by Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Drexel University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for…
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by Mary Jean Tecce DeCarlo, Drexel University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for…
by Rin Reczek, The Ohio State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Luna, 26, no longer speaks to her father. There was no single betrayal,…
by Matthew Koss, College of the Holy Cross, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you…
The Cobb County Courier’s Dog of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a male brown brindle/white hound. The following information on this potential family member…
The Cobb County Courier’s Cat of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a female grey/white domestic short hair. The following information on this potential family…
The National Weather Service forecasts sunny skies here in Cobb County on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, with a high near 92 degrees. The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous…
By Larry Felton Johnson Cobb County is home to a number of eateries and coffee shops, ranging from the high end cuisine to fast casual to neighborhood coffee house hangouts….
By Larry Felton Johnson [This is an evergreen article that we republish from time to time, often with updated information] Even if I weren’t periodically using newspapers from past decades…
Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about the Cobb County International Festival: Thank you very much to Commissioner Chairwoman Cupid and Cobb County PARKS Dept for…
The color-coded air quality scale is a quick way to show whether outdoor air is healthy to breathe. The scale runs from green for good air quality to maroon for…
For the second day in a row, metro Atlanta, including Cobb County, is under a Code Orange air quality alert. The Georgia Environmental Protection Division relayed a Code Orange air…
This article by Rachel Spears first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Aug 24, 2026 Misinformation and distrust are among the challenges facing public health workers in the…
This article by Rosemary Westwood, The New York Times, first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Aug 21, 2026 Evelyn Griffin had led a life out of the…
by Ellie Fivas, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] August 24, 2026 Key Points A June memo from the Department of Justice argues…
by Ross Williams, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] August 21, 2026 Republican Public Service Commissioner Tricia Pridemore is stepping down early next…
by Danny G. Winder, UMass Chan Medical School and Marie Doyle, UMass Chan Medical School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For some, abstaining from alcohol…
by Ziv Epstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Farnaz Jahanbakhsh, University of Michigan, and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Do your…
by Dannell D. Boatman, West Virginia University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For the first time, an mRNA cancer vaccine has succeeded in a late-stage…
By Larry Felton Johnson Cobb County has seven cities within it, and these quizzes will, from time to time, focus on individual cities. Today the quiz takes on the City…