SupplyHouse Bringing 330 Jobs

Plumbing, HVAC, and electrical supplier SupplyHouse plans to invest about $19 million in a Henry County fulfillment center expected to create 330 jobs.

The 715,000-square-foot facility on Highway 42 near Locust Grove will be the New York-based company’s first in the Southeast. Construction is set to begin this month, with full operations expected in 2027.

Openings will include management, technical, maintenance, and quality-control roles. Gov. Brian Kemp announced the project Thursday.

The project adds to Henry County’s logistics growth. In July, Highline Warren announced plans for a $170 million, 160-job logistics and operations center at the former Zinus building in McDonough.

  Final SEC Title Game Looms

The final SEC Championship Game will take place Dec. 5 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta as the College Football Playoff expands to 24 teams next season and Power Four title games are eliminated.

The SEC announced the decision to expand the playoffs and eliminate conference championship games this week. Atlanta has hosted the game annually since 1994, and 14 teams that played in the series went on to win national titles.

Former Georgia player and sports talk host DJ Jones of Columbus, who won three SEC titles before the championship game existed, said he hates to see the game end. Other fans also voiced disappointment. Georgia coach Kirby Smart called the championship “a great, historic game” but said that “the times they are a-changing.”

This season, No. 1 Georgia could clinch a spot in the championship game by beating Missouri on Saturday if three of four contenders lose.

Restaurants Earn National Nod

Three restaurants from Georgia, all in the Atlanta area, made OpenTable’s 2026 list of the 100 best restaurants in America: Bones, La Grotta, and UMI.

Bones is a longtime Buckhead steakhouse, La Grotta has served Northern Italian cuisine since 1978, and UMI specializes in sushi and contemporary Japanese dishes.

OpenTable released the list this month alongside its 2027 Dining Trends Report. The reservation platform based its choices on more than 11 million verified diner reviews from September 2025 through August 2026, along with booking and search data. Honorees span 21 states and Washington, D.C.

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➤ Douglasville: A 90-passenger Amtrak train struck a tractor-trailer near Veterans Memorial Highway and Municipal Parkway on Thursday, splitting the trailer in two. No injuries were reported. (More)

➤ Roswell: Church members mourned Eric Stephens, 57, founder of local tech company zPaper, who died in Tuesday’s plane crash near Gwinnett County Airport. (More)

➤ Augusta: Officials will break ground on a state veterans cemetery at 10:30 a.m. today on Byrd Road beside the Gracewood campus of East Central Regional Hospital. (More)

➤ Atlanta: Emory University demolished the Briarcliff Road building that appeared as Hawkins National Lab in Netflix’s Stranger Things, clearing space for a proposed senior living community. (More)

➤ McCaysville: A week after record flooding forced 97 water rescues in Fannin County, the city’s water remains unsafe to drink, and officials say cleanup supplies are now the top need. (More)

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➤ Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale finished third in National League Cy Young voting, two years after winning the award in his first season with the team. Milwaukee right-hander Jacob Misiorowski was the unanimous choice for this year’s award. (More)

➤ Atlanta is among the proposed host cities in a joint bid by the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Jamaica to stage the 2031 Women’s World Cup. (More)

➤ The Atlanta Hawks visit the Chicago Bulls today in an NBA Cup group-stage game, the teams’ first meeting this season. (More)

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➤ Just in time for Friday the 13th, a study ranked Georgia fourth among the most superstitious states, based on psychics, astrologers, fortune tellers, metaphysical shops, and related Google searches. (More)

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