Some Cobb County residents say abundant growth paired with a lack of speed limit signs and stop signs has contributed to speeding through their neighborhood. An article by 11 Alive News reports while some homeowners in the Smyrna neighborhood like the sidewalks available for walking along South Sherwood Road, they don’t like the traffic. Shawanna [...]
Two Cobb County women pled guilty last week to conspiracy and racketeering charges after misusing grant money and drug-treatment funds that belonged to the county. According to an article on Patch.com, the women, one from Smyrna and the other, Marietta, worked for the Cobb Juvenile Court. The women reportedly admitted to fraudulently spending thousands of [...]
A grant from the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Liveable Centers Initiative will help Smyrna city officials study the Spring Road corridor from Cobb Parkway to Atlanta Road. The stretch of road is 2.4 miles long and the $100,000 grant, which the Smyrna City Council accepted at a recent meeting, will help to analyze future transportation and [...]
About 50 Smyrna residents attended a two-hour meeting to express their concerns about heavy traffic due to the new SunTrust Park opening. The meeting was hosted by Commissioner Bob Ott. The Marietta Daily Journal reports that the town hall meeting, which was held Thursday, had dozens of residents made up of candidates in the race [...]
The latest U.S. Census data shows that the City of Smyrna is growing at a faster rate than Marietta. Smyrna’s population grew by 7.2 percent between 2010 and 2014, from 51,271 to 54,958, with nearly half of that growth occurring after 2013, according to an article in the Marietta Daily Journal. Marietta’s population grew by [...]
An assisted senior living facility located in Smyrna is slated to open on April 9. The facility houses 108-units and was financed with tax-exempt bonds, according to the Marietta Daily Journal. “The three-story Provident Village at Creekside is located at 4838 South Cobb Drive between the East-West Connector and Interstate 285,” the article reads. “It [...]
Several hundred immigration advocates walked this year during the annual Holy Week Pilgrimage to show their support for immigrants all over the world. According to an article in the Marietta Daily Journal, about 300 people trekked from Smyrna to the Marietta Square Thursday. People who are members of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church have [...]
Protestors in Smyrna shut down a City Council meeting on Monday about 12 minutes after it started. According to an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Smyrna Mayor Max Bacon shut down the meeting following another protest led by the mother of a black man who was killed by a Smyrna police officer about a [...]
A young boy from Smyrna recently donated money he earned to the Smyrna Public Safety Foundation. Graham Goodman, 8-years-old, earned more than $140 at a lemonade stand he ran over the Feb. 20 weekend. Graham, who is the son of Smyrna residents Scott and Allegra Goodman, decided he wanted to give his earnings to a [...]
A new assisted senior living facility is set to open in Smyrna on April 9. The new three-story facility will house 108 units and is financed with tax-exempt bonds, according to the Marietta Daily Journal. Provident Village at Creekside is located at 4838 South Cobb Drive between the East-West Connector and Interstate 285. According to [...]
