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Smyrna April 24, 2025

New Caribou Coffee coming to Smyrna

A new location of Caribou Coffee is coming to Cobb County. The Minnesota-based chain says it will open a new location “soon” at 2410 South Cobb Drive in Smyrna. The…

Smyrna City Hall with an inset map of the location. The building is brick, with four large white columns at a portico

Smyrna April 18, 2025

Smyrna to hold public visioning session for its downtown renovation

By Mark Woolsey An April 28 meeting will kick off a process leading to the expansion and reimagining of Smyrna’s downtown area. The two-hour session at the outset of Smyrna…

Smyrna April 8, 2025

Flock Safety opens drone manufacturing facility in Smyrna

Flock Safety, probably best known in Cobb County as the manufacturer of Automatic License Plate Readers, has opened a facility in Smyrna to manufacture drones described as part of a…

Smyrna April 5, 2025

A glimpse into Smyrna’s early 20th century dairy industry

By Larry Felton Johnson Regular readers of the Cobb County Courier know that we often heavily cite the Georgia Historic Newspapers website in our history articles. Examples of our articles…

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Smyrna March 20, 2025

The Friends of Smyrna Library present “Mrs. Lincoln: The ‘First’ First Lady”

Friends of Smyrna Public Library distributed the following news release: The Friends of Smyrna Library are presenting Mrs. Lincoln: The “First” First Lady starring Laura F. Keyes, as Mary Todd…

Smyrna March 15, 2025

Upcoming Keep Smyrna Beautiful events include document shredding and garden tour

Keep Smyrna Beautiful announced the following events, including document shredding and the popular Smyrna Garden Tour. DOCUMENT SHREDDING MARCH 22, 2025 Securely shred and recycle your documents at KSB’s spring…

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Smyrna February 25, 2025

Smyrna’s Black History Month dinner to highlight 1881 washerwomen’s strike

Driving home from work one day in 2017, Kelundra Smith heard voices. Inspirational voices. Smith had been thinking of writing about a piece of Atlanta history-the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike….

Photo: [Pictured left to right: Christopher Nunn, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs; Julie Barwig, Executive Director of Keep Smyrna Beautiful and Director of Environmental Services for the City of Smyrna; and Natalie Johnston-Russell, Executive Director of the Keep Georgia Beautiful Foundation at the Georgia State Capitol on February 6, 2025.]

Smyrna February 11, 2025

Keep Smyrna Beautiful receives 2024 Governor’s Circle Award

Photo: [Pictured left to right: Christopher Nunn, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Community Affairs; Julie Barwig, Executive Director of Keep Smyrna Beautiful and Director of Environmental Services for the City…

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News Brief February 9, 2025

Smyrna Mayor Norton to hold town hall Feb. 13

Smyrna residents and interested parties are due to get an update on city plans and projects next week. City officials say that Mayor Derek Norton will lead a Town Hall…

Smyrna February 9, 2025

New coffee shop for the northern part of Smyrna

By Mark Woolsey Smyrna residents Gabriela Miles and her husband Greg had heard the talk from neighbors for a while: lamenting that Smyrna residents living north of busy Windy Hill…

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