Category Archives: Green Marietta

Keep Marietta Beautiful – how you can help

April 8, 2010 – 10:24 am

Keep Marietta Beautiful invites the public to help clean the city’s streets and keep Marietta beautiful April 10 from 9 a.m.-noon during the Great American Cleanup. Volunteers will meet at the Public Works Complex, 750 North Marietta Parkway, and receive trash bags, vests and a cleanup location, Keep Marietta Beautiful director Joan Ellars said. “Vests [...]

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What you ought to know about Earth Day in Marietta, GA

April 6, 2010 – 8:11 am

Keep Marietta Beautiful invites the public to be good to Mother Earth by helping clean and beautify the city, while celebrating “Unity in the Community” and the 40th anniversary of Earth Day April 24 from 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. More than 300 volunteers are needed to plant gardens, stain a fence, clean trails, clean the Confederate [...]

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City of Marietta helps residents swat mosquitoes

April 5, 2010 – 12:55 pm

Spring is in full bloom and that usually means mosquitoes would soon be flying around Marietta, but the city is taking steps to prevent mosquitoes from growing and causing problems for residents. Marietta’s Public Works Department is beginning a program that offers to send an employee to homes to kill mosquito larvae and prevent adult [...]

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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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Farmers Market in the Marietta Square extended until December

July 10, 2009 – 2:00 am

The Marietta Square Farmers Market is in full swing and so popular this year that Marietta City Council July 8 approved extending it through December 26 along North Park Square. The market takes place every Saturday – rain or shine – from 9 a.m.-noon. “The market features products that are grown and produced in Georgia, [...]

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Marietta City Council to Vote on Smoking Ban in Glover Park

July 8, 2009 – 9:27 am

I have to say that this will be a great thing for the city if the Marietta City Council decides to vote for a permanent smoking ban in Glover Park (downtown Marietta). The cigar smoke from some cheap cigars that someone was smoking was terrible at the last concert I attended. Why should I have [...]

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Don’t forget Free electronics recycling in Marietta this Saturday! April 25th

April 24, 2009 – 12:48 pm

Don’t forget to recycle those old electronics this weekend – Recycle in Marietta! The public is invited to celebrate Earth Day by recycling old electronics and other items April 25 from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Aviation Street softball complex, 455 Aviation Road. You will be able to watch your electronics as they are recycled [...]

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Free electronics recycling in Marietta April 25

April 17, 2009 – 7:04 am

The public is invited to recycle old electronics and other items April 25 from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Aviation Street softball complex, 455 Aviation Road. You will be able to watch your electronics as they are recycled on site. Acceptable electronic items computers laptops servers keyboards and mice MP3 players cell phones PDAs wires [...]

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