Ball Ground News

A seven-year partnership between Cherokee County and a troubled Ball Ground wood recycling company has prompted a call for a grand jury investigation.

A Cherokee County homeowner and a sheriff's deputy had a too-close encounter with a black bear this week, with the animal at one point stamping its feet and putting a scare into the humans, authorities said.

Two women from Cherokee County came to Northeast Cobb for some shopping Monday and probably wound up staying in Cobb County longer than they planned.