We expect to have the newspaper online soon. Please check back later this morning. Your neighbors are talking. The sixth annual season of the popular Farmer's Market will begin at the end of this month. The small market attracts vendors each Friday to the city parking lot on Main Street.
Local residents bring produce from their gardens.
No commercial outfits are allowed. Baked bread and cookies, honey and vegetables are among the regular finds. Austell Elementary closes after 49 years Austell Elementary School, at 5600 Mulberry St., will close at the end of the school year, after operating since 1952. The new Austell Elementary School will open in August on Meadows Road in unincorporated Cobb County, just outside the city limits. The new school will hold 964 children compared with the current school, which houses 466.