News Nearby: Marietta Guitar Discovery; Missing Girl

Guitar Collection Recovered from Burglary

Thursday, Sept. 5, discovered a cache of guitar cases and amplifiers on a deserted private drive near Lockheed Elementary School off Merritt Road. 

The stock pile of musical instruments, which consisted of 13 guitars, two amplifiers and various related equipment, was found approximately 100 yards off the main road near a wooded area.

Aaron Jarell Rodman, 26, was taken into custody in Marietta on Tuesday, Sept. 4.

A resident on Wisteria Drive called Marietta Police to report a suspicious person walking around a neighboring house and looking through the windows. 

The caller said that they knew the residents of the house were not home and was concerned that the suspect was casing the house. The caller also stated that the suspect was occupying a white Nissan Maxima.

Cobb Police arrested and charged Keyonna Grant of Mableton with contributing to the delinquency of a minor resulting in serious injury, a misdemeanor, after her 5-year-old daughter, Taniya Gilbert, went missing on Friday around 11:30 p.m.

Taniya was returned safely at 7:25 a.m. on Saturday by a man who discovered the girl sleeping soundly in his truck.

According to Sgt. Dana Pierce, spokesman for the Cobb County Police, Grant instructed Taniya to go to sleep in the truck while she returned to a gathering of friends and family at Whisperwood Apartments in Austell.

A growler store is coming to Market Village just a few short weeks after .

Owner Brandon King said Smyrna Beer Market will open in as early as mid-October. The store will carry about 45 different varieties of draught beer that customers can buy in half-gallon growlers, large glass bottles used for holding craft beer.

“We’re trying to maintain local and regional focus on those,” King said. “All the bottles and beer we’ll carry will be the harder to find stuff for beer connoisseurs.”

ou’ve probably noticed the orange barrels and about a dozen bulldozers lining Floyd Road these days. They’re evidence that construction of the Floyd Road improvements is moving along nicely.

In June at the Historic Mable House, officials broke ground on the road-widening project, which begins at Clay Road and ends at Hicks Road.

The $4.9 million project first approved in 1994 had been continually delayed due to lack of funding from GDOT and redesign issues once traffic began to pick up on the busy Mableton artery. Over the almost 20 years since then, there have been approximately 35 Cobb Board of Commissioners agenda items related to the project, officials said at the June groundbreaking.

The first project will widen the narrow road to two 11-foot wide lanes in both the northbound and southbound directions, divided by a 20-foot-wide raised median.