Networking Event Benefits Downtown Businesses

1. The Canton City Council will meet at 6 p.m. tonight at City Hall. Senior garbage rates will be on the agenda. Look for the council preview at 5:55 a.m., then watch the meeting live on Canton-Sixes Patch at 6 p.m.

2. The Canton Theatre will host this month's Main Street Mornings from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. today. Main Street Mornings is a monthly networking event for Canton downtown businesses that takes place every third Thursday of the month at a different local business.

3. Members of Cobb Electric Membership Corporation approved new bylaws that make board meetings more transparent and set a new limit on the terms of board directors.

• Cobb EMC Enacts New Bylaws

4. The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners met Tuesday. Woodstock-Towne Lake Patch editor Kristal Dixon has details.

• County Commission Approves Resolution On Grand Jury Recommendations

5. Gov. Nathan Deal joined Georgia Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security Director Charley English Wednesday to remind Georgians to take simple steps to prepare for all natural and man-made emergencies. GEMA uploaded a photo from the event to the Canton-Sixes Patch neighborhood photo gallery.

• Canton-Sixes Pics & Clips 

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