Candidates Square Off; Fallen Soldier Returns Home; Halloween Contests

Here are the highlights of the week that was:

With election season in full gear, five of Dallas and Hiram’s candidates for municipal office were on hand at Tuesday’s . You can to see the live blog we did on the event as well as video the candidates’ opening statements. We also brought you video of the candidates’ answering questions as well as written highlights of what they said; see our stories on , , and .

Several of our neighboring Patches had excellent coverage of communities’ commemoration of a fallen soldier—Marine Lance Cpl. Scott Harper—.

Only one of four Paulding football teams in action on Friday walked away from its game victorious. One of those teams was East Paulding, which dropped it first game of the season to Pope. See the scores of Paulding’s teams and schools from Cobb, Cherokee, Bartow, Paulding and Douglas counties in our most recent Friday football scoreboard. We’ll set to bring you a full wrap-up of local action later today.

And in case you missed it last week, we brought you video from the East Paulding-Hiram matchup—the “Playing for Pink” game . On that note, we continue to invite those who have lost someone to breast cancer to by posting photos, videos and/or stories of those special people.

We featured two exceptional students on our site on Thursday.  Paulding County High’s Damon Galloway was named our latest “” for his . On the college level, Dallas’ Joe Williams , a group of undergraduate and graduate students focused on exceptional journalism.

With Halloween just a few days away, we’re sure many of you are preparing or have already set up your home or office decorations and your kids’ costumes. If you pride yourself over the creativity put into either area, you should enter one, or both of our Halloween-themed costumes. , and you can win $200. Meanwhile, could net you a trip to New York or Los Angeles, a meet-and-greet with Heidi Klum, and a donation to the charity of your choice.

We hope you’ll “scare up” some great photos for the contests. In the meantime, we hope you have a great week!

That’s it for our recap of last week’s headlines. Thanks for checking us out, and we hope you’ll return to see what we’ll bring you this week and beyond.