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Pete Jones, who has been an officer with Cobb’s STEP unit for nearly six years, recently earned his certification by the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction, one of only 700 in the world to do so. <br>Photo by Laura Moon
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STEP-ping up
by Talia Mollett
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November 20, 2009 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
MARIETTA - Cobb Officer Pete Jones, an investigator in the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program, is only the second person in the county - and one of only 700 in the world - to be certified by the Accreditation Commission for Traffic Accident Reconstruction. Jones endured more than eight hours of testing, including reconstructing a staged collision, to earn the certification. "I wanted to do this because it's nice to have an outside agency that has signed off on me and said that I know what I'm doing," he said. "We don't need the accred...
'Mayor missed point'
by Jon Gillooly
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November 20, 2009 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
VININGS - Board members of the Aviation Museum and Discovery Center have disputed some perceived problems with a possible merger of their museum with the Marietta Museum of History. Last weekend, ...
Jazz special at Strand tonight
by Marcus E. Howard
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November 20, 2009 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
MARIETTA - Jazz singer and pianist Freddy Cole, brother of the late legendary singer Nat "King" Cole, will headline a jazz concert tonight at 7:30 at the Strand Theatre to benefit the Cobb Library ...
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