🌱 Tire Store Shooting + Bartow Gets Major Transportation Projects

Hey y'all! Josee Noble here, right on time with your fresh copy of the Cartersville Daily, full of everything you need to know about what's happening in town. Let's do it.

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An afternoon thunderstorm. High: 87 Low: 70.

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Here are the top four stories today in Cartersville:

1. Cartersville Police arrested a Bartow County man accused of a shooting last week at a local business on N. Tennessee Street. The accused is charged with aggravated assault, reckless conduct, criminal damage to property and gun possession charges. (FOX 5 Atlanta)
2. Woodland graduate and redshirt freshman at Maryland, Jaxon Smith, went 23-6 this year in men's freestyle wrestling. The U20 World Championships will be held in Sofia, Bulgaria on August 14-21. (FloWrestling)
3. Carlos Del Rio-Wilson, formerly of the Cartersville Hurricanes, spent one year at the University of Florida before transferring to Syracuse University. As a redshirt freshman, Carlos Del Rio-Wilson is a prospect for the QB position for the Orange. (Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician)
4. Roughly seven years ago, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) predicted that the volume of freight traffic along I-75 would increase at least 50% by 2040. Several major transportation projects are in progress or expected to get underway soon to help Bartow County motorists get around some of that traffic. (Subscription: Daily Tribune)

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Today in Cartersville:

• Quarterly Luncheon - Clarence Brown Conference Center (11:15 a.m.)
• Let's Talk About It: Women's Suffrage Book Club - Cartersville Library (6 p.m.)
• Dungeons & Dragons for Adults - Cartersville Library (6 p.m.)

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From my notebook:

• Exhibition are on display at Savoy Automobile Museum through December 4. (Cartersville Patch)
• As unemployment remains high across Georgia, many local companies are still hiring. (Cartersville Patch)
• Here are the latest houses in and around Cartersville. (Cartersville Patch)
• One of Cartersville's museums once again makes a national must-see top 10 list: (Best Life)
• Bartow County Sheriff Clark Millsap is pleased to announce that the Bartow County Sheriff's Office is now taking applications for our September Citizens' Law Enforcement Academy. (Bartow County Sheriff's Office (Official) via Facebook)
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That's it for today! I'll see you back in your inbox tomorrow with a new update.

— Josee Noble

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