With rain and stormy weather blanketing the metro area Sunday, numerous reports of downed trees and power lines came in throughout Cobb County, as well as reports of three house fires in the southw...
Week highlights the various jobs of Public Works In one week, City Engineer Jim Wilgus closed three deals to purchase properties on behalf of the city, spoke at neighborhood meetings about the ever-growing need for speed humps, wrangled with res...
Community aims to jumpstart rec center renovation Surrounded by small, older homes, tucked on a little hill off a narrow street that connects historic neighborhoods, the Lawrence Street Recreation Center has sat patiently waiting for some attentio...
Testing for Breast Cancer: Genetic counselor offers some advice Angelina Jolie has drawn attention many times throughout her acting career, but the most recent reason she’s been in the news might be the most important. Jolie tested positive for a defective gene...
Police: Acworth couple faces drug possession charges An Acworth couple is facing drug possession charges after police say the pair had medication not prescribed to them that they intended to sell, following an arrest at their home Friday.
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‘Discount deal’ preserves 152 acres on Lost Mountain The deal between Raymond M. Reed, 96, of Smyrna and the trust was announced Friday. The 152-acre tract was sold at a discounted price of approximately $2 million to Snellville-based Georgia Piedmon...
College features Barr’s congressional papers Former U.S. Rep. Bob Barr’s congressional papers were put on display at the University of West Georgia’s Ingram Library this week. History Professor Daniel Williams spoke of the conservative Congre...
Community creates mosaic for Keheley Elementary Over the past couple of weekends, the east Cobb elementary school invited students, teachers and parents to have a hand in the masterpiece. The design covers six columns at the school’s main entran...
Harrison senior looks to use own experience to help others One Harrison High School graduate plans to study a topic in college she hopes will help others the way it helped her: psychology. Eighteen-year-old Kiara Roberto has been at the Kennesaw-area schoo...
Girls on mission to provide safe drinking water Kennesaw Mountain Magnet Program sophomores Julie Evans, Christina Lee and Katie Thornburgh are going to Peru later this monthto install water purification systems and check on the ones that they i...
Whitefield senior is headed to college on football scholarship Described as a quiet leader by many, Whitefield Academy’s Richard “Roc” Sherrell will be missed by his coaches, classmates and teachers next school year. The 18-year-old will be attending Rhodes Co...
Living on: Family remembers daughter whose organs saved four others It was Father’s Day three years ago when a Cherokee County husband and wife lost their teenage daughter in a boating accident on Lake Lanier, but for the family left behind and the people who recei...
No change in assessments for majority of residents Of those 51,456 notices with changes, 40,630 show a decrease in fair market value, said Stephen White, director and chief appraiser for the Cobb Board of Tax Assessors.
Cobb to replace 3 bridges with SPLOST funds Residents may need to find temporary detours as the county moves to replace three bridges in west, north and east Cobb. The Board of Commissioners this week agreed to hire Tucker-based Sunbelt Stru...
DNA confirms remains belong to missing Austell student The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Friday the positive identification was obtained through DNA testing with Jmaal Malik Keyes' parents. The remains were found last week in an area where a bui...
Dallas Highway wreck fatal A Paulding County woman was killed in a Wednesday afternoon wreck on Dallas Highway while her teenage son was airlifted to an Atlanta hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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