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Drawing of houses and water with hurricanes winds

Climate and Weather October 9, 2024

GDOT warns of increased traffic as Florida evacuees travel northward through GA ahead of Milton’s landfall

The Georgia Department of Transportation warned of increased traffic on the interstate highways and state roads in the wake of Hurricane Milton’s expected late Wednesday or early Thursday morning landfall…

William Root House, a two story wooden pre-Civil War house

Marietta October 8, 2024

Marietta’s William Root House decorated for Victorian funeral

Appropriate to the Halloween season, the William Root House is decorated for a Victorian-era funeral through October. According to the announcement on the City of Marietta website: In the 1850s,…

The Georgia Smyphony Orchestra in performance with a projection screen overhead

Music October 7, 2024

Marietta-based GSO celebrates 100th anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue

Photo courtesy of the Georgia Symphony Orchestra The Marietta-based Georgia Symphony Orchestra distributed the following announcement about its tribute concert for the 100th anniversary of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue:…

Quintasha Swanson speaking at lectern in front of Habitat for Humanity house

Austell October 6, 2024

Report and photos from Habitat for Humanity ribbon-cutting in Austell

Barry Krebs submitted the following report and photos from the ribbon-cutting for a Habitat for Humanity house in Austell: The Habitat For Humanity celebrated the ribbon cutting at their new…

Dance October 6, 2024

Dancer’s Dreamhouse at the Threadmill Complex in Austell

By Mark Woolsey Stopping by Kayla Stubbs’ fledgling Austell dance school, Dancer’s Dreamhouse, reveals kids and teens in leotards learning and practicing their moves under her watchful and patient eye….

Marietta October 5, 2024

How did the Victorian obsession with contacting the dead arise?

Have you ever seen a period whodunit mystery movie or play in which a woman dressed in a turban conducts a seance, perhaps guided by an Ouija board or a…

Dance October 4, 2024

Atlanta Ballet adds five members to Board of Trustees

The Atlanta Ballet submitted the following announcement about additions to its Board of Trustees: Atlanta Ballet announced today the addition of five distinguished individuals to its Board of Trustees. These…

An overhead view of a bowl of soup packed full of restaurants

Cobb Cuisine, Culture and Community October 4, 2024

The Soup the Whole Soup and Nothing but the Soup

[This is the latest installment of “Cobb Cuisine, Culture and Community” by Brian Benefield] October is finally here, and some people get excited about all things pumpkin spice when the weather…

Trash washed up by the bridge at Nickajack Park

From the Editor October 3, 2024

Post-Helene trash pile washes down Nickajack Creek (with video)

By Larry Felton Johnson [Editor’s note: be sure to watch the video at the bottom of the article] As I mentioned in a previous From the Editor column, I’ve returned…

Four men in red shirts with golf clubs pose for a group photo

Cobb County October 2, 2024

Two community service events: a golf fundraiser and a Service Sunday

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following reports and photos from two recent community service events: a golf tournament to support the work of the Sweetwater Mission, and a…

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