2022

Climate and Weather January 14, 2022

GDOT warns about incoming wintry weather: “Stay at home if you can”

The Georgia Department of Transportation, the National Weather Service and Cobb County have all been active on social media warning of the incoming wintry storm. GDOT tweeted this, with a…

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Health Care January 14, 2022

COVID report: Thursday January 13

There was another drop in the 14-day case rate for new cases of COVID in Cobb County on the report for January 13. The 14-day rate per 100,000 of the…

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From the Editor January 14, 2022

Cobb County School District emails should be available to the public except in narrow circumstances

This From the Editor opinion piece started as a Twitter rant. I was reflecting early this morning on the outrageous cost estimates the Cobb County School District presents to the…

Climate and Weather January 14, 2022

National Weather Service warns of snow, black ice in Cobb Cobb for Saturday night and Sunday

National Weather Service issued a special weather statement for Cobb County and much of north Georgia warning of hazardous road conditions due to black ice and a mixture of snow…

Climate and Weather January 13, 2022

Possible wintry weather approaching Cobb for the weekend

We might have a wintry mix of snow and ice for the weekend, but overnight Thursday it will just be cloudy and cold. According to the report from the National…

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Holidays January 13, 2022

Cobb County MLK Day celebration; county offices closed Monday

Cobb County government will be celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. virtually this year, and the county issued the following announcement in their newsletter: Celebrate the life…

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Health Care January 13, 2022

Cobb DOT’s winter weather preparations delay distribution of COVID tests

The possibility of snow and ice Sunday has delayed the distribution plan for the 60,480 COVID rapid self-test kits the Cobb County Board of Commissioners approved last Tuesday. According to…

Second Helpings January 13, 2022

Food Tours While Traveling or in Your Own Backyard

By Brian Benefield Food is a universal language that everyone understands. Regardless of where you were hatched in this world, coming together with friends and family around a table to…

Justice January 13, 2022

How the Vietnam War pushed MLK to embrace global justice, not only civil rights at home

By Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder [This article first appeared in The Conversation. Used with permission] On July 2, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. stood behind President Lyndon Baines…

Business January 13, 2022

Marietta firm C.W. Matthews picks up two of the latest round of GDOT contracts

The Georgia Department of Transportation awarded about $45 million in construction contracts in their latest round, and Marietta firm C.W. Matthews won the low bid on two of those contracts….

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