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Cobb County Police Department Crime Scene Unit vehicle

Mableton January 10, 2025

17-year-old dies after shooting on Riverside Parkway in Mableton

Sgt. Eric Smith of the Cobb County Police Department announced in a public information release that uniformed police officers discovered a 17-year-old male with gunshot wounds after residents called 911…

Mableton January 10, 2025

Photos of a walk in the snow in Mableton and Smyrna

By Larry Felton Johnson I live where Mableton and Smyrna share a ragged border along Oakdale Road. It’s on Mableton’s eastern part and Smyrna’s southernmost part, near the Chattahoochee River….

A group photo of Scout Troop 22 and other volunteers, wearing yellow safety vests and holding orange litter bags

Mableton January 6, 2025

Two Mableton litter cleanups: Scout Troop 22 and Friends of Mableton

Scout Troop 22 and other volunteer: photo courtesy of Barry Krebs Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted two reports with photos of neighborhood litter cleanups in Cobb County. Boy Scout…

A green recycling truck. A large utility truck like a standard trash pickup truck but with a circular arrow recycling symbol on the side

Mableton January 4, 2025

Public hearing on Mableton’s trash pickup ordinance Tuesday

The first Mableton City Council meeting of the year is on Tuesday instead of Wednesday. It will be held on January 7, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at the Riverside EpiCenter,…

Mableton January 4, 2025

The notorious and cruel 1953 Mableton UFO hoax

This is an evergreen article that we periodically republish, often edited with more information as we research the topic. It was originally published in February of this year. [Warning from…

Mable House door with two stone chimneys flanking

Mableton January 4, 2025

When Mableton first was (and shortly thereafter wasn’t) a city

[The Cobb County Courier is republishing some of our earliest articles. When many of these articles were first published, our readership was less than 10,000 per month. Now that we’re…

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Cobb County December 31, 2024

Mableton man arrested for 2021 homicide of teen in Cherokee County

By Mark Woolsey [The Cobb County Courier has a policy of withholding or redacting the name of suspects unless and until the person is convicted in a court of law…

Mableton December 27, 2024

A 1911 auto adventure through Mableton and Austell

[This article is part of an ongoing project of resurrecting evergreen articles from the Cobb County Courier’s stacks, and expanding them with newly discovered information] I’ve been sorting through the…

Mable Family Cemetery (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Mableton December 25, 2024

The historic cemetery of the family who gave Mableton its name

[This is another article originally published in the first few years of the Cobb County Courier when our visitor count was only around 10,000 per 30-day period. We’ve decided to…

The boardwalk trail at the beginning of the Chatthoochee RiverLands trailhead in Mableton, adjacent to Discovery Park

Chattahoochee RiverLands December 21, 2024

A walk along the Chattahoochee RiverLands trail in Mableton

By Larry Felton Johnson Yesterday afternoon I walked along the Chattahoochee RiverLands trail adjacent to Discovery Park in Mableton. I didn’t cover the entire distance, but I made a video…

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Search Results for Mableton

17-year-old dies after shooting on Riverside Parkway in Mableton

Photos of a walk in the snow in Mableton and Smyrna

Two Mableton litter cleanups: Scout Troop 22 and Friends of Mableton

Public hearing on Mableton’s trash pickup ordinance Tuesday

The notorious and cruel 1953 Mableton UFO hoax

When Mableton first was (and shortly thereafter wasn’t) a city

Mableton man arrested for 2021 homicide of teen in Cherokee County

A 1911 auto adventure through Mableton and Austell

The historic cemetery of the family who gave Mableton its name

A walk along the Chattahoochee RiverLands trail in Mableton