Morning Briefing: What is Cherokee's Graduation Rate?

1. Weather: There is a 10 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms in the area before 8 a.m., says the National Weather Service. Today, look for mostly sunny skies and a high temperature of 83 degrees. Tonight, the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and a low of 57 degrees.

2. In Case You Missed It: Hana Japanese restaurant failed its most recent health inspection from the county. Read the other scores and find out why Hana did so poorly.

3. Happening Now: Are you graduating this year? Use Patch as a platform for sharing your favorite graduation pictures! Congratulations on graduating, and never forget the memories and friends you made at school!

4. Looking Ahead: Speaking of graduates, come back at 9 a.m. to learn how well Cherokee County is doing in regards to the percentage of students who graduated this year. What percentage do you think it was?

Mayor Gene Hobgood will be hosting a town hall meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at City Hall. Canton-Sixes Patch will be there to see what folks have to say to their mayor!

5. On This Date in History: On May 23, 1618, sectarian tensions between Protestants and Catholics in Bohemia came to a head when Protestant officials afraid of a Catholic government in their country threw their suppossed oppressors out of a third-floor window of the Bohemian Chancellory in Prague (now the Czech Republic). This "Second Defenestration (going out of a window) of Prague" was the spark that set off the Thirty Years' War, one of the most destructive conflicts in history.

By the way, the Catholics who were defenestrated all survived their 70 foot fall. One man, a secretary, was later made a noble and christened "Baron von Hohenfall," or the Baron of Highfall.