Fatal Crash; Raiders Advance; Holiday Coverage

Last week was a tragic one for the friends and family of a man on a Dallas roadway.

Our news coverage last week also dealt with the happenings on Hiram roads. Drivers Friday night might’ve noticed more flashing blue lights as usual. It was all a part of with the help of member agencies from the Western Regional Traffic Enforcement Network. We hope to bring you details in the coming days on how authorities fared in the roadblocks they put up across the city.

Speaking of drivers, we brought you last week details about State Sen. Bill Heath's If you haven’t weighed in on the matter, we’d love to hear your thoughts. As of late Sunday, more than 400 Patch readers had voted in .

We head back to Hiram for our next story, as the Hiram City Council from local restaurants and other businesses, but didn’t address the Sunday sales issue following .

On a matter related to restaurants, we brought you on Saturday .

The East Paulding High football team has yet to finish its season, as in the . We’ll bring you more coverage of the Raiders’ continuing season later this week.

Small Business Saturday is this Saturday, and we’ll be bringing you in the coming days several stories related to it. On a very related note, we brought you on Friday our very first Small Business Q&A feature on Patty McMichen, . We hope her business is the first of many to be featured on Dallas-Hiram Patch—if you’re want your small business featured, drop yours truly a line at jon.gargis@patch.com.

With the holidays coming up, you might find yourself with some free time to take in some entertainment. Our latest “” focuses on , with our resident video game reviewer gave us .

Speaking of the holidays, we brought you last week details of the city of Dallas’ participation in a Christmas project that benefits those in the state’s six mental health hospitals. the Georgia Municipal Association’s annual Mayors’ Christmas Motorcade.

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.