Articles by Larry Felton Johnson

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Puzzles Games and Quizzes December 28, 2025

Local Trivia Challenge: Can You Match These Parks in Cobb County With Their Descriptions Correctly?

By Larry Felton Johnson Quizzes are a good way to learn about the features, culture and history of our county and cities. So for the past year or two I’ve…

Photo of the home in the Harrison High School attendance zone that sold for the highest price in November 2025

Home sale prices, Real Estate December 27, 2025

November 2025 home sales in Cobb County’s Harrison High attendance zone

These prices for November 2025 home sales in the Harrison High School attendance zone are from the Cobb County Tax Assessor’s site. For an explanation of why we sort home…

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Business & Economy, new business December 27, 2025

Service and Retail Businesses Lead This Week’s New Cobb County Licenses

Below are the 29 new businesses issued licenses by Cobb County on the week ending Friday, December 26, 2025. This week’s listings for unincorporated Cobb County are a mix of…

Photo of the home in the Campbell High School attendance zone that sold for the highest price in November 2025

Home sale prices, Real Estate December 27, 2025

November home sales in Cobb County’s Campbell High attendance zone

By Larry Felton Johnson These prices for November 2025 home sales in the Campbell High School attendance zone are from the Cobb County Tax Assessor’s site. For an explanation of…

Photo of the home in the South Cobb High School attendance zone that sold for the highest price in November 2025

Home sale prices, Real Estate December 27, 2025

November 2025 home sales in Cobb County’s South Cobb High attendance zone

By Larry Felton Johnson These prices for November 2025 home sales in the South Cobb High School attendance zone are from the Cobb County Tax Assessor’s site. For an explanation…

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Puzzles Games and Quizzes, Weekend Quiz December 27, 2025

Cobb County News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of This Week’s Headlines

The Cobb County Courier has a daily quiz in our email newsletter. Here on the main website, it will be a weekend quiz, published Saturdays and Sundays. On Saturday the…

Opinion December 27, 2025

We stay busy at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health: 2025 Year in Review

By Melanie Dallas, LPC If you count new programs, grants and the sheer amount of work, 2025 has been a year of abundance for Highland Rivers Behavioral Health. But most…

News, Public Safety December 26, 2025

Date of Humphrey execution now uncertain

By Mark Woolsey Just when Cobb Countian Stacey Humphreys will be executed in the 2003 murders of two real estate agents in West Cobb now is uncertain. Corrections officials had…

Community, History December 26, 2025

Don’t bury the lede: an episode from Chattahoochee River history

[This an evergreen article that we periodically republish as our readership grows, often with added materials from the Georgia Historic Newspapers database and website housed at the University of Georgia…

Photo of the home in the McEachern High School attendance zone that sold for the highest price in November 2025

Home sale prices, Real Estate December 26, 2025

November 2025 home sales in Cobb County’s McEachern High attendance zone

These prices for November home sales in the McEachern High School attendance zone are from the Cobb County Tax Assessor’s site. For an explanation of why we sort home sales…

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Government & Politics, Local government February 26, 2026

Public Invited to Review Marietta 2028 SPLOST Projects

The City of Marietta posted its 2028 SPLOST public input meeting schedule on the city website. The meeting will allow public input on the project list that was approved by…

Health & Wellness February 26, 2026

‘You Aren’t Trapped’: Hundreds of US Nurses Choose Canada Over Trump’s America

This article by Brett Kelman first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Brett Kelman, February 26, 2026 Last month, Justin and Amy Miller packed their vehicles with three…

Government & Politics, National Government February 26, 2026

USDA to give up massive DC office building as shift of staff to states begins

by Jacob Fischler, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] February 25, 2026 The U.S. Department of Agriculture will transfer a large office building…

Education February 26, 2026

Lawmakers restore full $325 million for needs-based college aid program, with a boost from Kemp

by Makenna Carlton, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] February 25, 2026 Georgia’s first comprehensive needs-based college scholarship came closer to becoming reality…

Psychology February 26, 2026

‘Learning to be humble meant taming my need to stand out from the group’ – a humility scholar explains how he became more grounded

by Barret Michalec, Arizona State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] “Humble” is not a word my colleagues would use to describe me, especially early…

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Articles by Larry Felton Johnson

Local Trivia Challenge: Can You Match These Parks in Cobb County With Their Descriptions Correctly?

November 2025 home sales in Cobb County’s Harrison High attendance zone

Service and Retail Businesses Lead This Week’s New Cobb County Licenses

November home sales in Cobb County’s Campbell High attendance zone

November 2025 home sales in Cobb County’s South Cobb High attendance zone

Cobb County News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of This Week’s Headlines

We stay busy at Highland Rivers Behavioral Health: 2025 Year in Review

Date of Humphrey execution now uncertain

Don’t bury the lede: an episode from Chattahoochee River history

November 2025 home sales in Cobb County’s McEachern High attendance zone