Early Voting Underway for March 15 Special Election

1. Early voting for the March 15 special election began Monday and continues through March 11 at the Elections Office in the , 736 Whitlock Ave.  Registered voters may appear in persom from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or apply for a vote-by-mail ballot. Applications are available at cobbelections.org.

Up for a vote is the latest Special Local Option Sales Tax or SPLOST, which is designed to raise more than $492 million for public improvements throughout the county.

2. The Cobb County Board of Commissioners today has a 1:30 p.m. work session and 7 p.m. meeting in the commissioners room on the second floor at

3. Our Shared Forests,  a partnership between Georgia and Ecuador to monitor and preserve migratory birds, will hold a curriculum workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the at 662 South Cobb Drive. The program focuses on 10 particular birds that migrate between Georgia to Ecuador.

For information, call 770-528-8215.

4.The Cobb 4-H Club is taking prepaid orders for its annual plant sale until March 9. This year's plants blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, Admiral Semmes azalea, crape myrtles, edgeworthia, hellebores, heuchere and Spring Bouquet Viburnum. The plant sale order form is available at cobbcounty.org/extension or by calling 770-528-4076.

5. Today is National Margarita Day. Thank you, Parrotheads.