On June 18, the day before Juneteenth, a group of people gathered at the Concord Road trailhead of the Silver Comet Trail to watch the unveiling of the “Bench by…
Photo of Mayor Michael Owens from the Mayor and council swearing-in ceremony (Larry Felton Johnson) Mableton Mayor Michael Owens issued the following statement in observance of Juneteenth: On this and…
By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College As we celebrate Juneteenth, the newest Federal holiday, and the freeing of enslaved people in America, Florida’s education curriculum provides…
The City of Kennesaw submitted the following news release: The popular Railroad Rendezvous event will return to the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History on Saturday, July 20….
Cobb’s Opioid Abatement Advisory Council held its first meeting. The purpose of the group is to determine how the county should spend the proceeds from lawsuit settlements over the opioid…
by Linda J. Nicholson, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As someone who over the past 50…
By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College On a day that I was driving toward our local water tower, I learned that testing showed there were “forever…
by Steven L. Tuck, Miami University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles…
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…
by Leo Gugerty, Clemson University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Some Americans are questioning whether elderly people like Joe Biden and Donald Trump are cognitively…