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Nov 15, 2024 · Submitted information and photo: During the 2024 grant cycle, the Capital City Bank Group (CCBG) Foundation reinvested $13,500 into the Cobb County community, awarding grants to Cobb Collaborative, Marietta Schools Foundation, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, 10 Women of Hope, Cobb & Douglas Public Health and Communities In Schools of Georgia.
Dates set for special elections for Cobb commissioner seats
Nov 13, 2024 · The special elections were ordered by a Cobb judge in July after she struck down electoral maps that the commission’s Democratic majority approved in 2022, claiming home rule redistricting powers.. Those maps had part of East Cobb in District 2. But the ruling declared that only the Georgia legislature can conduct county reapportionment and that the “home rule” maps were unconstitutional.
How Cobb commissioner district maps look post-‘home rule’
Aug 30, 2024 · Her colleagues declined on Tuesday to give notice of a vacancy in the new District 2, where she is not a legal resident. The legislative maps drew her out, prompting her and her two Democratic commissioners to attempt to use home rule authority to assert reapportionment powers the Georgia Constitution has delegated only to the legislature.
East Cobb resident qualifies for commission special election
Dec 20, 2024 · Three candidates who ran in the Cobb Commission District 2 election in May that was later invalidated in court have qualified to run in a special election for the same seat in February. They include former Cobb Board of Education member Jaha Howard, who won that primary, as well as former State Rep ...
East Cobb early voting guide for the 2024 general election
Oct 12, 2024 · From Oct. 15-Nov. 1, Georgia and Cobb voters can cast their ballots in person in advance of the Nov. 5 general election. The 2024 elections feature new some boundaries due to court-ordered redistricting, particularly in races for the Cobb Board of Education.
Banks recognized in farewell to Cobb school board tenure
Dec 7, 2024 · In his final meeting as a Cobb Board of Education member, David Banks was recognized Thursday by his colleagues and Cobb County School District Superintendent Chris Ragsdale for 16 years of service.
Cobb Police release footage of pet dog shooting by officer
Dec 9, 2024 · Cobb Police Chief Stuart VanHoozer said Monday that an internal investigation is continuing into the shooting death of a pet dog last week by an officer making a 911 call to a residence in South Cobb.
Walmart Neighborhood Market to close in East Cobb July 12
Jun 13, 2024 · Walmart announced Thursday that the Walmart Neighborhood Market grocery store in East Cobb (3101 Roswell Road) will be closing on July 12. In a release, Walmart said that the decision to close the store was made after “a careful and thoughtful review process” and that “this store hasn’t performed as well as we hoped.”
Italian restaurant, patisserie coming to Avenue East Cobb
Oct 9, 2024 · Next summer, Tenku Sushi Elevation will be opening in one of the new “jewel box” buildings that’s part of Avenue East Cobb’s recent redevelopment. Tenku’s first restaurant, in Woodstock, offers a variety of Japanese dishes that include nigiri and sashimi, signature rolls, robata grills, omakase, and flame-seared marinated octopus.
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