East Cobb News reader photo from the accident scene on Johnson Ferry Road at Lake Rill Court.
UPDATED, Tuesday, March 27, 11 A.M.: Cobb Police said this morning the motorcyclist in Monday’s Johnson Ferry Road accident has died. He has been identified as Alexander Seidnitzer, age 18, of East Cobb.
Police said Seidnitzer was traveling southbound on Johnson Ferry Road on a gray 2015 Yamaha FZ07 motorcycle when it collided with a lawn service truck at the intersection of Lake Rill Court.
The truck, driven by Joshua Peavy, 27, of Smyrna, was attempting to turn left from Lake Rill Court onto Johnson Ferry Road northbound when the accident occurred, police said.
Seidnitzer died after being transported to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, according to police, who said Peavy was not injured.
Police said they do not anticipate filing charges in the accident, which is still under investigation.
Family members said Seidnitzer was aiming to be a chef and attend culinary school (see comments below).
UPDATED, 1:50 P.M. Monday
Officer Wayne Delk of the Cobb County Police Department said a motorcyclist collided with a landscaping truck at the intersection of Johnson Ferry Road and Lake Rill Court late Monday morning.
The motorcyclist, who was not identified, was taken by ambulance from the accident scene with life-threatening injuries, Delk said. The accident occurred shortly before 10 a.m.
All northbound lanes of Johnson Ferry Road were closed between Roswell Road and Bishop Lake Road while the accident was being investigated, according to police, and only one southbound lane of Johnson Ferry was open during that time. All traffic lanes reopened around 1:40 p.m., Cobb Police said.
Delk said initial information from the accident scene indicates that the motorcyclist may be at fault.
We have received photos from a reader, including above, who was caught in the traffic jam, and who also told us this:
” . . . really sad, it was a young person on the blue motorcycle and the man driving the Arbornomics truck was so distraught and crying by the side of the road.”
We’ve also received dashcam footage from Mohamad Zakaria, who was traveling southbound on Johnson Ferry when the motorcyclist zoomed past him. Zakaria, who was heading to classes at Georgia Perimeter College, was traveling around 45 mph, the posted local speed limit.
ORIGINAL POST, 11:49 A.M. Monday
Cobb DOT is asking motorists to consider an alternative to using Johnson Ferry Road at Lake Rill Court, just north of Roswell Road, due to an accident that’s causing heavy delays.
The accident is affecting traffic in both north and southbound lanes, but that’s all the information that’s available for now.
UPDATED, 1:14 P.M.: Johnson Ferry Road traffic at that intersection is shut down until at least 2 p.m.
Lake Rill Court is the entrance to a neighborhood on the same side of Johnson Ferry as the Sunrise at East Cobb senior living facility, and just a little north of it.
We’ll update this story when we get more information.
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Is there change in the air about the way East Cobb community activism is being carried out these days? Some recent events have represented something of a departure.
Toward the end of a meeting this week about the Sprayberry Crossing Shopping Center, a young woman walked down an aisle at the Sprayberry High School theater holding up high a pink sign that said simply in black letters: “We Need Change.”
She panned the sign around the room, a packed house of around 500 citizens who attended to press for the removal of a decades-long eyesore in their community. Others brought their signs too, and raised them to applause.
This was no usual East Cobb citizens gathering, which often consists of a garden variety town-hall meeting, or a zoning matter that springs nearby homeowners into strenuous opposition.
The issue wasn’t about closing libraries or imposing fees to use senior services, actions which we know gets East Cobbers worked up into a passionate, often angry lather.
There was a different energy in the room at Sprayberry. Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell admitted the turnout surpassed her town-hall meetings. Joe Glancy, a resident who created a Facebook group and organized Wednesday’s citizens’ meeting around the Sprayberry Crossing issue, was encouraged by the general civility of his fellow citizens in their online forums.
Yet the feeling of restlessness and frustration was noticeable when elected officials and county staffers explained the limited measures available to force the property owner to clean up a run-down shopping center that’s become a haven for criminal activity.
When they admitted a new “blight tax” would yield a fine of only $17,000, the groans in the room were palpable. After more than 20 years of futile protests to force something to happen with a dilapidated retail center, many in the room sensed that their efforts were far from being resolved.
A meeting that was considered a good “first step” was still simmering with a desire for change. I was taken aback at seeing the “We Need Change” sign, something associated with zealous social and political protests. Something like this, just to get rid of an old shopping center? Really?
It’s the kind of sign you might see at a Tea Party rally, a Black Lives Matter protest, among Trump voters on a campaign stop, and teenagers responding to the latest school massacre.
When I saw the “We Need Change” sign, I immediately thought of the East Cobb high school students who organized walkouts a couple weeks ago to honor the shooting victims in Parkland, Fla., and to demand changes in gun laws.
Earlier on Wednesday, I had been in touch with some of them about their punishments for ignoring Cobb County School District opposition to their protests, on safety and school-day disruption grounds.
Most received one-day in-school suspensions, fairly light disciplinary action given the strong threats issued against the walkouts. None of them had lost their stridency in lashing out at school officials they accused of smothering their free-speech rights, and they were getting ready for Saturday’s March for Our Lives events in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
These are kids who take honors classes at Walton, Pope, Lassiter, Wheeler and other schools, are getting ready for college, and who are in every sense model students. While the district’s desire to keep students safe is understandable, I think a rare opportunity to teach a valuable civics lesson was lost.
Instead of recognizing a potentially striking moment in our nation’s history about school violence, district leaders threw the rule book at them. These students weren’t protesting bad cafeteria food, too much homework or the usual school gripes.
Whatever you think about their gun-control demands—which I’m skeptical of because the problem with these shootings is much deeper than firearms—these students deserved a better response to their concerns than suppression and silence.
Consider the young lives of these students. They weren’t yet born when Columbine happened. They were in grade school when Sandy Hook took place. Now, on the verge of young adulthood, and in the wake of the murders of 14 fellow students and three teachers at a suburban high school very much like their own, they’re told they better not interrupt classes or else.
My nephew, who’s also in high school in Florida, made the good point to me the other day when he wondered why those students demanding safety would walk out to a potentially vulnerable place on their campus, like a football stadium.
His school allowed the walkouts, but he chose to stay in class. Like his aunt, he’s not inclined to protest. The stridency of the national walkout forces has often been severe, tainted with ugly, partisan political rhetoric. I’ve found some of it quite startling.
There are those who accuse these young people, not old enough to vote, of being used by adults with an agenda. While I don’t agree with them on gun-control, to reduce this youthful idealism to such adult cynicism is one of the problems with our public discourse.
Instead of being encouraged for their willingness to get involved in public life, they’re patronized for expressing differing views on a divisive issue. What about the Walton students who organized a pre-school event on the walkout day, approved by school administrators, with no mention of gun-control? I would never suggest they’re also being used, although they are leaders of established student organizations.
As I head into middle age, I sense we’re on the cusp of tremendous generational change in our society. Too many people of my Baby Boom generation, and especially those holding political power, want to maintain the status quo. Or profess they can do nothing about rather mundane things, like plow over a decaying shopping center that citizens have been complaining about for decades.
What these young people will find out when they are old enough to vote, and get fully involved, is what many heard about Sprayberry Crossing the other night, from people they elect, and pay, to solve their problems: There’s only so much they can do.
We have seen teenage high school students and middle-age and older homeowners in East Cobb taking civic action into their own hands. They want change. While that can easily become a cliché, it’s not all that different from other political and social causes in recent years, left, right and otherwise.
They are borne out of frustration, anger, fear and a sense that the way things are now are not the way they should be, and that cannot be sustained. They are citizens galvanized to demand that those in power not just respond to their concerns, but actively advocate for them.
The outcome of their recent events may not have fully turned out the way they had in mind, but it was quite refreshing to see all this unfold in a community that isn’t accustomed to such displays of vocal dissent.
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On Monday Cobb government officials will hold the first of three community meetings over the next couple of months to outline what they’re calling a “small area plan” for Johnson Ferry-Shallowford development issues.
The first meeting is slated from 7-9 p.m. Monday at Chestnut Ridge Christian Church (2663 Johnson Ferry Road). That will the site for additional meetings on April 16 and May 8, also in the same time slot.
The area indicated in the map above is called JOSH, and it’s to be a supplement to the Cobb 2040 Comprehensive Plan to address anticipated development issues in the Johnson Ferry-Shallowford corridor.
The departments involved in JOSH planning include community development, planning, parks and recreation, and the Cobb Water System’s stormwater division.
Here’s more about JOSH and what county officials are asking for in terms of public feedback:
The purpose of JOSH is to provide guidance to the Board of Commissioners regarding policy and decisions pertaining to land use, design guidelines, parks, greenspace facilities and infrastructure.
It will focus will focus on five key elements: future land use, design guidelines, stormwater management, parks and greenspace, and transportation. Due to anticipated growth, new development and redevelopment, future land use will be a key focal point of the study. Issues and concerns will be identified by community members and addressed through the concept plan and implementation recommendations.
The JOSH plan will be developed in part by way of an extensive public participation program. A stakeholder group has been established, consisting of key individuals representing a variety of groups and organizations. Stakeholders include neighborhood/civic groups and business/commercial representatives. In addition to the Stakeholder Group, the project team will facilitate three community meetings to engage the public in defining problems and concerns and identifying their desires for the future of the JOSH community.
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Some East Cobb business notes below include opening events taking place over the next couple of weeks.
A new Tropical Smoothie Café location opens a week from today, March 30, at the Sandy Plains Centre Shopping Center (2960 Shallowford Road, Suite 102), and is giving away free smoothies to the first 50 guests when it first opens its doors at 7 a.m. Other discounts on smoothies will follow during the day.
Also on the menu are wraps, sandwiches and flatbreads. The new location is operated by Meritage Restaurant Group, a local company that has two other Tropical Smoothies in Cobb and Cherokee.
Tropical Smoothie has more than 600 locations nationwide.
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On April 7, Nancy’s Vintage Shop will open at 1050 East Piedmont Road, Suite 102. That’s in the Piedmont Commons Shopping Center (a Publix is located there), right across from the McCleskey-East Cobb YMCA.
The opening-day events last from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and the first 25 guests will receive a free, reusable tote bag and 15 percent off their initial purchase.
The owner is Nancy Joy Hartung, who tells us she’s a former corporate web analyst, and that her store includes vintage goods from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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Easter and a full slate of Holy Week events are just around the corner, and on Saturday the Cobb PARKS Egg Hunt kicks it off. It’s one of several mostly outdoor community events taking place in and around East Cobb over the weekend, and here’s more on what’s on tap:
Cobb PARKS Egg Hunt goes from 10-1 Saturday at the Al Bishop Softball Complex (1082 Al Bishop Drive), and it’s free and family-friendly. In addition to age-group egg hunts, kids and their parents can take part in art activities, live music and entertainment, food, a hula-hoop contest and a tug-of-war. All you’re asked to bring are your own baskets;
On Saturday, it’s an all-day lacrosse extravaganza the Pope High School stadium (3001 Hembree Road) in honor of a former Greyhounds playert. The return of the AJ04 LAX Fest and Fundraiser starts at 10 a.m. with a game involving Walton, and continues with the final match of the day, Pope vs. Blessed Trinity, at 8 p.m. Lassiter is playing at 2 p.m. during the event, which is raising money for the Andrew Oswalt Foundation, which works to help young people make good decisions, especially behind the wheel. It’s been 12 years since he died in a car accident, and Saturday’s admission ($7 for adults, $3 for youths 12 and under) will also include a raffle;
The Furry Friends Run 5K debuts Saturday at 8 a.m. at Sope Creek Elementary School (3320 Paper Mill Road), and it’s a Peachtree Road Race qualifier. The Furry Friends of Sope Creek say you can bring a dog, as long as it’s on a leash and friendly. Games, food and other activities will follow, including dog adoptions;
Another new community event is the J.J. Daniell Middle School PTSA Arts & Crafts Show, which goes from 9-5 Saturday at the school (2900 Scott Road). Admission is free, and they’re billing the event as a great way to get a head start on spring, Easter and Mothers’ and Father’s Day shopping;
If the fine arts suit you, The Art Place-Mountain View (3330 Sandy Plains Road) is staging Murder at Cafe Noir Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. It’s the Mountain View Arts Alliance’s production of David Landau’s comic tribute to Humphrey Bogart films, and it’s done in dinner-style format, with pasta, salad and desserts included in the $25 ticket price. The doors open at 7 and the show starts at 7:30 both nights.
Check out East Cobb’s best calendar listings for more things to do and enjoy, this weekend and beyond. Did we miss anything? Do you have an event to share with the community? Send it us, and we’ll post it! E-mail: calendar@eastcobbnews.com.
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Parents, friends and family members of Walton students offered support during the March 14 walkout. (East Cobb News photo)
Cobb County School District high schools are beginning to issue suspensions for students who participated in National Walkout Day last week. Some East Cobb students say they’re still waitng to hear what there punishment will be.
Kara Litwin, organizer of the walkout at Pope High School, told East Cobb News Wednesday that she and others who walked out are receiving a day of in-school suspension on Monday.
Walton walkout leaders said the estimated 260 students at their school who walked out will receive a day of ISS on Tuesday.
Cobb schools did not support the walkout and said students who left their classes in a gun-control protest would be subject to disciplinary action under the district’s student code of conduct. Those actions would be left up to individual school principals.
Hannah Andress, the Lassiter leader, told us Wednesday night her administration hasn’t announced any punishment. She thinks it’s also going to be a day of what’s referred to as ISS. Instead of attending classes, students will gather in what’s essentially a day-long study hall. She also told us this:
“I want something like assigned community service for the younger participants so, when the apply to college, they don’t have to explain ISS on their record. But I’m willing to take any punishment if it means getting my message across.”
We also heard from Josh Spear, a student at Harrison High School in West Cobb, who said his school also has issued one day of ISS that he will be serving on Friday. “However,” he added, “I will fight to ensure that the school district pays for the violation of students’ first amendment rights.”
We’ll update this story as we get more information about forthcoming punishments.
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Several hundred Northeast Cobb residents living near the run-down Sprayberry Crossing Shopping Center turned out Wednesday night to hear county and elected officials sympathize with their plight to rid their community of a long-standing eyesore.
Although they explained an ongoing process to get the property owner to comply with a new “blight tax” ordinance and urged the citizens to keep applying public pressure, some in attendance in the theater at Sprayberry High School weren’t always satisfied with the answers they got.
That’s because they were told that despite their frustrations, the property owner, NAI Brannen Goddard, can’t be forced to sell the 17 acres at 2692 Sandy Plains Road that has sat nearly vacant for the last two decades.
Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell
“We have tried to market this property for years,” District 3 Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell told the standing-room-only crowd. “The owners have property rights. We can’t force them to sell. But we can enforce the code.”
Commercial property owners cites for substandard properties under the new ordinance, passed last fall by the commissioners, could be subject to seven times the county general fund millage rate value of their properties.
Some residents groaned when they heard that the maximum NAI Brannen Goddard could be taxed is $17,000. That’s because of the eight parcels making up Sprayberry Crossing, only one of them, the site of a long-closed bowling alley, would be subject to the blight tax. Its assessed value is around $367,000.
But it’s an involved process, ultimately requiring a court ruling to assess the tax. Cobb community development director Dana Johnson said that process is about halfway through.
Cobb community development director Dana Johnson: “There is no code for ugly. I wish there was.”
For now, only the bowling alley land is eligible for blight tax action since criminal activity has been documented. Johnson said dozens of law enforcement calls have been made in recent years to the site at the back of the Sprayberry Crossing site, and alleged gang activity also has taken place there.
The four other buildings on the property remain much as they did after the retail center began losing tenants in the 1990s, especially a Bruno’s supermarket.
A few businesses are there, but the parking lot is riddled with potholes, walls and doors have holes in them and power lines have come down.
The property owner was invited to attend the meeting Wednesday but did not show up.
Resident Lynn Palazzo asked Birrell how the county could impose something more than “marginal compliance” after so many years. She also asked what the community’s options are as the blight tax process is underway.
“Your options are to stay engaged and keep doing what you’re doing tonight,” Birrell said.
Palazzo responded that “none of that appears to be working,” and the crowd erupted with applause. Birrell reminded her that the ordinance is still new.
Cobb commission chairman Mike Boyce, who said he has toured the former bowling alley and “I understand what your concerns are,” said the county has to be careful in what it says publicly with ongoing negotiations.
“Your community voice makes a huge difference,” he said. “Why it hasn’t happened in this case, I have no idea.”
Joe Glancy, a resident who started the Sprayberry Crossing Action Facebook Group14 months ago to galvanize public action, said NAI Brannen Goddard is a well-connected, savvy real estate firm that is waiting to sell to maximize its investment.
The property owner, Glancy said, has chosen to be “selective” in what is shared with the community. He urged his fellow citizens “to make life a little more difficult for the property owner.
Joe Glancy: “It is up to all of us to make everyone involved uncomfortable until this is resolved.”
“How do we engage them and make them want to be done with us and move on?”
Birrell said she met with a potential developer of the property in 2015 and “was ready to close” on a deal that would require rezoning. But NAI Brannen Goddard, she said, “wouldn’t sell.”
The county has estimated that Sprayberry Crossing has a current estimated value of $3.4 million. When a resident asked if the county would “just buy the land” for a public park, he told her it’s unlikely that would happen in a commercial area with high real estate value, and stated a figure estimated between $14 million and $17 million.
When he quipped that citizens should raise the money, a man walked up to the front of the theater holding up a dollar bill and gave it to Glancy, as the crowd broke out in laughter.
Also complicating the Sprayberry Crossing property is that a cemetery is located there. Associate county attorney Debbie Blair spelled out another laborious process for identifying next of kin of those buried there, as well as two public hearings before any exhumations and relocations can occur. Sandy Plains Baptist Church has offered to provide perpetual care.
Glancy was at his most adamant when explaining that NAI Brannen Goddard understandably wants to sell the land with the cemetery issue resolved.
However, he said, “they bought a shopping center that had a cemetery in it. . . They cannot be excused for using that as an excuse for not selling the property.
“It is up to all of us to make everyone involved uncomfortable until this is resolved.”
Johnson said “remediation” discussions with the property owner are continuing, but declined to elaborate. If terms cannot be worked out, he, said, the county attorney’s office would prepare to go to court for a blight tax ruling.
“There is no code for ugly,” he said. “I wish there was.”
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We’ve posted here earlier about fundraisers conducted by Lassiter parents for the band’s 2019 trip to the Tournament of Roses Parade. One of those parents, Tim Pattison, has been in touch with us to say they’re holding a 5K race next month to help three band members who need financial assistance for the trip. The cost estimate is about $3,000 a student.
He says they’re holding the For the Love of Music 5K, a virtual race being held anytime between April 29 and May 12. There are full details posted on a website and Facebook page, but here’s what Tim told us about what they need to make this work for each of the three students.
“We need 500 runners to meet our goal, anything past that we are donating to help any of the other band kids whose parents might need financial help. Feel free to share this with anyone else or with other running groups, we can use all the help we can get!”
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The current office building at 5000 Olde Towne Parkway (East Cobb News photo)
A rezoning request that would allow townhomes in the Olde Towne development is being delayed by the Cobb Board of Commissioners. They voted 5-0 this morning to continue the case at the request of the developer, Pulte Home Corp., to continue working on the proposal.
Pulte wants to build a John Wieland Homes community of 43 townhomes on 4.1 acres at 5000 Olde Towne Parkway. That’s where an office building currently stands, and it’s been the Olde Towne Athletic Club and the new Northside Hospital medical complex at Olde Towne and Johnson Ferry Road.
The Cobb Planning Commission voted earlier this month to approve the application by a 3-1 vote, but not after a long discussion about density, traffic and a heavy amount of impervious surfaces.
Also on Tuesday, Cobb commissioners voted to delay another East Cobb zoning proposal in the Powers Ferry Road corridor. An application by Ashton Atlanta would rezone nearly 6 acres on Windy Hill Road and Wildwood Parkway for 67 homes.
It’s a request that has been delayed several times before, and is being opposed by some nearby residents.
Also being delayed, and not for the first time, is a request by Oak Hall Companies to rezone 55 acres of low-density residential land on Wigley Road near Summit Top Road for 85 single-family homes.
Another continuance involves an application by Loyd Development Services to convert six acres on Shallowford Road near Shallow Ridge Drive from low-density residential for 20 single-family homes. Density also is an issue.
Another East Cobb case that was removed from Tuesday’s agenda was a withdrawal by Duncan Land Investments to rezone three acres on Piedmont Road at Cajun Drive for eight single-family homes after the planning commission recommended denial.
The commissioners approved a request by Green Park PCH for a 32-bed personal-care home on Sandy Plains Road north of Ebenezer Road.
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I-75 at Windy Hill Road, looking South. (Georgia 511 camera photo)
Monday night’s bad weather didn’t leave quite the damage as Alabama, where a tornado touched down, as well as in the south Fulton area. However, there has been a major mess for morning commuters. Here’s what we know so far about the Cobb storm aftermath, and what to expect today as the cleanup continues:
There’s a dense fog advisory for Cobb and most of metro Atlanta until 10 a.m., and dreary skies are expected for much of the day. The rush-hour commute has already been affected by this, but driving anywhere today figures to include low-visibility conditions;
There’s no additional rain this morning, but there’s a lot of what’s left of last night’s thunderstorms still on the roads in standing puddles and runoff;
High winds scattered debris, including tree branches, and we haven’t heard of any specific major issues in East Cobb, or anything that may affect traffic, including lane or road closures. We’ll update this if/when we get any information.
Sandy Plains Road at Shallowford Road (Georgia 511 camera photo)
Most of the worst of the fog has already left the East Cobb area (it’s worse in west Cobb and along the Chattahoochee River), but today’s weather is still going to be soggy, and then it’s going to get cold tonight.
After high temperatures in the mid-60s, it could get around freezing, with a chance of scattered showers and low temperatures in the mid-30s.
On Wednesday, the sun returns with highs expected in the 50s. More rain is in the forecast for later in the week.
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Cobb is included in a tornado watch issued by the National Weather Service until 4 a.m. Tuesday. A second storm system with a tornado is moving out of Alabama. At 10:30 p.m., a severe thunderstorm warning was issued for all of Cobb County until 11:15 p.m. More storms were moving through counties in western Georgia, where tornado warnings had been in effect.
UPDATED, 5:58 P.M:
The Cobb County School District announced shortly before 5 p.m. today that all school-related activities tonight are cancelled.
ORIGINAL POST, 2:04 P.M.:
The National Weather Service has included Cobb and metro Atlanta in a severe weather forecast for this afternoon and evening that includes the possibilities of thunderstorms, high winds, hail and tornadoes.
The threat is greatest between 3 p.m. and midnight, according to the National Weather Service forecast, which includes much of north Georgia.
Here’s more from what the NWS released in its revised projections around 1:30 this afternoon:
Isolated to scattered thunderstorms will develop this afternoon, especially south of I-20. Some of these storms could be strong to severe with large hail and brief gusty winds the primary threat, along with heavy rain.
Later this afternoon through this evening, a more organized line of severe thunderstorms will move from Alabama into northwest and west-central Georgia. It is along and ahead of this line where all modes of severe weather exist, including tornadoes, large hail potentially greater than 2 inches, and damaging winds in excess of 70 MPH. Heavy rainfall and frequent lightning will also occur. Expect the potential for severe weather to be its highest between 5 PM and 2 AM Tuesday morning.
This map was released around 2:20 p.m. today:
We’re also seeing some school districts in west Georgia begin to cancel at least after-school activities, due to the weather threat, but haven’t seen anything yet for Cobb. We’ll update that here when we get more information.
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Here’s a missing persons story with a happy ending: Marietta Police put out an alert Sunday afternoon for Angelo Michael Messineo, a 21-year-old man from East Cobb with autism, after he disappeared from his home on Evanston Court, off Scufflegrit Road and near Sandy Plains Road.
He’s a mid-to-low functioning adult, and he went missing right as rainy weather approached, and with a wet evening forecast overnight Sunday. A Mattie’s Call was issued and multiple law enforcement agencies were dispatched.
Marietta PD said around 8 a.m. today that Messineo had been found safely at Merritt Park, more than three miles from his home, and he’s been returned to his family.
They got assistance from the Cobb Sheriff’s Office, which used bloodhounds to search, as well as the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Also helping in the search were the Marietta Fire Department, Cobb Fire Department, Cobb Police, Cherokee Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia State Patrol.
The case was solved by an individual, as Marietta PD posted:
“Special kudos go to the local resident who called 911 this morning and stated they saw someone walking near Merritt Park that resembled Angelo’s description. Had it not been for the way this community worked together, Angelo might still be missing and vulnerable.”
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An East Cobb man arrested and charged with sexual exploitation of a child is one of 76 people rounded up in Georgia and seven other Southeastern states this week in a sweeping investigation conducted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and other state, local and federal agencies.
Andrew C. Orr, 34, was arrested by Cobb Police Wednesday and taken to the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, according to the Cobb Sheriff’s Office, which listed his address as being on Creekstone Way in Indian Hills.
Orr is identified by the GBI as a part-time freighter.
Cobb Sheriff’s Office records indicate that Orr has been charged with one felony count of sexual exploitation of a child, and one felony count of using a computer service to entice a child to commit an illegal act, and that he was released Thursday after posting a $25,000 bond.
In a press release, the GBI said 13 children were rescued or identified as victims of child exploitation as a result of the investigation.
A warrant was issued for Orr’s arrest as Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forces in Georgia and other states conducted “Operation Southern Impact II.” It’s a four-month investigation of allegations of possession and distribution of child pornography and sexual exploitation of children using the Internet.
A total of 34 people were arrested in Georgia, and those charged in all range in age from 17 to 72, the GBI said. Cobb and Marietta police were among the more than 200 law enforcement agencies participating in the investigation in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The GBI said more arrests are likely.
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Walton parents held up signs in support of their children who walked out Wednesday (East Cobb News file photo).
The day after they ignored threatened punishments by Cobb schools and walked out of classes, students at Walton, Pope and Lassiter high schools denounced the district’s position on opposing the nationwide event and asked for leniency.
In a public comment session at the Cobb Board of Education meeting Thursday, several students decried what they described as efforts to “silence us,” and vowed that their demands for greater school safety, including “commonsense” gun control laws, would continue.
“This will not deter us,” said Kara Litwin, who led the walkout at Pope High School.
She was among the 1,000 students estimated by the Cobb County School District who left their classes for 17 minutes Wednesday as part of the National School Walkout.
The walkout took place exactly a month after 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., were shot to death on campus. A former student was charged with their killings.
The Cobb district said it did not support the walkouts because it was concerned about school safety and not disrupting the school day, and said that students who walked out would face consequences for their actions.
The punishments were not specified, and the district said disciplinary action is up to individual schools. Those actions have not been announced, but judging by students’ comments, some could be facing a three-day out-of-school suspension.
“I walked out for 17 minutes,” Litwin said. “Seventeen minutes, compared to the lives of 17 people.”
She said Cobb schools “taught us to stand up for what we believe in. Why are you going back on your word?”
Natalie Carlomagno, a Walton High School sophomore who organized her school’s walkout, echoed similar thoughts.
“Why do you want to punish us for using the excellent education you’ve given us? We just want to be safe.”
She said three days of an out-of-school suspension “is much more disruptive than 17 minutes.”
Only 260 Walton students walked out, a much smaller number than the more than 2,000 organizers said had signed up. Walton freshman Divya Vismani, another walkout leader, said that was “because of the threats” students received from school officials not to join the protest.
Lassiter High School senior Hannah Andress, who led her school’s walkout, was the most critical, saying she felt like she had to march because “I am tired of fearing for my life.”
She also referenced a possible three-day suspension, and asked the board members “shouldn’t you be supporting me? Listen to me. I am begging you.
“I am advocating for myself, because you didn’t.”
East Cobb resident Pamela Riordan, who lives near Walton, commended Cobb schools for opposing the walkout, and said that “students are being used by factions in society,” especially on gun issues.
“The problem is not guns,” she said, but that the suspect in the Florida shootings had not been previously detained, despite numerous calls to law enforcement about his behavior.
“That is the breakdown, that is what we should be talking about,” she said.
At the end of the meeting, most board members did not respond to the walkout students’ comments, and they have said little publicly about the issue in general.
Susan Thayer of Smyrna thanked the students for their remarks and said she respected their opinions but said only that “it’s been a frustrating week.”
Scott Sweeney, who represents the Walton district, wished everyone a happy spring break. David Banks, who represents Pope and Lassiter, said he enjoyed a recent visit reading to students at Eastvalley Elementary School. David Chastain commended Kell High School culinary students for the Mexican meal prepared for the board before the meeting.
Randy Scamihorn of north and west Cobb mentioned four police officers nationwide who have recently been killed in the line of duty, something he does regularly. He urged everyone associated with Cobb schools to support the work of the district’s public safety officials to keep students, teachers and staff safe.
Cobb schools superintendent Chris Ragsdale also did not comment on the students’ remarks.
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A summary of a proposed $1.059 billion fiscal year 2019 Cobb schools budget was presented to the Cobb Board of Education on Thursday, and it reflects a slight increase from the present fiscal year 2018 budget of $1.023 billion.
David Banks
The FY 2019 proposal includes a 1.1-percent bonus for annual employees, district police officers and high school secretaries, also known as “238-day” employees. There are no pay raises included for any Cobb County School District employees.
At a board work session Thursday, district officials laid out a budget plan that doesn’t raise property taxes, but uses $7.8 million in reserve funding to pay for the bonuses.
On a more long-term level, the budget forecast for the 112,000-student district, the second-largest in Georgia, is a bit grim.
Superintendent Chris Ragsdale said that “revenue has not changed,” and that “while we always try to guard against crying wolf,” the district’s tight fiscal situation does not appear to be changing any time soon.
“We have cut until we are at the bone,” Ragsdale said. “We have nothing left to cut.”
The one-page budget presentation (below, or click for PDF version here) also includes $12 million in salary step increases for eligible employees and an increase in the employer contribution to the state teacher retirement system from 16.81 percent to 20.9 percent, or a total of $25 million more.
Of that amount, the state is contributing $16 million, according to Cobb schools chief financial officer Brad Johnson.
He added that state austerity cuts for FY 2019 will take another $10 million in funding away from Cobb. The district also will have to contribute $155 million in state “fair share” funding that is spread around other school districts in Georgia, up from the present $145 million.
Johnson also said that flat student enrollment growth figures in Cobb also figure to reduce the funding the district receives from the state.
This is all in spite of Cobb coming off a record tax digest in 2017, and a net estimated digest growth of six percent for this year that would yield an additional $24 million in school revenues.
The current Cobb school millage rate is 18.9 mills, and is capped at 20 mills. Residential property owners in Cobb age 62 and over are eligible to apply for an exemption from paying school taxes, which the district estimates costs around $100 million annually.
“We have very little additional state revenue coming in next year,” Johnson told the board members. “We have a revenue problem. We have a problem with state revenue.”
The current FY 2018 budget includes the use of $18 million in reserve funds to purchase property adjoining the school district’s Marietta headquarters ($4.2 million) and $5.6 million for school building additions and modifications in the south Cobb area.
Ragsdale said the district is still down around 900 teaching positions. Estimating that the average teacher cost is $90,000 a year, he said there’s “no way we can even attempt to think about” how to close that gap.
The proposed budget includes a total of six new instructional positions across the district, at a cost of $542,000.
Saying that revenue sources aren’t just “tapped out,” but that “we are taking on water,” Ragsdale said that “it’s really a shame that we cannot do anything more with our budget as it is now. It is what it is.”
Board member David Banks of East Cobb, who represents the Pope and Lassiter districts, admitted during the presentation that “we’re in a danger zone.”
Later on Thursday, Connie Jackson of the Cobb County Association of Educators said the budget “isn’t pretty, it’s not what we were hoping for” and urged board members to include pay raises.
“We need a raise, and we need it this year,” she said, referring to information provided by school officials that Cobb is ninth out of 12 metro Atlanta school districts in recruiting new teachers.
She said “we are slipping” and fears Cobb will slide in other indicators for paying and retaining teachers and school administrators.
There hasn’t been a millage rate increase for Cobb schools in 10 years, Jackson said, and while no one wants a tax increase, boosting the millage rate to the full 20 mills would cost homeowners an additional $80 a year on a home valued at $200,000 and would yield a 2.5 pay raise.
“That’s not much to ask for . . . for a living wage,” she said.
Johnson said more detailed budget information will be available soon, and will be posted on the district’s website as well.
The school board will hold a public hearing on the budget on April 19 at 6:30 p.m., shortly before tentative approval.
Formal adoption is scheduled for May 17, following a second public hearing at 12:30 p.m. The Cobb schools budget goes into effect on July 1, and the final tax digest figures are determined later in July.
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Late this afternoon Cobb Police released a sketch of a man they say impersonated a law enforcement officer last week and pulled over a female motorist before raping her.
Cobb Police said a white male dressed as an officer and driving a vehicle with a light bar on top stopped another vehicle on Terrell Mill Road near Paper Mill Road early Friday morning. When the suspect asked for the woman’s driver’s license, police said he sexually assaulted her (previous East Cobb Newspost here).
It is unclear if the suspect is the same man who pulled over a female motorist in the city of Atlanta and raped her a few hours before the Cobb County attack. The sketch below was issued about the same time on Wednesday, around 5 p.m. by Atlanta Police.
Both sketches were created by a sketch artist with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, working off descriptions and information provided by the victims. Atlanta and Cobb Police are continuing to investigate the case jointly.
The suspect is believed to be a white male, around six feet tall, and is around 30 years old. He also is described as wearing clothing and gear similar to law enforcement, but that does not correspond with any local police or public safety agency. Police said the man also was wearing a police duty belt with a gun, Taser and radio.
Police urged motorists, especially female drivers, to exercise caution and safety when being pulled over, including stopping in a public, well-lit area and calling 911 if necessary to verify the identity of the officer.
Cobb Police said anyone with information about the Terrell Mill Road rape case should call the Crimes Against Persons Unit at 770-499-4111 or email: cobbpolicecrimetips@cobbcounty.org.
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As a television news helicopter buzzed overhead, several dozen parents, family members and friends of Walton High School walkout students gathered Wednesday morning to show their support on National School Walkout day.
The group of about 30-40 people huddled in brisk temperatures at the back entrance to Walton, near the football field where walkout students were planning their protest, holding signs and talking quietly among themselves.
At 10 a.m., they grew quiet as the names of the 17 victims of the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Fla., were pronounced. A moment of silence followed, and the group waved to students walking to and from the main school building, and to those who remained inside.
A solemn reading of the names of the 17 victims of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting a month ago today.
Walkout activity was not visible from their gathering spot on Bill Murdock Road and Pine Road. Motorists were stopped by officers patrolling the entrance to the back parking lot.
Initial reports were that only a few hundred Walton students walked out, far fewer than the more than 2,000 students protest organizers said had signed up online. Around 100 or so students each at Lassiter and Pope reportedly participated in walkouts.
UPDATE: Around 12:30 p.m. today, John Adams, the deputy superintendent of Cobb schools, posted this message on the Cobb County School Unofficial Community Page on Facebook:
In short, only a small fraction of our students engaged in protests, mainly at a relatively small number of schools. Over 99% of the students in CCSD behaved appropriately and did not violate school rules in any way. Over 90% of our schools did not experience any significant disruption. Less than 1% of our students engaged in some sort of protest.
In total, less than 1,000 students engaged in a brief protest out of approximately 112,000. Walton, for example, only had about 250 students walk out, which was far less than the 2,300 number that had been recently forecast for that location.
In general, nearly all of our students complied with the school rules and worked successfully with our principals to find non-disruptive ways to express any concerns. Congratulations to both our local school administrators and to our students for handling this situation so well.
The gates to the front entrance of Walton were locked, and no visitors were allowed earlier in the morning for a memorial event approved by the school administration.
No vehicles were allowed near the main Walton High School entrance after the school day began.
At nearby Pope High School, several Cobb Police vehicles blocked the lone entrance to the school on Hembree Road, and uniformed officers approached motorists seeking to enter.
Pope High School was off-limits to outsiders Wednesday.
The National School Walkout was observed across the country on the first-month anniversary of the Parkland, Fla., shootings, and students at Walton, Lassiter, Pope and other East Cobb high schools have been vocal and visible in expressing their desire to do something about school safety.
Officially, however, the Cobb County School District did not support the walkout, and threatened students who did with unspecified disciplinary action. School officials cited safety and a desire not to disrupt classes for their decision.
Various news outlets and social media posts were reporting that students at some schools in East Cobb and elsewhere were being strongly encouraged and possibly even physically forced to remain in their school buildings.
In response, a message posted at the Sprayberry Athletics Facebook page said 150 students gathered in the school cafeteria at 10 a.m. and staged a 17-minute peaceful observation in honor of the Parkland victims, “but at no time did students attempt to leave the building, nor were they locked in their classrooms and prevented from exiting.”
Jane Mathers, the grandmother of Walton senior Madeleine Deisen, one of the walkout leaders, said she doesn’t believe the safety explanation given by Cobb schools.
“I don’t believe that at all,” said Mathers, who was part of the supporters group, adding that the school district’s threat of student discipline “is a very big disappointment.
“What I support is action that will cause change and that will protect students,” said Mathers, who lives here and part of the year in her hometown of Haddonfield, N.J., where she said a school-endorsed observation was scheduled Wednesday at 10 a.m., the designated walkout time, at a school football field.
The National School Walkout also was planned as a demonstration in favor of gun control. Few of the signs at the Walton parent gathering specifically referred to that issue, but many had signs and wore buttons saying “Not One More.” Most expressed their disappointment with the Cobb schools decision and encouraged students to get involved in what they believe in.
Mathers acknowledged that gun-control alone isn’t the solution to the problem of school shootings. “There is no one answer to the problem,” she said, but added that it’s a shame “this particular school district and this particular school” has taken the stance it has.
Before the school day Wednesday, Walton administrators, teachers, students and invited guests gathered for a commemoration of the school shootings.
The event wasn’t open to the public, and East Cobb News was denied a coverage request. But we were allowed to have a program from the service. It indicated that the names of the Parkland victims were read aloud, and participants had an opportunity to lay flowers and visit a letter-writing table to leave their tributes.
At the end of the event, trumpeters Daniel Hudadoff and Duncan Farquahar played “Taps.”
The event was organized by the Walton Principal’s Leadership Committee, Student Government Association and other student groups. On the back of the program, it read “Thank you for supporting the students and keeping us safe,” listing Principal Judy McNeill and the Walton administration, Cobb schools superintendent Chris Ragsdale and Cobb school board member Scott Sweeney.
“We are pleased to let you know we had a beautiful day today,” the Walton administration said in a message to parents Wednesday afternoon, detailing the morning service that was “followed by a very calm day and classes proceeded as usual.”
The message concluded that “a large police presence” accompanied the students walking out, “and as typical of Walton students they thanked the officers for keeping them safe.”
One of the Walton students who walked out is sophomore Ema Barber. She told East Cobb News she left her biology class at 9:55 and signed a sign-out sheet, then walked to the stadium area.
“I was a little bit anxious because I didn’t know how many people would show up,” she said. But she the walkout was rather uneventful. There were some police and security blocking doors, but Barber said she was not stopped.
She said the Cobb schools estimate of around 250 students walking out sounded right to her, and figured the lower turnout than expected was because students weren’t sure what the consequences might be for their actions.
At 10 a.m. the names of the Parkland victims were read aloud as the students huddled on the football field. There also was contact information posted about elected representatives, including U.S. Rep. Karen Handel, and Barber said some of the students were going to call her office about gun control and school safety issues.
She said students were allowed to return to the classroom without any incidents that she knew about. Cobb schools had an early release day Wednesday, and Walton and other high schools wrapped up their school day at 11:30 a.m.
Barber said while she supports some gun control measures, the importance of the walkout was to begin to raise awareness that she hopes will continue. She also said she’s not sure what kind of suspension or punishment she may receive, but “I’m not too worried about it.”
The message from the Walton administration sent out Wednesday made no reference to any possible disciplinary action.
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A rare slice of ample green space in East Cobb is going to stay that way. Two residential plots of land on Ebenezer Road were purchased by Cobb County on Tuesday, and will become a public park.
The Cobb Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 to acquire the 18.3 acres at 4055 and 4057 Ebenezer Road for a combined price of $1.7 million from the estate of John R. Strother.
It’s the first purchase of land in the East Cobb area with funding from the 2008 Cobb Parks Bond referendum, and the 2017 supplemental resolution adopted by commissioners last year.
The adjacent plots are at the southeast intersection of Ebenezer Road and Canton Road, just south of Noonday Baptist Church. The Strother lands includes a lake and two residences, one in each parcel.
The eastern edge of the property abuts a single-family subdivision. The Ebenezer Road area is a mix of older homes on bigger lots and newer, denser residential development.
Strother, who died in 2015 at the age of 101, was a retired Lockheed-Georgia employee and World War II veteran.
Funding and development of the Ebenezer Road property will be undertaken separately.
“This has been a long time coming,” Northeast Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell said of the Ebenezer Road properties. “We’re getting a beautiful piece of property.”
The only other passive park in development in the area is at Mabry Park, which recently got underway on Wesley Chapel Road. Birrell, who represents District 3, has been a vigorous advocate for that park, which now falls in District 2, represented by Bob Ott.
On Tuesday, commissioners appropriated $6.1 million total for 150 acres, most of it in west and south Cobb.
Only District 2, which includes much of East Cobb, has not had a green space purchase with funding stemming from the referendum.
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Walton High School Principal Judy McNeill sent out this message to parents this afternoon:
We have received many reports of a threat made against the school for tomorrow, March 14, 2018. The administration along with school police have thoroughly investigated all reported information and have found nothing credible to substantiate a threat to our school. We are very thankful students and parents have come forward with various information as we must all work together to keep us all safe. If you ever receive any concerning information in the overnight hours, please call our local police at Precinct 4.
ORIGINAL POST, 3:41 P.M.
The day before students are staging gun-control “walkout” protests, Cobb schools issued a reminder that all campuses will be closed to “visitors” on Wednesday.
This doesn’t include parents dropping off or picking up their children. Cobb schools are on an early release schedule Wednesday, with high schools letting out at 11:30 a.m., followed by elementary schools at 12:30 p.m. and middle schools at 1:30 p.m. The rest of the afternoon is a professional learning day for teachers.
The Cobb County School District is not endorsing the walkouts and is threatening to subject those students who do to its code of conduct.
Walkouts are planned nationwide for 17 minutes at 10 a.m. as part of what’s being called National School Walkout, to honor the 17 victims of the Feb. 14 high school shootings in Parkland, Fla., and to advocate for gun control.
Students at Walton, Lassiter, Pope and other East Cobb high schools have said hundreds of students have signed an online petition to take part.
Individual schools have been given latitude to conduct their own observances as an alternative. Cobb schools cited safety reasons and conducting an undisrupted school day for its decision.
J.J. Daniel Middle School will conduct a 17-minute period of “observation and reflection” and a school-wide moment of silence. Students also will participate in a 17-day student “walk-up challenge,” in which they will be asked to get acquainted with 17 students they don’t already know.
Walton High School is holding a memorial service before classes as part of a #WhatsYour17 effort for students to engage in acts of kindness.
A visitor invited to attend the Walton event is Cobb commissioner Bob Ott, who said in his remarks at Tuesday’s commissioners’ meeting that such an alternative to a walkout “is making it into a teaching moment.”
The Cobb schools statement issued today didn’t indicate whether media wishing to cover Wednesday events would be considered “visitors” or not. East Cobb News was initially denied a request to cover the Walton service at the school level; we’ve got a call into the CCSD for clarification.
The Cobb office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was holding a press conference later this afternoon at Pope High School to support the right of students to walk out and “to make sure that any consequences which result are fair and not excessive or disparate.”
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