Health Care, East Cobb cityhood key topics at ECBA candidate forum
Health issues including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (how to safeguard both lives and the economy) was one of two dominant topics at a candidate forum sponsored by the East Cobb…
Articles by Mark Woolsey
Joyette Holmes opens her campaign office
The COVID-19 pandemic may have thrown a couple of roadblocks in Cobb County District Attorney Joyette Holmes’ way in her roughly 15 months as top prosecutor, but it apparently hasn’t…
Professional Women of East Cobb
Women who own businesses and/or are pursuing professional careers in East Cobb have a new voice-and resource. A group calling itself Professional Women of East Cobb has formed as a…
East Cobb Park size could triple with passage of SPLOST
It’s been described as a town square for residents of East Cobb, playing host to everything from holiday tree lightings to “Sunday Funday” events in the spring. And if voters…
CobbLinc ridership recovering somewhat from COVID-19 hit
Cobb County’s CobbLinc transit bus service has seen ridership levels recover-somewhat-since a precipitous plunge at the start of the Covid crisis-but the agency’s future operational and revenue picture remains murky….
Marietta Museum of History assembles collections on Black Lives Matter and COVID-19
2020’s landscape has-quite obviously- been dominated by a pair of historic developments-the COVID-19 pandemic and the renewed civil rights movement sparked by recent controversial police shootings, exemplified by Black Lives…
MUST Ministries beefs up Workplace Development program
Cobb County’s MUST Ministries is beefing up its Workforce Development program, as it braces for what could be a surge of jobseekers. The agency has put a jobs hotline in…
MUST Ministries 25th year of summer lunches for school children begins
MUST Ministries vehicles rolled into action Monday for the agency’s 25th year of providing summer lunches to school children in Cobb and three other counties. The first day went well…
MUST Ministries feeds 34,164 since pandemic ramps up
MUST Ministries fed a staggering number of people in recent months. Figures released this week show the non-profit agency’s food service has fed 34,164 people in the eight weeks since…
Cobb absentee ballots in record-setting territory
County voter requests for absentee ballots are in record-setting territory- and still climbing- in advance of June’s primary, matching robust numbers reported by the Secretary of State’s office Cobb County’s…