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Photo of the Day: An Evening Lake Walk

Check out today's featured photo and upload your pictures and video clips now for a chance to win!

Have you taken any interesting photos or videos lately? Enter the contest by clicking on "upload photos and videos" or visiting one of our neighborhood galleries, and your photo might be the next one featured on Patch! Each week we're giving away a Patch prize to one winner selected at random from the readers whose photos are featured Monday through Friday. The winner will be announced Sunday. Photos uploaded to the Featured Photos articles or to one of our neighborhood galleries qualify:

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Weekend Spotlight: Zombies Walk for a Cause [VIDEO]

Take a look at this fun event happening this weekend in Cobb County.

This week's Cobb Patch Weekend Spotlight video features Marietta Zombie Walk.  The event takes place this Saturday in Marietta Square, and benefits MUST Ministries. The Infestation (gathering) starts at 5 p.m. in Glover Park and the Feeding (Zombie Walk) starts at 6 p.m. Carnival of Doom, in association with Marietta.com, The Strand, Zenith Design Group and Johnnie MacCracken’s Celtic Pub are sponsoring the event.

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Fun (and Cheap) Halloween Decorations

Gather the kids and spouse this weekend and have some affordable fun spooking up your house.

It's time for Halloween decorating. I've been around the Trick-or-Treat block more than a few times and decorating the outside of the house has become one of the family's favorite things to do each year. What started with a couple of carved pumpkins on the front stoop the night before Halloween has grown into a weekend-long family activity filled with store-bought and hand-made decorations, arts and crafts, and lots of strategy — like whether white trash bags are a fitting replacement for actual sheets when crafting ghosts. By no means are we experts, but here are five fun, easy and inexpensive ways to get ready. 1. Two words: Dollar store. There are many varieties of these discount stores throughout Gwinnett, and many are filled with …

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Track or Treat; Boxerstock Music Fest; Harvest Square Fest

Fall arts and crafts festival, costume contest, pumpkin patch and scarecrows on Marietta Square, Boxerstock Music Festival at Jim Miller Park, dinner at the Strand Theatre, "Smoke on the Mountain" at the Strand and more.

1. Oct. 20 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Visit Marietta Square for the 36th annual Harvest Square Festival. The Fall arts and crafts festival features a wide variety of unique handmade items from a local artist and craftsmen as well as Fall fun for the entire family. The event also includes Halloween Happenings for children ages 10 and younger. The event takes place as part of Harvest Square and includes games, candy, prizes and a costume contest for children 12 and under. There is even a costume contest for pets. No registration is required for the costume contests. Scarecrows on the Square winners will be announced. The Pumpkin Patch with pumpkin decorating for the kids will be held. 2. Sunday, Oct. 21: The 5th annual Boxerstock Music Festival …

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Keep Safe This Halloween

Halloween is creeping up on us in a couple weeks, and local fire officials have tips to keep your kids safe when they go trick or treating and to keep your house safe as you decorate.

Halloween is creeping up on us in a couple weeks, and the Marietta Fire Department offers tips to keep your kids safe when they go trick or treating.

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