Cobb sets special election to fill Pearlberg's Marietta City Council seat
A special election to replace outgoing Marietta City Councilman Irvan Alan Pearlberg will be held July 31, along with the general primary.
The Cobb County Board of Elections and Registration held a special early-morning meeting Monday to set the date for the special election.
Pearlberg, who has been on the council for six years, resigned from his seat on April 20 to run for Cobb County Superior Court Judge.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
