Articles by Larry Felton Johnson

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New Business January 25, 2025

33 new business licensed by Cobb on the week ending Friday January 24

Here are the 33 new businesses issued licenses by Cobb County on the week ending Friday, January 24, 2025. These are only licenses for businesses in unincorporated Cobb County. Cities…

Two smiling Keep Smyrna Beautiful volunteers wearing yellow safety vests, with litter pickup poles and plastic bags

Smyrna January 25, 2025

Keep Smyrna Beautiful events include document shredding, environmental scholarships

Keep Smyrna Beautiful submitted the following announcement of upcoming events: ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 2, 2025. Keep Smyrna Beautiful offers a $4,500 scholarship for a student currently pursuing…

A young woman from Anne Plamondon Productions dancing, leaning back on one leg with an arm behind her head

Dance January 25, 2025

KSU Department of Dance to host MYOKINE from Anne Plamondon

Kennesaw State University Department of Dance submitted the following news release about upcoming performances of MYOKINE, presented by Montreal-based Anne Plamondon Productions: Kennesaw State University (KSU) Department of Dance is…

Cobb County January 25, 2025

West Cobb Regional Library exemplifies the spirit of Camelot

By Kelly Johnson Across the sprawling lands of Cobb County’s western territory lies a place where a community unites in harmony, fun, and learning. While this place would rival the…

The "Star of Life" symbol represents medicine and health care. Three rectangles are arranged in a radial pattern to form a sort of abstract star shape, with a snake coiled around a staff superimposed on the center.

Opinion January 25, 2025

Community Service Boards essential to state, local healthcare

By Melanie Dallas, LPC If you’re not familiar with the term Community Service Board, or aren’t sure what, exactly, a Community Service Board does, you’re probably not alone. Unlike a…

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News Brief January 25, 2025

James Beard Awards semi-finalists include two from Marietta

By Mark Woolsey Two Marietta eating and drinking establishments have made a high-profile culinary industry list—they’re semifinalists for the 2025 James Beard Awards, considered the Oscars of the food and…

Singer Songwriter Joe South and his wife Jan Tant (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Mableton January 24, 2025

Joe South and his grave site on Veterans Memorial Highway in Mableton

[This is a lightly edited repeat of an article we published in 2018 and republished last fall. Since our web traffic has increased substantially in the intervening years I thought…

A diagram of a microchip with the letters "AI" in the center

Opinion January 24, 2025

How Human Creativity Can Compete With A.I.: Backstory And Borrowing

By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College In my last column, I describe several contests where human artists competed with artificial intelligence art, and “lost.” The real…

a screenshot of the six districts in Mableon, with 1,2,3 to the south, 4, 5, 6 to the north

Mableton January 24, 2025

Mableton City Council moves forward on November’s municipal elections

Mableton will hold elections for three of the six Mableton City Council seats on Tuesday, November 4, 2025. City Council districts 2, 4, and 6 will be on the ballot…

Marietta January 24, 2025

UPDATE: Missing Person in Marietta found safe

UPDATE: Thirty-seven-year-old Demarcus Benton has been located safe and reunited with his family. Officer Chuck McPhilamy of the Marietta Police Department distributed the following notice about a missing person in…

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