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Marietta June 17, 2024

Marietta Police identify suspect in homicide

Officer Chuck McPhilamy of the Marietta Police Department announced that a suspect is identified in the death of 42-year-old Samantha Wollery. She was attacked while inside her apartment on Williams…

Marietta Police Chief David Beam in uniform

Marietta June 14, 2024

David Beam appointed Marietta Police Chief for the long haul

Marietta‘s interim Police Chief David Beam was officially appointed chief of the Marietta Police Department for the long haul at a Special Called Meeting of the Marietta City Council on…

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

Marietta June 12, 2024

Marietta’s historic William Root House to present free Juneteeth program

The William Root House Museum will highlight Juneteenth during a special Saturday, June 15 event. Juneteenth is named for the date that U.S. Major General Gordon Granger read General Order…

The comedy and drama mask behind curtains

Marietta June 2, 2024

The Marietta Theatre Company will present the musical “Hands on a Hardbody” June 13-22

On June 13-22 the Marietta Theatre Company will present its second show of the 2024 season, “Hands on a Hardbody.” The show, based on a real contest in Longview, Texas,…

Marietta May 31, 2024

Interim Marietta Police Chief David Beam recommended to fill the position long-term

Photo from City of Marietta website Marietta City Manager Bill Bruton, Jr. recommended that interim Police Chief David Beam be appointed to that position for the long haul. Beam has…

In an obviously old photo a line of Black men and women in formal dress posing for photo .

Marietta May 30, 2024

Cobb NAACP to host 20th annual Juneteenth celebration

Juneteenth

Marietta May 28, 2024

Police identify suspect in hit-and-run injury of police officers: seek public help in finding him

Officer Chuck McPhilamy of the Marietta Police Department issued this update on their search for the driver who sideswiped a police cruiser and left the scene with two officers injured:…

Grainy photo of alleged forger Horace C. Gray from a 1910 newspaper

Marietta May 27, 2024

Horace C. Gray: Criminal mastermind or harmless blowhard?

Yesterday we ran a Marietta history article based on a 1910 crime feature from the Atlanta Georgian. The Georgian was a newspaper published from 1906 to 1939. For most of…

Marietta May 26, 2024

1910 in Marietta: a con artist jailed, then released, in bizarre forgery case

Flim flam artists have fascinated the public, at least since their exploits were featured, in sometimes exaggerated ways, by pulp fiction writers and tabloid journalists in the late 19th and…

A silver fountain pen on a birch desk with an ink bottle alongside

Marietta May 24, 2024

Kiwanis Club of Marietta Golden K presents Silver Pen awards to students from 5 Cobb elementary schools

Image above created by DALL-E from OpenAI John Kone of the Kiwanis Club of Marietta Golden K submitted the following article about the club’s Silver Pen awards: In May of…

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