QT Robbery
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Quick Trip cashier robbed at gunpoint
by Marietta Daily Journal Staff
02:12 PM, Tuesday, June 18
The Cobb County Police Department is investigating an armed robbery that occurred this morning at a QuikTrip gas station on Paces Ferry Road in Atlanta

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A large hole in the bridge at Pine Haven mobile home park prevents residents from leaving their homes by vehicle Monday morning.
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Several sections of Bishop Lake Road in east Cobb were blocked by downed trees and power lines as a result of Thursday night's storm. Clean-up efforts will continue this week and next in the wake of the EF-1 tornado that struck northeast Cobb County.
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Advanced Algebra teacher Verlynda Thompson answers questions from Osborne High School junior Travarius Brown, 17, left, and senior Ernestina Castellanos, 17, as they review for their higher order polynomial functions final in December. Several Cobb County Board of Education members spoke out last week against a proposal to increase the amount of students allowed in each classroom, suggesting the increase to eight students above the state-required maximum would put too much pressure on teachers.
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Marietta resident Robby Parker, will be celebrating Father’s Day today with his children Zoe, 7, Callum, 4, and Schuyler, 9, as one of Parenting magazine’s ‘Coolest Dads of the Year,’ for his five-minute video rendition of the band Queen’s song ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’
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Mulligan’s Bar owner Liz Dunn pours a draft beer for a patron Friday evening as customers getting off work stop in for a drink. Dunn is personally and professionally against the lowering of the DUI limit nationally from .08 to .05, stating it would affect businesses like hers.
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Three-year-old Tee Generette of Smyrna jumps into the mix of dancers Saturday that includes Tommye Campbell, Ingrid Maldonado and Anabel Maldonado, all of Marietta, as a flash mob broke into a version of the dance ‘The Wobble’ in Glover Park during this year’s Juneteenth celebration.<br>Staff/Kelly J. Huff
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Andrew Roger’s Barber Shop, one of the first black-owned businesses in Marietta, was located on the southwest corner of the Square in 1915.<br>Special to the MDJ
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