The year that was: Top East Cobb News headlines for 2025

We’re condensing the leading stories published at East Cobb News during 2025 into this single post. They’ve been chosen according to newsworthiness and reader interest, and occasionally include countywide stories that go beyond the community.

This isn’t being listed in a countdown format, but in a general way by categories and with links and any follow-up updates as needed. We didn’t include stories related to the weather, regular posts like food scores and stories published in 2024 that got substantial traffic this year.

This is our eighth full calendar year publishing East Cobb News, and we’re proud of what we bring to you every day on this website, and in our Sunday newsletter. It’s an honor and a privilege to provide you with original reporting and useful community information, much of that provided by the public.

With a day or so left in the year, we’ve had more than 1.3 million pageviews and nearly 715,000 unique visitors at East Cobb News, and those are very similar figures to 2024. Our newsletter readership is holding steady at about 9,300 subscribers; if you’d like to sign up, it’s free and easy!

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We couldn’t do what we do what we do at East Cobb News without you, but we do all of this for you! Happy New Year East Cobb! Looking forward to a fantastic 2026!

News

Crime and Public Safety

• Motorist killed, another injured in Lower Roswell Road crash
• East Cobb’s Chin Chin Chinese restaurant destroyed by fire (Follow-up story)
• Police charge 3 suspects in East Cobb Waffle House brawl (Initial story)
• Father, 72, charged with shooting son at East Cobb home
• Boy hit by van on Jamerson Road facing long recovery (Follow-up story)
• Three Northeast Cobb restaurants burglarized
• East Cobb post office employee charged with stealing mail
• Police investigating likely murder-suicide at NE Cobb home (Follow-up story)
• Teen charged with arson at Johnson Ferry Road gas station
• Bookmiser, other businesses closed after fire at retail center

Schools

• Walton leads Cobb, ranks 4th in Georgia in 2025 SAT scores
• Cobb schools employees ‘no longer with district’ over Charlie Kirk messages
• Cobb school board member settles civil suit in business case
• New principals appointed at Sprayberry, Wheeler for 2025-26 school year
• Cobb school district sells former Eastvalley ES properties
• Lawmaker files Title IX athletics complaint at Pope HS

Zoning & Development

• Church eyes East Cobb neighborhood for new worship facility  (Follow-up story)
• RaceTrac withdraws proposal on NE Cobb historic site
• Cobb appoves Mt. Bethel Christian Academy expansion plans

Government/Politics

• Cobb commissioners approve stormwater fee in split vote
• Richardson removed from office after appeals court rejection
• 2025 Cobb Elections: Marietta mayor barely re-elected
• First phase of Lower Roswell Road project gets underway
• Columns Drive traffic project to remove and replace trees

Miscellaneous

• Johnson Ferry Baptist Church exploring new worship facility (Follow-up story)
• Carole Kell, teacher and community leader, dies
• East Cobb couple detained by ICE; son fights for release (Follow-up story)

Commentary

• An uneventful ‘No Kings’ rally in East Cobb
• At Charlie Kirk vigil, a call for sharing the light
• Whither public comments in an age of rage?
• Apartments and the future of Cobb schools

Food and Lifestyle

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