The day Edna Umeh was introduced to the world outside her family and friends, was the day of her senseless death while she protected the children of Lindley Middle School…
For the second straight meeting, Smyrna’s city council sat through a long round of comments before rejecting a development near downtown. Last time around it was a four-house development that…
With metro Atlanta unemployment at 4.2 percent and construction set to ramp up for the spring, Georgia contractors are gearing up for a job fair on Saturday to recruit construction…
Similar to the situation last year, Connect The Comet is hoping for some good news from the Georgia General Assembly ahead of Sine Die — the traditional name for the…
Safety on Veteran’s Memorial Highway, the upcoming landscaping of the entranceway into the Riverside community at I-20, and Georgia’s adoption laws were among the issues taken up by speakers at a…
With the high profile conflicts in the U.S. Congress dominating the news, it’s often hard to remember that this is the legislative season here in Georgia, and as important as…
On the Sunday morning of MLK Weekend, lines of cars wrapped a mile or so from Austell-Powder Springs Road to Clay Road, heading toward South Cobb’s Threadmill Mall for the…
by Haisten Willis and Judi Kanne While it has been decades since HIV/AIDS was a frequent topic of national headlines, and medical advances have greatly reduced the threat of…
It seems like we’ve just recovered from Snowpocalypse 2017. Now Snowpocalypse 2018 has raised its head. Once again our intrepid photojournalist has braved the snow to trudge as far as…
With the snow falling outside, the Smyrna City Council heard a full hour of debate on a proposed four-house development near the city’s downtown. Located across Atlanta Road from Market…