By Larry Felton Johnson, Editor and Publisher I’ve resumed my practice of taking long walks, mostly to try to get down to the weight I was at 25 years old….
This is an expanded republication of an article originally published by the Courier on January 1, 2017. There is a second part to this article, in which an authority on…
This is a revised and expanded version of a story we originally ran in the earliest days of the Courier, in May of 2016, when our readership was less than…
[Entrance to the Hooper-McWilliams cemetery (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)] The Hooper-McWilliams Cemetery began on the property of Cobb County resident Thomas Hooper, one of the first European-American residents of…
We recently ran an article in the Courier’s Chattahoochee RiverLands series of articles that focused on the City of Atlanta’s side of the river. One of the important elements of…
[Corrections: one error and one clarification were pointed out to us for the article below: One is that it was the Conservation Fund that acquired the Chattahoochee Brickworks on behalf…
[This is one in a series of articles on the trails, parks, and development along the Chattahoochee River from the southernmost tip of Cobb County in Mableton, northward to Atlanta…
By Rebecca Gaunt U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock introduced legislation last week to protect and preserve the Chattahoochee River. The Chattahoochee River Act authorizes $90 million for water…
After a public hearing, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners approved a Chattahoochee Corridor Certification of Compliance for the construction of additional storage buildings by Randall Brothers at 3151 Elizabeth…
It’s just two days until the Welcome to South Cobb Festival. The event will be held this Saturday, October 9 from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Riverview Landing; 6255…