Local News for the Way You Live Today
Submitted by Cobb County Government: Cobb County Public Library (CCPL) has been recognized as Library of the Year for its commitment to serving its community by partnering with numerous organizations within its county and statewide, and for efforts to expand access to materials and essential services to its community. The library serves a population of over … 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
Brunessa Drayton, a former Cobb Library System supervisor and chief assistant to Cobb Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid, announced Tuesday she is running for Cobb Superior Court Clerk in 2024. Drayton, a Democrat who declared her intent to run in November, said she is running “because the Clerk’s office is in need of leadership that’s focused … Read more
Two years after carving up East Cobb into two Congressional districts, the Georgia legislature could be dramatically tearing up those lines again. During a special legislative session that got underway earlier this week, Senate Reapportionment and Redistricting Committee Chairwoman Shelly Echols submitted a map that would put most of East Cobb in the 11th Congressional … Read more
The Cobb County School District on Wednesday announced its schedule for 2024 commencement exercises. All but two of the district’s 17 high schools will have graduation ceremonies at the Kennesaw State University Convocation Center from Monday, May 20 through Saturday, May 25. Here are the graduation dates and times for the six high schools in … 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
Ten schools in the Cobb County School District—seven of them in East Cobb—were visited last week by Georgia School Superintendent Richard Woods for earning the state’s designation as Literacy Leaders. A total of 155 schools in the state were recognized for “exceptional achievement or growth in third-grade reading.” Schools with 90 percent or more of … Read more
The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday approved a slate of legislative priorities requested by Cobb County School District officials that include a number of rollover items. There also is a new item that follows in the wake of a school library controversy in the district over sexually explicit materials. Superintendent Chris Ragsdale is asking … Read more
Geographic Information Systems Day, better known as GIS Day, is a part of Geography Week and Cobb County’s GIS staff has a fun celebration planned for you 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Friday, Nov. 17, at Sewell Mill Library and Cultural Arts Center, 2051 Lower Roswell Road, Marietta. This free event will have interactive sessions to … Read more
The issue of literacy rates—especially in the wake of educational disruptions stemming from the COVID-19 response—is the subject of an agenda item at a Cobb Board of Education work session Thursday. The agenda item, entitled “Literacy Updates,” doesn’t detail what will be presented; East Cobb News has left a message with the Cobb County School … Read more
From the office of Cobb Commissioner Jerica Richardson, and added to our calendar listings: In collaboration with the Cobb & Douglas County Public Health Department is providing free COVID and flu vaccinations 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6 at the East Cobb Library, 4880 Lower Roswell Road, suite 510-B, Marietta. No appointment needed. Walk-ins are welcome. … Read more
A member of Cobb commissioner Jerica Richardson’s “community cabinet” is considering making a run to succeed her in 2024. Kevin Redmon, an East Cobb resident, filed a declaration of intent form with the Cobb Elections Office on Oct. 23. According to the filings, Redmon, an IT sales and account manager, would be running as a … Read more
With Halloween right around the corner, several events in the East Cobb area will be rounding out the final weekend before Tuesday’s All Hallows Eve. For the second year in a row, Avenue East Cobb and East Cobb Church are teaming up to present the Boo Bash, a kid-oriented carnival. It runs from 11 a.m. … Read more
Attorneys for plaintiffs seeking new electoral maps for the Cobb County Board of Education have filed a motion seeking a preliminary injunction. The motion, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, seeks to prevent the Cobb Board of Elections from setting up 2024 elections with maps passed by the Georgia legislature in 2022 and … Read more
The Cobb New Horizons Symphony Band, which is made up of senior adults, will hold a special concert Thursday to honor the memory of Wheeler High School band director Madison Argo. The concert takes place at 12 p.m. at the school, and will include works from John Williams and John Philip Sousa. Another featured piece … Read more
Several Muslim parents in the Cobb County School District denounced the district for sending out an electronic message last week about an “international threat” from the Hamas terrorist group in the Middle East that they said has led to fear and mistreatment in their own community. Some addressed a work session of the Cobb Board … Read more
Following up our story last week about the possibility that CenterStage North might halt its 2024 season at The Art Place-Mountain View due to Sunday staffing issues with Cobb PARKS: Jonathan Liles, CSN’s managing director, told East Cobb News Friday that the community theater organization and the county have come to an agreement to continue … Read more
The Cobb County School District is investigating what it is calling an “inaccurate e-mail” that was sent out Thursday saying that the district will not be participating in a statewide reading contest. An e-mail was posted Friday morning on at least two Facebook groups dedicated to discussions about Cobb schools that the district would not … Read more
Several schools in the Cobb County School District notified parents Monday that books with “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content” have been removed from their libraries. The book’s titles weren’t named, nor were the individual schools, but the messages—which were worded identically and distributed to a number of schools, mostly middle schools and high schools—said that … Read more
The remnants of the Gritters Library building in Northeast Cobb stood in a heaping pile Monday as demolition crews completed their work. The nearly 50-year-old building in Shaw Park, which closed in June, was torn down as the Cobb County Public Library System begins a rebuilding project that’s expected to take a year. The new … Read more
