The city of Marietta is offering free Christmas tree pick up to city residents the first and second week and the first Wednesday of January 2009. Residents must have their tree — free of decorations, lights, stands, tinsel and nails — curbside by 7 a.m. to ensure pick up.
Residents can also bring their live trees [...]

Hundreds of area youth and their families attended Holidays around the World December 18 at the Crown Plaza Hotel, 1775 Parkway Place.
In addition to learning about and celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Las Posadas, children received toys, and families received canned goods and help writing their resumes and conducting job searches.
The Business Improvement [...]

Cobb County is accepting nominations from the public for consideration of potential property purchases for public park land. Property owners must be willing to sell their property in order

The Rotary Club of Marietta held its annual Children’s Christmas Party on Sunday, December 6, 2008 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Lockheed Elementary School. The event, which has been held for more than a 17 years, provided gifts for 100 children

The Marietta Post Office just off the Marietta Square is a great location for sending your mail out just about any time of year. As of late, however, the parking lot has been getting a much needed facelift and makeover.

Today’s story is a little far from the Marietta Square, but is a great place to play tennis in Cobb County - so we wanted to report this great news for the Harrison Tennis Center! The United States Tennis Association announced that Harrison Tennis Center has been awarded a public facility grant that will go [...]

We’ve all been through the light at the intersection of South Marietta Parkway and Powder Springs road. If you haven’t, then you don’t know just how dangerous this intersection can be to both vehicles and pedestrians.

PHOTO CREDIT: Matthew Swanson (Creative Commons) - please link to http://www.whitlockavenue.com if you use this image, thanks
We don’t have a ton of details, but this morning we snapped a picture of the great renovations they are doing at Kennestone Hospital near the Marietta Square.

Santa and Mrs. Claus arrived December 4 at Glover Park in the Marietta Square. Local children’s choruses performed holiday music while Santa lit the giant Christmas tree, donated by Big John’s Christmas Trees, and visited with children in the gazebo.

Help support Cobb Christmas and “Stuff A Bus” with donations of money or gift cards, new toys and gifts or non-perishable food items. Your generosity will brighten the holidays for thousands of low-income families right here in your community.