Back in August the owner of the Sage Woodfire Tavern Windy Hill had put the restaurant up for sale less than a year after opening. A reader passed by recently and alerted us that it that it looked like it had closed.
The restaurant did reach its first-year anniversary in October, but closed not long after that. According to a posting on its Facebook page, Sage Woodfire Tavern shuttered its doors on Oct. 28.
There was no word on whether the property has been sold, or what might come in its place. It opened in October 2017 in the spot of the former Houston’s restaurant.
The parcel at 3050 Windy Hill Road, at the intersection of Powers Ferry Road, is adjacent to, but not part of, a block of land that made up “Restaurant Row.” Those mostly vacant restaurant buildings will make way for a mixed-use development approved by Cobb commissioners that will include the remaining restaurant, the Rose & Crown Tavern.
The Sage closing is the second in the East Cobb area in the last couple years for the Sage Woodfire Tavern group, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it sought a buyer for the Windy Hill property.
The Sage Social Kitchen was open for only a few months at Merchants Festival. The space is now occupied by Jason’s Deli, which opened earlier this month.
Just before it closed, the Windy Hill restaurant was promoting a new Sunday jazz brunch menu, as well as a new happy hour menu and live music performances.
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Destiny Center & SPI Theatre will be hosting its Annual “Holiday Relief” program with Toys For Tots on Saturday, Dec.15 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. All community participants will receive a complimentary table top Christmas Tree along with decorations to be able to participate in the “2018 Christmas Tree Challenge.” They will also receive a wrapped toy for the kids, popcorn, a tour of the facility and watch a LIVE “Holiday” performance by Spoken Images’ talented performers.
This is a free event for the community and is for kids and adults of all ages!!
During the free event, you will be given the opportunity to support the work of Holiday Relief with a tax-deductible charitable donation. Your generosity and monetary gift will have a positive impact on the Performing Arts within the Cobb County Community. All donations are tax-deductible.
The Christmas Tree Challenge/Holiday Relief program will be held at the SPI Theatre at 3378 Canton Rd., Marietta 30066. For more information visit https://www.spitheatre.com/.
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Want to have some fun and a free lunch? Program volunteers and Kitchen volunteers (no cooking required) for Senior Adult Social Program at Aloha to Aging on Mondays and Wednesdays in East Cobb and Tuesdays in West Cobb from 10am to 2:30pm (we can be flexible with ending time), to socialize and help facilitate games and projects with seniors. Join in a morning snack and lunch as well as a fun 50 minutes of seated exercise with the participants and fellow volunteers.
The number of days is flexible, if you can do 1 day a month or 1 day a week, we’d love to hear from you! 770-722-7641 or info@alohatoaging.org.
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There’s so much in this edition of East Cobb Weekend Events that we’ll start with the last event first: East Cobb Park Holiday Lights (3322 Roswell Road) will be taking place at dusk on Sunday, a fitting culmination to so many festivities.
From 5-7, you’re invited to stop by for musical performances and await the arrival of Santa, which follows the tree lighting. Proceeds from refreshment sales benefit the work of Friends for the East Cobb Park.
Friday morning marks the start of 38th annual Apple Annie Arts and Crafts Show at the Catholic Church of St. Ann (4905 Roswell Road, see photo below). More than 120 vendors will showcase handmade items, and there will be a bake sale, heirloom quilt raffle and Artisan gift raffle. Admission is $3 for adults. Hours are 9-7 Friday and 9-2 Saturday. Overflow parking is at the Episcopal Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (1795 Johnson Ferry Road), with shuttle service provided from 9-4:45 Friday and all day Saturday.
The annual Christmas presentation of Eastside Baptist Church (2450 Lower Roswell Road) will feature “The Invitation,” a story focused on the Nativity Scene and featuring the Eastside choir, orchestra, drama and dance. Shows are at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday and admission is free.
On Saturday, bring the kids to The Art Place (3330 Sandy Plains Road) for another St. Nick’s Cafe, a family holiday show. This years show is “North Pole’s Got Talent!” and the $15 charge includes a catered breakfast or lunch from Chick-fil-A and a visit from Santa. Shows are at 9, 11, 1, and 3.
Saturday morning has another local tradition in store: The East Cobb Lions Club Pancake Breakfast. Stop by Powers Ferry United Methodist Church (245 Powers Ferry Road) between 7:30-11 a.m. and enjoy a hearty holiday meal and fellowship. The cost is $7 a person, and the proceeds benefit Lions Club activities that include vision screenings for needy students in Cobb schools.
On Saturday afternoon, the Wheeler Orchestra Fine Arts Showcase returns to the school’s performing arts theater (375 Holt Road) with two holiday-themed concerts. One ticket is good for performances at 2 and 4:30 that include the symphonic and concert bands, full orchestra, philharmonia, Bel Voce choir, chamber orchestra, and wind ensemble.
From 5-7, kids can enjoy an Underwater Tree Lighting and assorted festivities at Atlanta Swim Academy (732 Johnson Ferry Road). Bring a camera to snap selfies with Santa, swim and decorate the underwater tree and enjoy free holiday refreshments. Admission is the donation of canned food for MUST Ministries.
On Sunday, Johnson Ferry Christmas Packages will be renewed from 4-7:30 p.m. It’s the church’s annual holiday festival with live music, horse carriage rides, food trucks and a tree lighting.
There’s a lot more you can find listed in our Holiday Guide, which has events details through the New Year.
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Whatever you’re doing this weekend, make it a great one! Enjoy!
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After getting some reader inquiries about the subject, we’ve got an answer to a question we’ve heard asked a lot in recent weeks: The Chick-fil-A Woodlawn Square reopening (1201 Johnson Ferry Road) is set for January.
That’s the word we got from Chick-fil-A representative Callie Bowers, who said there isn’t a specific date that’s been determined but is likely in the range of early- to mid-January.
The location has been closed since July for the construction of a new building and parking lot, including a double drive-through. When it closed, company officials were hoping to reopen in November.
When we last drove by a week or so ago, the new building was nearly completed, but everything around it is a pile of mud and dirt.
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Cobb County Tax Commissioner Carla Jackson will permanently close the motor vehicle office located at 700 South Cobb Drive, Marietta, at 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 30.
It has served Cobb for more than 20 years, but the complexity of retrofitting today’s security, technology and business functions would have been extremely costly, according to Jackson. Monday, Dec. 3, will be a move and set up day for all team members.
The newly-renovated North Office will open at 8 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4, to handle all commercial (dealer, fleet and HD trucks) and individual motor vehicle transactions. This office is located at 2932 Canton Road, Suite 300, Marietta.
The renovated space on Canton Road will feature additional workstations and expanded services to better accommodate residents.
With this closure, the correct Tax Commissioner’s Office mailing addresses are:
Motor Vehicle (General) P.O. Box 100128, Marietta, GA 30061
Motor Vehicle (Commercial and Fleet) 2932 Canton Road, Suite 300, Marietta, GA 30066
Property Tax (Payments) P.O. Box 100127, Marietta, GA 30061
Tax Commissioner (General) P.O. Box 649, Marietta, GA 30061-0649
Please direct all correspondence to the appropriate P.O. box to avoid any service delay. For more information about the Cobb County Tax Commissioner’s Office, visit www.cobbtax.org.
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Cobb commissioners on Tuesday approved using $8 million in fiscal year 2019 general fund reserves for the construction of a new forensic laboratory for the Cobb Medical Examiner’s Office.
The 40-year-old facility needs to be replaced, and cost estimates range around $11 million. The remaining $3 million will come from SPLOST revenues.
In 2014 a critical audit of the medical examiner’s office suggested sweeping changes that prompted the resignation of the chief medical examiner.
Since then, the office has been run by Christopher Gulledge (in photo), and in recent years has been ramping up efforts to grapple with the county’s growing opioid crisis.
The audit was brought about by complaints by citizen Tom Cheek about the way his son’s autopsy was handled, and revealed wider organizational problems.
Cheek unsuccessfully ran for the District 3 Cobb commission seat this year, losing to incumbent JoAnn Birrell in the Republican primary.
Commissioners also voted on Tuesday to spend more than $158,000 to purchase flood storage volume at Wigley Lake in Northeast Cobb.
The funding, which will come from the Cobb Water System Agency, will create an additional 933,926.4 cubic feet of space for stormwater runoff, or around four vertical feet of space in the lake.
The lake is located near the intersection of Kincaid Road and Addison Road.
The county had an agreement with the Wigley Family Trust in 2003 to spend nearly $300,000 for additional stormwater volume at the lake, but the agreement was never executed. The Wigley family recently came back to the county about reactivating the agreement.
The water system says that the additional space being purchased now will address flood mitigation issues in the Noonday Creek Watershed.
Also on Tuesday, commissioners approved spending $474,805.16 for engineering design services for the second phase of the Bob Callan Trunk Trail, a 10-foot wide trail from Interstate North Parkway to Terrell Mill Road that will span around a third of a mile. The funding comes from the 2015 SPLOST and the design work was awarded to Heath and Linebeck Engineers, Inc.
This portion of the Bob Callan Trail is the central component of the project, which connects the Cumberland area with Marietta. The trail also is being developed near the forthcoming Windy Hill-Terrell Mill Connector.
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Ron Gorman, who served as a volunteer coach with the Pope wrestling teams, pleaded guilty in Cobb Superior Court on Tuesday to two counts of child molestation.
Gorman, 53, was given a 25-year sentence by Judge Gregory Poole, with 20 to serve without parole, according to the Cobb District Attorney’s Office.
Gorman was to have gone on trial after being charged with abusing a 14-year-old boy in Cobb County in 2010, according to prosecutors, who said the victim disclosed the abuse last year to authorities in Monroe County, Pa.
That’s where Gorman had been sentenced to 20-40 years in February for sexually assaulting boys there, including the boy prosecutors said was also victimized in Cobb.
According to the Cobb DA’s office, Gorman was extradited to Cobb to face the charges here and will be returned to Pennsylvania, where he will serve his sentences concurrently.
“This is a prime example of how child predators can work their way into positions of trust and authority, and then turn that trust into a weapon against children,” said Chuck Boring, Cobb deputy chief assistant district attorney and head of the Cobb DA’s special victims unit.
Gorman moved to Cobb in 2009 and was a volunteer with Pope Junior Wrestling, which feeds into the highly successful Pope High School program, where he also was a parent volunteer. He also was a coach at Life College in Marietta.
Gorman was arrested at his East Cobb home in March 2017 and eventually was charged by Pennsylvania authorities with a total of 513 counts, including child rape and statutory sexual assault.
His accusers in Pennsylvania claimed Gorman subjected them to frequent and continuous assaults, sometimes on a weekly basis, for several years, including in Georgia.
News reports last March and earlier this year quoted a Cobb woman who became concerned about Gorman in 2011. That’s when she saw a crude, sexually themed Facebook message sent by him to her son, then 12, and a member of the Pope junior wrestling program.
She said she was told by then-Pope principal Rick Beaulieu not to go to law enforcement. Gorman was suspended from any involvement with Pope wrestling for a year, but it was six years later that he was charged.
Boring said in court Tuesday that there are no other charges that Gorman is facing in Cobb. In Pennsylvania, prosecutors heard allegations that Gorman abused minors dating back to the 1980s, but the statue of limitations had run out.
“Hopefully this conclusion gives his victims some sort of closure and justice, whether they have reported his abuse or not,” Boring said.
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Johnson Ferry Road at Roswell Road in the heart of East Cobb.
This isn’t a new topic, and it’s one that hasn’t gone very far beyond the talking stage in the past: Should there be such a thing as a City of East Cobb?
A group of mostly unidentified people is behind a new push to create what would be the second-largest municipality in metro Atlanta.
The Committee for Cityhood in East Cobb, Inc., is led by Joe Gavalis, a resident of the Atlanta Country Club area. His group has commissioned a feasibility study being conducted by the Center for State and Local Finance at Georgia State University. He has not returned calls seeking comment.
However, the suggested City of East Cobb his group is advocating would not include all of East Cobb.
According to a map Gavalis furnished to the MDJ, the proposed map would fall almost entirely within Cobb Commissioner Bob Ott’s District 2.
East Cobb has long been a place name, but never a city.
The area generally regarded as East Cobb includes most of the ZIP codes 30062, 30066, 30067 and 30068, as well as the Cobb portion of 30075, and has an estimated population of 200,000.
The proposed City of East Cobb borders generally fall south of Sandy Plains Road, until it gets closer to the Fulton County line. The southern boundaries would fall roughly along the Powers Ferry Road corridor north of Terrell Mill Road.
The western edges of the city would run along Roswell Road Sewell Road and Holly Springs Road to Post Oak Tritt Road.
Everything east and north of that would become a city in what has long embodied classic suburban Sunbelt sprawl.
Cityhood measures require state legislation to call for a referendum that voters in the proposed municipality would decide. Under Georgia law, cities must provide a minimum of three services.
The cityhood effort in East Cobb comes after the Cobb Board of Commissioners approved a property tax hike for the first time since the recession. There has been some grumbling that East Cobb provides 40 percent of county tax revenue but some citizens don’t feel they’re getting their money’s worth in services.
After voting against the tax increase, Ott claimed that all District 2 residents were getting from the tax hike in the fiscal year 2019 budget was “1 DOT work crew.”
According to the East Cobb cityhood group’s contract with Georgia State, it is spending $36,000 for the study, which will develop revenue and expense estimates based on property tax files, a boundary map and estimated business license revenue.
The contract indicates that the feasibility of municipal services to be studied include police, fire management, parks and recreation, community development (libraries) and roads.
Gavalis is the lone signatory from the committee for the contract, which also lists G. Owen Brown, of Retail Planning Corp., a commercial real estate company based on Johnson Ferry Road, as a representative for the cityhood group.
The study is expected to be completed by mid-December. According to the contract, the Center for State and Local Finance at Georgia State is using a similar methodology as a feasibility study it conducted for Tucker, which became incorporated in 2015.
According to the East Cobb cityhood contract, a team of three CSLF researchers will:
” . . . estimate the total annual cost of government operations, including general administrative services and the discretionary services, based on the experience of several comparison cities in Georgia. The set of comparison cities in Georgia will include between four to six cities with similar demographic and economic conditions to the proposed area.
“In addition, the cost estimates will include the cost associated with purchasing any assets in the proposed incorporation area that are currently owned by Cobb County and any one-time costs associated with the initiation of municipal operations.”
The last time the City of East Cobb issue was raised also came after county commissioners voted to increase taxes, and during the heat of a political campaign. During the 2012 Republican runoff for Cobb Commission Chairman, challenger Bill Byrne proposed the idea but it didn’t gain much traction.
Byrne, a former chairman, was seeking to regain his seat against then-incumbent Tim Lee, who eventually edged him in the runoff.
Byrne would have had an elected mayor and five city council members for the City of East Cobb, which would have had its own police, fire, water and sewer services, purchased from the county for $1 a year. He also wanted the county, in his plan, to spend $1 million to build an East Cobb City Hall.
Byrne had attacked Lee for raising the property tax millage rate in 2011, during the aftermath of the recession.
At the time, Byrne’s idea didn’t resonate in East Cobb as it has elsewhere in metro Atlanta. This was right after citizens of Brookhaven voted to incorporate, and followed other successful cityhood drives in Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek and Milton.
But that sentiment hasn’t seriously spread in Cobb, which has six cities that have been incorporated for more than a century, and in some cases before the Civil War.
In 2009 there was a group called Citizens for the City of East Cobb that launched a website but never identified itself or pressed for action beyond that.
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Some of the most recent cityhood efforts elsewhere in metro Atlanta have failed. Earlier this month, a push to create the city of Eagle’s Landing out of Stockbridge fell short in a referendum.
Earlier this year, voters in a portion of Forsyth County turned down a similar measure that would have created the City of Sharon Springs, with a population of 50,000.
Others that have become cities have ended up providing fewer services than what is being studied for East Cobb.
Tucker, which has population of 35,000, provides zoning and planning, code enforcement and community development, and last year added overseeing the Tucker Recreation Center.
Tucker doesn’t charge a millage rate—city residents still pay the full DeKalb millage rate for county-provided services—but generates revenue from business permits, alcohol and excise taxes and utility franchise fees.
Other cityhood drives are continuing, including the Towne Lake community of Cherokee County, with a goal of having a referendum there in 2020.
The only services being suggested for Towne Lake are zoning and planning, code enforcement and sanitation, which would be optional. Those organizing cityhood there say they’re doing it to preserve property values.
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Treat your friends and family to an Intimate Christmas Brunch or Dinner Concert with the John Driskell Hopkins Band and the Atlanta Pops Orchestra. John Driskell Hopkins (“Hop”) is a founding and current touring member of the Zac Brown Band. For several years Hop and his band have put their own spin to best loved holiday classics including: Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Santa baby, Here Comes Santa Claus, and scores of others!
Joining John and the band to serve up mouthwatering brunch and dinner is Chef Rusty Hamlin, Executive Chef on tour with the Zac Brown Band. For the evening concert only, 15 members of the Atlanta Pops Orchestra will join the band on stage for a truly memorable experience.
The Olde Towne Athletic Club will host two concerts on Saturday, December 15, 2018. The first concert is a family friendly brunch (yes, with Santa!). The evening concert will be a more upscale, adult-oriented evening featuring our special guest, Wes Henderson of Angels Envy bourbon – and of course special cocktails featuring one of the world’s highest rated spirits. VIP meet and greet opportunities are available for both events.
A silent auction adds to the excitement, you even have the opportunity to bid on a private concert by Hop in your home for your guests.
Both shows benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Click here to go to the ticketing site.
Please contact Lara Dolan for information on donations, and for VIP Tickets and tables. Lara.dolan1969@gmail.com or text to 404.514.6533.
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Johnson Ferry Baptist Church pastor Bryant Wright, the founding minister for the large East Cobb congregation and a former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, announced Sunday he intends to step away from the post he has held for 37 years.
He’s not calling it a retirement, because he would like to continue to be involved in the ministry in some other capacity.
But for the last year and a half, Wright said he has been thinking about when the time would come for him to step away from leading the church, which has more than 8,000 members.
Appearing in a church-produced video with his wife Anne that was released Sunday, Wright said that it was during this past spring that “God clarified that the timing had come.”
He did not announce a timetable for his departure but said he would stay until a successor is named. Wright said that in January, he will ask church elders to appoint a search committee to begin the hiring process.
In his sermon on Sunday, Wright said he spoke about Moses tapping Joshua to succeed him, recalling an Old Testament tale from the Book of Deuteronomy.
“Unlike Moses,” Wright said, “I have no idea who God is going to choose for this particular role.”
His wife Anne said at first, she wasn’t sure. “I guess I just didn’t want to hear it,” she said, thinking he needed a vacation, and that a sabbatical “was going to be the answer to everything.”
In August, Wright said he went to the church elders with his decision to step away and to begin the succession process.
They came to Johnson Ferry in 1981, when the church met in a doctor’s office and had 20 members. It’s grown to one of the biggest churches in metro Atlanta and has extended far beyond its sprawling grounds on Johnson Ferry Road.
On Sunday, he asked for prayers for the congregation and for “the right decision” to be made about who will lead Johnson Ferry in its future.
“Let’s make the most of the time that we have together,” he said.
“It’s tough to let go, but we’re going to have to let go . . .. Pray that God will lead us to the right man.”
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Advance voting for two statewide election runoffs will take place Monday-Friday around the county, including the East Cobb Government Service Center (4400 Lower Roswell Road).
The races to be decided are for Georgia Secretary of State and a seat on the Georgia Public Service Commission (sample ballot here).
Advance voting takes place from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at satellite locations, which include the following:
Jim Miller Park Event Center, 2245 Callaway Road
North Cobb Senior Center, 3900 S. Main St., Acworth
Ward Recreation Center, 4845 Dallas Highway, Powder Springs
Advance voting also is taking place at the Cobb Elections main office (736 Whitlock Ave.) from 8-5 Monday-Friday.
There is no advance voting on Saturday, Dec. 1, or Monday, Dec. 3. Runoff voting concludes at precinct locations on Tuesday, Dec. 4.
In the Secretary of State race, Republican Brad Raffensperger is facing Democrat John Barrow, a former Congressman.
In the Nov. 6 general election, Raffensperger got 49.09 percent of the vote and Barrow received 48.67 percent. Libertarian candidate Smythe Duval of Marietta had 2.23 percent of the vote.
The winner will succeed Brian Kemp, who is the Georgia governor-elect. He resigned on Nov. 7 and Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Robyn Crittenden to serve on an interim basis.
District 3 covers most of metro Atlanta, including Cobb County. Eaton received 49.7 percent of the vote, Miller got 47.63 percent and Libertarian Ryan Graham earned 2.67 percent.
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The holiday season is here, and on the first weekend there couldn’t be a more festive way to get it started than with a community rendition of “The Nutcracker.”
The Georgia Metropolitan Dance Theatre is staging the event Thursday through Sunday at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre at the Cobb Civic Center (548 S. Marietta Parkway). The show times are as follows:
Friday, Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 24 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 25th at 2 p.m.
As we noted earlier, more than 150 local dancers have been selected and have been getting ready the Georgia Dance Conservatory on the Marietta Square. Tickets are $10 to $30. For information visit: www.georgiametrodance.tix.com.
On Saturday, Small Business Saturday is being observed around the country, including in East Cobb, and it’s a good way to keep your holiday shopping dollars local, which in turn helps strengthen the community. Some businesses are extending their sales throughout the weekend and beyond.
School’s been out this week, but if your child needs some extra tutoring as the Thanksgiving weekend break comes to an end, stop by the East Cobb Library (4880 Lower Roswell Road) on Saturday between 2:30-4:30 p.m. for free 30-minute tutoring lessons.
The library is partnering with mentors from Walton, Wheeler and The Westminster Schools for students K-8 in math, science and reading. While registration is required, there may be walk-up space available by calling 770-509-2730.
Holiday arts and festivals will resume next week, but the Good Mews Holiday Decor Marketcontinues at the Sandy Plains Exchange Shopping Center (1860 Sandy Plains Road) from 10-5 Saturday and 12-5 Sunday.
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Whatever you’re doing this weekend, make it a great one! Enjoy!
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East Cobb News wishes you and your family a peaceful, restive and joyous Thanksgiving.
We’re counting our blessings, grateful for the privilege to serve this community.
Thanks to all of you for reading, subscribing to our newsletter and sharing stories with others about all that’s going on in East Cobb.
We’re taking a bit of a break and will be back on Friday, as the full holiday season gets underway. Check out our Holiday Guide for calendar listings and other related information that we’ll be updating as the season goes along.
As always, please feel free to get in touch with news tips, questions, or news and information to share: wendy@eastcobbnews.com.
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Earlier this month Drift Fish House and Oyster Bar began serving lunch on weekdays. The hours are from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday and the menu features features salads, sandwiches, starters, cold bar items and selected desserts from the dinner menu.
Doug Turbush, who owns Seed and Stem Wine Bar at Merchants Walk, opened Drift at The Avenue East Cobb (4475 Roswell Road) in March 2016.
Small Business Saturday
The annual Small Business Saturday promotion is taking place again this coming Saturday, and among the newer East Cobb businesses taking part is Nancy’s Vintage Shop (1050 E. Piedmont Road, Suite 102).
Owner Nancy Hartung is calling her event the Holiday Soirree, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. customers can enjoy a variety of discounts, treats and freebies. She opened her store at the Piedmont Commons Shopping Center (across from the McCleskey-East Cobb YMCA) in March, and sells clothing and collectibles from the 1960s-1990s.
Also taking part in Small Business Saturday is Bookmiser (3822 Roswell Road), which has been a longtime proponent of the Shop Small campaign.
Small Business Saturday was begun by American Express in 2010 to aid small businesses at the start of the holiday shopping season, which is typically dominated by national retailers. Its small business impact statement claims that 67 cents out of every dollar spent at a local business stays in the community.
Freaking Incan update
A few weeks back we noted that the Freaking Incan restaurant was briefly closing and relocating nearby at at the Sandy Plains Village Shopping Center.
Yesterday they announced that the new spot is opening on Dec. 1, next to the Movie Tavern, at 4651 Woodstock Road, Suite 305. The hours will be 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Stocking the Brumby ES food pantry
An update to something else we posted last week about the 5th year anniversary celebration for Honest-1 auto care on Saturday: Owner Butch Carter tells us that if you bring by a bag of donated items for the Brumby Elementary School food pantry, you’ll get a voucher for an oil change.
The festivities go from 10-4 and include hamburgers and hot dogs and raffle prizes. Carter is involved in the Rotary Club of East Cobb, which does a lot of work in the Brumby ES community.
Earlier this month MUST Ministries opened the pantry, and Carter says the items needed the most are peanut butter, jelly, canned meats, beef stew, spaghetti noodles and sauce and granola or breakfast bars.
Bring a bag of some of those items to Honest-1 (1391 East Cobb Drive), and the oil change is yours.
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Cobb Police spokeswoman Officer Sarah O’Harah said the suspect has died. Police have not released his name.
ORIGINAL REPORT, 2:30 P.M.
Cobb Police are saying this afternoon that the man suspected of robbing two banks on Sandy Plains Road shot himself when they arrived at a home with a search warrant.
Sgt. Wayne Delk, a Cobb Police spokesman, said the unidentified man was in critical condition at WellStar Kennestone Hospital after an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Delk said Cobb Police SWAT officers and Marietta Police arrived at a residence on Wayward Drive in Northeast Cobb shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday to issue the search warrant.
He said the warrant was obtained after detectives were able to identify him based on tips both police agencies received from the public.
Last Friday Marietta Police released the above surveillance photo and asked for the public’s help in finding the suspect of a Halloween robbery at a SunTrust Bank branch at 1840 Sandy Plains Road.
Police believe he’s the same man who held up a Wells Fargo branch at 2687 Sandy Plains Road on June 22.
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Santa Claus returning to The Avenue East Cobb, and so are the retail center’s traditional carriage rides each Friday during the holiday season.
The carriage rides will take place every Friday from 3-7 p.m. on Dec. 7, 14 and 21.
Daily photo opportunities with Santa start on Friday and continue through Dec. 23, and appointments are necessary. The sittings take place in Suite 900, between Loft and the Sunglass Hut.
Call 470-701-6276 to book an appointment. The Avenue East Cobb is located at 4475 Roswell Road.
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The following East Cobb restaurant scores from Nov. 5-16 have been compiled by the Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health. Click the link under each listing to view details of the inspection:
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Real estate agent Janice Overbeck and former Atlanta Falcons player Terance Mathis were the hosts of a celebrity poker fundraiser for Emory ALS last weekend in East Cobb.
Here’s more on the event per a release from the Janice Overbeck Real Estate Team:
A little over one hundred attendees joined together to try their luck in the tournament while raising funds through a silent auction and awareness for Lou Gehrig’s disease. Other local celebrities such as Mark Lee from the band Third Day, Michael Reid (NFL), and Corey Patterson (MLB) came to support the cause and play in the tournament with local fans and event goers.
Through donations, silent auction, and raffle tickets sold, the event raised $20,472 presented to Dr. Jonathan Glass of the Emory ALS Reach Center.
Since its inception in 2016, the Janice Overbeck Real Estate Team’s non-profit, JO Gives, Inc., has hosted fundraising events in addition to making donations to the Emory University ALS Research Center annually.
“After losing my father to ALS in 2015, I have been very passionate about research and finding a cure for this horrible disease. Additional funding is extremely important to better understand the disease and determine possible risk factors. Though research has advanced over the last several years to help m any ALS patients live longer and more productive lives, there is still a lot of work to be done,” says Overbeck.
For more information on current research and clinical trials for ALS or to make a donation please visit the Emory ALS Research Center website.
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Destiny Center & SPI Theatre will be hosting its Annual “Holiday Relief” program with Toys For Tots on Saturday, Dec.15 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. All community participants will receive a complimentary table top Christmas Tree along with decorations to be able to participate in the “2018 Christmas Tree Challenge.” They will also receive a wrapped toy for the kids, popcorn, a tour of the facility and watch a LIVE “Holiday” performance by Spoken Images’ talented performers.
