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map showing the proposed City of Mableton in south cobb

Mableton July 31, 2022

First Mableton cityhood forum to be held August 17, 2022 at police academy

Cobb County posted the following announcement to its Facebook page about the first Mableton Cityhood forum: The first Mableton Cityhood community forum is set for Wednesday, August 17 at 6:30…

The county map of the Vinings 04 precint roughly bounded by South Atlanta Road, Paces Ferry Road, Cumberland Parkway, and the Chattahoochee River

2022 Elections June 7, 2022

Cityhood Vote in Vinings 04 hand recount identical to original scanned count

Cobb Elections and Registration conducted a hand recount of the Vinings cityhood vote in the Vinings 04 precinct, and the count was identical to the election day ballot scan. Vinings…

a map showing the boundaries of the proposed new cities in Cobb County

2022 Elections May 26, 2022

Rushed and skeptical voters give thumbs down to three proposed Cobb cities

by Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission]May 26, 2022 Efforts to carve three new cities out of Cobb County failed Tuesday…

2022 Elections May 6, 2022

Debate over Cobb cityhood movements intensifies as early voting wraps up first week

By Rebecca Gaunt As week one of early voting came to a close, advocates on both sides of the cityhood debates in east and west Cobb made it clear they…

2022 Elections May 6, 2022

Hyperlocal control on the ballot as voters decide whether to carve three cities from Cobb

by Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission]May 6, 2022 The first week of early voting for the May 24th primary is…

Two women holding up signs opposing Lost Mountain cityhood

2022 Elections April 25, 2022

Lost Mountain cityhood opponents say it’s a “bait and switch”

By Rebecca Gaunt [Editor’s note: After the publication of this article a representative from Protect West Cobb reached out to us with a request to clarify that Protect West Cobb…

Quill pan and ink in article about absentee ballots

Letters to the Editor April 21, 2022

Letter to the Editor: Lost Mountain, the City of East Cobb and the City of Vinings charters “legally deficient”

To the editor: As some voters across Cobb County make a choice about cityhood referendums this May, this proverb seems quite applicable: “Everybody learns from their own mistakes. The wise…

Vinings April 18, 2022

Cobb County’s town hall about Vinings cityhood this Thursday

Cobb County will hold a town hall about the uncoming Vinings cityhood referendum Thursday April 21 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at Vinings United Methodist Church, 3101…

a screenshot of a map showing the boundaries of proposed cities of East Cobb (on the right of the map), Lost Mountain (to the left of the map) Mableton (on the bottom of the map) and Vinings (bottom right on the map)

2022 Elections March 12, 2022

Cobb cityhood town hall discusses police, fire, taxes

Last Wednesday evening Cobb County government held a wide-ranging one-hour town hall meeting about the three cityhood initiatives that will be on the ballot May 24 (East Cobb, Lost Mountain…

the sign in front of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners building

2022 Elections March 9, 2022

County-sponsored town hall meeting about the Cobb cityhood ballots this evening

This is a reminder that the first in a series of town halls on the cityhood initiatives that will be on the ballot for East Cobb, Lost Mountain, Mableton and…

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Cobb County December 2, 2023