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Marietta March 14, 2022

Serious injury crash in Marietta on northbound I-75

According to a public information release from Officer Chuck McPhilamy of the Marietta Police Department, the department’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (S.T.E.P.) Unit is investigating a serious injury motor vehicle…

Marietta March 13, 2022

Canton man killed in fatal crash on I-75

According to Officer Chuck McPhilamy of the Marietta Police Department, the Department’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (S.T.E.P.) Unit is investigating a single-vehicle traffic fatality crash that occurred on I-75 northbound…

Marietta February 24, 2022

Pedestrian fatally struck by semi on I-75 in Marietta

According to a public information release from Sgt. Jake Rakestraw of the Marietta Police Department, the department’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (S.T.E.P.) Unit is investigating a pedestrian fatality that occurred…

Marietta February 20, 2022

Paper shredding event in Marietta

Do you have sensitive documents you need to shred, or are heaps of papers just piling up in file cabinets and boxes around your home? Keep Marietta Beautiful might be…

William Root House, a two story wooden pre-Civil War house

Marietta February 12, 2022

Cobb Landmarks wins $10k grant for programs at the William Root House

The City of Marietta posted the following announcement of a grant Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society, Inc. has received from the National Endowment for the Humanities for programming at Marietta’s…

Marietta History Center taken from other side of railroad tracks

Marietta January 24, 2022

The next Marietta History Center Pop-in is on African-Americans in the military

February is Black History Month, and the Marietta History Center’s monthly Pop-in event for February focuses on African-Americans in the military. The details are in the following announcement, reprinted from…

Marietta January 23, 2022

City of Marietta reminds residents: Exemption applications due April 1

The City of Marietta posted the following announcement on its website reminding residents of the April 1, 2022 deadline for various tax exemptions: MARIETTA – All 2022 applications for Homestead,…

Marietta January 22, 2022

Arrest made in shooting into Marietta house

A 29-year-old Smyrna man was arrested in connection with a series of incidents in which he allegedly fired a pistol into a house in Marietta on three separate occasions. [The…

Marietta January 19, 2022

Registration open for Marietta’s Gem City Mid-Winter Break Camp

The City of Marietta announced on its website that registration is now open for the Gem City Mid-Winter Break Camp. Details are in the announcement reprinted below: MARIETTA – The…

man with mask walking up exterior stairs with gun

Marietta January 15, 2022

Marietta police seek man who shot into same house on three separate occasions

According to Officer Chuck McPhilamy of the Marietta Police Department, the department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a suspect who shot into the same house on three different…

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Climate and Weather January 8, 2025

Update on winter storm watch for metro Atlanta and north Georgia

The National Weather Service updated the winter storm watch at 3:10 p.m. The primary change in this update is the forecast of how much snow might fall. The NWS repeated…

Opinion January 8, 2025

Political Cartoon by Clay Jones

Immigration January 8, 2025

Providing driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants improves birth outcomes, research shows

by Margot Moinester, Washington University in St. Louis and Kaitlyn Stanhope, Emory University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] When states give driver’s licenses to undocumented…

Environment January 8, 2025

Planning for spring’s garden? Bees like variety and don’t care about your neighbors’ yards

by Laura Russo, University of Tennessee, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen….

Literature January 8, 2025

What Shakespeare revealed about the chaotic reign of Richard III – and why the play still resonates in the age of Donald Trump

by David Sterling Brown, Trinity College, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s infamous…

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