October 2020

2020 Elections October 31, 2020

Q&A with Dr. Vickie Benson, Democratic candidate for Cobb Board of Education Post 1

The Courier sent a list of questions to Dr. Vickie Benson, the Democratic candidate for Cobb County Board of Education Post 1. Benson is running against Republican incumbent Randy Scamihorn,…

Georgia Power sign at Plant McDonough-Atkinson in Cobb County accompanying article about restory power

Weather October 31, 2020

Georgia Power: 78,000 customers remain without power as of Saturday morning

Georgia Power distributed the following press release just after 9 a.m. Saturday morning updating the progress on returning power to those customers still without electricity due to Hurricane Zeta: Georgia…

Business October 31, 2020

Lockheed Martin awarded contract for “Palletized Munitions Experimentation Campaign”

According to a press release from Lockheed Martin, the U.S. Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) Office awarded the company a $25 million contract to support the next…

Sign in front of Cobb & Douglas Public Health on County Services Parkway in article about Cobb & Douglas Public Health hiring

Holidays October 30, 2020

Safer ways to celebrate the holidays during the pandemic

Are you looking for safer alternatives to the traditional ways of celebrating Halloween, Thanksgiving or other holidays in this time of the COVID-19 pandemic? Cobb & Douglas Public Health distributed…

Weather October 30, 2020

Georgia Power reports power restored to nearly 675,000 customers

Georgia Power reported in a press release this afternoon that power has been restored to nearly 675,000 customers, and they repeated their earlier estimate that power would be restored to…

Weather October 29, 2020

Georgia Power projects days of outage for some customers

Georgia Power issued a press release in which they project that power is expected “to be restored to 95% of customers impacted by Hurricane Zeta by Sunday night,” and that…

Education October 29, 2020

Cobb schools closed tomorrow

The Cobb County School District sent the following news release announcing that due to the disruption caused by Hurricane Zeta, all classes are canceled tomorrow. A CCSD representative told the…

Weather October 29, 2020

Updated message from Georgia Power: 417k still without power, 280k restored

Georgia Power has issued a more recent update than the one in this article, which you can read by following this link. Georgia Power distributed the following press release at…

Cobb County October 29, 2020

CCCSB Behavioral Health Crisis Center open today as usual

The Cobb County Community Services Board issued the following news release announcing that the Behavioral Health Crisis Center remains open today. Here is the complete announcement: Tropical Storm Zeta UPDATE,…

Weather October 29, 2020

Messages from Georgia Power and Cobb County Government about Hurricane Zeta storm damage

In the interests of getting this posted before a possible second power outage here, we’re posting the messages from Georgia Power and Cobb County verbatim: Georgia Power press release We…

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October 2020

Q&A with Dr. Vickie Benson, Democratic candidate for Cobb Board of Education Post 1

Georgia Power: 78,000 customers remain without power as of Saturday morning

Lockheed Martin awarded contract for “Palletized Munitions Experimentation Campaign”

Safer ways to celebrate the holidays during the pandemic

Georgia Power reports power restored to nearly 675,000 customers

Georgia Power projects days of outage for some customers

Cobb schools closed tomorrow

Updated message from Georgia Power: 417k still without power, 280k restored

CCCSB Behavioral Health Crisis Center open today as usual

Messages from Georgia Power and Cobb County Government about Hurricane Zeta storm damage