Austell

2019 Elections October 4, 2019

Cindy Thompson: Candidate for mayor of Austell

Cindy Thompson is running for Mayor of the City of Austell. Born and raised in Georgia, Thompson previously owned several small businesses, including restaurants. After relocating to Austell four years…

2019 Elections October 3, 2019

Shontae Brown, candidate for Austell City Council

Shontae Brown, 29, is running for Austell City Council (Ward 2). Brown has lived in Austell for 8 years and said that her life in the community makes her the…

photo of Cobb Superior Court building from the front with a blue sky with clouds in the background

Cobb County October 3, 2019

Austell mother sentenced to 20 years in death of infant son

An Austell mother was sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to charges of involuntary manslaughter, cruelty to children in the second degree, three counts of heroin possession, and reckless…

2019 Elections October 2, 2019

Chris Djonis: candidate for mayor of Austell

Chris Djonis is running for mayor of Austell in the November 5, 2019 election. The incumbent mayor is Ollie Clemons, who is also a candidate. Djonis was defeated in the…

Sarah Shurden in front of the fountain at Austell's Threadmill complex

2019 Elections September 30, 2019

Sarah Shurden: candidate for Austell City Council Post 1

Sarah Shurden is running for Austell City Council At Large Post 1 in the November 5 2019 special election. The post was vacated by then-Mayor Pro Tem Ollie Clemons when…

Ikaika Anderson at Volstuin in downtown Austell (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

2019 Elections September 26, 2019

Ikaika Anderson: candidate for mayor of Austell

The Courier had a conversation with Ikaika Anderson, candidate for mayor of Austell, at Volkstuin, the downtown Austell business he co-owns with Andrew Lundstrom. Anderson is one of four candidates…

Liz and Randy Snyder at the Full Throttle Roadhouse (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Food, Music April 28, 2019

Bikes, Burgers and Blues at the Full Throttle Roadhouse

Full Throttle Roadhouse is a bar and grill on Veteran’s Memorial Highway opened in December of 2018 by Randy and Liz Snyder. Randy Snyder also publishes Full Throttle Magazine, a…

Cobb County March 21, 2019

Pedestrian killed on Riverside Parkway

Officer Aniello Penirelli of the Cobb County Police Department reported that the Cobb County Police Department’s Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) Unit is investigating a fatal auto/pedestrian collision that happened…

meeting about Riverside Parkway apartments. Circle of people standing by a swimming pool.

Cobb County March 5, 2019

Management holds meeting at Riverside Parkway apartment complex

The recently hired managers of three apartment complexes on Riverside Parkway called a Thursday afternoon meeting of tenants to hear concerns and tell their side of the ongoing conflicts involving…

Austell, Cobb County history through documents January 23, 2019

Incorporation of Austell Georgia — September 1885

The fourth in our series Cobb County history through documents is the incorporation of Austell by an act of the Georgia legislature passed on September 4, 1885. The city limits…

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