Thursday, August 22, 2013

Bartow's jobless rate rises to 9.3% in July. Regional business updates. Bartow Public Health restaurant scores. High near 88, 40% chance of more rain. Later today: Bartow jail reports

For more on these updates and today's latest news, weather and sports headlines, please see www.bartowheadlines.com:
 
Bartow's jobless rate at 9.3% while Floyd, Gordon, Chattooga post jobless rates above 10% in July
-Polk lowest in the region at 8.9%

The Buzz of Northwest Georgia

-Magnolia closes on Chateau Drive 10 months after opening.
-Hottest restaurant concepts in Georgia: Farm-to-table, gourmet burgers (maybe Greener Burger had it right after all).

Bankruptcy court judge: Civil suit against Rome News can proceed in state court.

Today's weather
-40% chance of rain, high of 88.
-Weekend: Pretty much the same thing although sunny and drier on Sunday.
 
-Latest updates for Floyd, Bartow, Gordon, Polk and Chattooga counties.
chick
 
chick
 
Rome Braves
-Braves beat Greenville 6-2 for fifth consecutive victory as the late-season rally continues.
-Tonight: Braves in Greenville, 7 p.m.
-Mills Fitzner's latest game photos. Click   
  
John McClellan's high school predictions
-Darlington, Unity, Woodland open regular season Friday. Only one will win, John says.
-John on radio: John also joins us on the Hometown Headlines Radio Edition at 7:40 a.m. this Friday on WRGA 1470 AM to help us kick off the high school season.
 
Georgia High School Football Daily.
 
Norman Arey. New column this Friday. His headline is too good to wait another day:
-"There's the SEC and there's everybody else; here's everybody else." (Meaning: a preseason look at the other big players in the 2013 college football season).

 

radio
wrga

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition

7-9 a.m. weekdays. Listen live online

-Please join our guests Thursday including:

-Tygar Evans, principal of Rome High, on the new text alerts for the school community.

-Michael Baldvins, executive director of Berry College's Viking Fusion on how the progressive student media plans to cover the arrival of college football this year.

 


No comments: