Keep Cobb Beautiful

Community, Giving Back to the Community February 17, 2026

Mableton Volunteers Remove 25 Bags of Litter from Queen Mill Road and Ivey Road

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about a litter cleanup on Queen Mill Road Queen Mill Neighbors along with help from the City of MabletonSustainability, Mableton…

Group photo from Boy Scout Troop 22 cleanup of Cooper Lake Road

Community, Giving Back to the Community February 10, 2026

Boy Scouts Troop 22 litter cleanup of Cooper Lake Road

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about the cleanup of Cooper Lake Road by Boy Scout Troop 22, with help from the South Cobb Lions Club:…

Group shot of volunteers who did cleanup on Old Alabama and Cardell roads

Community, Giving Back to the Community January 1, 2026

Report with photos about litter cleanup on Old Alabama and Cardell roads

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about a litter cleanup on Old Alabama and Cardell roads. View Larger Map The Friends of Socktown along with help…

Group photo of Brookwood Road cleanup volunteers

Mableton November 30, 2025

Brookwood Road volunteers do their first Adopt-A-Mile cleanup of their newly adopted roadway

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about the Adopt-A-Mile litter cleanup on Brookwood Road: The Brookwood Road Community Group conducted our first Adopt-A-Mile litter cleanup of…

A group photo of participants in the Golden Leaf cleanup program holding a banner and standing in front of a line of pumpkins

Community Life November 19, 2025

Commissioner Sheffield and Keep Cobb Beautiful hold “spruce up” event for disabled seniors

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about the Golden LEAF Project, hosted by District 4 Cobb Commissioner Monique Sheffield and Keep Cobb Beautiful: Commissioner Sheffield and…

Bags of recycle plastic at Keep Cobb Beautiful event, with volunteer standing by

Environment November 10, 2025

Over 1,000 residents bring recycle items to Keep Cobb Beautiful’s Fall Recycling Event

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about Keep Cobb Beautiful’s Fall Recycling event: Keep Cobb Beautiful (KCB) had its Fall Recycling event at Jim Miller…

Volunteers collect hazardous waste from cars at Keep Cobb Beautiful's hazardous household waste event

Community Life October 19, 2025

Report and photos from Keep Cobb Beautiful hazardous waste event

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report and photos from Keep Cobb Beautiful’s Household Hazardous Waste event: Keep Cobb Beautiful had over 900 cars drive through their Household…

Drawing of various poisonous, flammable, or otherwise hazardous waste items surrounding disposal barrels

Recycling October 2, 2025

Keep Cobb Beautiful to hold annual Annual Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Event

Keep Cobb Beautiful is holding its annual Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Event on Saturday, October 18, 2025 9:00 am – 1:00 pm at Jim Miller Park, 2245 Callaway Road SW,…

Boy Scout Troop 22 and friends at the troop's quarterly litter cleanup on Cooper Lake Road

Mableton September 30, 2025

Boy Scouts Troop 22 cleans up litter on Cooper Lake Road

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following report with photos about the quarterly litter cleanup Boy Scouts Troop 22 conducts along Cooper Lake Road. We appreciate Boy Scout Troop…

Atlanta Latino Lions group cleanup photo

Community Life September 28, 2025

Latino Lions clean up adopted stretch of Windy Hill Road

Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs sent the following report with photos about the Atlanta Latino Lions Club’s litter cleanup of a two-mile stretch of Windy Hill Road the organization adopted:…

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Food Safety February 23, 2026

Health inspection scores for Cobb County restaurants and other food services from February 13 to February 19

The following are scores for the past week for restaurants, school cafeterias, hotels, and other food service facilities in Cobb County from the Georgia Department of Public Health. For more…

Health & Wellness February 23, 2026

State Lawmakers Seek Restraints on Wage Garnishment for Medical Debt

This article by Rae Ellen Bichell first appeared in KFF Health News, republished with permission. Rae Ellen Bichell, February 20, 2026 Lawmakers in at least eight states this year are…

Health & Wellness February 23, 2026

Republicans shoot down Democratic effort seeking to expand Medicaid in Georgia

by Maya Homan, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] February 22, 2026 Democrats attempted to pass Medicaid expansion on the floor of the…

Crime & Public Safety February 23, 2026

Georgia House passes stripped down ‘Mandi Ballinger Act,’ opting to instead study ‘raise the age’

by Alander Rocha, Georgia Recorder, [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] February 23, 2026 The Georgia House on Friday passed a bill to create a…

Environment February 23, 2026

How poisonous mercury can get from coal-fired power plants into fish you eat – EPA just weakened rules meant to lower the risk

by Gabriel Filippelli, Indiana University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis…

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