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Nov 7, 2024 · East Cobb restaurant update: Willie Jewell’s Bar-B-Q closing. November 12, 2024 9:45 AM by Wendy Parker. The East Cobb location of Willie Jewell’s Old School Bar-B-Q will be closing at the end of the week. According to the restaurant’s social media accounts, the last day of business will be Sunday, Nov. 17.
Candidate profile: Lisa Cupid, Cobb Commission Chairwoman
October 2, 2020 4:26 PM by Wendy Parker. In serving as the lone Democrat on the Cobb Board of Commissioners for the last eight years, Lisa Cupid has become accustomed to going against the political grain. But says her decision to run countywide as the chair of the commission comes from a desire to unite citizens, groups and areas of the county ...
Cobb commissioners approve 2024 transit sales tax referendum
Dec 12, 2023 · In a partisan vote, the Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved adding a referendum to the November 2024 general election ballot on whether to collect a 30-year sales tax for a major development of the county’s transit system. Commissioners also approved a project list for the referendum that in East Cobb would include the ...
Cobb school board Post 5 candidates receive endorsements
Apr 23, 2024 · And on Tuesday, Republican John Cristadoro announced he had received the endorsement of Educators First, a teachers’ organization. Post 5, which includes the Walton and Pope and some of the Wheeler attendance zones, is being vacated by four-term Republican David Banks. According to its website, the SPLC Action Fund “is focused on lifting up ...
Cobb FY 2025 budget, millage rate adopted amid tax relief pleas
Jul 24, 2024 · After hearing homeowners begging for tax relief for several hours, the Cobb Board of Commissioners voted along party lines Tuesday night to adopt a fiscal year 2025 budget and millage rate that includes substantial spending increases. They held the general fund, fire fund and other millage rates from the present fiscal year 2024 budget.
Cobb proposes ordinance allowing accessory dwelling units
October 11, 2024 1:14 PM by Wendy Parker. A series of proposed code amendments to be heard by the Cobb Board of Commissioners in November includes a measure that would permit small homes to be built in residential backyards. What are called “accessory dwelling units,” or ADUs, would be allowed in most residential zoning categories.
Proposed Cobb FY 2025 $1.27B budget raises property taxes
Jun 25, 2024 · The proposed Cobb County government budget of $1.27 billion for fiscal year 2025 won’t be raising any property tax rates. But it won’t be scaling them back, so due to rising property assessments, that constitutes a tax increase according to state law. Following a budget presentation Tuesday afternoon at a the Cobb Board of Commissioners ...
Cobb Commission Chair candidate to speak at East Cobb Library
February 14, 2024 2:25 PM by Wendy Parker. Kay Morgan, a Republican who has announced her candidacy for Cobb Commission Chair, will be speaking in East Cobb next week. She’s the featured guest at a Feb. 20 meeting of the Association of Mature American Citizens at the East Cobb Library (4880 Lower Roswell Road) starting at 6:45 p.m.
New Cobb commission elections ordered in redistricting ruling
Jul 26, 2024 · Alicia Adams speaking at a recent Cobb Board of Commissioners meeting. New elections to fill two seats on the Cobb Board of Commissioners were ordered on Thursday by a Cobb Superior Court judge, who threw out recent primary results in deciding a long-standing electoral map dispute. Judge Kellie Hill said in her ruling that the May 21 primaries ...
East Cobb Votes: Close school board races; transit tax fails
Nov 6, 2024 · The Cobb transit tax referendum is going down to a decisive defeat, with 62 percent voting against thus far in the counting. Cobb Commission Chairwoman Lisa Cupid appears to have won a second term, as have Cobb Sheriff Craig Owens and Superior Court Clerk Connie Taylor. Republican incumbent school board members Randy Scamihorn and Brad Wheeler ...