If you are a regular driver around the Marietta Square, you will see a ton of people ‘hanging out’ in the morning right outside the Krystal, Walgreens, and the mini-strip mall just across from the CVS. These people are very hard workers and help out the community, doing things like construction, painting and manual labor. [...]

A three-person judicial committee of City Council has tentatively approved franchise agreements with American Fiber Systems and Comcast Corp. The new deals will be reviewed by all of City Council this April. American Fiber Systems, which supplies internet service for Marietta, now has a contract which lasts for two additional years. The non-exclusive [...]

It looks as though more redevelopment is coming to Marietta. On Wednesday, the Marietta Redevelopment Corp. voted to obtain upwards of $2 million in order to acquire as much as 10 acres around the downtown area.
“This fund will be used to buy properties that are blighted,” said MRC Executive Director Gary Mongeon. “Our job [...]

The state of Georgia is ripe to become the first state to push some legislative power to getting the Bible back into public schools. The heart of the debate is a bill that would allow for and sanction electives in public high schools for students wishing to take courses that study the bible. While other [...]

It looks like the city council is torn on new ‘ethics’ standards that are being proposed. Van Pearlberg (Ward 4) and Philip Goldstein (Ward 7) have a bit of diametrical viewpoints on the new standards that would be upward of 30 pages opposed to the 4 pages of ordinance that is in place today.
“The [...]

source: MDJOnline:
It didn’t take long for former City Councilman Pete Waldrep to resurface in city business.
The Marietta Housing Authority’s governing board voted Wednesday to hire Waldrep as its new director of development. Waldrep, a member of the City Council for 11 years, will head the authority’s efforts to buy land for new low-income housing in [...]

Dunaway touched on several of the city’s redevelopment projects, which will raise the tax base in parts of Marietta from $22 million to $335 million in an area dominated by low-income, WWII-era housing.

“This tax base increase will be one hell of a return on our TAD investment,” Dunaway said, referring to a special tax allocation [...]

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Just a buildup to gridlock
Published on: 02/09/06 : Source: AJC.com
Dallas Highway is a straight shot west heading away from Marietta Square, taking dead aim at the Paulding County line. It follows the same path through historic old homes and stately oak trees as two-laned Whitlock Avenue in Marietta; it opens up briefly to four lanes [...]