Category Archives: Cobb County

Happy Birthday to the Square and the first free concert on the Square this Friday!

May 25, 2006 – 7:36 am

Don’t miss out on the Free Concert this Friday at 8pm by the Jesters, a pop-rock group. See you all there! Family activities start two hours before the 8 p.m. concert by the Jesters, a pop-rock group. Officials will hand out slices from 10 birthday cakes with scenes of the park on top. Two decades [...]

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Public meeting scheduled for Gang Awareness Presentation

May 23, 2006 – 4:03 pm

Marietta is again scheduling a discussion on gang activity in the city and in Cobb County. Be sure to check out the presentation in the middle of June. (Marietta, Ga. ? May 23, 2006) Community leaders and residents are invited to a presentation about the growing problem of gangs in Cobb County. Co-sponsored by the [...]

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Funny Money: Funny Play

May 22, 2006 – 7:23 pm

Sunday afternoon, the Polk Street Players closed out their 2005-2006 on a funny note, with their production of Ray Cooney?s Funny Money. This British comedy kept the audience laughing with the story of Henry Perkins? (played by Greg Fitzgerald) discovery of a briefcase containing over 900,000 pounds. In an effort to conceal this discovery, the [...]

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Glover Park renovation donors honored for 20th anniversary

May 19, 2006 – 7:21 am

Community leaders and the city honored donors and friends of Glover Park’s renovation during a 20th anniversary celebration this week on the Square. In 1852 Marietta Mayor John Heyward Glover presented the city with land for its first park in the center of the town’s square. In the mid 1980s, prominent Cobb County developer John [...]

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Marietta launches free public wireless Internet downtown, unveils directional signs during National Tourism Week

May 15, 2006 – 11:39 am

It looks like the city of Marietta has jumped on the Wifi bandwagon finally! Hopefully this will give us some good accessibility from our laptops or mobile devices when we are on the Square. Be sure to visit WhitlockAvenue.com’s Mobile Access Site to read and discuss your city while on your wifi device! What are [...]

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Strand Theater Renovation Project: Update

May 9, 2006 – 10:17 pm

The Cobb Commission voted Tuesday to approve a $250,000 grant toward the Square’s Strand Theater renovation fund. However, the money won’t be given until the “Friends of the Strand” has raised $2 million (of a $5 million goal) . Friends president, Earl Smith, has suggested that tax revenue could be contributed to the fund, which [...]

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Heated words over Historic preservation rules

May 9, 2006 – 11:34 am

The Marietta City Council continues to discuss the Historic Preservation Rules in place within the city. According to the MDJ, the meeting last night was quite interesting. The historic preservation ordinance issue divided the council as Mayor Bill Dunaway used his veto Monday to keep a proposed change to the ordinance on a schedule to [...]

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Marietta Square’s Strand Theatre Renovation Progress

May 6, 2006 – 8:55 am
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Focus On: Marietta Master Chorale

May 4, 2006 – 11:05 pm
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Allatoona High School: Overbudget?

May 2, 2006 – 10:39 pm

For those of our readers in west Cobb, we’re sure you’ve at least heard mention of the new Allatoona High School, which is planned to open in late 2008. In a Marietta Daily Journal article from today’s paper, it’s reported that the new school might run as much as $6 million overbudget. Salmon [an executive [...]

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