Marietta Celebrates Affordable Housing, Unveils New Home

Through Marietta's HOME program consortium/partnership with Cobb County, new affordable homes are built on vacant lots for low- to moderate-income working families to purchase as a first home opportunity.

by the City of Marietta The city of Marietta and representatives from Traton Homes and Cobb County's Community Development Block Grant program hosted an open house of a new home located at 523 Lemon St. on Feb. 5, one of several new homes in Marietta being sold to low- to moderate-income first time homebuyers. Through Marietta's HOME program consortium/partnership with Cobb County, new affordable homes are built on vacant lots for low- to moderate-income working families to purchase as a first home opportunity, Marietta's community development block grants manager Mitch Bland said. "While helping these families, we are also helping the city improve these older neighborhoods by having new owner-occupied, single-family homes." "Cobb County's…

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Mayor to Host Town Hall Meeting on Improving Marietta Square

Parking, traffic, businesses and the struggling theaters and museums are possible topics for discussion at the Feb. 16 event.

Mayor Steve Tumlin will be among city officials hosting a town hall meeting Feb. 16 looking for ideas to make the Marietta Square a better place for locals, tourists, businesses and the non-profit theaters and museums in the downtown area. Tumlin said he and the other hosts of the meeting, Downtown Marietta Development Authority Chairman Tom Browning and City Councilman Anthony Coleman, have no projects to announce. They will be there to listen to business owners, landlords, city residents and representatives of the non-profit groups that have struggled with funding during the economic downturn. “There will be more ideas than money,” Tumlin said. The town hall meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Brickyard at Marietta Station, 129 …

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Councilman Coleman Arrested

He is charged with assault and battery against fellow Marietta City Council member Annette Lewis.

Marietta City Councilman Anthony Coleman has been charged with assault and battery against fellow council member Annette Lewis. Coleman surrendered to authorities at the Cobb County Jail at 1 p.m. Friday and was free on a $2,000 property bond by 4:45, according to jail records. The charges against the Ward 5 councilman stem from a confrontation he reportedly had with Lewis after a meeting of the council’s three-member Redistricting Committee on Sept. 22. The city Police Department turned the case over to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to avoid any conflict of interest. The GBI finished the investigation Nov. 10, the day before Coleman’s 54th birthday, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Under warrants issued Thursday, Coleman …

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GBI Investigates Council Confrontation

Anthony Coleman faces an allegation of grabbing fellow Marietta City Council member Annette Paige Lewis in a redistricting argument.

A redistricting dispute has led to a Georgia Bureau of Investigation probe of two Marietta City Council members. Ward 1 council member Annette Paige Lewis accuses Ward 5 member Anthony Coleman of cursing at and grabbing her Sept. 22 after a meeting of the council’s three-member redistricting committee, the Marietta Daily Journal first reported. Coleman denies the allegation, the MDJ added. No one filed a formal police report on the incident, a city police spokesman told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Police Chief Dan Flynn asked the GBI to investigate to avoid a conflict of interest for his department. The GBI acknowledged the investigation request but refused to comment on an active case, the AJC said. The dispute between Lewis and…

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