The Kell boys surged forward with a big fourth quarter to break open a close game and defeat Dutchtown 73-60 in the quarterfinals of the Class five A state basketball tournament on Tuesday.
Kell) outscored Dutchtown 23-10 over the final 8 minutes to advance to the state semifinals, which will be played at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton on Friday at 8 p.m.
It’s the third time in four years they have made it to the state semifinals. Kell finished as state runner-up in Class AAAAA in 2020 and Class AAAAAA in ’21. Four Kell players scored in double figures, with Peyton Marshall leading the way with 17 points, Jaylen Colon and C.J. Brown adding 16 points and Parrish Johnson contributing 10.
On the girls’ side, Kell rode the momentum it built with a strong first half to a 68-54 victory over Bradwell Institute in the quarterfinals of the Class Five A state girls basketball tournament on Tuesday.
The used a hot shooting hand in the first half – hitting seven 3-pointers – to take a 38-22 halftime lead and held off Bradwell Institute in the second to advance to the state semifinals, where it will play Maynard Jackson at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton on Friday at 6 p.m.
It will be Kell's third final four appearance, who were state runners-up in Class Five A in 2020 and a Class Six A semifinalist last year. Crystal Henderson scored 32 points with six assists. Makayah Harris added 18 points and Jada Green had 10 points and eight rebounds to lead the way.
Publix sued Cobb County this week over the county government’s involvement in an opioid lawsuit, alleging the county improperly hired a trio of outside law firms to sue the supermarket chain over its distribution of prescription drugs.
Filed in Cobb Superior Court, the suit suggests the county was “lured” into the opioid litigation by the firms’ “promises of a windfall,” and alleges the county violated multiple laws when it brought them on nearly five years ago. Cobb filed an initial suit in July 2018 against a number of drug manufacturers and pharmacies including Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, CVS, Kroger and Walmart, and then in 2019 the suit expanded to include the Sackler family, which founded and owned Purdue Pharma, and additional firms including Publix.
The suit alleged drugs sold by Publix — one of the county’s 10 largest employers — made up “a substantial market share” in Cobb. Publix’s litigation filed this week argues otherwise, saying that even the Publix pharmacy in Cobb which dispensed the highest number of opioids doesn’t rank in the county’s top 35 distributors.
The main concern of the new lawsuit, however, is not the merits of the opioid litigation, but the manner in which the county hired firms Simmons Hanly Conroy, Crueger Dickinson, and von Briesen & Roper.
The litigation says county leaders improperly decided to hire the firms in executive session with no public record, that the county improperly delegated the handling of the original opioid lawsuit to a private firm, and that the firms hold a conflict of interest in that they represent a number of jurisdictions across the country; thus, they cannot be expected to act solely in Cobb’s best interests. It also claims that per the contract, the firms will collectively receive 25% of the total settlement awarded to the county.
The county declined to provide a copy of the contract with the three firms without an open records request, which the MDJ has filed. The county declined to comment further on the litigation.
Anyone who has the free Cobb County Sheriff’s Office mobile app will now be able to keep track of registered sex offenders in the county.
Cobb Sheriff Craig Owens announced at a press conference Tuesday that there are just over 600 registered sex offenders in Cobb, and the new feature from OffenderWatch will help keep the community safe in different ways.
Owens said the partnership between OffenderWatch and the Cobb Sheriff’s Office’s app will save his deputies time and money, as they will now be able to see when sex offenders move out of the county through the app.
OffenderWatch’s technology will also give the sheriff’s office the chance to collaborate more closely with other law enforcement agencies, such as the U.S. Marshals Service, on sex crime investigations.
F.J. Eastman, OffenderWatch’s national business director, said the technology connects a parent’s phone with their child’s, allowing parents to track when their children encounter a sex offender. He said parents will also receive notifications when their children are in the area of a known sex offender.
Eastman also talked about a “no-go zone” on the app, which allows parents to enter the addresses of people they do not want their children to be around and get notified when their child is with that person.
A Smyrna woman won a national award for her volunteer work with Keep Smyrna Beautiful.
Liz Davis, a Keep Smyrna Beautiful board member, won the 2022 Keep America Beautiful Lady Bird Johnson Award.
Each year, the award recognizes one outstanding volunteer who must have at least 10 years of service in helping their local community become cleaner, greener and more beautiful, according to the city of Smyrna.
The award is named after former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson, who engaged Americans in recognizing that aesthetic beauty is directly related to a better quality of life.
Davis has been on Keep Smyrna Beautiful's board of directors for almost 20 years, and recently stepped down as board chair after 10 years of service in the role.
In addition to her work with the local affiliate of Keep America Beautiful, Davis was a founding member of Williams Park Neighbors, served on the parks commission and was named Smyrna Citizen of the Year in 2011. Davis accepted the award on February 22 at the Keep America Beautiful Conference in Washington, D.C.
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It’s too early to say the New York Yankees have a rotation that’s prepared to stop the Astros cold in October. Most everyone around the organization is smart enough to keep their mouths shut on that subject. But a growing number of Bombers think this could be the best 1-through-5 since the last championship in 2009. And part of the excitement is the current competition for the 5th spot between Domingo German (Heir-Mon) and Allatoona grad Clarke Schmidt. The Yankees can’t stop talking about Schmidt and his recent discovery of a cut-fastball. It has a subtle, late break that devastated the Braves on Sunday. Five of the six outs Schmidt registered were by strikeouts. The 27-year-old righty arrived in camp slotted for long relief, but he now has other ideas. Schmidt was introduced to the cutter by Trevor Bauer, although not directly.
Schmidt instead found an old YouTube video Bauer shot for the benefit of amateur pitchers eager to learn the craft. Sitting in a hotel room in street clothes, Bauer explains the grip, the release point and the desired spin of each pitch.
Schmidt watched, transfixed, as Bauer broke down the aerodynamics of his cutter. Schmidt decided he should give the pitch a try, and when he tested it on some of his teammates in practice, they encouraged him to use it more often, which now may result in him being in the starting rotation. The 27-year-old Acworth native was the 16th overall pick by the Yankees in 2017 out of the University of South Carolina. He earned his first Major League win last season on April 29th.
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