The Kennesaw Police Department is investigating an alleged assault against a man near the Kennesaw State University campus.
The incident happened in the West 22 apartment complex, located where Cherokee Street and McCollum Parkway meet, just after midnight on January 22, according to Officer David Buchanan, Kennesaw Police spokesman.
Jalique Rosemond, who is Black, alleged he was beaten by two white men who repeatedly called him the N-word, according to a report about the incident issued by Officer Seager, who responded to the call. Seager’s report added that Rosemond had a bloody nose, a detail also included in a report from another Kennesaw police officer who responded to the scene. Buchanan said in the release that a detective has been in touch with Rosemond since Tuesday, adding that the suspects in the case left the complex following the alleged assault. Police are asking residents with any information about the incident to call Kennesaw Police Criminal Investigations Division or Crime Stoppers.
An ethics complaint has been filed against Commissioner Jerica Richardson over an alleged conflict of interest in the county’s ongoing redistricting controversy.
Filed Monday by Debbie Fisher, who is listed as vice chairman of Party and Grassroots Development on the Cobb Republican Party’s website, the complaint accuses Richardson of violating county rules in voting twice last year to support the county’s home rule redistricting effort, which is aimed at redrawing the commission district boundaries to keep Richardson in office.
Filed with the Cobb Board of Ethics, the complaint asks for a judge to void those two votes by Richardson. Doing so would leave the split of the vote on the home rule effort at 2-2 between the board’s Democrats and Republicans. The complaint takes aim at a political group — For Which It Stance — which was created last year by Richardson and east Cobb’s Mindy Seger to support her bid to keep her seat. Richardson’s interest in the group means she not only had a personal conflict of interest in the redistricting votes, Fisher alleges, but a financial one as well.
For Which It Stance was formed in March 2022, about five weeks after the Republican-sponsored district map which drew Richardson out of her seat was filed in the General Assembly. Richardson is listed as the nonprofit’s registered agent, while Seger is its executive director.
Since the Board of Commissioners’ three Democrats began their home rule effort in the fall, the group has called on residents to support Richardson, solicited donations on its website, and is selling branded merchandise (T-shirts, tote bags and the like). And on October 11 and 25, when the Board of Commissioners took its two votes to assert home rule and redraw the lines, audience members bore signs from the nonprofit.
The allegations around For Which It Stance were previously raised by Republican Commissioner Keli Gambrill, who said Richardson should have disclosed the nonprofit when the board met in executive session last year to discuss the home rule challenge. In the past, Richardson has said that she did not need to disclose the nonprofit, and that Gambrill should have been aware of it.
Marietta’s LiveSafe Resources has announced its 2023 honorees for the group’s 38th Tribute to Women of Achievement.
Each year, the organization honors 15 women leaders, nominated by their peers, who demonstrate outstanding leadership in their personal, professional and volunteer endeavors.
These 15 outstanding women from the metro Atlanta area were recently chosen through a competitive application process, and one of them will also be named “2023 Woman of the Year” at the Tribute to Achievement awards gala on March 17.
This year’s honorees include women at the top of their game in Cobb’s business, nonprofit, and government worlds.
For a full list of honorees, please visit MDJ Online dot com. This year’s Tribute to Women of Achievement gala will be held at the Renaissance Waverly hotel in Cumberland at 6 p.m. on March 17. More information is available at Live Safe Resources dot org.
e Georgia Food + Wine Festival, a culinary and beverage celebration of all things Georgia, will take place March 23-26 at Jim R. Miller Park in Marietta.
The festival has announced that Georgia Grown has come aboard as Presenting Sponsor. They will be spotlighting and supporting their members in a variety of ways, including The Georgia Grown Wine Trail, Member Village, Flavors of Georgia and their own Demo Stage.
Other partnerships this year include: Georgia Grown Member Chatel Farms – Official Beef, Audi Marietta – Official Automotive Partner and Superior Plumbing – Official Music sponsor. The festival is also proud to welcome back the Beam/Suntory family of beverages - Maker’s Mark, Knob Creek, Basil Hayden, Jim Beam, Hornitos, Haku and On the Rocks - as the Master Spirits partner.
The festival offers a wide variety of events for all tastebuds and budgets, including “Savor," the main event on March 25 with over 400 varieties of wine, beer and spirits tastings, cooking demonstrations on the “Georgia Celebrity Chef Stage,” and 50-plus restaurants and artisans from around the South; and on March 26 Sunday/Funday, a family friendly event featuring food trucks and free children’s activities. The VIP Lounge on March 25-26, presented by Publix, will offer a fully catered experience with open bars, the Bellissima Beverage Cart with craft cocktails on tap, early access and live music. Advance ticket discount savings on the Georgia Food + Wine Festival Winter Advance Ticket Packages are available now through March 1. For tickets and information head over to Georgia food and wine festival dot com.
Scoot Henderson became the Kell boys basketball team’s all-time leading scorer, led it to the Class AAAAAA state championship game and wowed most basketball experts in the process.
Henderson’s constant success was one of the reasons he made the unprecedented move two years ago to reclassify, graduate early and become the youngest professional basketball player in U.S. history at the age of 17.
Now, after nearly two years in the NBA’s developmental G League and making himself into the presumptive Number 2 pick in this summer’s NBA draft, Henderson will be recognized by Kell for his trailblazing efforts and effect on its program. The school will retire Henderson’s Number 0 jersey in a ceremony between Kell’s girls and boys basketball games against Chattahoochee on Tuesday.
Kell boys coach Jermaine Sellers said the timing worked out where the Longhorns had a home game and Henderson’s team, the Las Vegas-based G League Ignite, had a nine-day break to allow him time to return home.
It will be particularly special evening for the Henderson family, with Scoot not be the only sibling having their jersey retired. During the same ceremony, his sister, Crystal, will also be honored with the retirement of her Number 30.
Crystal Henderson, who supplanted her brother as the all-time leading scorer in Kell basketball history — boys or girls — has led the Longhorns to a 15-5 overall record and 8-0 mark in Region six five A. Kell is Number 1 in Class five A, coming off a game against Cambridge in which she had 37 points and 13 rebounds.
The retirement ceremony is expected to be at approximately 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, following the completion of the girls game.
Sellers said the NBA and the G League asked to be involved in the evening, so the College Park Skyhawks — the Atlanta Hawks’ affiliate — will be represented. Its dance team will perform at halftime of the girls game, and there will be shirt giveaways.
In its quest to build a looping transit and trail network around Cobb’s bustling commercial district, the Cumberland Community Improvement District is shaking every funding tree it can find.
The CID’s governing board agreed Thursday to ante up about $1.7 million in the hopes of securing a lucrative federal grant to advance the project, known as the Cumberland Sweep.
If successful, the U.S. Department of Transportation would provide about $7 million toward planning and design of the Sweep which includes a self-driving shuttle, to circle the commercial district.
The DOT’s RAISE program — formerly known as BUILD and TIGER under past federal administrations — is expected to dole out nearly $2.3 billion this coming year for transportation and infrastructure projects.
But the winners are an exclusive club; no more than a few dozen projects are greenlit nationwide each year. In recent years, only a handful of projects in Georgia have received funding.
CID Executive Director Kim Menefee said this will be the third time the organization has sought the grant.
Menefee said she’s been in talks with Cobb’s federal lawmakers about backing the application, who have already directed some funding to the Sweep in the form of congressional earmarks and submitted letters of support for the grant application.
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