Tweet Dr. J. Michael Halwig Atlanta Allergy Asthma Clinic There are an estimated 15 million Americans with food allergies, and almost 8% of U.S. children are affected by this potentially deadly disease—that’s about two per classroom. A recent CDC study showed that food allergies are on the rise. Diagnoses jumped 18% between 1997 and 2007 [...]
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Tweet Dr. J. Michael Halwig Atlanta Allergy Asthma Clinic There are an estimated 15 million Americans with food allergies, and almost 8% of U.S. children are affected by this potentially deadly disease—that’s about two per classroom. A recent CDC study showed that food allergies are on the rise. Diagnoses jumped 18% between 1997 and 2007 [...]
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Tweet An Austell man was arrested early Saturday in connection with the alleged sexual battery of a boy who lives at the Haven Heart Community Development Center. Richard Monta Johnson, 18, also lives at the center, which is a transitional living program for young adults between the ages of 14 to 21 who have been abused or [...]
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Tweet Destiny World Church will hold a memorial at 11 a.m. Saturday for Jmaal Malik Keyes, the missing Middle Georgia State College student from Austell. “We are asking everyone to wear green to represent his favorite color,” officials wrote on the church’s Facebook page. Keyes’ family hasn’t heard from him since April 25, a few days after his [...]
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Tweet About this sponsorship: In honor of the 60th anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary’s historic ascent of Mount Everest, Patch and Grape-Nuts are teaming up to highlight those who inspire people around them to climb their own mountains. Laura Whitaker is the executive director of Extra Special People, a nonprofit in Watkinsville, GA, that enhances [...]
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Tweet More than 150 local businesses will showcase their products and services at the Cobb Business-to-Business Expo this Thursday, May 16. The free event that attracted more than 1,600 attendees will start at 3 p.m. at the Cobb Galleria Centre. Exhibitors include Keep it in Cobb, which encourages residents to buy local, and business associations from across the county [...]
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Tweet If you stay in a cabin or lodge room at a Georgia state park, you can take in the native flora and fauna outside. Inside, you shouldn’t have to look hard to find a Bible—at least for now. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources this week had been set [...]
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Tweet There will be more than 150 local businesses with booths at today’s Cobb Business-to-Business Expo, and Patch will be one of them. Patch serves 46 communities in Georgia, with eight sites in Cobb County alone. Several Patch editors and sales staff who serve Cobb as well other metro Atlanta communities will be at booth [...]
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Tweet Two local companies will be at the Cobb-Cherokee Career Center this week to recruit workers. From 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Revenue Management Consulting will conduct pre-screenings and interviews for an opening at the company that requires a high school diploma and at least six months of call center or customer service experience. Revenue Management is looking [...]
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Tweet A registered sex offender from Austell has been arrested after he allegedly took apart the charger in his electronic monitoring device. Kenneth Leonard Keith is currently classified as a “sexually dangerous predator” and is required to wear the ankle monitor, according to a Cobb County criminal warrant. The ankle monitor and charger “have been replaced numerous times [...]
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