Madelyn Orochena officially joined the Kennesaw City Council on Tuesday for her first term in office, replacing Lynette Burnette after defeating her and two other candidates in November.
KENNESAW — Madelyn Orochena was born and raised in Kennesaw, so Wildman’s Civil War Surplus, the Confederate-themed store in the city’s downtown, is nothing new to her.
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) A city councilman in Georgia has resigned to protest the reopening of a Confederate souvenir shop that sells images with racial slurs and dolls and statues that caricature Black people, news outlets reported.