Friday, March 30, 2012
The Northeast Cobb roundabout installation will begin in the summer.
This week, the Cobb County Department of Transportation (CCDOT) conducted a Public Information Open House (PIOH) concerning the installation of a roundabout in District 3. Northeast and East Cobb residents brought questions and concerns to Monday night’s information session about the roundabout being installed in their neighborhood. Neighbors remain unsure about the changes around Holly Springs and Davis roads. The CCDOT prepared a video to explain the traffic circle at the intersection. The video describes the roundabout as a circular intersection where traffic flows around a center island. This traffic-calming device is used to decrease traffic delays and increase traffic flow. The contractor hired to install the roundabout is contractor…
Thursday, March 29, 2012
The county's unemployment rate remained 8.4 percent in February while nearly 1,700 more residents went to work.
Cobb County residents gained almost 1,700 jobs in February, according to preliminary figures released today by the Georgia Department of Labor. The unemployment rate was unchanged from January’s 8.4 percent because the labor force grew by more than 1,900. But at 344,029, the number of people in Cobb with jobs rose by almost 9,000 from February 2011, when the county’s jobless rate was 9.2 percent. The February rate was higher than the national rate of 8.3 percent, unchanged from January, but lower than the state rate of 9.1 percent, down from 9.2 percent in January. For the 28-county Atlanta metro area and for the 10-county area covered by the Atlanta Regional Commission, both of which include Cobb, the unemployment rate dropped to 9 …
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Cobb County Department of Transportation prepared this video to explain the traffic circle at the Davis Road intersection.
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Cobb County Department of Transportation used this video on a continous loop during the East Cobb Senior Center open house Monday night on the planned installation of a traffic roundabout at the intersection of Holly Springs and Davis roads this summer. Check out the DOT video and the Patch video from Monday's meeting, then let us know in the comments below: What do you think of the new roundabout?
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Pet adoptions will take place Saturday and Sunday at the Wexford sales center in Northeast Cobb.
Lennar Atlanta is holding a Wexford community event benefiting the Green Pets America Humane Society on Saturday and Sunday at the Wexford sales center in Northeast Cobb. The main event for the weekend will be a pet adoption from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Lennar and the event's sponsors also will donate $10 to Green Pets America for everyone who registers at the sales center at 4565 Steinhauer Rd. on Saturday and Sunday, up to a maximum of $1,000, or 100 registrants. Wexford is a new community of houses with four to six bedrooms and 2½ to 4½ bathrooms priced from the high $400,000s to the high $500,000s. The houses range from 3,300 to more than 4,000 square feet. Wexford is in the Lassiter school district. Green Pets America's mission is "to …
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4565 Steinhauer Rd NE, Marietta, GA
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Here are some of the highlights for March 21 from Northeast Cobb and nearby Patches.
For more on these stories, click on the headlines below:
Movie Tavern is growing in Georgia with its concept of a one-stop night out.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Movie Tavern is a chain of dinner-and-a-movie theaters based in Dallas, TX, with the motto “Movies never tasted so good.” The planned location at the Sandy Plains Village Shopping Center in Northeast Cobb would be at least the third location in Georgia. Moviegoers at Movie Tavern can get a full range of casual American restaurant items—burgers, pizza, wraps—served to their seats, in addition to things like popcorn and candy. The beverage choices include beer and wine. You don’t have to order food to see a movie, and you can skip the movie and just eat at the restaurant or hang around after the show for dessert or a drink, according to the company’s website. Movie Tavern has 15 locations in seven states. The only Georgia location is in …
The 4-1 county commission vote clears the way for a $6.5 million revival of Sandy Plains Village.
Your chance to get dinner and a movie in the same Northeast Cobb seat moved closer to reality Tuesday. The Cobb County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1, with East Cobb’s Bob Ott opposed, to approve the rezoning of the Sandy Plains Village Shopping Center and clear the way for Movie Tavern to move in. The decision offers the dated, largely vacant shopping center a new life but exposes neighbors in the Chatsworth subdivision to a 45-foot-tall building just beyond their backyards. The shopping center along Highway 92 (Woodstock Road) between Sandy Plains and Mabry roads dates to the late 1970s and was built before Chatsworth. It once was home to two anchor stores, Kroger and Stein Mart, but now is only 18 percent leased, said Kevin Moore, an …
Paving will force lane closures Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Expect lane closures tonight on Sandy Plains Road as the contractor finishes the paving for the improvement project at Sandy Plains and East Piedmont roads, by Sprayberry High School. Cobb County put out word that the paving will lead to lanes on Sandy Plains being closed from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. Thursday. Paving also caused lane closures last Sunday as work continues toward finishing the project by the end of March.
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ScottRAB
5:28 pm on Friday, March 30, 2012
Modern roundabouts are the safest form of intersection in the world. Search www.iihs.org for FAQs and safety facts. If you want to see the difference between a traffic circle, a rotary (UK roundabout) and a modern roundabout, search www.k-state.edu to see pictures. www.fhwa.dot.gov has a video about modern roundabouts that is mostly accurate (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhHzly_6lWM ). more ›