East Cobbers Doing Good

1. So I was wrong about the rain Tuesday. It never came; we got the humidity without the precipitation. We here at Take Five are big enough to acknowledge we’re human. But we move on and try again. Today, no rain, guaranteed. It will be mostly sunny with almost no wind and a high of about 89, the National Weather Service says. Overnight, the low will be about 66.

2. Tuesday did bring the predicted meetings of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners. Read all about the , whose most forceful recommendation was to stop doing furloughs, and the .

3. We met East Cobb resident Joe O’Connor after the Board of Commissioners’ afternoon work session Tuesday, and we look forward to his efforts in the next 16 months or so to get people to vote in the 2012 elections. We hope O’Connor will use East Cobb Patch as one of the key outlets in his Vote America campaign, but in the meantime, here’s a good Marietta Daily Journal article on his plans. Speaking of East Cobbers doing good, look for alum Laura Bohnhoff Whitaker, the director of the Extra Special People camp in Watkinsville, to appear on HLN’s “Leaders with Heart” segment this morning between 9 and 9:30. That’s Channel 35 on Comcast.

4. East Cobb school board member Scott Sweeney is speaking to the East Cobb Civic Association at its monthly meeting tonight at 7 at the . Perhaps everyone’s favorite school topic, , will come up, as well as the hiring of Cobb County’s new superintendent, , who officially takes over in a couple of days. We’ll have a report Thursday.

5. The recent battle over charter schools in Georgia, leading to Tuesday’s decision by the state Board of Education to approve charters for the new Cherokee Charter Academy and 10 other schools, has increased the focus on the issue of school choice. Well, the has an extensive school choice program beyond charter schools. You have until Friday to apply for a transfer under the H.B. 251 and S.B. 10 programs. See the details here.