Category: Cobb County

Commission Chairman, Tim Lee – State of Cobb

Commission Chairman Tim Lee was the featured speaker at the Cobb Chamber’s First Monday Breakfast on Monday January 11 and the featured speaker at the Marietta Business Association  Luncheon on the same day. The breakfast featured an invocation by Dr.…

Shirley Murphy, West Cobb Citizen of the Year

Shirley W. Murphy of Shirley’s Helping Hands, LLC has been named West Cobb Citizen of the Year. Murphy’s contributions to West Cobb can be seen through various charities. She currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Loving Arms Cancer…

Marietta Business Association Jan. News

The Marietta Business Association was honored to have Cobb Commission Chair, Tim Lee give the “State of the County” to 150 business leaders in our community at our luncheon held Monday, January 11, 2016 at the Radisson Hotel sponsored by…

2015 SAM OLENS BUSINESS COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD WINNERS

The Cobb Chamber named the 2015 Sam Olens Business Community Service Award winners on Monday, Dec 7,  at the December First Monday Breakfast Event, sponsored by Cobb Community Foundation and Metro Atlanta Ambulance Service. This year, the award program recognized…

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Yes, Santa Claus will be in our community of Acworth, Kennesaw and Marietta, for three days this week.  He will make his first appearance Thursday evening in Marietta, arriving by firetruck. Santa Claus Is Coming To Marietta – December 3…

Fabulous Doll Collection – to Be Auctioned

To be Auctioned: This fine collection is over 1,000 dolls from the 1800’s and up.  Also includes old storybooks, mechanical store display,  old puzzles and toys. The Tennessee collection is from one owner with many fine quality and hard to…

Students Learn to Give Back with Basketeers Program

  Basketeers Service Learning Dr. Alicea’s 5th grade Advanced Learning class partnered with students from Marietta HS in Dr. Rona Roberts’ sociology classes to collect baskets to give to women and their children who are starting their new beginnings as…

Atlanta United FC to Build Training Complex in Marietta

The Southeast’s flagship development for soccer is coming to Franklin Road in Marietta, GA Atlanta United, the city’s Major League Soccer club, and the City of Marietta have entered into a binding memorandum of understanding to build a state-of-the-art headquarters…

Earl Smith Strand’s Upcoming Events

Mark your calendar for a pocket full of fun events at the Earl Smith Strand Theatre starting with this Sunday and the Free Open House at the Strand.  Simply elegant productions – and something for all ages continue through December,…