Dog Days for Tiger, Leo Frank's Trial

1. Today will be mostly sunny with a high of about 93 and a 20 percent chance of showers, the National Weather Service says. The overnight low will be around 69. We’re also under a Code Orange smog alert.

2. Returning families and neighbors of the high school and got their first taste of life during the massive renovations at Wildcat Daze on Thursday night. It wasn’t pretty. Traffic was snarled on Holt Road, and residential streets all around the school were lined with cars during the orientation program. The good news, however, is that it appears the construction project will move ahead; East Cobb Patch will have that story today.

3. The is this morning at 11. Northeast Cobb Patch (the center is actually in Northeast Cobb) will be covering the event.

4. Two Saturday options are enticing in East Cobb. The , organized by the Rotary Club of East Cobb, is at 7 a.m. at ; on-site registration starts at 6:30. An educational event Saturday night will be a free lecture by Marietta City Council member Van Pearlberg, a veteran Cobb County prosecutor, on the at 7 p.m. at Temple Kol Emeth’s Doc Lebow Center. The 96th anniversary of Frank's lynching in Marietta is Wednesday.

5. Want to keep up on the PGA Championship in Johns Creek all week (Tiger Woods is 14 shots back after one round)? Want to read about all the behind-the-scenes activities that make the tournament possible? Check out the PGA on Patch Facebook page and visit Johns Creek Patch for coverage you won’t see anywhere else.