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Baseball Champs, a QB and Toll Roads

Here's what you need to know to start July 22 in Northeast Cobb.

1. Hot, humid, smoggy—sounds like Northeast Cobb in late July. This steamy Friday will see a high of about 92 and a heat index of 98, the National Weather Service says, with a 20 percent chance of afternoon storms. The overnight low will be about 74. We’re under a Code Orange smog alert.

2. The Civic League for Regional Atlanta is holding a 10-county town-hall meeting to talk about regional transportation efforts Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon at the Loudermilk Center in downtown Atlanta. The event is free, but registration is required. This is the same group that held county-by-county this spring. No doubt the newly announced will be a topic of discussion.

3. The 7-year-old Dizzy Dean baseball team out of in Northeast Cobb has won a World Series championship. Return to Northeast Cobb Patch later today for the details on that and other youth sports stories.

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4. You might have missed a couple of interesting stories Northeast Cobb Patch posted Thursday night: , dying at 8:04 p.m., and a manager lost her job after a who arrived with a service dog July 12.

5. Have you wondered how quarterback Hutson Mason is handling life as Aaron Murray’s backup at the University of Georgia? The Marietta Daily Journal checks in with Bulldog sophomore Mason, who set state records for passing yards and touchdowns during his senior year at in 2009.

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