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Members of the Marietta High School’s 21st Century Leaders Club are getting ready for Global Youth Service Day. From left, front row: Shakon Fleming, 17, junior, Ana Vianei, 16, sophomore, Likeam Wise, 17, junior; back row: Matt Manely, 16, sophomore, Hannah Bundy, 16, sophomore, Shifra Erez, 16, junior, and Sam Bartlett, 16, sophomore. <br>Photo by Thinh D. Nguyen Summit leaders
MARIETTA – On Saturday, students and youth group members in metro Atlanta will gather at Marietta High School to learn a lesson in community service from a group of MHS students who are ...
March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cobb aims high; low on SAT goals
MARIETTA – A review of SAT targets for Cobb County high schools shows a gamut of goals, from a 160-point increase in one year at Harrison, to a target score that’s 41 points below ...
March 18, 2010 01:00 AM | 3 3 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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From left: Meadowbrook Lane residents Lynn Rechsteiner, Jerome Mitchell, 17, and Leonard Sandberg stand outside an abandoned home in the Marietta neighborhood they want cleaned up. <br>Photo by Thinh D. Nguyen Abandoned 'eyesore' has neighbors upset
EAST COBB – Last week, Leonard Sandberg looked out the window of his Meadowbrook Lane home, where he has lived for 30 years, and saw someone stealing a refrigerator from a nearby abandon...
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Cobb County poised for St. Patrick's Day celebrations
COBB COUNTY – The Georgia skies are as blue as an Irishman’s eyes and Cobb County is poised for St. Patrick’s Day today. Smyrna will see its eighth annual St. Patrick’s...
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Housing market showing signs of improvement
COBB COUNTY – The home building industry in Cobb is showing signs of improvement, as February saw the highest number of new housing permits issued throughout the county since June 2008. ...
March 17, 2010 01:00 AM | 8 8 comments | 13 13 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kennesaw man gets 20 years in child porn plea deal
KENNESAW – A former children’s church director and local magician who authorities say secretly filmed boys using public bathrooms in Cobb and around metro Atlanta pleaded guilty to a...
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Cobb school board to do more training
MARIETTA – Members of the Cobb County School Board will spend Thursday afternoon in training, but unlike the board’s team-building retreat in January, this session won’t cost t...
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Ian Quartermus of east Cobb jogs at the Johnson Ferry North trail area of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area on Tuesday. A trail is proposed to connect this trail area with Morgan Falls to the north. <br>Photo by Thinh D. Nguyen Residents oppose new 'Hooch trail, bridge
EAST COBB – Many east Cobb and Sandy Springs residents at a meeting Monday spoke against potential trails and proposed bridges near the Johnson Ferry North portion of the Chattahoochee R...
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A Kennesaw State University freshman was found dead near the 8-story Central Parking Deck on campus on Monday morning. Student found dead at KSU
KENNESAW – Police are investigating the death of a Kennesaw State University freshman found dead just outside an eight story campus parking lot Monday morning. The young woman, who will n...
March 16, 2010 12:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Alec Tregone, ex-MDJ editor, dies at age 96
MARIETTA – Alec Tregone, of Marietta, who died Tuesday at age 96, served as the first editor of the Marietta Journal when the newspaper changed from a weekly to daily publication in the 19...
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Pope High School senior Jonathan Phelps-Davis has been selected as one of the most recent members of the National Society of High School Scholars. There are more than 300,000 NSHSS members in more than 120 countries, according to the NSHSS. The organization said it encourages members to apply their unique talents, vision and potential for the betterment of themselves and the world. One of the best
EAST COBB – Pope High School senior Jonathan Phelps-Davis has been selected as one of the most recent members of the National Society of High School Scholars. Established in 2002, the so...
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Marietta schools expand visitors system
MARIETTA – The Marietta City Schools board on Tuesday expanded its visitor identification system, which screens for sex offenders, to all schools in the district. The system allows for aut...
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Changes proposed on 3 Cobb Community Transit bus routes
COBB COUNTY – Three Cobb Community Transit bus routes could see changes in the months ahead, including cutbacks on the number of trips in a day. The proposed changes would affect Routes ...
March 13, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Preservation ordinance gets revised in Marietta
MARIETTA – Local attorney Greg Griffin, owner of the 1849 antebellum plantation house Tranquilla on Kennesaw Avenue, is not a fan of historic preservation districts. So when the seven mem...
March 11, 2010 01:00 AM | 5 5 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Cuts could up class sizes, reduce teachers
MARIETTA – Following a budget update at the Cobb County School Board’s work session on Wednesday, Superintendent Fred Sanderson said his staff and the board are working on a prelimin...
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Commission changes voting rules
COBB COUNTY – The Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday revised its procedures to allow only three members to vote on county matters, and the vote must be unanimous for the issue to pas...
March 10, 2010 01:00 AM | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Former Cobb School Board chairwoman Betty Gray, center, presents, from left, Chattahoochee Technical College student Reanna Daniels, South Cobb High School senior Jessaca York and Pebblebrook High School senior Uxivyon Pearce their checks for a $1,500 scholarship during the annual Betty Gray Teacher Education Scholarship luncheon at Roswell Street Baptist Church. At right is 2008 scholarship recipient, former South Cobb High School student Jay Sessoms, now a student at Georgia State University.<br>Photo by Mike Jacoby Cobb students awarded education scholarships
MARIETTA – Although Betty Gray joked that she was glad Tuesday afternoon wasn’t a rainy day because that meant her hair wouldn’t curl too much, she did say in her 57 years of e...
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Nick Thornton of Marietta, a civil engineering technology junior at Southern Polytechnic State University, sits in the concrete canoe workshop on campus. He was recently selected as 2010 Engineering Technology Student of the Year by the Georgia chapter of the National Society of Professional Engineers. <br>Photo by Thinh D. Nguyen Engineering excellence
MARIETTA – Nick Thornton, a junior at Southern Polytechnic State University, was recently selected as the 2010 Engineering Technology Student of the Year by the Georgia chapter of the Nati...
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Dr. Crooks recall to go forward
MARIETTA — An effort to recall school board member Dr. John Crooks may proceed, Judge Walter Matthews ruled late Tuesday. The judge found that the facts as set forth by Carrie Nicholas-Welkis, o...
March 09, 2010 05:07 PM | 6 6 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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