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The National Weather Service in Peachtree City has issued a tornado watch for North Georgia, including Cobb County, until 1 p.m. Thursday.
A lint of thunderstorms is moving through this morning, and conditions are favorable for the formation of tornadoes.
Temperatures will be in the mid 70s, reaching into the high 70s and low 80s later in the afternoon as the rain dissipates.
The forecast calls for sunshine by the end of the afternoon and into Thursday evening.
The following food scores have been compiled by the Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health. Click the link under each listing for inspection details:
Chicken Salad Chick
4101 Roswell Road, Suite 811
May 7, 2024 Score: 100, Grade: A
Chopsticks China Bistro
3822 Roswell Road, Suite 113
May 7, 2024 Score: 92, Grade: A
Frankie’s Italian Restaurant
3100 Roswell Road
May 7, 2024 Score: 85, Grade: B
Mirko Pasta
1281 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 120
May 10, 2024 Score: 88, Grade: B
What’s For Lunch
2995 Johnson Ferry Road, Suite 440
May 10, 2024 Score: 91, Grade: A
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More than a dozen high school seniors from East Cobb have been named recipients of National Merit Scholarships for 2024.
The Evanston, Ill.-based corporation has announced two rounds of recipients, and will announce more in the summer.
On Wednesday, 10 East Cobb students were among 2,500 nationally to win $2,500 scholarships, who are the finalists “in each state judged to have the strongest combination of accomplishments, skills, and potential for success in rigorous college studies. The number of winners named in each state is proportional to the state’s percentage of the nation’s graduating high school seniors,” the National Merit Scholarship Corporation said in a release.
They include Omer Inan of Walton High School, the Georgia STAR student for 2024.
They were selected by a committee of college admissions officers and high school counselors who evaluated academic records, test scores, school and community leadership activities, student essays and high school recommendations.
The NMSC finances most of the following single-payment scholarships, and students may use their awards at any regionally accredited U.S. college or university.
In late April, the NMSC announced 770 recipients of its corporate scholarship awards, including four from East Cobb.
Those scholarships were funded by corporate sponsors who are children of their employees, live in communities the companies serve or who plan college studies in the field the sponsor wishes to encourage.
The scholarship amounts ranged from $1,000 to $10,000 and are renewable for up to four years of undergraduate study.
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Cobb County School District employees who are retiring at the end of the current academic year were honored at a luncheon last week at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre.
They include Bells Ferry Elementary School Principal Gail May, who is concluding a 38-year career in the district.
She’s among the more than 200 personnel—teachers, bus drivers, principals, food services assistants, an assistant superintendent, and a variety of support staff—who contributed nearly 5,000 years of service, according to the district.
Here are the retirees from schools in East Cobb:
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LGE Community Credit Union is proud to announce that Sabrina Xing of Wheeler High School is the winner of a $2,500 scholarship through LGE’s 2024 Scholarship Program. These awards are designed to support educational opportunities for exceptional high school seniors from Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Floyd, Fulton, Gordon, and Paulding counties.
She is one of nine students receiving the scholarships, which total $22,500.
“The LGE Scholarship Program reflects our commitment to supporting the education and development of the next generation,” said Chris Leggett, president and CEO of LGE Community Credit Union. “We are proud to invest in the futures of these students as they pursue their academic and professional goals.”
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The Cobb Planning Commission on Tuesday voted to recommend modifying a rezoning request that would split a residential property in the Fox Hills subdivision for the construction of an additional home.
The vote was 3-0, with two members absent.
CO2 Creative Group, LLC, a Marietta developer, wants to renovate a home it owns on Huntsman Way and divide the back portion of a one-acre lot and build a home fronting Spring House Court, at a cul-de-sac.
In order to do that, it sought a change from R-30 zoning, which is the category of most homes in that part of Fox Hills, to R-20 (you can read the case file here).
To “spot zone” the land “is a bad precedent to set,” said Jackie Bettadapur of the East Cobb Civic Association.
Simon Holt of CO2 Creative said the Hunstman Way land was originally two lots, then combined by a previous owner in 1974. His firm bought the land in November for $412,000, and would build a similar-type house on the Spring House Court parcel.
He said it would be around 3,000 square feet with two stories and architecture similar to surrounding homes.
“The idea is to build a house that works well with the surrounding houses,” he said.
Holt said the impervious surface of the Spring House Court land would be 45 percent.
But two neighbors who tried unsuccessfully to buy that 22,813-square-foot parcel expressed concerns about stormwater runoff.
Jim Nee of Spring House Court said his back property has a 25-foot dropoff, and worried that there wouldn’t be proper monitoring of construction.
“I offered to buy the lot to keep it the way it is,” he said.
The Cobb Zoning Office recommended deleting the request to R-30 with conditions.
After questioning stormwater staff, the applicants and an opponent, District 2 Planning Commissioner David Anderson followed that recommendation and added several conditions.
They included a lot-size variance to build the new home, but require the developer to follow setback distances for R-30 construction and construct a 10-foot buffer.
Anderson also asked that an April 29 stipulation letter from the builder (you can read it here) be part of the recommendation, which also includes final elevations to be approved by the district commissioner.
Cobb commissioners will hear the case on May 21.
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As of May 6, 2024, we have a new billing system with a new Customer Self-Service portal.
This portal has enhanced features including the ability to submit online requests for: senior discounts, water service, payment plans, leak adjustments, general adjustments, etc. To make online requests please visit our new Customer Self-Service Portal: https://ccw-css.cobbcounty.org.
We are currently experiencing a very high call volume and extended wait times. For our Frequently Asked Questions, please visit https://www.cobbcounty.org/…/customer…/request-service.
We hope the new portal will provide an improved customer experience.
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The Georgia Celebrates Quilts Show will be held at the Cobb County Civic Center, Thursday, June 6th through Saturday, June 8th from 10am – 5pm. Immerse yourself in the world of quilting as the most talented quilters from around the state compete for cash prizes. Over 300 quilts will be on display in the quilt gallery. In addition to the gallery of over 300 quilts, the show will include a wide variety of vendors who come from all over the US, offering the latest quilt-related products for sale in the market areas. There will be quilted items and small treasures made by guild members for sale in The Quilt Store, along with fabric postcards, a raffle for gift baskets with each valued at $100 or more, commemorative pins, a sewing studio raffle, and a passport basket opportunity just for visiting the show.
. This year’s show features the raffle quilt “Kaleidoscope,” created by guild members. Tickets for the raffle are sold in bundles of six for $5.00 and can be purchased online at https://www.georgiacelebratesquilts.com/rafflequilt/ until June 5, 2024, at noon.
The show is being held at the Cobb County Civic Center – 584 South Marietta Parkway SE, Marietta, GA 30060 – Thursday, June 6th through Saturday, June 8th from 10 am to 5 pm. There is plenty of free parking and handicap access. Tickets are $10 at the door or online at www.georgiacelebratesquilts.com/tickets.
For additional information visit www.GeorgiaCelebratesQuilts.com.
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Embark on a literary adventure with Cobb Library’s Summer Reading Program! Running from May 13 to July 30, 2024, this inclusive program is designed for all ages, offering many opportunities for family bonding, community engagement, and shared learning experiences. With exciting events and prizes awaiting you, mark your calendars and join us for a summer filled with exploration and enrichment at the library.
Children: Begin building language and reading skills. Reading to young children, even infants, increases word recognition and vocabulary!
Students: Students are at risk of losing 2-3 months of reading and math skills over the summer. Keep students learning and engaged by encouraging them to complete Summer Reading!
Adults: Make time for yourself to experience the joys of reading – it’s a great way to relieve stress and strengthen your brain! As little as 15 minutes a day is proven to make a difference!
For more information, click here.
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As he considered expanding from his original store in Atlanta, Buckhead Butcher Shop owner Connor Boney said coming to East Cobb was high on his list.
He also was looking at another possibility in the Alpharetta-Johns Creek area, but decided on the former Cleaver and Cork space at the Shops of Woodlawn on Johnson Ferry Road (next to Big Peach Running Co.)
“It’s a great location and fits our clientele,” Boney said, citing a wealth of other local businesses and opportunities to get involved in community activities.
The Buckhead Butcher Shop opened on May 1, and like its older counterpart sells premium beef and meats and select seafood products, along with charcuterie items, side dishes, spices, eggs, prepared pasta meals, condiments and more.
Boney and his wife Katie (the company’s chief financial officer) started the Buckhead Butcher Shop in 2020, not long after the start of COVID-19.
He was a co-owner of Revere Meat Co. in Forest Park, which specialized in locally sourced meat processing and distribution. One of his employees there, Sam Fender, came over to help open the Buckhead Butcher Shop, as pandemic closures continued.
Buckhead Butcher Shop started as box-truck operation, selling meats to largely home-bound customers as restaurants remained closed, then took up temporary store space in Peachtree Heights.
The Buckhead store has moved to a location off West Paces Ferry Road, and includes space for cooking classes and private events.
“This how we started,” Fender said, looking around the black-clad walls and decor at the East Cobb store. “This is similar to the first store, with the same aesthetic.”
For now, Fender and executive chef Leonard Lewis—who served in a similar capacity at Bones, an iconic Atlanta steakhouse—are handling the operations in East Cobb, which is open for retail sales from daily.
The beef comes primarily from Creekstone Farms of Oklahoma, which specializes in black Angus. Seafood is sourced from around the world, with salmon from Norway, tuna from Costa Rica, to name two examples.
The objective, Lewis said, is to help home cooks.
“We’re not selling products, we’re selling an experience,” he said. “We want to make everything connect with you.”
Fender noted the competition in the area: the New York Butcher Shoppe, and long-standing businesses such as the Cajun Meat Co.
He said he not only welcomes the competition—”it keeps your standards high”—but says their presence reflects a strong opportunity in this market.
“We’re trying to get people back to the dinner table,” Fender said, “and enjoying meals and one another.”
Buckhead Butcher Shop1062-D Johnson Ferry Road
678-402-6996
Open daily 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
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Valerie Crow, the director of communications for Cobb and Douglas Public Health, has been named the 2024 recipient of the Georgia Public Health Association Communications Excellence Award.
The honor was awarded on May 3 at the association’s annual convention on Jekyll Island.
Crow has held that position for 10 years. She attended Sope Creek ES, Dickerson MS and Walton HS and still lives in East Cobb.
She is involved with the Chattahoochee Plantation Women’s Club and attends Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.
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Saturday morning, May 4, local Scouts and Rotarians braved the rain to join Friends for the East Cobb Park and Cobb Water to clean trash from the banks of Sewell Mill Creek in East Cabb Park.
2 hours and a lot of hands removed some interesting artifacts!
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The following East Cobb residential real estate sales were compiled from agency reports. They include the street address, subdivision name, high school attendance zone and sales price:
932 Red Apple Drive, 30066 (Sprayberry): $454,800
2262 Shadetree Court, 30062 (Post Oak Manor, Sprayberry): $805,000
3924 Lower Roswell Road, 30067 (Stone Walk on Lower Roswell, Walton): $1.65 million
2650 Roswell Road, 30062 (Walton): $300,000
268 Millbrook Farm Road, 30068 (Millbrook Farm, Wheeler): $690,000
163 Indian Hills Court, 30068 (Indian Hills, Wheeler): $538,000
1754 Wingard Drive, 30062 (Hasty Meadows, Sprayberry): $461,000
2124 Lamplight Drive, 30062 (Chadds Walk, Pope): $925,000
3020 Wendwood Drive, 30062 (Wendwood, Pope): $440,000
1221 Windburn Drive, 30066 (Shaw Woods, Sprayberry): $455,000
3810 Bluffview Trace, 30066 (Creekside Bluffs, Lassiter): $571,500
1090 Malibu Drive, 30066 (Philmont Estates, Sprayberry): $450,000
4550 Columns Drive, 30068 (Columns Drive@ACC, Walton): $1.4 million
1843 Jacksons Creek Drive, 30068 (Jacksons Creek-The Bluffs, Walton): $785,000
2562 Arrowwood Drive, 30068 (Beverly Hills Estates, Wheeler): $565,000
2627 Wellington Drive, 30062 (Wellington Forest, Pope): $650,000
2261 Piedmont Forest Drive, 30062 (Piedmont Forest, Sprayberry): $435,000
3081 Karen Lane, 30062 (Mountain View, Sprayberry): $369,000
51 Willard Drive, 30066 (Brookhaven, Sprayberry): $345,000
4802 Woodspring Drive, 30066 (Tremont, Kell): $362,000
704 North River Forest Court, 30068 (North River Forest, Walton): $1.425 million
4998 Meadow Lane, 30068 (The Meadows, Walton): $340,000
480 Fouse Court, 30066 (Canterbury, Sprayberry): $820,000
1714 Tappahannock Trail, 30062 (Hamilton Corners, Marietta): $634,000
2921 Torreya Way, 30067 (The Woods Condos, Wheeler): $295,000
202 Yancy Drive, 30067 (Hamby Acres, Wheeler): $300,000
3099 Gant Quarters Way, 30068 (Gant Quarters, Wheeler): $590,000
904 Pritchard Place, 30068 (Pincrest Townhouses, Walton): $465,000
2322 Milstead Circle, 30066 (Landsdowne, Sprayberry): $520,000
816 Exposition Pointe, 30067 (The Townes at Marietta, Marietta): $435,860
1902 East Piedmont Road, 30062 (Sprayberry): $337,000
2891 Dara Drive, 30066 (Northeast Colony, Sprayberry): $402,000
4440 Marsh Road, 30066 (Lamplighter Cove, Kell): $402,000
5147 Weatherwood Trace, 30068 (Willow Point, Walton): $863,000
744 Olde Towne Lane, 30068 (Hamptons of Olde Towne, Walton): $440,000
1496 Soaring Pointe, 30062 (Eagle Ridge, Marietta): $525,000
118 Bluffington Way, 30066 (Old Bells Ferry, Marietta): $442,955
2582 Middle Coray Circle, 30066 (TheOaks at Mill Pond, Lassiter): $1.425 million
4920 Kentwood Drive, 30068 (Cobblestone Manor, Walton): $1.281 million
4513 Summersweet Drive, 30066 (Mountain Creek Estates, Lassiter): $872,000
4040 Riverlook Parkway Unit 208, 30067 (Willows by the River, Walton): $342,000
2680 Greentree Drive, 30067 (Sandpiper, Wheeler): $298,000
1702 Paddlewheel Drive, 30062 (Wellcrest Townhomes, Wheeler): $330,000
3514 Billingsley Drive, 30062 (Princeton Corners, Walton): $656,000
2442 Spring Lake Drive, 30062 (Shadowwoods, Pope): $714,000
1980 Trophy Drive, 30062 (Sandy Plains Estates, Sprayberry): $425,000
1430 Wood Valley Drive, 30066 (Oak Creek Estates, Spraybery): $430,000
4008 Rock Mill Drive, 30062 (Rock Mill, Lassiter): $365,000
2930 Summitop Road, 30066 (The Summit at Sweat Mountain, Lassiter): $605,000
4618 North Landing Drive, 30066 (North Landing, Kell): $380,000
2655 Stillwater Court, 30062 (Chimney Springs, Pope): $738,440
4642 Kempton Place, 30067 (Whitehall, Walton): $1 million
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More than 20 restaurants, a couple dozen sponsors and a few dozen more local businesses and organizations set up after an early-morning rain Saturday, but that’s as wet as it would get for the 2024 Taste of East Cobb.
By the time the festival aisles at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church were flush with visitors—sampling food, picking up flyers and listening to the sounds of school jazz bands—the sun was out on a warm and sunny weekend afternoon.
In addition, there were games and face-painting for kids, raffle prizes, a silent auction and other activities as part of the Walton Band Parent Association’s main fundraiser.
Several jazz bands from Walton and Wheeler high schools, and Dickerson and Dodgen middle schools, also performed.
East Cobb News was proud to be a sponsor for the second year in a row, and we’re honored to be a part of this festive community event.
Here are the winners as voted by attendees:
Restaurants
Vendors and Sponsors
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The non-profit organization Widow Strong, a component of the East Cobb-based Life Transformed Christian Counseling, is holding a special Mother’s Day-related event Sunday at East Cobb Park for families without fathers.
It’s called “Pampering and Portraits,” and it’s for widows with their children, grandchildren and other family members from 2:30-5:30 p.m.
There will be lunch, a mini photography session and a pampering gift bag
You can go to the LTCC office at 3827 Roswell Road, Suite 104 for the portrait and gift bag, then go to the park (3322 Roswell Road) and look for the Widow Strong tent for grilling, games and a potluck meal.
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After more than 500 Cobb County School District teachers enrolled in an all-expenses-paid online graduate degree program last year, the district announced Friday it is expanding that offer.
The district said in a release Friday afternoon that Georgia’s BEST (Building Educator Success Together) will add 200 more enrollment slots for classes that begin in August.
Teachers get their degrees from the University of West Georgia. When Georgia’s BEST was unveiled last year, the district approved spending $500,000 for a proof of concept proposal that also included certificate programs.
The district release Friday didn’t indicate if any additional funding would be required for the expansion.
Cobb schools superintendent Chris Ragsdale said Georgia’s BEST is designed not only to improve teacher retention, but to broaden professional development in the classroom.
Certified staff and paraprofessionals have until May 10 to file an application of interest form, including those who applied last year but were not enrolled.
Nearly 500 slots will be filled for the upcoming academic year. The August cohort degree programs include education specialist, a master’s in special education, an MAT in special education and an educational doctorate in school improvement.
The January cohort programs include education specialist and master’s of education in instructional technology.
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Some rain is expected Saturday, but the Taste of East Cobb will go on, rain or shine!
That’s what festival organizers said Friday morning, as some wet weather will be moving into the area for the next few days.
The latest forecast calls for a 30 percent chance of rain early Saturday morning, followed by more possible rain the late morning and early afternoon. More rain is expected in the early evening. High temperatures will be in the mid 70s.
East Cobb News is proud to be a sponsor of the Taste of East Cobb, our community’s signature food festival once again (we had an absolute blast in our debut last year!), and we’re looking forward to seeing all of you.
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The festivities take place from 11-5 at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church (955 Johnson Ferry Road). Parking and admission are free, as is jazz musical entertainment from Walton and Wheeler high schools, and Dodgen and Dickerson middle schools.
You pay for food and drink tickets to sample, featuring some of East Cobb’s favorite restaurants and eateries (full lineup here).
For information and tickets visit the Taste of East Cobb website.
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At April’s Rally on the Runway fundraiser at the Georgia Aquarium, 10-year-old Nick from Roswell/East Cobb and Rally Kids from throughout Georgia who are fighting or surviving cancer, each took 47 steps down the runway as a reminder that everyday 47 children are diagnosed with cancer.
The evening’s host was longtime Rally supporter and Atlanta Falcons Defensive Tackle Grady Jarrett. Jarrett along with other NFL players walked with each model down the runway. Nick was joined on the runway by Atlanta Falcons Linebacker Donavan Mutin, where the two struck a pose to excited cheers from the crowd. That evening more than $780,000 was raised for pediatric cancer research. Joined by NFL players, the kids also got a chance to have a behind the scenes tour of the aquarium prior to the event. You can see Nick modeling at about the one-minute mark here.
Last summer, he was having fun when he suddenly became fatigued and tired all the time. His parents knew something was wrong and after a few hours at the hospital, it was confirmed that Nick had acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nick immediately started treatment and has been fighting cancer ever since. Nick loves sports especially baseball. Within the first six months of his diagnosis, he and his family decided to raise money to help fight childhood cancer. Nick and his family have raised $50,000 and are going to be able to name a research grant in his honor.
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Omer Mustafa Inan, a senior at George Walton Comprehensive High School in Marietta, Ga., is the 2024 State PAGE (Professional Association of Georgia Educators) STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Recognition) Student. He named Walton’s Tamara Hollingsworth, an English teacher, as his STAR Teacher. As this year’s State PAGE STAR Student, Inan won a $7,500 scholarship from PAGE, and as State PAGE STAR Teacher, Hollingsworth received a $7,500 cash award from the Frances Wood Wilson Foundation.
Parv Mahajan, a senior at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Lawrenceville, Ga., is the State Runner-up PAGE STAR Student. He named Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology’s Julia Rachkovskiy, a computer science teacher, as his STAR Teacher. Mahajan received the $2,500 SouthState Bank Scholarship, and Rachkovskiy $2,500 SouthState Bank Award and the $500 Mozelle Christian Award.
Twenty-seven PAGE STAR Student Region Winners were state finalists in the annual STAR program for high school seniors.
The search for the State PAGE STAR Student began earlier this school year with the naming of local STAR Students from more than 600 participating public and independent high schools across the state. In turn, those STAR Students then recognized the teacher who had the most influence on their success as their STAR Teacher.
To obtain the STAR nomination, high school seniors must have the highest score on any single test date of the SAT and must be in the top 10 percent or top 10 students of their class, based on GPA.
“Recognizing these outstanding students and their teachers in region events and then at the state event each year is our great honor,” said PAGE Executive Director Craig Harper. “We are pleased to be a major sponsor and administrator for the STAR program to ensure that Georgia’s excellent students and teachers receive the attention they’ve earned through their success.”
Sponsors for the 2024 State PAGE STAR awards are PAGE, the PAGE Foundation, the Frances Wood Wilson Foundation, SouthState Bank, and the Mozelle Christian Endowment.
As the largest independent educator association in the state and nation, the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) exists to support our members who serve in every Georgia public school. PAGE provides unparalleled legal coverage, legislative advocacy, professional learning, grants, and scholarships. PAGE honors and encourages educational excellence through student programs including Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR), Future Georgia Educators (FGE), Georgia Academic Decathlon (GAD), and PAGE Academic Bowl for Middle Grades.
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After holding an open house in February to solicit feedback on proposals to ease congestion at the intersection of Holly Springs Road and Post Oak Tritt Road, Cobb DOT has scheduled a similar public meeting this month.
The next open house is set for Tuesday, May 14, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Mountain View Regional Library (3330 Sandy Plains Road) “to review community input received on the Holly Springs Corridor 2022 SPLOST project.”
Cobb DOT has presented three options for improvements at that intersection:
Another proposal includes a signal improvement at Holly Springs and Sandy Plains Road, at a cost of $383,000.
Those expenses don’t include acquiring right-of-way properties. The available budget overall is $3.9 million.
Cobb DOT said a roundabout would provide the best traffic relief option, in terms of reducing wait times (see table below).
If that’s done, the existing traffic signal would be removed, and a multilane roundabout would be constructed, similar to what’s on Hembree Road at the entrance to Pope High School.
The signal upgrade calls for through lanes going north and south as well as turn lanes in the north-, south- and eastbound lanes, with the signal rebuilt.
Those projects would take an estimated 16 months to complete.
The third option would add southbound and eastbound right lanes and rebuild the signal.
That option, plus the Holly Springs-Sandy Plains option, would take around six months to complete
Cobb DOT didn’t specify what proposed changes may be in store for the upcoming open house, but the project is still considered to be in the conceptual stage.
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