Category Archives: Site Features

New Cobb County Courthouse Update

March 30, 2010 – 8:50 am

The new courthouse for Cobb County is coming along very nice, take a look at the progress!

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2010 Glover Park Concert Series Schedule

March 29, 2010 – 8:27 am

The Glover Park Concert Series kicks off the 2010 season on Friday, April 23 at 8 p.m. in and around the park in downtown Marietta. The Series will continue throughout the summer, with concerts scheduled for the last Friday night of each month through September with the exception of the April concert. The concerts are [...]

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First Data, a reseller of payment processing systems, opening 350 technology jobs in Marietta, GA

March 26, 2010 – 4:15 pm

At least 350 new technology jobs are coming to the city of Marietta in the next 18 months as a Fortune 500 company moves two offices from California to our community. First Data, a reseller of payment processing systems, has leased an approximately 260,000 square foot building on Canton Road off I-75 to consolidate its [...]

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The City of Marietta City is now accepting nominations for land for parks, greenspace

March 26, 2010 – 6:18 am

The city of Marietta is accepting nominations of land for donation or sale for future parkland, greenspace or recreation purposes. Land that is donated in whole or in part is tax deductible in accordance with IRS regulations for donations to qualified governmental units.     Marietta City Council appointed the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for Marietta Parks [...]

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Seems like there weren’t enough – Marietta Tree Planters Meeting at City Hall

March 25, 2010 – 5:47 am

Held in the city hall council chamber this evening 3-24 was one of several workshops on the trees in Marietta and how to plan and plant new trees. Too bad there were less than 10 in attendance for this information filled couple of hours. An arborist, landscape planner, and a Ga. forester presented great program [...]

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New Brush on the Marietta Square First Friday Art Walk

March 24, 2010 – 8:58 am

Marietta, GA – The Marietta Square is painting with a new brush with First Friday Art Walk. Held the first Friday of the month, April-October (with the exception of July), Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour to Marietta’s eclectic art scene. Art galleries, museums and merchants host artists within their stores and are open [...]

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Marietta City Council reappointed Ray Buday, Mark Gibbs, Ron Francis, Terry Lee and John Schupp to the Marietta Redevelopment Corporation

March 18, 2010 – 8:30 am

Marietta City Council reappointed Ray Buday, Mark Gibbs, Ron Francis, Terry Lee and John Schupp to the Marietta Redevelopment Corporation (MRC) board for two-year terms expiring April 10, 2012. The purposes of the MRC are to strengthen the economic and residential base of the city of Marietta by revitalizing neighborhoods, commercial areas and other distressed [...]

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Marietta Police department’s alarm ordinance reduces false alarms, frees officers to patrol

March 17, 2010 – 8:28 am

The Marietta Police Department was honored March 10 for its alarm ordinance, which reduces the number of false alarm calls the department receives, allowing officers to spend more time on the streets proactively patrolling. “False alarm dispatches from police are the number one call for service in most cases,” Glen Mowrey of the Security Industry [...]

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Marietta Strand to FEATURE SIX EMERGING and established local artists

March 15, 2010 – 12:09 pm

MARIETTA, Ga. (March 7, 2010) – The Earl Smith Strand Theatre will open its event rooms and Cobb Terrace overlooking the square to the public during the Square’s Art Walk in 2010 during its Brew With A View series. The second floor event room and gallery wall will feature a different fine artist each month, [...]

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Marietta City Council revises historic preservation ordinance

March 12, 2010 – 2:55 pm

Marietta City Council revised the city’s historic preservation ordinance March 10 to clarify sections of the ordinance. The Historic Preservation Ordinance allows the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) to recommend to City Council specific districts or properties to be designated as a historic district. A historic district is an area of a city that includes buildings [...]

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