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After hearing from the Cobb DOT director about the need to improve traffic safety on Lower Roswell Road near Parkaire Landing Shopping Center, Cobb Commissioner Jerica Richardson on Tuesday persuaded her colleagues to delay the long-awaited project again. During a regular business meeting, the commissioners voted 5-0 to indefinitely table voting on two agenda items—one … Read more
The following food scores have been compiled by the Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health. Click the link under each listing for inspection details: Bells Ferry Elementary School 2600 Bells Ferry Road January 24, 2024 Score: 100, Grade: A Cafe Clement 1438 Canton Road January 26, 2024 Score: 93, Grade: A Delkwood Grill 2769 Delk … Read more
As we mentioned previously, web traffic at East Cobb News reached an all-time high in 2023. As we close out our news coverage this year, we’ve surpassed 1.7 million pageviews and 900,000 unique monthly visitors for the past 12 months. Our previous best was in 2020, dominated by coverage of the local response to COVID-19 and a … Read more
A month after the redevelopment of the former Harry’s Farmers Market was vetoed by Marietta Mayor Thunder Tumlin, the City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to approve a revised version of the plan. By a 7-0 vote, the council voted to approve a mixed-use plan for nearly 20 acres on Powers Ferry Road at Roswell … Read more
The Cobb Planning Commission voted Tuesday to recommend approval of a proposed Guthries’ Chicken drive-through restaurant in East Cobb. After continuing the application for a month, the board placed the application on the consent agenda by a 4-0 vote when no opposition arose. The initial request to convert 3.17 acres at the southwest intersection of … Read more
After reducing the number of homes and deciding not to develop on one side of a creek, a residential developer on Tuesday got approval for a 91-unit subdivision on Sandy Plains Road near Kincaid Elementary School. Following a recommendation by the Cobb Planning Commission, the Cobb Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 to approve rezoning of … Read more
It’s been nearly a year since there have been events around Cobb’s proposed Unified Development Code. A UDC is a comprehensive planning guide which incorporates zoning, planning and land-use with design, landscaping, architectural and other guidelines. Local Atlanta-area jurisdictions that have them are the cities of Atlanta and Roswell and DeKalb County. Cobb commissioners voted … Read more
UPDATED, Nov. 9: Marietta mayor Steve Tumlin vetoed the rezoning approval on ‘Thursday, the day after the City Council voted 6-1 to approve it. The council can override the veto with at least five votes at its monthly meeting in December. ORIGINAL REPORT: It’s been more than six years since Harry’s Farmers Market closed on … Read more
The Cobb Planning Commission Tuesday voted to continue a rezoning request by Guthrie’s Chicken for a drive-through location in East Cobb. The board voted 5-0 to push back an initial hearing on the application to December. The item had been on the meeting’s consent agenda, but opposition arose from the East Cobb Civic Association. The … Read more
A small commercial building at a corner of Lower Roswell Road and Johnson Ferry Road could be converted into a fast food chicken restaurant. Guthrie’s Chicken, which specializes in chicken finger menu items, is scheduled to have a first hearing on its rezoning application next Tuesday before the Cobb Planning Commission. The request seeks a … Read more
Submitted information and photo: The day started out with dreary skies, but the weather did not dampen the mood for 18 enthusiastic volunteers who turned out on Saturday, October 14 for the Powers Ferry Corridor Alliance’s (PFCA) Fall Adopt-A-Mile Cleanup. The event was held in conjunction with Keep Cobb Beautiful at the Kroger Fuel Center … Read more
Picture-perfect weather is in store for this weekend’s events around East Cobb, including a number of activities suited for the season. On Friday the Faith Lutheran School PTL is staging its Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat community event from 5-8 (2111 Lower Roswell Road), with food, clowns, facepainting, games, a pumpkin patch and bouncy … Read more
About a year and a half after getting a site plan change approved by the county, Valvoline Instant Oil Change is beginning to break ground for a new facility on the former site of a Chevron gas station at Roswell Road and Johnson Ferry Road. Crews have been digging up what’s left of the Chevron … Read more
The Cobb Planning Commission heard three major rezoning cases in the Northeast Cobb area on Tuesday, and decided to delay making a recommendation on all of them. All three were continued to the November zoning calendar. Among them is a proposal to build a 105-home single-family detached subdivision on Sandy Plains Road near Kincaid Elementary … Read more
There’s still some staff training and final checks to undergo, but the American Family Care Urgent Care location in East Cobb should be open by later this week. That’s the estimate that Dr. Leia Dawson, the new clinic’s medical director, said after a ribbon-cutting celebration on Tuesday. The 3,600-square-foot facility at Merchant’s Festival Shopping Center … Read more
As Jerri Heacock began her job at the East Cobb Barber Shop Saturday morning, she was greeted by customers without appointments. They weren’t walk-up clients, but regulars whose hair she had just cut, and she wondered what was up. Some were bearing gifts and roses, and before long her co-workers had rolled out some cupcakes, … Read more
The Olea Oliva! store at Avenue East Cobb, which sells gourmet olive oils, balsamic vinegars, spices, herbal teas and other artisanal food items, is closing. The married couple of owner Smita Daya and her husband Dilip Daya are retiring and moving to Italy, where they have been frequently spending time in the nearly eight years … Read more
The last update we got from Barnes and Noble in June about its forthcoming bookstore at Avenue East Cobb targeted an October opening, and that’s still the case. The company released some photos of the interior below, and we took the above shot that’s showing a bit more progress. There’s still not a specific opening … Read more
The former Zaxby’s restaurant across from the Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Center has been transformed into special event space. Last week Nazanin Moradimehr (with scissors), owner of Elegance Events (2080 Lower Roswell Road) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony. A Wheeler High School graduate, she has more than two decades in the restaurant and catering industry, … Read more
Botanical Sciences, a physician-owned medical cannabis provider, held a grand opening event this week at its new Cobb location at 2468 Windy Hill Road. The company grows, manufactures and dispenses medical cannabis and has plans to operate five dispensaries in metro Atlanta and Georgia. The Cobb dispensary is open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. … Read more
