Today's gas gauge with updates on pipeline repairs, availability and costs. Cartersville's Panera begins hiring. Last day of summer will be a warm one.

Today's first headlines and continuing news updates all day at www.hometownheadlines.com

 

Ware Mechanical forecast:

• Back to the low 90s today and then a tad cooler. Weather

Latest local headlines:

• Today's gas gauge: The latest update on the pipeline repairs, local fuel prices and availability. Fuel
• Heard on the Tweet (or other social media): Panera Bread hiring in Cartersville. A Rome-to-N. Augusta connection? Updates
• Education: Ninth Annual Armuchee Invitational band competition is Saturday. Blood Assurance 'Cord of Courage' program for graduates expands with 'surrogates.' Education
• Education: Heidi Popham named executive vice president at Georgia Northwestern Technical College. GNTC
• Buzz: Busy week for meetings. Everett Springs Road closing for four days. BooFest returns Oct. 21. Buzz
• Public Health restaurant inspection scores.  Dining
• Remembering Ms. Gloria McWhorter, Jimmy Lamar Wheat. Obituaries
• Area arrest reports brought to you by Dr. Miniyar's Pediatrics. CrimeWatch
• Cartersville Police: Armed suspect gets away with bag of jewelry Monday evening; employees uninjured. Robbery

Also today:

• Fall festivals, pumpkin farms and leaf season. Your Northwest Georgia wrap-up. Fall
• Traffic: Georgia DOT, Google Maps or Waze.
• State business headlines: Georgia Trend
• Northwest Georgia jobs: Career Builder
  

Chick-fil-A Dwarf House Sports Report

• John McClellan's high school picks:   No. 6 Darlington over No. 8 Bowdon (private vs. public). Pepperell, Cartersville, Calhoun, Rome should have smooth nights. McClellan
• Georgia High School Football Daily.
• Coosa vs. Pepperell football game up for two Game of the Week votes. How to vote now.

Colleges

• Berry College: Saturday vs. Sewanee, 6 p.m. at home. Roster | Schedule |
• Shorter University:  At Delta State, 3 p.m. Saturday.   Roster / Schedule
• Georgia Tech: At home vs. Clemson, Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
• UGA: At Ole Miss, noon Saturday.
• Norman's No-Nos: Next picks posting Friday morning.

Baseball

• Rome Braves to be honored at Thursday's County Commission meeting.
• Braves' moving 'high A' team to Central Florida.
• 2016 South Atlantic League championship T-shirts now on sale.
• Mills Fitzner's Rome Braves' 2016 photo gallery.
• Atlanta Braves: At Mets through today; at Marlins Thursday-Sunday.

Hometown Headlines Radio Edition, 7-9 a.m., WRGA 98.7 FM.

• Please join our guests including:
• 7:40 a.m.: A meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Peachtree City on the arrival of fall on Thursday, our sizzling and dry summer, and what's ahead.
• 8:40 a.m.: Alvin Jackson Sr. on the Oct. 11 candidates forum at the Rome Civic Center sponsored by the local chapters of the NAACP, 100 Black Men and others.