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NAMI Cobb offers free family mental health class starting Oct. 28
NAMI Cobb opens registration for a free, eight-session Family-to-Family class starting Oct. 28, offering education and support for families of adults with mental health conditions.
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Lassiter's 'Haunted Hoco' parade hits Shallowford Road Oct. 20
Lassiter High School's homecoming parade rolls down Shallowford Road on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. with a "Haunted Hoco" theme, free admission and candy for spectators.
Marietta, GA
12:04 am, October 13, 2026
64°F
Clear
Feels like 63° · 0% rain
Community
NAMI Cobb offers free family mental health class starting Oct. 28
NAMI Cobb opens registration for a free, eight-session Family-to-Family class starting Oct. 28, offering education and support for families of adults with mental health conditions.
Community
Lassiter's 'Haunted Hoco' parade hits Shallowford Road Oct. 20
Lassiter High School's homecoming parade rolls down Shallowford Road on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. with a "Haunted Hoco" theme, free admission and candy for spectators.
Marietta, GA
12:04 am, October 13, 2026
64°F
Clear
Feels like 63° · 0% rain
Community
NAMI Cobb offers free family mental health class starting Oct. 28
NAMI Cobb opens registration for a free, eight-session Family-to-Family class starting Oct. 28, offering education and support for families of adults with mental health conditions.
Community
Lassiter's 'Haunted Hoco' parade hits Shallowford Road Oct. 20
Lassiter High School's homecoming parade rolls down Shallowford Road on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. with a "Haunted Hoco" theme, free admission and candy for spectators.
Marietta, GA
12:04 am, October 13, 2026
64°F
Clear
Feels like 63° · 0% rain
Community
Marietta library launches free true crime series, Cold Case Club
The Georgia Room at Switzer Library in Marietta launches a free Summer True Crime Series on Monday, Aug. 3, with weekly sessions exploring Georgia's most infamous crimes and a Cold Case Club focused on the 1965 disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little from Lenox Square.
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Whataburger, food bank feed hundreds of East Cobb families ahead of school year
Whataburger and the Atlanta Community Food Bank hosted a mobile food pantry at Brumby Elementary School on July 21, providing fresh groceries, school supplies, and hot meals to roughly 300–350 East Cobb families ahead of the new school year.
Community
Cobb's cooling center stays open through Friday as heat lingers
MUST Ministries' Hope House on Bells Ferry Road is extending its free cooling center through Friday, July 31, offering air conditioning and meals from noon to 6:30 p.m. as Cobb County temperatures remain in the low 90s.
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Wounded Marine veteran shares mindset lessons at Northeast Cobb luncheon
Marine veteran Andy Robinson shared his story of rebuilding after a 2006 combat injury at the Northeast Cobb Business Association's July 28 luncheon, challenging local business owners to identify their own mindset barriers. The NCBA's next luncheon features entrepreneur Jim Beach on August 19.
Community
Volunteers build nearly 3,000 flags for 9/11 memorial at Kennesaw Mountain
Dozens of volunteers from the Kiwanis Club of Marietta and partner organizations gathered Saturday, July 19, to hand-assemble flags for the Field of Flags 9/11 memorial, which opens at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park on Saturday, Aug. 29.
Community
Sheriff Owens draws 400 to annual shrimp boil, announces 3,000-backpack giveaway
Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens hosted more than 400 people at the 35th annual community boil at Jim Miller Park on Friday, July 24, announcing deputy autism training, jail education programs, and a back-to-school giveaway of 3,000 backpacks and a $1,000 scholarship.
Community
Sope Creek Paper Mill Ruins to get first major preservation work in decades
The Chattahoochee National Park Conservancy launched a two-phase campaign to preserve the Sope Creek Paper Mill Ruins off Paper Mill Road, with Phase 1 clearing invasive vegetation and Phase 2 bringing in masonry specialists in 2027.
Community
Cobb EMC employees pack 1,000 meal kits for MUST Ministries' summer program
More than 50 Cobb EMC employees and board members packed 1,000 meal kits on July 24 for MUST Ministries' Summer Lunch Program, which feeds nearly 7,000 children a week across metro Atlanta and runs through July 31.
Community
Free eye clinic program provides glasses to 244 Cobb students this summer
A Vision To Learn mobile clinic has given free eye exams to 306 Cobb County students this summer, prescribing glasses to 80 percent of them at no cost, with the last clinic dates on July 29 and July 31 before school starts August 3.
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Cobb County 4-year-old finds comfort in Toy Story while awaiting heart transplant
Four-year-old Jace Connor of west Cobb County, diagnosed with a rare heart condition at birth, is waiting for a transplant while finding comfort in the Toy Story franchise and the Buzz Lightyear backpack that carries his life-sustaining medication.
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Cobb Safety Village debuts inclusive playground Friday
A $175,000 inclusive playground at Cobb County Safety Village wraps up Friday, July 25, after crews installed rainbow-colored artificial turf funded by the Safety Village Foundation.
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Cobb Community Foundation kept 73% of $6.5M in grants local in 2025
A Cobb In Focus magazine profile highlights how Cobb Community Foundation distributed $6.5 million in 2025 grants, with 73 percent staying in Cobb County, and details the foundation's growing role serving East Cobb and surrounding communities.
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