Fallen Cobb Soldier Returns Home

First Lt. Jonathan Walsh of Kennesaw was killed by an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan.

The body of a Kennesaw soldier killed in Afghanistan by a blast from an improvised explosive device will be escorted by law enforcement today following the arrival of his remains at Dobbins Air Reserve Base. First Lt. Jonathan Walsh, a 28-year-old paratrooper, died April 22 while serving in Ghazni province. The motorcade is expected to depart Dobbins between 10 and 11 a.m., the Cobb County government says. The procession will travel north along Atlanta Road, turn right onto South Cobb Drive, head north on Cobb Parkway, turn right onto Blue Springs Road in Acworth, then right onto Old Highway 41, left onto McCollum Parkway in Kennesaw, left on Frey Road and right onto Shiloh Road. Shiloh Road, which becomes Shallowford Road and then …

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Memorial Planned for SPSU Professor

Professor Emeritus R. Glenn Allen was one of the original faculty members of the Division of Engineering and nurtured the Mechatronics Engineering Program, which now has 217 enrolled students.

Professor Emeritus R. Glenn Allen, Southern Polytechnic State University’s 2010-11 Teacher of the Year, lost a hard-fought battle with cancer on April 3. “Glenn was one of the great ones, as all of his colleagues and students can readily attest,” wrote Dr. Zvi Szafran, vice president for academic affairs, in his blog, The Weekly Blab. Family, friends and colleagues will gather on Thursday, April 12, at Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church in Marietta to pay tribute to Professor Allen. Visitation in the gym from 5-5:45 p.m. will be followed by a Celebration of Life Service at 6 p.m. in the sanctuary and then another visitation until 7:45 p.m. The church is located at 4495 Sandy Plains Rd., Marietta 30066. Professor Allen was diagnosed with…

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Coast Guard Vet Bill Cooper Dies

The family will hold visitation Sunday afternoon and a private funeral Monday.

William “Bill” Gene Cooper, age 80, of Mableton died Friday, March 2, 2012, at WellStar Cobb Hospital in Austell. He was a devoted member of Roswell Street Baptist Church in Marietta and enjoyed spending time with his church family. Mr. Cooper was born to Lunie S. Cooper and Mary Mayo Cooper on April 24, 1931, in Tampa, FL. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard and was honorably discharged Dec. 27, 1954. A graduate of Southern Technical Institute, now Southern Polytechnic State University, he worked as an engineer for IBM. His talents included carpentry, and the many practical pieces he produced included a beautiful cherry wood table. He also was an accomplished Web master and built the website for his wife’s artwork. Mr. Cooper often talked …

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Carmo Family Funeral Is Monday

The public is invited to attend the memorial at First United Methodist Church in Marietta for the victims of the I-75 pileup in Florida.

The funeral for Kennesaw’s Carmo family will be held Monday at 4 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Marietta. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the public service will follow a visitation starting at 1:30 p.m. at the church at 56 Whitlock Ave., a little more than three miles from the small, 2-year-old Brazilian-immigrant church Jose Carmo Jr. served as pastor, Igreja Internacional da Restauracao (International Church of the Restoration). Carmo; his wife, Adriana; their first daughter, Leticia, 17; his brother Edson; and Edson’s girlfriend, Roselia DeSilva, died early Jan. 29 in a pileup on fog-shrouded Interstate 75 south of Gainesville, FL. The Carmos’ younger daughter, Lidiane, survived the crash and is recovering at …

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Emmanuel Tabernacle Pastor Funeral Friday

A wake will be held Thursday for Rev. Dwight Graves at Zion Baptist Church Chapel, followed by his funeral Friday.

Cobb County lost civil rights and spiritual leader Rev. Dwight Graves on Jan. 10. Rev. Graves was chairman of the Cobb Southern Christian Leadership Conference and pastor of Emmanuel Tabernacle Christian Church in Marietta. According to the SCLC Facebook page, the following are the funeral arrangements for Rev. Graves: Funeral: Friday, Jan. 20 at 11 a.m. Zion Baptist Church 165 Lemon St. Marietta, 30060 Wake: Thursday, Jan. 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. Zion Baptist Church Chapel 165 Lemon St. Marietta, 30060 Rev. Graves was also a member of Prince Hall Masons, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, CASA Board, Kellogg Board (Kennesaw Village), Cobb County Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance, Cobb County Coalition for Social Change and Interdenominational…

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Bike Builder, Racer Remembered

Former world-class bicycle motocross racer John Kovachi was as good at building bicycle wheels as he was at winning races.

By Poncho Wilson John Kovachi didn’t invent the wheel. Rather, the Marietta native and former world-class bicycle motocross racer’s talent and technique for bicycle wheel building did give his Kovachi Wheels company-sponsored BMX racers a competitive and winning edge. His youth mentoring and tireless support of area BMX competitions throughout Cobb County and the southeast United States sent dozens of racers to the winners podium since the company’s 1989 inception in the basement of his east Cobb County home. Kovachi’s craft was unrivaled and impossible to duplicate by machine. To watch him hand lace a custom wheel set was much the same as watching a classically-trained harpist perform—each stroke as measured and exact as the last. The …

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Murder Victim's Friends Seek Support; WellStar to Become Tobacco-Free

Here is a roundup of highlights from Marietta and surrounding areas on Thursday, Oct. 20.

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PatchCast: Outspoken Marietta Biker, Harrison Alum Die

Here is a roundup of highlights from Marietta and surrounding areas on Monday, Oct. 3.

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Outspoken Biker, Bar Owner Dies

Mike Norman, a biker and the owner of Mulligan's, was famous for his controversial marquee messages. What is less well-known is that Norman hosted charity events to help the needy.

By Poncho Wilson Mike Norman of Marietta mixed a stiff drink, and he didn’t mince words. As owner of Mulligan’s Food & Spirits on Roswell Street, Norman’s gruff, imposing exterior coupled with an affinity for motorcycles, biker culture and his longtime ties to Marietta’s American Legion Horace Orr Post 29 made him a natural fit for the scene. “Mike spoke what other people whispered,” said longtime friend Jeff “Cowboy” Garland of Marietta, whose nickname derived from Norman’s observations that when Garland wasn’t riding into Mulligan’s on his 2001 Harley-Davidson Electra Glide, he was instead wearing his trademark cowboy hat. Mike Norman, 66, of Marietta, formerly of Sutallee and a Clinton, TN, native, died Friday of complications from lung…

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Davis McCollum

3:10 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2011

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