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Ordinance forces Art Walk to dry out
Theresa Jenkins, director of the Marietta’s Welcome Center, pleaded with the City Council at a meeting last week to c...
12:19 AM, Monday, May 06
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Residents say walkway project is accident waiting to happen
Area residents attempted to halt Public Works Committee plans to connect Brown Avenue to Polk Street to allow neighbo...
12:19 AM, Monday, May 06
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Dave Matthews of Decatur prepares two ghost bikes he made in honor Lawrence Joseph Young and Joseph Gathambiri, who were struck and killed by drivers this year. He hopes to display the bikes following the fourth annual Ride of Silence on May 15 in Marietta.
Silent ride a memorial to cyclists who were injured or kil...
This year’s Ride of Silence, which annually honors bicyclists who were injured or killed in accidents involving cars,...
12:16 AM, Monday, May 06
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Front row from left, former Georgia governors Carl Sanders and Roy Barnes; back row from left, Joe Daniell, son of former Cobb County School Board member Herman Daniell; former Marietta City Schools Superintendent Lloyd Cox and former Cobb County School Board member John Strother gather to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Kennesaw State University.
Class is in Session: Governors Sanders, Barnes on rise of KSU
As the 25,000-student Kennesaw State University prepares to mark its 50th anniversary this October, some of the peopl...
12:12 AM, Monday, May 06
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Marietta resident Khalilah Greer competes in rhythmic gymnastics during this year’s USAGymnastics Special Olympics Championships.
Locals compete in Special Olympics championships
Almost 50 Special Olympics athletes from Cobb competed against participants from 12 different states and Canada in th...
12:12 AM, Monday, May 06
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Sheriff: Train killed Austell residents
Three people died when a passenger train smashed into a car as it moved over railroad tracks at a darkened, unprotect...
12:42 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Georgia State School Superintendent and Campbell High School graduate John Barge, above, addresses a packed room of Republicans on Saturday morning during the Cobb County GOP annual breakfast, offering insight to the Common Core curriculum, which the Cobb County Board of Education rejected in a 4-3 vote to pay $7.5 million for new math textbooks. <br>Staff/Kelly J. Huff
Getting to the (Common) Core of the matter
Ga. schools superintendent addresses concerns about a federal curriculum
12:41 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Renee Southland and Eugene Anderson display the Alpharetta-Smyrna Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity’s banner at an event with Krimson Community Foundation to screen ‘42,’ the story of Jackie Robinson, at the NGC Cinemas in Marietta.
Mentoring program participants gather for ‘42’ screening
The constant cold rain Saturday made it a perfect morning to go to the movie theater, and an audience invited by the ...
12:37 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Cobb GOP quizzes Barge on program
MARIETTA — During a talk about the controversial Common Core Standards at the Cobb GOP’s Saturday breakfast, a local ...
12:34 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Arrow Exterminator’s Service Professional Dave Lofquist exits trees in the back yard of an east Cobb neighborhood Friday afternoon after spraying the plants and yard for adult mosquitoes for a local customer.
Mild winter has local mosquitoes buzzing
The mild, wet winter followed by a rainy spring has set the table for a perfect storm of another sort this summer — m...
12:33 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Birrell, Pond in game of chicken
Commissioner faces new ethics complaint from fowl proponent
12:30 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Kennesaw State University Culinary and Hospitality Services Campus Executive Chef Billy Skiber harvests some adult lettuce for a dish he is preparing for students in the dining facility at The Commons on campus. The staff harvests more than 700 heads every three weeks after growing them hydroponically.
KSU culinary degree gets back to roots
The phrase “food for thought” could not be any more true for the high level of care the Kennesaw State University Cul...
12:28 AM, Sunday, May 05
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Joseph Rickey Hampton
Mother: ‘Please forgive him’
Woman makes plea for son at hearing on fatal Marietta bar shooting
12:38 AM, Saturday, May 04
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City wraps up park projects; others begin
The $1 million in improvements to one city park, Laurel Park, will be completed by the end of May, and the city is ad...
12:03 AM, Saturday, May 04
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The remains of Waleed Jaraysi’s unfinished wedding hall are seen from the South Marietta Parkway on Friday
12th time not the charm for Jaraysi in suit
Yet another judge, the 12th since 2007, has ruled against Waleed “Lee” Jaraysi, telling him his lawsuit against the c...
12:00 AM, Saturday, May 04
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