A press conference is set for 10 o'clock this morning at the Navy Supply Corps School on Prince Avenue: the Navy Base CO will take part, as will University of Georgia President Michael Adams and Athens Mayor Heidi Davison. They'll talk about plans to commemorate the Navy's 57 years in Athens and plans to transition from a Navy campus to a medical campus. The Navy School leaves Athens next year for Newport Rhode Island. The University of Georgia, in collaboration with the Medical College of Georgia, will begin training medical students on the campus in Normaltown.

Athens-Clarke County firefighters say there are no injuries, and no evacuations, as they spent the overnight hours battling a fire at the J and J Chemical plant off Olympic Drive on Athens' east side. The plant makes perfumes for toilet bowl cleaners. There's no word yet on the cause of the fire.

It's only a drill: the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication is conducting a simulated news event as part of a journalists' training session. It'll get underway around 3 o'clock this afternoon, with a simulation of a suspicious package found on campus. Again: it's only an exercise for student journalists.

She teaches at Malcom Bridge Elementary School in Oconee County: Vickie Hammond is the new president-elected of PAGE, the Professional Association of Georgia Educators.

The Georgia DOT hosts open house information sessions on plans to widen Highway 78 in Clarke and Oglethorpe Counties. The first meeting is set for 4 o'clock this afternoon til 7 o'clock tonight at Gaines Elementary School on Gaines School Road. Another meeting takes place Thursday, 4 til 7, at the Oglethorpe County Commission office on Main Street in Lexington. Current plans call for 78 to be a four-lane divided highway between Whit Davis Road in Clarke County and Walter Sams Road in Oglethorpe County.

The Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services Department names four finalists for this year's Fred Birchmore Awards: Ken Sherman, Elaine Kress, Jane Douglas, and Elizabeth Nevi are the candidates for the award that will be presented at the August 10 Active Aging Conference at Community Council on Aging headquarters on Hoyt Street in Athens.

Authorities have released the name of the Madison County man who was killed in a weekend motorcycle crash in Athens: Derrick Ware was 46 years old, from Danielsville, killed when he wrecked his bike off Commerce Road. His was the fourth area motorcycle fatality in the past month in northeast Georgia.

Forecasters say there's no real break in sight in the heat wave that continues to grip Athens and northeast Georgia. Athens is expected to top out at around 97 degrees today. As hot as that is, it's not a record: that mark is 101 degrees, set back in 1925.

Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank purchases two area health clinics: clinics in Athens and Winder bring to 8 the number of Atlanta Falcons Physical Therapy Centers.