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Consider this your "cheat sheet" for a possible pop quiz on Paulding happenings.

1. A slight chance of rain and a good chance of wind is in your weather outlook today.

According to the National Weather Service, we have a 20-percent chance of seeing showers and thunderstorms. But the odds are good that we’ll see mostly sunny skies with a high temperature near 88. We’ll also feel a west wind of 5 to 10 mph gust as high as 20 mph. Tonight’s predictions call for partly cloudy skies with the low dropping to 67 or so.

The chance of rain and T-storms increases this weekend, but not enough to put either weekend day’s forecast in the definitely dismal category. But we’ll keep check on the weather as the weekend rolls on.

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2. The county’s business forecast is seemingly a bit brighter than what we may see in the weekend weather forecast, as we’ve learned that Hiram will see a sports chain locate to the site of a former grocery store. .

3. It remains to be seen if this weekend’s weather earns high marks from residents. Speaking of making high marks, Paulding County School District students bettered their scores in 22 of 30 content areas for the six grades tested through the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests. .

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4. Rain or shine, we have plenty of suggestions for your weekend, whether you want to ; ; or ; . But whatever you choose to do, we hope you don’t end up in the .

5. Local Voices blogger Jody May is wasting no time since being added to our blog roll, as he brings us today his second post within a week. .


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