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Your weather in a word: Sticky.

-Today's high will be 96, one degree below the record of 97 set on  Sept. 21, 2006. Make it worse: Another air quality alert for Bartow County, metro Atlanta. Weather below.

John McClellan's High School picks. McClellan  

-HSD Panthers v. Unity Christian School at Cartersville. UCS gets first win.

-Woodland at Forsyth Central. Narrow win for Colonels.

-Who's off this week: Calhoun, Cartersville, Armuchee, Pepperell, Adairsville, Cedartown and Rockmart.

What's ahead in Bartow County:

-Early voting continues for Nov. 2 elections. Click

-Sept. 21: A debate among candidates for Georgia House District 14 and State Senate District 52 at 7 p.m. in the Adairsville High School Auditorium. Due: District 14: Dan Ledford (D) and Christian Coomer (R), and Senate District 52 Mike Burton (D) and Barry Loudermilk (R)

-Sept. 22: Floyd Primary Care and Center for Diabetes in Taylorsville will host a ground-breaking ceremony Sept. 22 at 12:30 p.m. Hills Creek Road and Ga. 113. Update

-Sept. 23: Chamber's Business After Hours, Thursday, 5 until 7 p.m., sponsored by Reinhardt University at The Resource Center,1 N. Gilmer St., Cartersville. RSVP: Martha Macon, 770-382-1466

-Sept. 24: Bartow Business Connection will meet at Hilton Garden Inn from 4 p.m. until Midnight. This is a "drop in" event, so you can stay five minutes, an hour, or the entire evening.

-Sept. 25: Booth's Ansel Adams exhibit opens: The Booth Western Art Museum in downtown Cartersville welcomes its largest temporary exhibition yet with Ansel Adams: A Legacy.  Details

Monday's Bartow County Jail reports. Click & Click

Mount Berry Square courting tenant(s) for empty anchor spot:

-The new management at Mount Berry Square isn't waiting for potential clients to call; they're going after them on the LoopNet real estate website. A just-added pitch offers "a vacant anchor position at the mall, facing Martha Berry Boulevard." Nearly 66,000 square feet, it features an outside entrance and two inside mall entrances. Clients also could split the spot if needed with one taking up to 25,000; the other more than 40,000 square feet. The spot--once home to Proffitt's and later, after a merger, a second Belk--is shown in the red box in the photo to the right from LoopNet. Details.

Rome among WXIA's new 'hypelocal' web page spinoffs

-Maybe its the association 11 Alive once had in Greater Rome with those reports from Don Hatcher, the can drive and the like. Whatever the reason, the Gannett Co. Inc. affiliate is rolling out 50 pages of suburban content and we're among them. Click Rome WXIA.

-Called "Where U Live," the sites are "about you! There is lots of information and content that is specific to a single area across Metro Atlanta, and which would not traditionally find a home on 11Alive News."

-The Where U Live initiative follows expanded high school sports coverage as well from Channel 11. That move comes as ESPN and SB Nation both seek smaller, more local venues. Plus, AOL's Patch is gobbling up journalists with a series of new community sites around metro Atlanta -- and the nation.

And what about the 'shop local' push? Try the 3/50 Project:

-We were intrigued by a posting last week on Facebook by Cartersville's Downtown Development Authority. The subject was "The 3/50 Project," a growing national push to visit three locally owned and operated businesses, and spend $50 at any of the three brick-and-mortar business. Click details.

Your latest forecast:

-Tuesday: High of 96, low of 63.

-Wednesday: 20% rain chance. High 92, low 61. First day of fall (11:09 p.m.)

-Extended forecast: Click / Regional radar: Click

Norman Arey's Sports Roundtable. Arey  

-Dan Houston is subbing for Norman today through Thursday.

-Dan's column today: Who shouldn't be in the NFL these days? Vick? Favre? Both of the above?

AP Top 25 College Football. Click

Shorter Hawks football. Hawks  

-Home opener 1:30 p.m. Saturday vs. Georgetown, Ky., Barron Stadium.

Rome Braves. Click Sports

-Oct. 16-17/Rome Braves to host Second Annual Softball Slam. Braves

-Next: April 7 vs. Hagerstown. Check for events at State Mutual Stadium.