Cobb County National Night Out events
There are two Cobb County National Night Out events, one in South Cobb, and a county-wide event in Jim Miller Park. Cobb County National Night Out event for South Cobb…
Riverside
Renter’s Community Town Hall Meeting at South Cobb Recreation Center
We Thrive in Riverside Renter’s Association will be hosting a Renter’s Community Town Hall meeting tomorrow evening, Wednesday May 9, at 7 p.m. at the South Cobb Recreation Center, 875…
House District 39 Town Hall Meeting Held at South Cobb Community Center
Safety on Veteran’s Memorial Highway, the upcoming landscaping of the entranceway into the Riverside community at I-20, and Georgia’s adoption laws were among the issues taken up by speakers at a…
Taylor Delk — Hollywood Cemetery’s Notable Outlaw Resident
This is the fourth installment in a series of articles on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. In 1904 the notorious Georgia outlaw Taylor Delk was buried…
Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery in 1897 – Insolvency and Streetcar Disputes
This is the second installment of a series on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. The sky was clear and the temperature pleasant as the crowd gathered…
Hollywood Cemetery’s beginnings
This is the first of a series of articles tracing the history of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. I’ve been fascinated with Hollywood Cemetery for over ten years. It’s a large cemetery…
The Bagby brothers – elusive bandits of the Chattahoochee
The man sat in the tree by the banks of the river, waiting patiently. He was thin, with wiry arms, well suited to climbing. He was comfortable in the tree,…
The 1952 Atlanta annexations
In 1952 the City of Atlanta tripled in size, annexing areas to the south, west and north. To the west the communities near and along the Chattahoochee River became part…
October Work day at Riverside Park — Saturday Oct 3 9 AM
Do you like goats? Do you dislike kudzu and privet? Would you like to be involved in the creation of a beautiful and exciting new park on the Chattahoochee River? …
Welcome to River Edges
River Edges is an online news publication covering both sides of the Chattahoochee on the Cobb County/City of Atlanta border, roughly south and west of I-75. Our area of focus…