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The big "Atlanta Braves" sign at the entrance to Truist Park

Sports January 8, 2025

Ex-Atlanta Braves closer Billy Wagner is way overdue for a Hall-of-Fame induction

By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College For former Atlanta Braves closer Billy Wagner, it’s the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded, and he’s come…

Brick Kennesaw government building with four tall wooden columns

Kennesaw January 7, 2025

Kennesaw City Council holds first meeting of 2025

By Rebecca Gaunt Kennesaw City Council’s first meeting of the year was a quick one, tackling first of the year house cleaning matters. They approved the $360 qualifying fee for…

Smyrna January 5, 2025

The Rise and Fall (and rise) of the Belmont Hills shopping center in Smyrna

[This is a republication of an evergreen article we first published in July of 2017, when the Courier’s web traffic was about a tenth our current readship. We’re reviving some…

Drug Addiction January 4, 2025

Stimulant Users Are Caught in Fatal ‘Fourth Wave’ of Opioid Epidemic

This article by Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio, first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio January 3, 2025 In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, near…

A green recycling truck. A large utility truck like a standard trash pickup truck but with a circular arrow recycling symbol on the side

Mableton January 4, 2025

Public hearing on Mableton’s trash pickup ordinance Tuesday

The first Mableton City Council meeting of the year is on Tuesday instead of Wednesday. It will be held on January 7, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at the Riverside EpiCenter,…

Mable House door with two stone chimneys flanking

Mableton January 4, 2025

When Mableton first was (and shortly thereafter wasn’t) a city

[The Cobb County Courier is republishing some of our earliest articles. When many of these articles were first published, our readership was less than 10,000 per month. Now that we’re…

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Health Care January 3, 2025

For Many Rural Women, Finding Maternity Care Outweighs Concerns About Abortion Access

This article by Lillian Mongeau Hughes first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Lillian Mongeau Hughes January 2, 2025 BAKER CITY, Ore. — In what has become a…

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News Brief December 30, 2024

Pedestrian killed crossing Canton Road

By Mark Woolsey Cobb police say a pedestrian is dead after being struck by a vehicle Friday. Investigators state that the pedestrian was walking eastbound across Chastain Road south of…

Smyrna December 26, 2024

A slideshow from Smyrna Memorial Cemetery

Smyrna Memorial Cemetery (photos by Larry Felton Johnson) We at the Courier have been reviving articles and photo albums that were published in the Courier at a time when our…

Mable Family Cemetery (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Mableton December 25, 2024

The historic cemetery of the family who gave Mableton its name

[This is another article originally published in the first few years of the Cobb County Courier when our visitor count was only around 10,000 per 30-day period. We’ve decided to…

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Mableton January 20, 2025

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