Thursday, May 9, 2013
Patch wants to see your favorite East Cobb teams in action!
Whether it’s on the baseball diamond, at the soccer field or during a flag football game at a local park, spring sports are underway around Cobb, and we want to help share all the great moments and highlights with the community! Patch is looking for athletes, coaches, parents, booster club members and fans who are eager to show their team spirit on East Cobb Patch. News about any team—from youth T-ball to middle and high school sports, recreational teams, adult leagues and more—it’s all welcome. Here's how you can share news about your sports team this spring: 1. Start a blog about your sports team: Share stats, recaps, photos and/or videos from the game in your own sports blog. Discuss the team, coaches and players with other fans in the…
Saturday, April 27, 2013
From May 1 through Sept. 30, you may not burn leaves, tree limbs or other yard waste, or use air curtain destructors for land clearing.
- POLICE & FIRE
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Saturday, April 27
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources has issued a ban on open burning from May 1 to Sept. 30. Fifty-four counties in Georgia, including Cobb, are affected. Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services is responsible for the enforcement of this state-issued burning ban in unincorporated Cobb County and the cities of Acworth, Kennesaw and Powder Springs. From May 1 through Sept. 30, you may not burn leaves, tree limbs or other yard waste, or use air curtain destructors for land clearing.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Visitors and citizens can explore local options for restaurants, hotels, attractions, shopping and more.
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Friday, March 29
Cobb Travel & Tourism has announced the development and launch of its new mobile website. Smartphone users will now be able to access and view travelcobb.org on their mobile phones in an "easy-to-use, simplified version" of the website. Visitors will have the ability to explore Cobb restaurants, hotels, attractions, shopping, special local events, meeting spaces, deals, and Cobb Travel & Tourism videos, photos and social media sites on the mobile site. Using GPS, the mobile site will also be able to help users search a map of the area nearby without downloading a separate app. “Mobile technology and having mobile presence is essential to tourism,” said Holly Bass, CEO of Cobb Travel & Tourism. “Our new mobile site is designed make it …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Residents will have six opportunities to get updates from elected officials.
The first in a series of town hall meetings intended for Cobb residents to hear directly from their district representatives will begin Monday. Cobb County Commission Chairman Tim Lee will host the first one, which begins at 7 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Smyrna Community Center, 200 Village Green Circle. Residents will have five more opportunities to get updates from their elected officials. Here's the schedule for the remaining town halls:
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Faye DiMassimo was recognized recently as the Woman of the Year by the Women's Transportation Seminar's Atlanta Chapter.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Faye DiMassimo, Cobb County DOT Director, was recognized last week as the Woman of the Year by the Women's Transportation Seminar's Atlanta Chapter. The award was announced at their Annual Scholarship Luncheon at the Georgia Aquarium. The Woman of the Year Award is presented to honor a person, not someone within the chapter, who is an outstanding role model in the transportation field.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Take a closer look at the School Bus Stop Law, the penalties for violating it, statistics on drivers illegally passing school buses and how the CrossingGuard school bus stop arm safety solutions work.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Cobb Police Department staff is conducting Operation Stop Arm and warns all drivers to respect school buses. All traffic in both directions must stop when school buses stop for passengers, except when there is a divided highway of four lanes or more with a median separation. In that case, only traffic following the bus must stop. The Cobb County School District, CPD and American Traffic Solutions recently released a video to help educate the community about the latest student safety initiative. The video explains how the CrossingGuard school bus stop arm safety solutions works. On average, each school bus is illegally passed once every day and, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 20 children under …
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Tax bills are mailed on Aug. 15 and payment must be received or U.S. postmarked by Oct. 15 to avoid late charges.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Cobb County property tax bills are mailed on Aug. 15 and payment must be received or U.S. postmarked by Oct. 15 to avoid late charges. A metered postmark is not accepted as proof of timely mailing. Checks should be made payable to Cobb County Tax Commissioner and payments mailed to:
P.O. Box 100127
Marietta GA 30061-7027 Allow adequate scheduling and processing time when using a third party online bill-pay system. You can view, print and pay your tax bill at cobbtax.org.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
How this can be done without raising property taxes ever again? Read on.
Oh Lord! I'm going to be in trouble with some folks over this one. Here's what they'll say: "How can we offer the kinds of services the community wants by having lower taxes? We NEED tax revenues to pay for the government we've already got!" Of course, my first reaction is "Well, we've already got more government than we need and can pay for!" BUT, I won't even go there. Let's stick with premise that Cobb Countians actually WANT all the government we're having to rob Peter to pay Paul for. Listen up! If we do this right, we'll never have to sneak another $20 million tax increase hidden in our water bills ever again. In fact, in a few short years we'd be awash with revenue so great even our commissioners won't be able to spend it all. OK…
Friday, August 17, 2012
The satirical site Friday featured a fictitious story about a "Cobb County Evangelical Hospital" that holds a "Gay Cureness Walk."
Cobb County's been in America's cultural crosshairs before, as Cobb Commission Chairman Tim Lee recalled this week in his re-election battle against Bill Byrne. On Friday, the satirical newspaper and website The Onion had fun at Cobb's expense in an article and video devoted to the same topic as a nearly 20-year-old episode that Lee referenced -- homosexuality. In a fictitious story on its website that includes a Marietta dateline, The Onion wrote about efforts by a "Cobb County Evangelical Hospital" that holds an annual "Gay Cureness Walk." The money raised will be used to build a new gayness treatment center at the hospital. The accompanying video "interviews" include a physician at the hospital, as well as a supposedly "cured" gay man…
Does week's decision affecting the Walton and Lassiter choruses have its roots in what Tim Lee said about TSPLOST?
Did Tim Lee cause the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus to snub the Walton High School and Lassiter High School choral programs? Why would I ask such a preposterous question? After years of routine inclusion, the ASO Chorus has excluded these two outstanding choral programs. Granted, the ASO has come back and "clarified" its action. Apparently it didn't REALLY mean Walton and Lassiter were not "diverse" enough, it just wants to "include" a school from the inner city. Still, the original statement is usually the closest to the truth and everything else is spin or CYA. If you've been around long enough, you know of the love/hate relationship between Atlanta proper and its suburban neighbors, especially Cobb County. They love our money and …
K Burle
11:26 am on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Someone please tell my neighbor! He burns all summer and calls it "recreation". If there is a nice cool night we can't even open our windows it's so smoky. more ›