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Acworth Community Center: A first of its kind for the city

Acworth Community Center gymnasium
By Cory Sekine-Pettite The city of Acworth now has its own community center. The new facility on Cherokee Street (at the corner of Cherokee Street...

Cobb International Festival

Jim R. Miller Park's state-of-the-art event center.
Celebrating differences and our common values By Cory Sekine-Pettite According to County officials, Cobb’s population has grown about 10 percent over the last decade, and...

A Force To Be Reckoned With

Cobb's leaders in tech: Michelle Pluskota (left), Sharon Stanley (center), and Heather Orrico (right).
Cobb County’s Talented Women in Tech By Amy Meadows There’s a great deal of discussion these days about the gender gap in the technology industry. For...

Proud Partners

Merle Houston, a resident at A.G. Rhodes, talks with students Elijah Branche and Abby Fishman.
Chattahoochee Tech & A.G. Rhodes team up for needed nursing home experience. By Haisten Willis Job security isn’t an issue for certified nursing assistants, better known...

CareSource: Addressing the social determinants of health

A female pharmacist sits with a male customer in the pharmacist consultation area and discusses his prescription and choice of medication viewing the details on a digital tablet. In the background a senior woman and granddaughter stand at the dispensing counter and are served by a female pharmacy assistant .
By Cory Sekine-Pettite Healthcare is one of the most hotly debated topics in our national conversation. No matter where one falls on this issue politically,...

Healthy People Equals Healthy Profits

Cheerful active company employees in bright clothing exercising in office and making bending aside
Could your business benefit from a workplace wellness program? By Cory Sekine-Pettite You’ve undoubtedly read the headlines and viewed multiple reports on TV news programs about...

YMCA of Metro Atlanta Selects New President

Lauren Koontz
The YMCA announced recently that Lauren A. Koontz has been named its next president & CEO, to succeed Edward G. Munster, who will be...

KSU Student to Study at CERN

Elisabeth Petit-Bois, a Kennesaw State University software engineering student who will complete an internship at CERN this summer, poses outside of the Atrium Building on the Marietta Campus on May 14, 2019.
Kennesaw State University’s Elisabeth Petit-Bois has spent most of her undergraduate career researching how humans can integrate artificial intelligence into everyday life. This summer,...

Sterling Estates of West Cobb Opens New Memory Care Center

The Grande at Sterling Estates
Sterling Estates of West Cobb opened its new Memory Care Community, The Grande at Sterling Estates, on June 3, 2019. The Grande, with 36...

Cumberland CID Names New 
Executive Director

Kim Menefee, Cumberland Community Improvement District
The Cumberland Community Improvement District (CID) has named Kim Menefee as the organization’s new executive director. Previously, Menefee served Cobb-based WellStar Health System in...