Charlotte Smith was joined by family and friends this month to celebrate being cancer-free after 27 months of treatment. Charlotte was diagnosed with cancer in October 2020, when she was 3. Her mother took her to the doctor after noticing she was tired, not eating much and prone to bruising.
Her hemoglobin level was low — 4.9 — so they took her to Children’s Scottish Rite Hospital, where she was diagnosed with leukemia.
Charlotte was treated at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center. Over the next two years, she had multiple chemotherapy infusions, oral chemotherapy for a year and a half, seven blood transfusions, 18 lumbar punctures and two surgeries. To celebrate being cancer-free, the Smiths threw a large party for their daughter, complete with a face painter and a DJ.
During her treatment, Charlotte attended the Center for Early Education at Marietta First Baptist Church, where the Smiths are members. The teachers showed their support by wearing “Charlotte’s army,” shirts. Charlotte is the great-granddaughter of Cobb Superior Court Senior Judge Adele Grubbs; Emily Smith is Grubbs’ granddaughter.
Charlotte’s father, Brad Smith, is a business intelligence developer at Children’s Healthcare. Emily Smith works as an intensive care nurse at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, and had to take a leave of absence during her daughter’s treatment. Charlotte was immunocompromised due to the cancer, and the risk of her working in the hospital was too great.
Now, Charlotte is in kindergarten at Kennesaw Elementary. Charlotte has two younger siblings — Olivia, 3, and Cooper, her three-month-old brother. She likes arts and crafts and coloring, and wants to be a nurse like her mother.
It was a big night for Kell guard Crystal Henderson.
Her number 30, along with her brother Scoot Henderson's 0, were retired in a ceremony between the girls and boys games against Chattahoochee on Tuesday. She was celebrated for reaching the 2,000 point plateau for her career, and she scored 25 points with seven assists and five steals in the Longhorns' 64-36 Region 6AAAAA victory.
The only thing she didn't get was the ovation during a timeout as she left the court, because she couldn't. Thanks to a short bench because of an illness that was running through the team, Kell only had six healthy players for most of the game and it led to nearly every player playing all 32 minutes. The victory allowed the Longhorns to secure the Number 1 seed for this month's region tournament, but it is something coach Kandra Bailey didn't even want to think about quite yet, because the Horns still have games to play in the regular season.
Between their near-century of combined service to Marietta City Schools, Kenneth and Jeanie Carter left an indelible mark on the city’s history.
But the Carter family has a new memento of its contributions to Marietta, as the Cole Street home of Kenneth Carter’s parents was recently recognized as a historic home in one of the city’s historically Black neighborhoods.
The home’s marker was unveiled as part of an ongoing, joint effort between Cobb Landmarks and the Marietta History Center. The program looks to memorialize the most storied homes of the city’s Black families in the Baptist Town, Louisville, and Fort Hill neighborhoods, among others. The 1909 Carter house is a worthy member for inclusion. Originally built by Taylor Woods, a Black resident, the house was purchased by Sarah Young and Oscar Carter in 1944. Oscar Carter worked at Marietta’s Bell Bomber plant as a custodian during World War II, and later for the city government, while his wife served as head of the Lemon Street PTA and worked as a washer woman, maid, and a nurse in the offices of Marietta physician Dr. Remer Clark.
The couple raised four children in the home, which today is the last private house on the block of Cole Street between Lawrence and Lemon streets. While the Marietta Housing Authority bought the properties to the south, and Cole Street Missionary Baptist bought the properties to the north, the Carter family held on to their home.
Among their children was Kenneth “Coach” Carter, who purchased the home when his mother died in the 1990s. Coach Carter, who died in 2019, spent nearly half a century as an educator and coach in Marietta City Schools. Residents interested in nominating a site for consideration as a landmark can contact Cobb Landmarks or the Marietta History Center.
Two people were shot and injured in south Cobb Tuesday morning, the Cobb County Police Department said.
According to police, officers were dispatched around 5:30 a.m. to a home on Main Station Drive off Hurt Road.
Antoine McCain of Marietta, stated that he shot Ricky Robinson of Marietta, police said.
Both men were suffering from apparent gunshot wounds, according to police. Police and firefighters responded and treated the men, who were both taken to a local hospital.
The incident remains an open and active investigation. Anyone with information about it is asked to call police.
University officials, alumni and students gathered Monday for the unveiling of Kennesaw State University’s renovated Engineering Lab Building, a $5 million project.
The 35,000-square-foot facility, known colloquially as the “G Building,” was built in 1962, said KSU President Kathy “Kat” Schwaig — the same year as she was, Schwaig joked — and last renovated in 1984.
Schwaig spoke of the importance of students having a space for hands-on, collaborative work in the sciences.
The building is part of the school’s Southern Polytechnic College of Engineering and Engineering Technology and is home to a variety of opportunities for students, including different labs, such as for 3D printing and senior projects, a peer-to-peer tutoring program and academic advisers.
Barnes & Noble plans to open a new store in the Avenue East Cobb this summer.
The bookseller confirmed that it will open a 15,000-square-foot store, using part of the former Bed Bath and Beyond space at the popular shopping center off Roswell Road.
The store will have a different feel to the bookstore chain’s other locations — a “revamped model replicates the personal touch found in independent bookshops,” in the words of North American Properties, the owner of the Avenue East Cobb.
Barnes & Noble’s new approach also lets local stores stock a “hand-curated selection” of books tailored to its specific community. The store will feature “modern fixtures and furniture, an updated paint scheme, cozy book rooms, and an in-store café,” NAP said, and sell gifts, vinyl records, toys, games and puzzles.
The east Cobb store is one of 30 that Barnes & Noble plans to open this year, using that new model. The company did not provide a specific opening date.
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