Today's Dunham's Sports ribbon cutting caps business month of openings; starts Christmas shopping season. Pageants under way in Cartersville. Soggy football games tonight, Saturday; high of 43 Sunday. Latest Public Health restaurant scores

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Dunham's Sports ribbon cutting today caps big month for openings, signals start of busy shopping season ahead.   New Polk Medical Center rising quickly east of Cedartown. -Opening on schedule for fall 2014.   What's ahead this weekend: -Victory Bowl, Christmas open house, beauty pageants in Cartersville.   Public Health dining scores -Updates from Floyd, Bartow counties.   Ware Mechanical forecast: -Rain into Saturday; highs in the mid-40s on Sunday.   Today's jail reports.

Chick-Fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report    Norman Arey's Norman's No-Nos: -Missouri in crucial two-game set in the Southeastern Conference   John McClellan's high school playoff picks: -Darlington, Cartersville to go deeper into playoffs.   Georgia High School Football Daily: Forecasts a Darlington win, Trion loss in Class A.   Saturday: Victory Bowl for NCCAA at Barron Stadium to feature Azusa-Pacific vs. Greenville (Ill.) College.   Latest updates on Saturday's championship games for the Rome Middle Sixth and Seventh grade teams.

Your  Ware Mechanical forecast: -Weekend: Light rain today,  heavier tonight and Saturday; much colder by Saturday night, Sunday. -Get your three-day forecast and updated weather links at Hometown Headlines.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition 7-9 a.m. weekdays. Listen live online atwrga.streamon.fm -Please join our guests Friday including: -Michael Bailey, assistant professor of government and international studies at Berry College, on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. (Extended interview, 7:40 until 8:30 a.m.) -Hometown Headlines/WRGA News Roundtable.