Hazy Heat Now; Rain Labor Day?

1. The Labor Day weekend gets off to a sunny, hazy, hot start today with a high of about 94 and an overnight low around 68. We have a trio of alerts: a Code Orange smog alert; a hazardous weather alert, warning of the possibility of violent storms popping up; and a hydrologic alert, warning that soon-to-be Tropical Storm Lee is likely to bring a lot of rain to parched North Georgia on Monday and Tuesday. That could dampen a .

2. The final furlough day has arrived. offices, including libraries, are closed today for the fifth of the five furlough days enacted in the spring to balance the budget. Offices also are closed Monday for Labor Day, so you’ll have to wait until Tuesday to deal with your .

3. It’s high school football night, but for the second consecutive week only one game is taking place within East Cobb. (1-0) has its home opener against at 7:30, although the festivities start with inductions into the school’s sports hall of fame, the Marietta Daily Journal reports. Meanwhile, (1-0) travels to (1-0), (0-1) goes to (1-0), and (0-1) hits the road to Savannah to play Calvary Day (1-0). East Cobb Patch will have a full preview of the football weekend this morning, and tonight we’ll have a continually updated scoreboard for games throughout the region.

4. Walton defeated Pope in the clash of volleyball state champions Thursday at Pope, a reversal of the result when the teams played a couple of weeks ago on a neutral court. The best-of-five-games match went the distance before Walton won. East Cobb Patch will have video from the match midday today.

5. doesn’t represent East Cobb, but the proposed redistricting would give him the largest chuck of Cobb County, including unincorporated areas at the southern end of East Cobb. The Marietta Republican got a reality check on citizen frustration during a meeting in Kennesaw on Thursday, and Marietta Patch has video from the event.