CUMBERLAND – The Marietta Daily Journal presented Deane Bonner, Cobb County NAACP president emerita, with the Citizen of the Year Award on Saturday evening.
Decatur Mayor Patti Garrett, and eight other elected and citizen leaders, were sworn in on Jan. 12 to serve on the board of the Atlanta Regional Commission. The board has 41 members and oversees the agency's efforts to improve quality of life in metro Atlanta and plan for the region's successful future, according to a press release.
AROUND TOWN: Holiday wishes and hopes for 2021 mdjonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mdjonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Two days before Christmas, Around Town presents the holiday wish lists from the people who made news in 2020.
Ranging from the profound to the peculiar, hereâs what several community participants are hoping to see in their stockings come Friday morning. -
Iâll bet you can guess mine. âAn angel expressed my wish a long time ago, âPeace on earth, good will toward all.ââ
â The Rev. Nelson Price, pastor emeritus of Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta and MDJ columnist. -
â Roy Barnes, former governor and Marietta attorney. -
No more elections and runoff elections and special elections and jungle elections and special jungle elections and special jungle election runoffs and election challenges and election lawsuits and peace on earth (including Cobb), and goodwill to all, regardless of how all these elections, runoffs, challenges, lawsuits, etc. go!
GEORGIA MUNICIPAL ASSOCIATION: Call to Congress: Act Now to Support COVID-19 Relief mdjonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mdjonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.