The spring flowers didn't inspire votes in the Northeast Cobb poll for your favorite florist. You can see the results of nearby favorites in East Cobb Patch. Coming Monday, we'll ask you to rate your favorite place for Mother's Day brunch. »
This week House Hunt offers Open Houses and Estate Homes ranging in price from $110,000 for a three-bedroom bungalow on Spring Drive to a five-bedroom estate home on Blackland Drive for $1,499,000. Click on a picture in the photo gallery to see a listi... »
On a Saturday morning in March, the traffic on Interstate 75 in Marietta came to a halt when a motorist hit a dog. Five Cobb County residents came together in an effort to save the dog's life. Gravitt, named for the Marietta police officer that helped ... »
Lassiter High School's Interact Club is sponsoring Battle of the Bands on Saturday from 7 p.m.–10 p.m. to benefit Relay for Life. The event celebrates the lives of people who have battled cancer and are fighting against the disease. Five bands will be ... »
Take a look at family fun events going on in Marietta this weekend. On the more practical side there will be a Sip n' Stroll focusing on trees, free medication disposal and gardening workshop. 1. Marietta Tree Keepers will host a Sip n’ Stroll, featuri... »
The Cobb Alcohol Taskforce is marking National Alcohol Awareness Month tonight with a public forum on the damaging effects of underage and youth binge drinking and what we can do to solve the problem. You can join the event from 7 to 8:30 in the second... »
A Florida Highway Patrol officer who reopened a smoke- and fog-covered portion of Interstate 75 in January did not have proper training and was not aware of procedures governing such an incident, according to an investigators' report issued Thursday. ... »
The Cobb County Board of Education is meeting at 7 p.m. for its regular meeting, after a 6:30 p.m. hearing on teacher salaries for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The agenda for this meeting features a slew of recognitions and honors, all leading t... »
Click the links below to read more about stories featured in today's PatchCast: Obama Article Stings Sprayberry Paper Wheeler a 'No Place for Hate' School Fatal Crash on Cobb Parkway »
The April Fool's Day edition of the Sprayberry High School newspaper contains an article entitled Top Twenty Reasons Why Obama Should Not Get Re-Election that has offended some people, reports CBS Atlanta. The article contains reasons Obama should not ... »
In my teenage years, I was lured into being a nanny by a family with five children. My pay was a whopping $6 an hour. They had moved into the neighborhood and, looking back, the mother must have been a tiny bit overwhelmed. One of my duties was to orga... »
Pro wrestler Marcus “Buff” Bagwell told his wife on the phone he was about to have a seizure before he flipped his vehicle several times in Towne Lake Monday afternoon. Bagwell remained sedated in intensive care with several broken bones in his neck, f... »
The first major step in what figures to be some painful budget-cutting decisions by the Cobb Board of Education begins tonight. The school board is slated to vote on a tentative fiscal year 2013 budget that includes a recommendation for hundreds of te... »
Cobb County’s unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent in March, according to preliminary figures announced today by the Georgia Department of Labor. The jobless rate for Cobb residents improved from a revised 8.3 percent in February, 8.4 percent in Janua... »
Cobb County police said 18-year-old Jalin Collins of Woodstock was taken into custody without incident by the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Squad at a residence off Canton Road in Northeast Cobb today. Collins is being charged with felony murde... »
