A crash on Villa Rica Highway Thursday afternoon killed a Dallas woman and left one girl critical.

Candidates hoping to represent Paulding County next year descended on Dallas Tuesday from the Paulding Chamber’s Candidate Forum. See what the politicians had to say by checking out what we had in Tuesday’s live blog.

Earlier Tuesday, candidates for Paulding County School Board spoke in Acworth. We brought you video of what they had to say.

You can find more information about this year’s elections in our Dallas-Hiram Election Guide.

The 16th Annual Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant is over, but you can still help a Hiram Hooters Girl win $5,000 by selecting her in the pageant’s Viewers’ Choice contest. Through 2:59 a.m. on July 2, you can text 46 to 77000 to vote for Hiram's Ashley Pike in the contest. Learn others ways you can help Pike win the contest.

We’ve revamped our Readers’ Choice contest, and we’re now asking for your nominations in 25 different categories. You can head over to nominate your favorite locations from Paulding, Douglas and West Cobb counties.

Restorations to the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport should be completed now, according to officials who spoke at last week’s Industrial Building Authority meeting. Learn more about the latest happenings at the airport and around the county.

We’ve got some great homes to check out in this week’s “House Hunt” feature. In related news, our columnist C. Mark Willix, a real estate agent himself, gave his take on real estate agents.

In our latest look at Dallas-Hiram History, we took a look at the history of a downtown Dallas building that was once the site of the telephone company and a drug store.

A Douglasville Christian school will see a former Paulding principal become its headmaster on July 1.

Some of our Local Voices bloggers in recent days have shared how you can plan your wedding within your means, welcome beneficial bugs into your garden, and prepare for and get through your move.

Yours truly wrote about my latest experience seeing Mister Rogers—on YouTube. See what I had to say about role models and educational programming for children, and head over and tell us whom you share with your kids.

In other news:

• A Hiram restaurant earned a 73 in the latest round of food scores.
• We let you know if Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter was worth your wallet full of dead presidents in our latest “Dinner and a Movie” feature.