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2A Midweek Edition-July 17-18, 2024 The Times, Gainesville, Georgia I gainesvilletimes.com WEATHER EVENTS Gainesville 5-Day Forecast #AccuWeather VisitAccuWeather.com TODAY TONIGHT THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY A p. m. t-sto rm A stray t-sto rm HIGH: 92° LOW: 71° RFT: 99° A shower and t-sto rm 86770° RFT: 74° I RFT:95°/71° T-storms 83768° A shower and t-storm 81768° A stray p.m. t-storm 82769° Precip chance: Precip chance: 55% 40% Precip chance: 90% Precip chance: Precip chance: Precip chance: 95% 90% 55% RFT: The patented AccuWeather.com RealFeel Temperature® is an exclusive index of effective temperature based on eight weather factors. Almanac | Regional Weather Statistics for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport Monday Temperature High/low 95°75° Normal high/low 88768° Record high 99° in 1952 Record low 51° in 1967 Precipitation (in inches) Monday 0.01 Month to date 1.93 Normal month to date 2.03 Year to date 30.45 Normal year to date 30.89 Record for date 3.91 in 1949 Air Quality Today ▼ . . . . m 50 100 150 200 300 Main Offender: Ozone Source: Environmental Protection Agency Pollen Yesterday Trees 0 °° 0 Grass absent Weeds absent Low Mod. High Verjj Main Offender: Mold Source: National Allergy Bureau Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Ellij 87/1 Talkim 90/71 Morganlon 87/68 O Blairsville 86/68 Turners 87/69 7,7 Ifedr 7 pr- . I hfp ' r? -%Jlw ; r _ Clarkesuil 1 ” 76 Cleveland 90/70 88/69 ToccoHv ig Rock ^> 92/71 Dahlonega O Clermont rn ; nol . O 88/69 90/70 O 90/70 . , vNjp _ Nelson o Dawsonville 91/70 90/70 Murrayville 90/70 3 1 70 Lula 91/71 Cumming 92/71 r o ! . .. 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Lake Levels Lake data in feet as of 7 a.m. yesterday Lake Full Pool Present Level 24 hr Change Lake Lanier 1071.0 1070.25 -0.03 Allatoona Lake 840.0 839.61 -0.03 Burton Lake 1865.0 1864.78 none Clark’s Hill Lake 330.0 327.31 +0.06 Hartwell Lake 660.0 657.60 -0.25 Russell Lake 480.0 474.38 +0.03 West Point Lake 635.0 634.89 -0.03 Sun and Moon Sunrise today 6:36 a.m. Sunset tonight 8:47 p.m. Moonrise today 5:44 p.m. Moonset today 2:39 a.m. Full Last New First OOOit Jul 21 Jul 27 Aug 4 Aug 12 Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, r-rain, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice THANKYOU FOR READING FULL ACCESS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIPTION Our local news team, the largest in Northeast Georgia, works each day to bring you honestly local news delivered in several different platforms. Subscribers can tailor their preferences for reading the day’s news, whether that’s the traditional print edition or a combination of online formats. 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TODAY IN HISTORY AP Photo Children sprint across a drawbridge and into the castle that marks the entrance to Fantasyland at the opening of Walt Disney’s Disneyland in Anaheim, California, July 17, 1955. Fantasyland had been closed until late in the day, and a virtual stampede developed when it finally opened. On this date: In 1862, duringthe Civil War, Congress ap proved the Second Confiscation Act, which de clared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free. In 1902, Willis Carrier produced a set of designs for what would become the world’s first modem air-conditioning system. In 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks. In 1944, during World War II, 320 men, two- thirds of them African-Americans, were killed when a pair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California. In 1945, following Nazi Germany’s surrender, President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. In 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Cali fornia after its $17 million, year-long construc tion; the park drew a million visitors in its first 10 weeks. In 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind. In 1981,114 people were killed when a pair of suspended walkways above the lobby of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed dur ing a tea dance. In 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Europe-bound Boe ing 747, exploded and crashed off Long Island, New York, shortly after departing John F. Ken nedy International Airport, killing all 230 people on board. In 2020, civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helped galvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to a long and cel ebrated career in Congress, died at age 80. ENTERTAINMENT Jack Black ends Tenacious D tour after band mate’s Trump comment The comedy rock duo Tenacious D — made up of Jack Black and Kyle Gass — has canceled the rest of their tour after Gass' remarks about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. While onstage at a concert in Sydney on Sunday, Gass was presented with a birthday cake and asked to “make a wish” by Black. Gass responded, “Don't miss Trump next time,” an apparent reference to the rally shooting a day before that left the former president with an injured ear. The video of Gass was widely circulated on social media. “I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday. I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form,” Black said in a Tuesday state ment on Instagram. “After much reflection, Celebrity birthdays Rock musician Terry “Geezer” Butler is 75. Ac tor Lucie Arnaz is 73. Actor David Hasselhoff is 72. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is 70. Film director Wong Kar-wai is 66. Televi sion producer Mark Burnett is 64. Singer Regina Belle is 61. Country music artist Craig Morgan is 60. Rock musician Lou Barlow is 58. Actor Bitty Schram (TV: “Monk”) is 56. Actor Jason Clarke is 55. Movie director F. Gary Gray is 55. Country singer Luke Bryan is48. Film director/screen writer Justine Triet is 46. R&B singer Jeremih is 37. Actor Billie Lourd is 32. NHL center Connor Bedard is 19. I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.” Following Black's statement, Gass apolo gized on Instagram. “The line I improvised Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake,” he wrote Tuesday. “I don’t condone violence in any kind, in any form, against anyone. What happened was a tragedy, and I’m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement.” Associated Press
