New Chick-fil-A; Execution on Video

1. There’s a 30 percent chance of rain today, the National Weather Service says, and we could use it just to wash away the smog, which has us under a Code Orange air-quality alert today. The high today will be about 93, and the humidity will push the heat index toward triple figures. The overnight low will be around 74.

2. Did you miss both of the public hearings on Tuesday? Never fear because Northeast Cobb Patch was there for the evening hearing with live coverage. And you have one more chance to tell the county commissioners what you think about the proposed tax increase next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at 100 Cherokee St.

3. leaves Northeast Cobb book buyers with only one big-box option, Barnes & Noble, but the owner of Once & Again Books tells Northeast Cobb Patch how his business continues to meet the needs of readers.

4. Northeast Cobb will soon be home to a new Chick-fil-A with a double drive-through and a five-pump Kroger gas station at the Kroger shopping center at the intersection of Shallowford and Sandy Plains roads, the Marietta Daily Journal reports. After their morning hearing on the proposed millage rate increase, the county commissioners approved the rezoning for those additions Tuesday on a 4-1 vote, with Chairman Tim Lee opposed.

5. The lethal injection drug has become the focus of today’s scheduled execution of Northeast Cobb murderer Andrew Grant DeYoung. His attorneys spent Tuesday seeking a court-ordered stay on the grounds that Georgia’s new execution drug causes unnecessary pain and suffering, and a Fulton County judge ordered the execution videotaped if it goes ahead at 7 p.m. and if DeYoung agrees, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. DeYoung was convicted of in 1993 at age 19.