Powder Springs News

When it's cold outside, I tend to huddle inside and find a project to do, as do many of my friends here in the Southeast.A In fact, I have a chum who used to make January and February her "craft months," when she'd do all the projects she couldn't get to during the months she tended her garden.

Before Patch launched in Powder Springs and Lithia Springs in December 2010, editors and contributors ventured to local businesses to collect information for our directory.

Here is the only Powder Springs food score fromA Cobb & Douglas Public Health A inspections from Jan.

In the recent Patch opinion article titled " What Are Priorities of Powder Springs? " published on Feb.

Marietta plans to relocate a fire station on Allgood Road in northeast Marietta to 15.5 acres on Sawyer Road.

Powder Springs city officials are contemplating what to do with a vandalized, trashed house that for now appears ownerless.

With its city manager a finalist for yet another job, the Powder Springs City Council has called a special meeting to discuss his plans tonight.

The trial of a Powder Springs man continued in Polk County with the testimony of a forensic interviewer responsible for questioning the child about the alleged incident.

Don't panic if you hear tornado sirens and emergency alert messages on TV in Powder Springs and Lithia Springs on Wednesday.

Cobb EMC and its natural gas affiliate, Gas South LLC, will separate from call center business, ProCore Solutions, LLC, and assume their own call center services beginning in May.

Wells Fargo Equipment Finance said it has named Shawn McBride vice president of its healthcare financing division.

We've just begun a new year and a "new" council, with three of the six elected official beginning new terms after the elections last November.

Months after a driver says he was Tased twice by Powder Springs police officers during a traffic stop, two separate investigations are still going on.

Man Robbed After Meeting Prostitute - Norcross Patch A man was allegedly robbed by gunpoint after going into a hotel room to meet with a prostitute late last month.

The 2012 National Signing Day has officially started for Georgia Southern University's football program, which is in the process of receiving signed national letters of intent that are faxed by recruits who now are Eagles.

On Feb. 16, East Cobb District 3 commissioner JoAnn Birrell will hold a town hall meeting at 7 p.m. at the Mountain View Community Center .

By Tom Bevirt This column continues its discussion of Powder Springs government.

Leigh Forrester-Savage, who resides in Powder Springs, got hens after surviving breast cancer to lead a healthy, organic diet with fresh eggs.

The night Brice Wilson was pulled over for a faulty tag light by Powder Springs police, he couldn't imagine that seven months later two police departments would still be investigating the June traffic stop and arrest captured on a grainy police video.

"It's the life's blood. It's how we get from one place to the other in a timely manor," said Charlie Sewell, the Powder Springs police chief.