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Allatoona Basketball Tournament Starts
Here are five things you need to know before starting your Wednesday.
- Sunny skies return as temperatures reach 51 degrees with a northwest wind between 5 and 10 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures will drop below freezing tonight as skies will remain mostly clear, with a low around 30 degrees.
- Joe Heroux was for Acworth in Patch’s national Deck the House contest Tuesday. He was one of 397 Town Winners across the nation, although those results are unofficial until today. His winning entry has been forwarded to a national Patch judge, who will select 24 finalists Friday who will win $500 to pay for their month’s electric bill.
- The second annual three-day Lake City Classic basketball tournament kicks off at 10 a.m. today with four boys and four girls basketball games at . Allatoona’s 9-1 girls team opens tourney play with a 7 p.m. game against (5-5). Allatoona’s 8-2 boys squad also starts tournament play against North Paulding (4-6).
- A grassroots effort has started to generate community input to ask the Cobb County Board of Education to revert back to the balanced calendar for the 2012-13 school year. Acworth Patch will explore the latest chapter in the ongoing controversial calendar issue today.
- This Day in History: In 1895, the world’s first commercial moving screening is conducted at the Paris’ Grand Café, History.com reported.
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