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BY ELLEN [email protected]

A study of the busy intersection of Wieu-ca and Phipps roads in Buckhead shows con-verting it to a fi ve-legged roundabout would bring the best traffi c relief.

It also would cost more than $2 million, the most of the three alternatives studied as ways to fi x the confusing intersection.

At least, for 23 hours a day, said Jona-than Reid, of Parsons Brinkerhoff , the com-pany hired to study the intersection. Reid presented the study’s fi ndings to the Buck-head Community Improvement District’s board on Sept. 29.

“Th is is our 23-hour solution,” Reid said. “Most parts of the day, it works great and provides a safety benefi t. And in the p.m. peak, ‘it is what it is.’

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Joy Hienkle and her daughter Hannah Rutledge, 2, comb the mane of a minature donkey during the annual Fall Folklife Festival at the Atlanta History Center on Sept. 26. See additional photos on page 25.

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Th ey weren’t about to let a little rain stop them.Th e two dozen adults, three dogs and a 2-year-old had

gathered a recent Saturday morning to see trees. Cham-pion trees. A steady drizzle wasn’t enough to slow them down as they hiked through the woods of Atlanta Me-morial Park in Buckhead in search of some of the biggest trees in town.

“We’re big plant and tree people,” said Michelle Mabrey, who lives nearby in Collier Hills. She and her husband James joined the tour because they wanted to know more about the trees in the park. “We want to know what’s around us. I thought it would be nice to be able to better identify these historic trees.”

“We love seeing old, massive trees,” James Mabrey

said. “It’s one of our favorite things.”Th e Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy organized

the Saturday morning excursion to show off the park, which includes undeveloped areas, the Bitsy Grant Ten-nis Center and Bobby Jones Golf Course. It’s the third largest park in the city of Atlanta, the conservancy says, and this hike was intended to introduce the park’s neigh-bors to some of its special sights, its specimen trees.

Th is was the conservancy’s fi rst such program, but the response had been strong enough that the group is think-ing of scheduling another, said Catherine Spillman, the conservancy’s executive director. Perhaps a Civil War his-tory tour of the park, too, she said.

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Buckhead CID plans to hire design team for park over Ga. 400

Th e Buckhead Community Improvement District is moving forward on a study to build a new park over Ga. 400.

Th e 9-acre park would stretch from MARTA’s Buckhead station to the Atlanta Finan-cial Center and Lenox Road/Buckhead Loop, the CID says.

During the BCID board’s Sept. 29 meeting, Executive Director Jim Durrett said the agency plans to issue this month a request for proposals on the design and engineering of the park.

Durrett said he hopes to have a design team selected by the end of the year.“I am getting nothing but really enthusiastic responses from everywhere,” Durrett said.

Leavell, Malone to rock Chastain fundraiser

Georgia rockers Chuck Leavell and Michelle Malone headline a benefi t concert Oct. 16 to raise money for the Chastain Park Conservancy.

Keyboard player Leavell, who has performed with the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Th e Allman Brothers Band and others, and Malone, named Best Female Rock performer at the 2015 Geor-gia Music Awards, will perform during Rock Chastain. Last year, the Rock Chastain show raised more than $150,000 for the con-servancy.

Tickets to the 2015 show, to be held at Chastain Park Amphitheater, cost $50 per per-son and are available through Ticketmaster.

“It’ll be a great night of fabulous homegrown music,” Malone said in press release.

Peachtree open house set for Oct. 29Georgia Department of Transportation offi cials plan an open house Oct. 29 to present

drawings and discuss proposals to redraw lanes along the portion of Peachtree Road from Deering to Pharr roads.

State transportation offi cials have said they are considering redrawing lanes on Peachtree to add a central left turn lane for the length of the road and to add bike lanes on portions south of Peachtree Battle Avenue. Th e open house is scheduled from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. on Oct. 29 at the Calloway Auditorium of the Shepherd Center, 2020 Peachtree Road.

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Th e conservancy brought in Eli Dickerson, ecologist at Fernbank For-est in DeKalb, to lead the tour. “I’m a tree-hugger,” Dickerson said to intro-duce himself to the group.

Dickerson used to work for Trees At-lanta and now volunteers with the tree advocacy group to maintain its list of champion trees. To see if a tree belongs on the list, he combines measurements of its circumference, height and cano-py. (Google Earth comes in handy when measuring a tree’s canopy, he said.) Th e largest trees make the list.

One thing that makes Atlanta un-usual as a city, he said, is that it’s home to “so many trees and so many kinds of trees.” One of the tallest trees in the city, he said, towers alongside the road into the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center. Th at tulip poplar rises nearly 17 sto-ries, he said.

Dickerson said he didn’t know much about Atlanta Memorial Park himself until three or four years ago. “I went for a walk and found a lot of tree champions,” he said.

Trey Gibbs was eager to see a few of them. He lives close to the park

and regularly brings daughter Katelyn, who’s 2, to the park to play. “She loves this park,” he said. “Th is is our back-yard. We built on a hill and don’t have much yard, so this is where she goes for running around.”

Katelyn, decked out in green rain gear, was eager to get going. “Ready for a hike?” her dad asked. “Yeah, a hike!” she cheered as the group set off across the soaked ground.

Soon they were admiring all sorts of trees: bald cypresses, oaks, birches, ashes, a city champion Osage orange, a city champion Loblolly pine. Th e conservancy found old news articles showing that back in the 1930s, stu-dents from local schools planted sever-al kinds of trees in the park to honor past Atlantans.

Amy Gerome said she walks through the park regularly, but found the tree-hunting hike off ered a new way of see-ing it. “I do like a nice walk,” Gerome said. “And this is something diff erent.”

Th e park also was diff erent than Henry Howell remembered from his youth. He grew up on Peachtree Bat-tle Avenue, he said, and as a boy used to ride his bike along the top of the

sewer line that runs along the creek. In those days, he said, the park got lit-tle attention.

“It was completely overgrown,” he said. “Th ere’s just a huge improve-ment. Progress is not always good, but this is.”

More changes may be coming soon. Th e conservancy is proposing an $18 million to $20 million renovation of the park, the tennis center, and the Bobby Jones Golf Course and its club-house. About $2 million of that would be for work on the west side of North-side, where the tree hunters concen-trated their eff orts. Improvements be-ing considered would include fi xing up perimeter walkways and interior nature trails, stream and bank restora-tion to cut back on fl ooding, and re-moving invasive plants, Spillman said.

Neighbor Gail Driebe worries about the changes. She joined the Sat-urday morning tree tour “because I want to know everything about the fl ood plain.” She thinks the conser-vancy’s plans to redo the park and add a multipurpose trail through parts of it may make the fl ooding worse. “We would like to see the park remain nat-

ural,” she said.Others joined in just to take a walk

in the woods in the heart of Buckhead on a rainy Saturday and learn some-thing new about the place.

Helen Trivers, who lives on Peachtree, said she sees signs of the wild world all the time in her neighborhood. “I’ve had hummingbirds in my yard,” she said. “I had a red-tailed hawk in my yard. I didn’t know what it was. I called my husband and said, ‘Sweetheart, there’s an eagle on our porch!’”

What brought her out to look at the trees? “I like to keep up,” she said. “I’m an outdoor person.”

After walking through the undevel-oped portion of the park, the group gathered at the tennis center to admire the tulip poplar Dickerson had deter-mined was 166 feet tall, making it one of the tallest trees in the city. “It’s su-per, super tall,” Dickerson said. “It’s a massive, massive tree.”

It started to rain a bit harder, but no one seemed to notice. As a group, they turned up the pathway and head-ed toward the top of a nearby hill. Th ere was a big, white oak up there they wanted a look at.

Rain? What rain? Hikers in Memorial Park seek ‘champion’ trees growing in Buckhead

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PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE

Left, Trey Gibbs and his daughter Katelyn, 2, who live close to the park, were eager to go for a hike and admire the tall trees. Right, the Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy brought in Eli Dickerson, an ecologist at Fernbank Forest, to lead the tour.

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Atlanta region must innovate to continue, sustain growth

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The executive director of the Atlanta Regional Commission says the growth of the Perimeter area shows the benefits of in-frastructure planning and says the rest of the metro Atlanta area has to catch up or die.

“If regions fail to adapt quickly enough, they can become irrelevant or actually ex-tinct,” Doug Hooker told members of the Sandy Springs Rotary Club on Sept. 28.

Hooker said the region must contin-ue to innovate to stay relevant and effi-cient for its people, natural life and built structures. The way to do this, he said, is through collaboration.

The biggest change the region must contend with is its continued growth, Hooker said. Attracting company head-quarters such as those for Mercedes-Benz USA and State Farm shows the Perime-ter’s strength in connectivity, with high-ways and MARTA, he said, but continued innovation happens best through collabo-ration.

“The only way to meet these challenges is through cooperative action and collab-oration,” Hooker said. “We have to work together across jurisdictions, business sec-tors, cultural divides and socioeconomic lines in order to win the future.”

Hooker wants to choose a path to win the future, he said, by getting serious about improving education and the qual-ity of the workforce, providing for afford-able housing and coordinating growth as a unified region.

Part of the reason Mercedes, State Farm and other leading companies want to invest in the Perimeter area is because of connectivity between major highways and MARTA, Hooker said.

“Your economy is booming as a result of that,” he said. “With MARTA being here, your neighbors to the north, up Ga. 400, want a taste of what you are experi-encing now, so they want MARTA to ex-tend out to the north of Fulton County. They want what you have.”

After a 2014 public opinion poll showed transportation to be the re-gion’s biggest issue, the ARC made creating a “world-class infrastructure” a priority.

But finding funding has become in-creasingly difficult, Hooker said, and he cautions not to expect more transporta-tion money to come from the federal gov-ernment.

The ARC works toward better “livabil-ity,” Hooker said, which includes connec-tivity as much as an investment in educa-tion and affordable housing for all people.

“We’re talking about real human lives,” he said.

Hooker spoke about a woman who had to move to Smyrna after losing her apartment in Sandy Springs. She had to walk 19 miles a day to her job at Walmart, Hooker said.

Developing and nurturing an inno-vation economy is crucial, Hooker said. Were the Atlanta region a country, it would be the 36th largest economy in the world, he said. “We are as a region as big as the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined,” Hooker said. “We are not a small, sleepy, Southern enterprise anymore.”

Having some of the highest rates of in-come inequality in the region drains its economy, Hooker said.

“The average household income in 2013 was about the same as it was in 1998,” He said. “Fifteen years, and essen-tially unchanged.”

Hooker said too many places import talent and leave locals to low wage jobs. Through collaborative innovation, the communities in the region can continue Atlanta’s growth in a manageable way, he said.

“Our region is at the precipice of tre-mendous change and opportunity,” Hooker said. “The choices before all of us are more important than ever. Our future is not written.”

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Roundabout could bring relief to Wieuca Road

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Creating a multilane roundabout im-proves traffi c through the intersection without taking too much property, Reid said. Th e study said a roundabout would cost about $2 million for construction, not including the cost of acquiring nec-essary rights of way.

“Most expensive, but it does meet the environmental demands, and it’s safer

for the motorists and pedestrians,” Reid said.

Th e current intersection has a free-fl ow left lane, Reid said, where some drivers are unsure whether they are supposed to yield to oncoming traffi c or stop.

Forthcoming mixed-use develop-ment, including a hotel, will add to the congestion and confusion, he said.

Th e consultants studied three possi-

ble alternatives for the intersection. Th e fi rst alternative involves add-

ing left-turn signals at a cost of about $250,000, Reid said. While the signals would also allow pedestrians to cross safely, signals won’t help the traffi c back-ing up along Wieuca, he said.

“While it does provide some safety, the movement is so heavy that the queue would start to back up on Wieuca and cre-ate other operational problems,” Reid said.

Th e second alternative involved wid-ening Weiuca Road from three to four lanes. Th is option wasn’t popular with groups that wanted to preserve the area’s character. Besides, it would cost an esti-mated $1 million, Reid said.

Reid compared the three options to the “Goldilocks and the Th ree Bears” fable, where two options were unaccept-able and the third -- the roundabout -- was “just right.”

Th e layout shows dual lanes with fi ve legs. Drivers would have to decide what lane they needed to be in to get to their exit. Reid said one lane would empty directly into the Wieuca Road Baptist Church.

Th e next steps for the project include talking to rights of way owners and fi nd-ing funding. Th e BCID expects to con-tribute, Executive Director Jim Durrett said.


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A quiet, ‘neighborhoody’ part of the city

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When residents of Ridgedale Park talk about their neighborhood, one word that seems to come up pretty fre-quently is “hidden.”

Th ey describe their communi-ty as their little private hideaway, a 110-house slice of heaven hiding al-most literally in the shadows of Buck-head high rises.

“It’s kind of out of the way and qui-et, but you can walk to retail,” said Michael Graff , president of the Ridge-dale Park Civic Association. “You can walk to Lenox Square in 10 minutes.”

Sitting on the eastern edge of Buckhead, the near-ly nine-decade-old neighborhood feels like an unhurried island surrounded by a frenzy of big city. Evening rush hour may gridlock Peachtree Road just up the hill, but here the streets are fi lled with joggers, kids on bikes and people walking their dogs.

“I like that it’s in the city, but we’ve still got green space and neighbors – a community,” said Susan Taylor, who sat in her front yard one recent afternoon to watch as her three sons – Clark, 9, and the twins Grant and Lane, both 7 – played soccer with Zoe Schroeder from the down the street. Periodically, the ball would roll into the street and one of the players would tear off after it and retrieve it.

“It feels very ‘neighborhoody,’” she said. “But, also, if you need to run to the grocery store, you can be there in

three minutes.”One reason is that commuter traf-

fi c has been diverted around the com-munity. Th e only roads into Ridgeland Park come from Peachtree. Streets that once provided entrances from Rox-boro Road have been made exits only and their traffi c routed to thwart cut-through traffi c.

Taylor said she and her family plan to stay in their current home only temporarily, while they complete con-struction of a house of their own near-by. But others among her neighbors

are in for the long haul. John and Linda Matthews have lived in their home just a cou-ple of doors away from Taylor’s for 42 years, “longer

than anybody else on the street,” John Matthews said.

“It’s a pretty little neighborhood,” Matthews, a retired college history professor, said as he took one of his dogs, a King Charles spaniel named Correen, for a walk. “It’s actually in better shape now than it was 42 years ago. It’s super convenient. Despite the fact it’s close to Lenox, it’s quiet.”

Th e community dates back to 1927, Graff said, and the houses off er a mix of styles and sizes. Residents work to preserve the feel of the community, he said.

“We’ve all been in neighborhoods where one house is 20 feet tall and the next house is 40 feet tall and it looks terrible,” he said. “We have all tried to

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John Matthews takes his dog, Correen, for a stroll in front of the home he’s lived in for 42 years.

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Residents call Ridgedale Park their little 110-house “slice of heaven” just off Peachtree Road.

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preserve the integrity of our neighbor-hood.”

Th at doesn’t mean the homes all stay small. Graff said he renovat-ed his house, built in 1938, to make it spacious enough to accommodate his large family, which includes fi ve daughters. “Th e real job was to make it look like it was that [large] from Day One,” he said.

A few years ago, Jennifer Schro-

eder’s backyard got a makeover from a television show. When she and her husband Paul told an HGTV remod-eling show they wanted both a place where she could work on her painting and where they could keep chickens in the city, the show came through with a fancy coop and a fancy backyard stu-dio.

Now her two chickens, “Biscuit” and “Nugget,” guard the yard while

she paints. “Now I’m a farmer,” she said. “An artist and a farmer.”

But the little studio didn’t work for her, so she moved her art projects back inside the house and the little backyard building became, to use her words, “fantasy football heaven.” On Sunday, her husband and his friends gather to watch NFL football on sev-eral TVs posted around the building. “It’s pretty cool,” she said.

Schroeder said she grew up in Buckhead and her husband grew up in Alpharetta. When they married, “he asked if I would move to Alpharet-ta. I was like, ‘OK...I’ll try it.’” But when they found the house in Ridge-dale Park, things seemed to fi t.

“We love it here,” she said. “It’s the place Paul and I have felt the most at home. ...Th ere’s something about this neighborhood.”

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PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE

Here are a few scenes from a recent afternoon in Ridgedale Park, a quiet neighborhood in the shadow of Buckhead high rises.

Clockwise from top left: Susan Taylor with her 7-yer-old son, Grant; Jennifer Schroeder with one of her chickens; Elizabeth Abston goes for a jog with 16-month-old Vivian Schweikert and lab mix Truman; the Taylor boys -- twins Lane and Grant, 7, and Clark, 9, get in a little front yard soccer practice with neighbor Zoe Schroeder.

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Climb a hillAfter reading all the misinforma-

tion spread about Atlanta and biking, I felt compelled as a civil engineer to dis-pute some letters to the editor with some facts. But then I remembered that in to-day’s climate, facts have a hard time com-peting with puff ery.

Th erefore, instead of trying to con-vince your readers with facts on road di-ets and commuting changes, I decided to off er a story of my own biking experi-ence as a 50-something-year-old.

I kept convincing myself for over 20 years that I couldn’t ride a bike in Atlan-ta. Th e hills, the traffi c, the drivers, the lack of bike lanes: I had all of the excuses.

I grew up in Florida. Biking was in my DNA. But I was a destination bik-er. I rode to visit friends, to go to work, to school, to hit the beach. I never liked to bike for the sake of exercise, but, to go places, I would happily jump on my Sch-winn 10-speed and hit the streets.

Atlanta fi nally started thinking about something other than cars when Mayors Campbell and Franklin started putting in sidewalks in my neighborhood. Not too wide, but wide enough for my fam-ily to walk to the grocery stores, coff ee shops and restaurants in Buckhead. Real destinations!

Next came the Silver Comet Trail and the potential to bike along a less hilly path. I tried the trail a few times, but there was nowhere to go but out and back. Tanyard Creek Trail came next and I started to envision a path from my house in Buckhead to work in Midtown. I used my mapping and routing tools such as Google Maps to devise a route, and purchased a hybrid bike, thinking I would ride over a variety of surfaces to get to my destination.

But those damn Atlanta hills. Th e cheerful salesperson at the bike store ex-plained the vast quantity of gears I had at my disposal, including a “granny gear” for steep hills. “But you won’t need that,” he said reassuringly.

I needed that gear - for at least a month. I teased myself through wheez-ing breaths as I switched down to the granny gear on that last hill home. I still hate that hill, but now I can ride my bike to real destinations throughout Atlanta.

My asthma all but disappeared, my carbon footprint got smaller (conve-niently calculated at 70 percent using http://www.gacommuteoptions.com/), and I had a workout that gave me the opportunity to be outside, in contact with good and sometimes bad elements,

rather than in a crowded gym. A couple more connecting paths lat-

er, like the East-West Beltline, and I can ride comfortably from home or the of-fi ce to festivals in Little Five Points and Decatur.

While improvements in Atlanta’s in-frastructure make bike commuting a more realistic endeavor for us older folks, sometimes the biggest hill to climb is in your mind.

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Yes, move around

Atlanta roadways were to a great ex-tent built with streetcars in mind, not automobiles. Th e streetcars came before the paving, even, and didn’t vanish un-til the 1960s. Th at’s why the roads are so odd in their layout. Atlanta was adapted to the automobile, not built around it.

Why do people only drive cars along the Peachtree corridor?

A few possibilities: Th ere aren’t enough buses to make them practical, the road isn’t safe for bicycles and those who live within walking distance of one of the train stations may not be well served by them. Would citizens prefer to drive, take public transit or ride a bike, if all were reasonable options? I don’t know, I haven’t seen data on preferences among those choices for that area.

Why should cyclists be drawn to Pharr Road simply because it has bike lanes and is fl at? Is its failure to attract cyclists indicative of the failure of bike lanes in general? Pharr Road connects to both Peachtree and Piedmont. Neither are bike friendly. Th at might be a reason for that.

If you build it, they will come? Proba-bly. We know there’s signifi cant demand for cycling lanes. Of course people aren’t biking along Peachtree; it’s not safe...yet. Th at in no way indicates they won’t in the future, if conditions change.

Remember, Portland Ore., was once like Atlanta. Th e traffi c wasn’t as perpet-ually horrendous, but they complete-ly changed the way their citizens move about. Th ey also spend a lot less on roads as a result. It might be a good idea to do

a cost-benefi t analysis of the cost for var-ious transit options versus the possible savings and benefi ts.

We’re paying taxes for roads that are impassable, but not paying for the tran-sit options that would allow citizens to move around freely...interesting. I don’t think that’s an eff ective use of my money.

I live near a MARTA station and drive very little. It’s not worth the hassle anymore. I’ve given up on it. I’m lucky that I can take MARTA, walk and Lyft where I need to go and reserve the car for groceries, etc. I have options.

Th ose of us who don’t need to be in a car shouldn’t have to be using one. I’m single. I’d own a bike and use it, if I didn’t live in Buckhead. It’s too danger-ous. Let people like me out of the car so Mom can drive her kids around freely, etc. without hassle.

Th e right of freedom of movement isn’t limited to people with automobiles.

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Misleading facts[Re: “No Peachtree ‘diet,’’’ in the let-

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Ms. Schwartz writes that “GDOT seems determined to road-diet Peachtree Road even though nation-al studies discredit dieting roads that have more than 20,000 ‘annual av-erage daily traffi c’ (AADT). Specifi -cally, the U.S. Department of Trans-portation has stated that road-dieting is not recommended for roads that are at full capacity. In comparison, Peachtree Road has 45,000 AADTs, and is clearly at full capacity.”

Th e report she cites clearly, and in the fi rst sentence of the report, refers to a four-lane to three-lane conversion and cites the 20,000 upper limit on vehicles per day. Georgia DOT is looking at a six-lane to fi ve-lane conversion. Obviously, there is more capacity which allows you to process more vehicles. Citing this study and AADT’s upper limit is misleading.

To get questions answered and con-cerns addressed directly by the profes-sionals who have been working on this project for over two years, the public should plan to attend an open house on Oct. 29, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Shep-herd Center, 2020 Peachtree Road.

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The intersection of Peachtree Dunwoody and Johnson Ferry roads is often clogged with traffic atop Pill Hill. A recent surprise plan for a dense apartment building on a piece of hospital

property sparked calls by the mayors of Sandy Springs and Brookhaven for better planning.

Cities seek a prescription for Pill Hill’s traffic


Yvonne Williams, the PCIDs president and CEO. “We know traffic is going to be expanded because so much growth is going on with the medical area and the corporate area in general.”

Pill Hill’s boom began when Northside opened its doors in 1970. The other hospitals followed within the next eight years, along with a sprawling array of medical offices and nursing colleges. Today, the med-ical center is a jewel of the Perimeter, offering a full

range of well-regarded health care, employing thou-sands, and offering millions of dollars worth of free health screenings and other local charitable activities. At the same time, it’s become increasingly hard to get in and around the area, at least during peak hours.

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Pill Hill in Sandy Springs is nicknamed for the three major hos-pitals—Northside, Emory Saint Joseph’s and Children’s Health-care of Atlanta—that treat hundreds of thousands of patients a year. But it might as well refer to the aspirin a driver might need for the medical center’s rush-hour traffic headaches.

The heart of Pill Hill, the intersection of Peachtree Dunwoody and Johnson Ferry roads, often is clogged.

A recent surprise plan for a dense apartment building on a piece of Emory Saint Joseph’s property sparked calls for better Pill Hill planning from the mayors of Sandy Springs and neighboring Brookhaven. Meetings among both city’s engineering staff and the hospitals are in the works.

“I’m going to be sitting down with the hospitals…to talk about mobility,” Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul said in August. “It’s truly a public safety issue.”

“The bottom line is still the traffic,” said Brookhaven May-or Rebecca Chase Williams. “We try to work, and certainly talk about working, with a regional view. But now we’ve got to walk the walk.”

Emory Saint Joseph’s and Northside said they offer various commuting options to their thousands of employees, many of whom use MARTA’s Medical Center station. But they are open to meeting, they said.

“We always welcome dialogue that addresses traffic conditions and traffic safety,” said Northside spokeswoman Katherine Wat-son.

The hospitals agree that there is more to be done in an area also impacted by the neighboring Perimeter Center and the Ga. 400/I-285 interchange. Heather Dexter, Emory Saint Joseph’s chief oper-ating officer, said at a recent Sandy Springs Planning Commission meeting that traffic is sometimes a challenge for the hospital’s doc-tors and ambulances. All three hospitals work with the Perimeter Center Improvement Districts, which offers commuter consult-ing, and is planning various street and bike path fixes in the area.

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A long-planned office complex dubbed NorthPlace is moving ahead at Barfield Road and Mount Vernon High-way in Sandy Springs’ booming corpo-rate-headquarters corridor along Ga. 400 and Abernathy Road.

The Perimeter’s thriving office-space market is moving NorthPlace forward. But it remains to be seen whether that momentum will spread to other stalled plans—including an office skyscrap-er and a luxury hotel—on major par-cels around the Ga. 400/Abernathy in-tersection.

“The rental rate on office space…is really at the highest levels ever,” said Kirk Demetrops, president of Sandy Springs-based MidCity Real Estate Partners, which is teamed with Atlanta’s Crocker Partners on the NorthPlace project.

The apartment market was the first real-estate sector to come booming out of the recession, Demetrops said, and now the office market is following suit.

Both trends have made a splash on Abnerathy Road just west of Ga. 400, where Mercedes-Benz USA will build its new headquarters alongside more than

1,000 units of housing from developer Ashton Woods.

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sure doesn’t hurt in marketing North-Place’s office space, Demetrops said.

Then again, he noted, the Ga. 400/Abernathy/Mount Vernon area has long been attractive to corporations, with its highway and MARTA access.

“Corporate headquarters after corpo-rate headquarters have chosen to relo-cate here,” Demetrops said.

Those include UPS, Newell Rubber-maid and Global Payments on Glenlake Parkway.

The following projects are pending or underway around the Ga. 400/Aberna-thy intersection:

NorthPlaceThe 3.7-acre NorthPlace office site

would be anchored by two office towers, one about six stories and one about 10 stories, along with build-to-suit struc-tures. It’s the second phase of a redevel-opment that began about a decade ago with the Promenade at NorthPlace con-dos farther up Barfield Road. The entire site previously was a car dealership.

Demetrops said some potential ten-ants “have been waiting for us” and will be ready to occupy the site.

Abernathy 400This massive proposal along Aberna-

thy between Ga. 400 and Barfield broke ground in 2007, but only the Serra-no mixed-use building has been built. Plans for over a half-million square feet of offices and a hotel have yet to mate-rialize, though the current development team—Cousins, Ackerman & Co. and H.J. Russell & Company—issued up-dated drawings last year. The developers did not respond to emails seeking com-ment.

Northpark 100A gigantic mixed-use plan with 500

apartments and a 50-story office tow-er was proposed last year for the 16-acre open space in the southeast corner of the Ga. 400/Abernathy intersection. The developer is Hines, who built Dun-woody’s Ravinia tower. After communi-ty debate, Hines reduced the scale of its plans, then withdrew them about a year ago. Hines did not respond to emailed questions about the project’s status.

Grand Bohemian Hotel Atlanta

The 275-room luxury hotel was pro-posed by the Kessler Collection in 2008 on the wooded parcel ringed by Aberna-thy, Mount Vernon and Peachtree Dun-woody Road. The project has stalled since then, reportedly due to difficulties in securing financing. Kessler currently has a sign posted on the property adver-tising 34,500 square feet of it for sale as a “potential high-rise condominium de-velopment” to be done “in conjunction with” the hotel.

A Kessler spokeswoman said there will be no “official updates” on the hotel until next year at the earliest as the com-pany focuses on an Alabama hotel.

Somerby of Sandy SpringsThis 200-unit luxury housing for se-

niors by Dominion Partners is under construction at 25 Glenlake Parkway. Dominion did not respond to emails seeking comment, but company web-sites say the project will offer indepen-dent living, assisted living and memory care, and is slated for a late 2016 open-ing.

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‘Funky and fun’ Psycho Sisters store closing its doorsBY JOE EARLE

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Stephanie Cramer intends to stay in business through at least one more Hal-loween.

“Halloween is so much fun,” she said. “Come in right before [the holiday] and sit here. It’s energy. Everybody is happy. ... It’s really, really fun at Halloween.”

Cramer says she plans to close the Sandy Springs branch of Psycho Sisters, her vintage clothing and costume shop located at 280 Hammond Drive, by the end of the year. The closing won’t affect the remaining Psycho Sisters shops in Little Five Points in Atlanta or in Hape-ville, company representatives said.

Cramer, who bought the Sandy Springs location 14 years ago, hasn’t set a formal clos-ing date, but says she’ll certainly hold on at least through the spooky dress-up holiday that brings big sales to Psycho Sisters shops. How important is Oct. 31 to her business? “We start counting down to Halloween on Nov. 1, the day after Halloween,” she said.

But every day can’t be Halloween. And the marketplace for vintage cloth-ing and Halloween costumes is chang-ing, Cramer said. Too many big chains are moving into the suburbs to hawk Halloween costumes and sell vintage clothes.

“Everything has a season and Psycho Sisters’ [business] in suburbia has been taken over by the national chains,” said Angie McLean, the store’s founder and original owner, and now CEO of Psycho Sisters Clothing LLC. “She’s really smart to close the store gracefully.”

McLean said she started the Psycho Sisters business back in the 1990s, when the nightclubs in Buckhead were boom-ing and people wanted to dress up in fancy clothes for a night on the town.

She started the business with a lookalike friend – they were the “sisters” – she had known in Flori-da and from met-ro area clubs, she said.

The Sandy Springs shop was the first Psycho Sisters to open, she said. Why Sandy Springs? Partly for its proximity to the club scene, she said. But most-ly, “I just picked a place on the map,” she said.

Soon, she opened anoth-er Psycho Sisters shop in Little Five Points. Psycho Sisters branches started spreading across the metro area, from Hapeville to Cartersville. Cramer, who lived in Dunwoody, was a regular customer of the Sandy Springs shop, the two women said.

Fourteen years ago, when McLean decided she’d spread herself too thin and that she needed to sell the Sandy Springs shop, Cramer happened to be looking for a business to move into. “I needed something,” she said. “It fell right into my lap.”

She had just had her first child, she said. Owning and operating the shop meant she could bring her child to work with her. “I wanted something where I didn’t need to day care my child. I went in one day and saw a for sale sign. I called my husband and said, ‘Sisters is for sale.

I’m buying it!’ I raised my daughter in the store...

“It’s been a wonderful journey. I think it made [my daughters] very spe-cial children because they grew up with shoppers coming in.”

Psycho Sisters still is crammed with Halloween costumes – Harry Potters and Elvises and Disney princesses and “Star Wars” outfits for the kids, and nurses and showgirls and other more adult disguises for the grownups – but Cramer says some of her customers have changed through the years.

Nowadays, she said, older wom-en drop by the shop to try out jewel-ry because they’ve never had their ears pierced. Psycho Sisters still sells clasp earrings. At the same time, teenagers come in to check out the racks of vin-

tage tops and skirts, she said.“Sandy Springs has changed so

much,” she said. “This shop was more funky 14 years ago. I’m still trying to keep it funky and fun.”

Besides, after 14 years of running her own shop, Cramer decided the time had come to try something new.

Her daughters now are at an age where she wants to spend more time with them after school. And she and her husband, who remodels houses, are talk-ing of working together in a real-estate-based business.

“I’m ready for a life change,” she said. “It’s not a midlife crisis, it’s a life change. I love doing this, but I’m ready for a change.

“I think I could do well at real estate. It’s something that interests me.”

PHOTOS BY JOE EARLE

Left, Stephanie Cramer, who bought the Sandy Springs Psycho

Sisters location 14 years ago, will close the store by the end of the year. Above, Halloween brings big sales to the chain.

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“We need to have a coordinated plan for traffic in the Pill Hill area, where we need to bring all three hospitals togeth-er,” DeJulio said. “As the hospitals con-tinue to grow and the population con-tinues to age more…I think it’s just going to continue to get worse.”

Children’s Healthcare last month filed paperwork to expand its Pill Hill hospital by 60 beds. A new, much larger Ronald McDonald House, which hous-es families of ill children, is going up at Peachtree Dunwoody and the Glenridge Connector. Northside owns a huge va-cant parcel, the site of a former hotel, marked with signs saying only, “Plan-ning for growth, investing in the future.”

Then there’s Emory Saint Joseph’s plan to sell a Johnson Ferry parcel to North American Properties for a 305-unit apartment building along the Brookhaven border. North American says it will be just the sort of walkable project that could help relieve Pill Hill’s traffic crunch. Neighbors worry it will add to the traffic nightmare.

Lack of notice in Brookhaven was also a concern, drawing Mayor Williams to hold unusual meetings with Sandy Springs officials, helping to spark the new attention to Pill Hill. Communica-tion is an underlying issue: city to city, hospital to city, and both to the neigh-borhoods.

Mayor Williams said she was sur-prised by Emory Saint Joseph’s “radio si-lence” on the apartment plan. DeJulio said, “We don’t really hear from the hos-pitals.”

“We are open to having broader con-versations and look forward to working with city officials, since the governments will ultimately be responsible for the infrastructure required to make…im-provements,” said Emory Saint Joseph’s spokeswoman Mary Beth Spence.

Yvonne Williams said the PCIDs work with the hospitals in two major ways that have helped. One is the new Perimeter Connects commuter consult-ing program, which helps with such ef-forts as carpool and reduced MAR-TA fares. It’s also talking with hospitals about consolidating some of their shut-tle services.

Then there are major infrastructure projects like the proposed widening of Peachtree Dunwoody, including add-ing bike lanes, under I-285. That would connect with the PATH400 multiuse trail planned to run between Pill Hill and Ga. 400.

Such “multimodal” transportation projects would be a huge help, Williams said, and the pending Ga. 400/I-285 in-terchange project is a big opportunity for fixes. A previous project, complet-ed in 2009, added better sidewalks and other streetscape for pedestrians.

Another big opportunity is some type of transit-oriented development directly around the MARTA station, as MARTA is planning at some oth-er stations, including in Brookhaven. Williams said there no formal plans for that yet.

Pill Hill’s issues can be complex. While rush-hour traffic is bad, the streets can be relatively clear on off hours.

Pedestrians, on the other hand, can still have safety and wayfinding chal-lenges. The streets have wide crossings where cars turn against walk signals. Construction blocked some local side-walks last week. On two recent Pill Hill visits, lost pedestrians were struggling to find Emory Saint Joseph’s and a medical office located in one of the many nonde-script buildings.

Yvonne Williams said that having the Perimeter Center’s “corporate com-munity, a Fortune 500 community, right adjacent to a medical center is very unique…It makes it a very appealing area. Our assets are very strong. We just need to develop opportunities to con-nect those uses.”

Cities seek a prescription for Pill Hill’s traffic


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Dunwoody Home TourWednesday, Oct. 7, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. – The 43rd annual Dunwoody Home Tour brings visitors to five homes in Dunwoody and near-by Sandy Springs. Tickets: $25 in advance; $30 on the day of the tour. Purchase online at the Dunwoody Woman’s Club website: dunwoody-womansclub.org. All ticket proceeds benefit the diversified service products of the club, a 501.3c charitable organization.

Tour de DunwoodySaturday, Oct. 17, 9 a.m. – The Dunwoody Elementary School presents their annual fami-ly bike ride. Riders can participate in the Tiger Route, a police escorted 3-mile ride through the streets of Dunwoody, or take the Cub Route, a shorter, closed course through the campus. Stu-dents will be accepting pledges to raise money for the Dunwoody Elementary Tiger Fund Cam-paign, which makes possible activities and equip-ment for the school. All riding abilities welcome. Registration: $20 per person and comes with event t-shirt. Dunwoody Element ary School, 1923 Womack Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Have questions? Go to tourdedunwoody.com or email: [email protected].

Vintage AffairSaturday, Oct. 17, 6-10 p.m. – The Commu-nity Assistance Center presents the 13th annual Vin-tage Affair fundraiser event. Award winning winer-ies, top local restaurants, silent and live auctions all come together for an evening of charity and giving. Tickets are $110 per person or $200 per couple. For information on sponsorships, volunteer opportuni-ties and tickets, contact Vintage Affair chairwoman Shelly Dozier-McKee at [email protected]. Go online to vintageaffair.org to purchase tick-ets. Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church, 805 Mount. Vernon Hwy., NW, Sandy Springs, 30327.

Harvest on the HoochSunday, Oct. 18, 1-4 p.m. – The Chatta-hoochee Nature Center presents “Harvest on the Hooch,” celebrating farm-to-table practices. Visitors enjoy a garden party tasting, featuring high-profile restaurants, live bluegrass music and activities. Pro-ceeds benefit the center’s Unity Garden, which sup-plies more than five tons of fresh produce annual-ly to the North Fulton Community Charities’ food pantry. Rain or shine event. Tickets: $40 for adults; $15 for kids; free for ages 10 and under. Chatta-hoochee Nature Center, 9135 Willeo Rd., Roswell, 30075. Find out more at chattnaturecenter.org.

The BoxtrollsTuesday, Oct. 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m. – Kids and families are invited to watch this PG film follow-ing Eggs, a young orphaned boy raised by under-ground, cave-dwelling trash collectors. Light snacks provided. Free and open to the first 25 participants. Brookhaven Branch Library, 1242 N. Druid Hills Rd., Brookhaven, 30319. To learn more go to dekal-blibrary.org or call 404-848-7140.

Button ManiaThursday, Oct. 8, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. – Drop in and craft one-of-a-kind buttons for your-self and your friends at this workshop. Use personal photographs, illustrations, magazines and other art-work to make unique pins for your bags and jackets. Free. Appropriate for teens and adults. Registration requested by emailing: [email protected]. Need more information? Go to afpls.org. Buckhead Branch Library, 269 Buckhead Ave., NE, Buckhead, 30305.

Night HikeFriday, Oct. 9, 8-9 p.m. – Bring the family for a leisurely night hike around the wetlands and back forests of Dunwoody Park. Educators from the Dunwoody Nature Center will guide groups through the hike and educate participants on the sounds of nocturnal creatures. Free. Dunwoody Na-ture Center, 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338. Call 770-394-3322 or go online to dunwoodyna-ture.org to learn more.

Run Your Happy Tails OffSaturday, Oct. 10, 8 a.m. – The second an-nual Run Your Happy Tails Off Run and Festival benefiting Happy Tails Pet Therapy returns to Brook Run Park in Dunwoody. Fun Run begins at 8 a.m., fol-lowed by a 5K at 8:30 a.m. Post-race festival starts at 1 p.m. and of-fers food from local ven-dors. Course is USATF qualified. All dogs must be on a fixed (not re-tractable) leash no lon-ger than six feet. Two dogs maximum per person. Go to runyourhappy-tailsoff.com for more details and to register. Ad-vanced online registration is $35 for the 5K and $25 for the Fun Run through October 9. Day of regis-tration is $40 for the 5K and $30 for the Fun Run. 4770 North Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

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After SelmaThursday, Oct. 8, 6-8 p.m. – Artist Josh-ua Rashaad McFadden’s series, “After Selma,” is on display through Oct. 24 at the Spruill Gallery in Dunwoody. McFadden’s photography touches on intimate moments in celebration of the 50th anni-versary of the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. On the evening of Oct. 8, McFadden hosts a night of projections and an open forum to discuss his work. Free to attend. Spruill Gallery & Gift Shop, 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more information, call 770-394-4019 or go to spruillarts.org.

Ceramic Bowl SaleFriday, Oct. 6, 5-9 p.m. – The Spruill Center Ceramics Department hosts the 14th annual “Free Beans with Every Bowl” sale. Vis-itors can peruse and purchase a wide variety of high-quality ceramics created on site by Spruill students and faculty, then stay for a helping of chili. Cash and checks only. Free and open to the public. Continues Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Spruill Center for the Arts, 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. Need additional information? Go to spruillarts.org or call 770-394-3447.

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Fall Fun DaySunday, Oct. 11 9:30-11:30 a.m. – Celebrate the onset of fall at the Marcus Jewish Community Center in Dunwoody. Families will enjoy a petting zoo, bounce house, face painting, crafts and more. Snacks and drinks provided. Suitable for all ages. For additional information go online to atlantajcc.org, contact Ilana Schlam at [email protected] or call 678-812-5342. $20 for members, $32 non-members. 5342 Tilly Mill Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

Historic HalloweenMonday, Oct. 12, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. – Kids are invited to show off their favorite costumes in a Hal-loween parade and festival at the Atlanta History Center. Kids will enjoy costume contests, trick-or-treating throughout the museum, creepy tales and themed art projects, and toddlers and preschoolers will learn a bit of history. Free for members; non-member tickets are $6.50 for adults and $5.50 for children. Discounted rates available for groups of 10 or more children. Call 404-814-4110 or go to atlan-tahistorycenter.com with questions. 130 West Paces Ferry Rd., NW, Buckhead, 30305.

CSI AcademyTuesday, Oct. 13, 4:30-5:30 p.m. – Learn all about the science behind forensic investiga-tion in this family-friendly class and workshop, part of the Big Thinkers series. Made popu-lar by TV shows such as “CSI” and “Law & Order,” kids have an opportu-nity to learn about the techni-cal aspects of the job. Registra-tion required. Space is limited. Stop in the Sandy Springs Branch Library, call 404-303-6130 or email: [email protected] to register. Go to afpls.org for details. 395 Mount Vernon Hwy., Sandy Springs, 30328.

Growing Up WildWednesday, Oct. 14, 10-11 a.m. – The Bluer Heron Nature Preserve hosts a guided walk around the property, aimed at engaging children with sensory experiences in nature. Accompanying adults will learn how to provide and encourage similar experiences in a safe and positive way. As a bonus, come away with a treasure made from natural materials. Suitable for kids ages 5 and under. Tickets: $5 for adults. Free for children. Strollers are welcome, but the terrain is uneven. Register online at bhnp.org. 4055 Roswell Rd., Buckhead, 30342.

Big Hero 6Thursday, Oct. 15, 5 p.m. – Come out and see a family-friendly movie, “Big Hero 6,” under the stars at Brook Run Park. Snacks avail-able for purchase from food trucks starting at 5 p.m.; screening of the movie begins at dusk. Lawn chairs and blankets encouraged. Free and suitable for all ages. Sponsored by the Dun-woody Police Department. 4770 N. Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. For more details go to cvbdunwoody.com.

PCMS Fall FestivalSaturday, Oct. 17, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. – Peachtree Charter Middle School presents the sixth annual fall festival following the CV Classic 5K Run. 5K starts at 8 a.m.; 1-mile run/walk starts at 8:30

a.m. Bracelets are $15, and include access to in-flatables, games, crafts, face painting and fair hair. Concessions, a bake sale, book sale, pho-to booth and silent auction available for cash sale. Race and run/walk are rain or shine events. Race registration, $20. Find out more online at peachtreechartermiddleschool.org. 4644 N. Peachtree Rd., Dunwoody, 30338.

Tree Climb Adventure

Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. – Join Peter “Treeman” Jenkins and his team from Tree Climbers International for an afternoon of tree climbing education. Participants learn techniques from the founders of the sport at the Dunwoody Nature Center. Must be 6 years of age or older. Admission is $25 for members and $30 for non-members. Questions? Go to dnc.org or call 770-394-3322. 5343 Roberts Dr., Dunwoody, 30338.

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State parks provide public places to admire autumn leavesBY JOE EARLE

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The return of autumn means it’s time to hit the highway and check out the changing colors of fall in the Georgia mountains.

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources says late October and early November usually bring the peak weeks to admire the reds and golds of the chang-ing leaves.

Georgia’s state parks system brags that its parks offer some of the best leaf-peeping around. And, through a website called Leaf Watch, the park system guides tour-ists to places where they can find the best fall color. For regular updates on where to see leafy views that are at or near their colorful peaks, go to gastateparks.org/leaf-watch.

“Beginning in October, regular updates will keep travelers posted on how fall color is progressing across Georgia’s Blue Ridge,” the state says. “The website is filled with top trails and overlooks, mountain cabins and campsites, fall events and safe hiking tips.”

And state officials enourage photographers to post their favorite shots to the Georgia State Parks’ Facebook page and on Instagram.

This year, DNR recommends a number of state parks to check out for fall color. Here are 10 likely prospects:

1 CLOUDLAND CANYON STATE PARK A hike down a long, steep staircase in this

park takes visitors to a pair of waterfalls. The 5-mile West Rim Loop is moderately difficult and offers great

views of the canyon. For more: gastateparks.org/CloudlandCanyon

2 RED TOP MOUNTAIN STATE PARK

Located about a 40-minute drive north of Atlanta, Red Top Mountain offers views of lake and forest. Families with young children will find a paved walking path behind the park office, park officials say. For more: gastate-parks.org/RedTopMountain

3 FORT MOUNTAIN STATE PARK

Although it may be best known for a mys-terious rock wall along the mountain top, Fort Mountain offers a variety of hiking trails. They range from a 1.2-mile loop around a lake to an 8-mile, all-day hike. Ga. 52 has beautiful moun-tain scenery and overlooks. For more: gastateparks.org/FortMountain

4 AMICALOLA FALLS STATE PARK Located an hour north of Atlanta, this

park includes the Southeast’s tallest cascading waterfall. The falls can be viewed from both easy and difficult trails. The park gets very busy on pretty October week-ends, the state says. For more: gastateparks.org/Amica-lolaFalls/Trails

5 VOGEL STATE PARKThe 4-mile Bear Hair Gap Trail makes

a nice day trip for experienced hikers, offering great mountain color and a bird’s-eye view of the park’s lake, state parks officials say. The twisting roads around Vo-gel, particularly Wolf Pen Gap Road, offer some of north Georgia’s prettiest fall scenery. For more: gastate-parks.org/Vogel

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7 UNICOI STATE PARK Unicoi promises hiking, mountain biking, a lake with a beach and a

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These Founding Fathers take to Twitter as they start a revolutionThere were anachronisms, to be sure.

George Washington tweeted the whole event. Ben Franklin’s cane looked more than a little like a Halloween prop. One Founding Father wore a patch for the New England Patriots.

And in place of his usual tri-corner hat, John Hancock wore a cheese head. “It’s a triangle,” sniffed Adam Rubinger, explaining the orange headgear he wore as he played the part of Hancock.

Still, by the time this particular meet-ing of the Second Continental Congress was done, all the major points had been covered. The delegates had voted to reb-el against Great Britain, drum up a mi-litia and sign a short, to-the-point Dec-laration of Independence that read: “In 1776, we solemnly declare ourselves in-dependent of Great Britain.” Who needs the real Thomas Jefferson and all his wordiness?

As Davis Academy history teacher Matthew Barry saw it, everything went just fine in this year’s version of his an-nual eighth-grade re-enactment of the Second Continental Congress, the gath-erings in 1775 and 1776 that led to the creation of this country.

Barry played Washington, complete with buff-and-tan coat, white wig, tri-corner hat and Twitter account. “Thirty or 40 people are following [on Twitter]

right now, in-cluding In-dependence Hall in Phil-adelphia, which is cool,” he said shortly after the start of the class.

(Washing-ton isn’t the only histor-ic character Barry plans to bring into class during the school year. He’s also got costumes he uses to portray Sitting Bull, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and a pair of Civil War soldiers, one from each side, and a few others, he said. “If there’s a chance for me to dress up, I will,” he said.)

This was the 11th time he had orga-nized a recreation of the Second Con-tinental Congress. The four-hour event has become a favorite part of the school year. Students look forward to it. Parents come and watch for part of the day. It’s Barry’s way of trying to get students en-gaged with history, and have a little fun with it, rather than just reading about it.

“It’s one of the most exciting parts of the eighth grade,” said parent Da-vid Rubinger, whose twin sons Adam and Eric were taking part this year and whose two older children had been through previous congressional re-en-actments. “He really brings history to life in a way I don’t remember when I

was going to school.”This year, 58 eighth-graders from

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Each student played the part of a particular delegate to the original Sec-ond Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia back in 1775 and 1776.

Barry’s classes contained two students too many for the 56 actual delegates, so the extras portrayed other Sons of Liber-ty from the time, including Paul Revere.

The students dressed in a variety of costumes to represent their 18th century characters. Some wore white wigs. Oth-ers donned costume tri-corner hats, boots, vests or long coats with knee-length pants.

At one point, someone shouted at Samuel Felner that he had a stain on his trousers. “They’re not trousers,” he replied. “They’re baseball pants.”

There were girls among the delegates, too. Several wore long braids. “I think we’re supposed to be boys,” said Gabi Louis, who played the part of Arthur Middleton of South Carolina.

Seated at 13 tables covered with green tablecloths and small, electric can-dles, the delegates shouted approval or disapproval as various positions were presented and argued. They banged on tabletops. They hooted at opponents.

“Arguing is a very fun aspect,” said Adam Prass, who portrayed New York delegate James Duane and drew catcalls for arguing against independence.

Debate touched the major issues of the day: slavery, trade, how to raise a navy when you don’t have one, what to make of battles with British soldiers in Boston. At their table, Jonah Medoff and Arie Voloschin worked on a draw-ing of the tarring and feathering of a tax collector.

Once all the shouting and table-banging and presentation of arguments were done, 11 delegations voted to de-

clare independence, Barry said the next morning. Two delegations voted to ab-stain. That suited Barry just fine. “I just let them go with it,” he said.

And you can take nothing for grant-ed when it comes to recreating history. Past re-enactments have varied in their outcome. Over its 11 years, Barry said, the Davis Academy version of the Con-tinental Congress is 10 and 1 when vot-ing for independence.

One year, the whole thing collapsed into bickering. “They went to war with each other,” he said. “North Carolina declared war on South Carolina.”

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In a perfect world, my favorite foods would have magical properties. Crois-sants would make my hair smooth and silky, potato chips would make me sing on key, and bacon would kill germs that cause bad breath.

Lo and behold, dear readers, that world has arrived!

Every time I log-on, I see a new an-nouncement splashed across the Inter-net that a formerly forbidden food is now considered healthy.

It started with chocolate…dark choc-olate. Somewhere, somehow, someone discovered that dark chocolate is jam-packed with antioxidants, which of course are the superheroes of our genera-tion, and furthermore, that dark choco-late releases endorphins, which are good for the soul. Chocolate with ice cream is even better for the soul, and if there is coconut oil somewhere in the mix, it will kill your belly fat as you eat it.

The happy news continues. Coffee is good for the muscles, red wine is good for the heart, hamburger and avocados are good for the brain, and beer is a pro-biotic. And to round things out, I will add that olive oil and garlic are good for the joints.

It’s as if we’ve fallen into the Land of Oz. Pretty soon we’ll learn that apple strudel whitens teeth and pasta quattro-formaggi improves your chances of win-ning the lottery.

Why, just today, a headline appeared in the “healthy living” section of my newsfeed, entitled, “The Top Ten Best Foods You Can Eat.” I took the bait and clicked on the link. All the usual suspects were there—blueberries, kefir, beans, spinach—but buried in the mid-dle were mushrooms, which gave me pause, and then, making a grand finale appearance on the list, was pork! Pork, people, pork! Well, now we’re talking.

It appeared to me that all food is trending “good for you,” so I decided to try a little experiment. I googled ran-dom foods and attached the question, “Is it good for you?” And I have discovered that (with the exception of strawberries,

which we’ve been eating all wrong, but that’s an-other col-umn) it’s all good!

Guided by my origi-nal wish list, I went cra-zy and start-ed with, “Are croissants good for you?” I found a site which explained that, sure enough, they are! Croissants contain iron and se-lenium, and even though I have never in my life heard of selenium, it happens to be an essential mineral, and that is good enough for me.

And take our old friend bacon, for example. I googled, “Is bacon good for you?” and up popped a post that is en-tirely devoted to the virtues of bacon. It’s on a website called Bacon Today, posted by Boss Hog (who else) and liked by, at last count, 24,735 humans. It is titled “Top Ten Reasons Bacon is Actu-ally HEALTHY for You!” and it informs us that bacon is good for the brain, the heart, blood pressure, general well-be-ing, and that it can fuel your car and major industry, too.

I have spent several days researching the health benefits of foods-formerly-known-as-unhealthy. I have concluded that a hamburger cooked medium well, covered with mushrooms and melt-ed Swiss cheese, served with a side of (gluten-free) chips, guacamole and a beer, and finished with a dark-choco-late brownie a la mode, is the ultimate brain-powering, endorphin-boosting, healthy meal.

Plus, after you eat it, you will make all the green lights.

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With siblings adopted from China, Ansley has always felt an urge to help children less fortunate than she was growing up. She is amazed at how such a small effort by her family helped her siblings in such a huge way. It also mo-tivated her to help in other ways when given the opportunity. The perfect one presented itself this past summer.

Her godparents live in Uganda and work for Sixty Feet, which is mainly a well-digging service for drought-ridden towns and villages. Ansley explained that they hit water at 60 feet under the ground, hence the name.

The organization has divisions out-side of well digging: clothing, food and a few others, including working in chil-dren’s prisons. She explained that her godparents are in charge of all the com-pany’s Ugandan operations, so they knew when they needed help. Ansley was eager to help out and to take a trip to Uganda.

The children’s prisons in Uganda are very different than the juvenile correc-tional facilities in the United States. In Uganda, Ansley said, children can be imprisoned if they beg or simply cannot find their family in public.

Ansley went to work every day in these prisons, giving the children food, water and clothes, and simply being someone they could talk to.

The teenag-ers and older boys value the conver-sations, Ansley said. And she ad-mits that her time wasn’t spent in completely self-less action; she loved the conver-sation and time with the children as much as they did.

Overall, she enjoyed her time in Uganda, and plans to go back in the future.

In addition to her humanitari-an endeavors, she is very enthusias-tic about art. An-

sley said she loves graphic design and hopes to pursue it in the future. Also, she would like to incorporate graphic design into helping less fortunate chil-dren. She hopes to create advertising to raise awareness for organizations such as Sixty Feet.

Art and graphic design is very much a part of Ansley’s life at school. She is in

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Ansley’s work is “thought provoking and highly original.”

“She enjoys working creatively to produce conceptual works of art that are highly skillful,” Brown said. “Ansley is one of the most considerate students I have ever taught. She is compassionate and generous, and lives out our school’s mission statement in all she does, but es-pecially the part – ‘for others ahead of self.’”

Ansley also is a member of the Whitefield tennis team. She plays num-ber 3 singles, and the team went to re-gional competition last year. This com-ing spring, she will captain the varsity girls’ team.

What’s Next: While her college search is well un-

derway, Ansley is sure that she wants to go to college either in New York or Chi-cago. She says the energy of a big city excites her and draws her in. Also, she is inspired by the constant movement and happening of a large urban area.

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Clifton Corridor light rail line appears to be gaining momentumBY CLARE S. RICHIE

Despite the 2012 T-SPLOST de-feat, MARTA and its regional part-ners are actively pursuing the Clifton Corridor Transit Initiative, a proposed light rail line that would link the Lindbergh and Avondale stations and provide relief to one of Atlanta’s most congested job centers.

Each day an estimated 50,000 cars travel to Emory University, Emory Hospital, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Children’s Health-care, and the Veteran’s Administration Hospital, through an area described as the Clifton Corridor. In the next 25 years, 65,000 more jobs are expected in this area, which currently lacks ac-cess to an interstate or MARTA sta-tions. Th e three MARTA bus routes (6, 19 and 36) and Emory private shuttles are simply inadequate, ac-cording to offi cials.

“Can you imagine if downtown or the Perimeter had no interstate or MARTA option?” asked Tameka Wimberly, Clifton Corridor Project Manager-MARTA Offi ce of Transit Systems Planning. “It’s an urban area that’s not connected the way it should be.”

A light rail line connecting the cor-

ridor anchors has promise. It could cut current commute times between Lind-bergh and Emory in half and shave 17 minutes off the trip from Hartsfi eld-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Th e line would also provide access to Cheshire Bridge, Suburban Pla-za and DeKalb Medical Center, and connect riders to MARTA’s Red and Gold (north) lines and the Blue (east) line.

Right now, the proposed project is in the Environmental Impact State-ment (EIS) phase that will look at two alternatives; the second (Alter-native 2) is a lower-cost option with only street level, or at-grade, rail. Th is phase includes environmental analy-sis, cost refi nement, station locations/design and other potential impacts, as well as community outreach and pub-lic hearings. More details like track lo-cations, traffi c signals, bike lanes, side-walks and bus route connections will come later.

Completion of the fi nal EIS state-ment is expected in 2017. Submission of the statement is the fi rst step in ap-plying for federal funding under the New Starts program.

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Battle linesDeKalb representatives want districts redrawn

COMMUNITY 3

Scouts honorBuckhead, Ugandan

troops make connection

COMMUNITY 19

Yellow cardConcern continues over

soccer club’s plans

COMMENTARY 6

Egg roleThese creations are

not for breakfast

AROUND TOWN 7

Movie magicArea draws fi lm,

television productions

COMMUNITY 8

His ‘house’Southside youth center

bears his name

MAKING A DIFFERENCE 10

JuLy 15 — JuLy 28, 2011 • VoL. 3 — no. 14

By JOe [email protected]

A non-profi t group has begun collecting donations to fi -nance a study of the feasibility of creating a city of Brookhaven.

Citizens for North DeKalb announced recently that it had begun collecting donations through its website and by check. Th e group hopes to raise enough money to pay for a state-man-dated study by the Carl Vinson Institute of Governmental Af-fairs at the University of Georgia to examine whether a proposal to create a new city in the area makes fi nancial sense.

“We want to learn all we can about the municipal options that are on the table,” Doug Dykhuizen, president of the group, told members of the Brookhaven Community Connection on

SEE GROUP, PAGE 5

By MaGGie leeProperty owners in parts of northern DeKalb County will

see their taxes rise substantially under a new tax millage adopted by the DeKalb County Commission.

At the same time, the commission presented a list of de-mands for spending oversight changes, including a reduction in the number of county employees.

Th e tax rate for residents in unincorporated areas of DeKalb will rise by 4.35 mills, from about $8 on $1,000 of taxable val-ue of a property to about $12.35. Th at means the taxes on a $200,000 house could rise by about $180, county offi cials said.

Th e tax hike for Dunwoody residents will be lower, rising 2 mills, meaning the taxes will rise from about $8 to nearly $10 on $1,000 of taxable property value. Th at’s because Dunwoody provides some of its own services, like police. Th at could mean

SEE DEKALB, PAGE 4

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Noah Rich, 5, listens to his father Mark, as he gets a bicycle lesson at Keswick Park July 9. Noah, who will attend

kindergarten at Murphey Candler Elementary School this fall, was so encouraged he learned to ride that afternoon. More photos on page 4 and online at reporternewspapers.net.

DeKalb council votes property tax hike, demand job cuts

Citizens group solicits donations for

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Residents talk up a new park on Mountain Way


When Gordon Certain fi rst moved to north Buckhead in 1975, he used to take walks along Mountain Way.

“It was just beautiful,” he said. “You couldn’t tell you were in the city.”

Th ings change, of course.Now, “all you’ve got to do is look up,” Certain said. “[You

see] the concrete cloud.”Th ese days, Mountain Way passes beneath those most ur-

ban of developments – Ga. 400 and MARTA trains. Th e wind-ing road, which connects North Wieuca and North Ivy roads, passes beneath the highway and the commuter train that runs through the area.

But Certain, who’s president of the North Buckhead Civic SEE NEIGHBORS, PAGE 3

Meister expresses con� dence in interim

school superintendentBY DAN WHISENHUNT

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Nancy Meister introduced Interim Superintendent Er-roll Davis Jr. at a July 21 meeting at Garden Hills Elementary School and gave him her full endorsement.

“I believe he is the right man at the right time and here for the right reasons,” the District 4 Atlanta Board of Education member told the packed house.

Davis was drenched in sweat and had removed his jacket by the end of the night after taking more than an hour’s worth of questions from parents, students and teachers. Th e crowd fre-quently applauded his answers.

Davis takes over at a perilous moment for Atlanta Public Schools. Former Superintendent Beverly Hall left with a cloud of suspicion hanging over her head after a cheating scandal hit

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Let the good times roll

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Nicole Soileaul, left, swings with Darin Cornell as they enthusiastically get into a dancing groove at the Atlanta

Cajun Zydeco Association CD party and potluck dinner at the Garden Hills Recreation Center in Buckhead July 24. More photos on page 16 and online at reporternewspapers.net.

Pension pinchAtlanta budgets

feel the pain

COMMENTARY 6

Southern eatsLocal author praises purloo, moonshine

AROUND TOWN 7

Stage frightVeteran comic opens new club

OUT & ABOUT 11

Relax, refl ectEven clergy need to

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Tax hikeDeKalb County Commission votes for increase, job cuts

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open doorsGeorgia Attorney General

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Super stallVacant schools post

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Tom Bennett, left, with wildlife wonders and the North georgia Zoo & petting farm, gives Ben irastorza, 7, a rare chance to touch a skunk during a program for children and

parents at the dunwoody public Library on July 9. more photos on page 17 and online at reporternewspapers.net.

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Close encounter

By Joe [email protected]

Jenna Shulman knew exactly why she and the others were building paper rockets in a Dunwoody gym.

She’d been to Space Camp before, the one in Alabama, and they’d made and launched similar air-powered rockets there.

“We put air in them and they went up into the air,” said Jen-na, who’s 11.

But launching rockets wasn’t the main thing she and her brother Seth planned to do during their week at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta’s first Space Camp.

“We’re going to do a space mission,” Jenna said. “We’re

By Melissa [email protected]

Dunwoody City Council has postponed a final vote on the city’s parks bond proposal until its July 25 meeting.

City officials want a referendum, which will ask Dunwoody residents to vote on the issuance of $33 million in general ob-ligation bonds, to appear on the November ballot. The council will need to approve the referendum by the end of July in order for it to make it onto this year’s ballot.

Council members had several concerns about the bonds, which would be used to acquire land for city parks. It will equate to a 0.75 mill increase for taxpayers. One mill is equal to $1 for every $1,000 of the taxable value of a property.

In the future, a second $33 million bond issue will be put be-fore voters to develop park land, city officials have said.

City Councilman Denis Shortal wanted to know what inter-est rate the city could expect if voters approve the bonds, which the city would be responsible for paying back over a 30-year pe-

City Council puts off parks bond vote again

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Scouts honorBuckhead, Ugandan

troops make connection

commuNity 2

Skid marksLocal paving project

shifts gears

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All earsFulton schools leader

seeks feeback, opinions

commeNtARy 6

egg roleThese creations are

not for breakfast

ARouNd towN 7


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mAkiNg A diffeReNce 10

movie magicArea draws film, television

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Aidan berry, 5, above, closely inspects his chalk-covered

fingers after making sidewalk creations at the Sandy Springs

farmers market on July 2.

Left, Hannah Rose Much, 5, and right, Alex berry, 5, twin brother of Aidan,

busily make their own chalk art masterpieces at the

market. more photos online at reporternewspapers.net.

By MelIssa [email protected]

Buckhead and Sandy Springs voters are telling state lawmak-ers they want to live in election districts that will strengthen rep-resentation of their neighborhoods.

Legislators listened to residents at a public hearing June 30 in preparation for the upcoming special session of the Georgia General Assembly in which the state’s legislative and Congres-sional districts will be redrawn to reflect changes in population.

Many of the speakers expressed hope that “communities of interest” – areas which share common beliefs and lifestyles – would be kept intact during the process.

By dan [email protected]

The Sandy Springs City Council on July 12 approved in-centives to lure a business into the city that claims it will cre-ate 289 jobs, but some council members said they were wary about what the city’s long-term economic development poli-cy would be.

“We need to give this a tremendous amount of thought,” Mayor Eva Galambos said.

The unspecified project planned for the Powers Ferry area, code-named “Project Gamma” by City Manager John Mc-Donough, will receive around $190,000 in incentives from the city. City officials did not name the company.

The pay-off for the city will be 289 new jobs with an addi-tional 50 expected in the next five years, McDonough said. Mc-

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What’s also daunting is that the Federal Transportation Administra-tion expects 50 percent or more of the project cost to come from local sourc-es. “Atlanta is competing with cities like Los Angeles that only ask for 20 percent federal funding,” Wimberly shared. And MARTA is the only sub-way system in the country that doesn’t

receive state funds. Instead, MARTA and its support-

ers will work with the Georgia Gen-eral Assembly to pursue levying a half-penny sales tax in DeKalb and Fulton counties.

If all goes as planned, light rail ser-vice in the Clifton Corridor could be-gin in 2025.

For more, visit itsmarta.com/Clif-ton-Corr.aspx or facebook.com/pag-es/Clifton-Corridor-Transit-Initiative. Send comments, questions, ideas and concerns to the Clifton Corridor Proj-ect Team at [email protected].

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From police reports dated Sept. 6 through 19

The following information was provided to the Buckhead Reporter by the Zone 2

precinct of the Atlanta Police Department from its records and is presumed to be

accurate.

ROBBERY 2400 block of Coronet Way—Two

men with guns approached another man at a bus stop and demanded his proper-ty. Th ey took the man’s wallet, house keys and cellphone from his pockets before fl eeing on foot.

700 block of Huff Road—When a man unlocked the front door to allow an employee to enter, a man entered with his hand in his pocket as if he had a gun. He said, “No one moves, no one gets hurt. Where’s the money?” He then told everyone to lie on the fl oor. Th ree other men entered. One of the suspects went behind the counter and removed the cash drawer with $150 inside, a Sony laptop, iPhone and car keys to a 2001 white Lexus RX300. Th e other suspects went through the victims’ pockets tak-ing property. Arrests have been made.

1000 block of Collier Road—A neigh-bor saw someone in the stairwell bleed-ing from the head and with an electri-cal cord tied around his right wrist. He said “Robert” was inside his bedroom talking, when he suddenly got up and said, “I want your stuff . I need this, I need this.” Th e suspect struck the vic-tim about the head with a hammer and fl ashlight before taking an Apple iPhone 6, wallet and keys to a 2013 Hyundai Elantra. Th e victim was transported to Grady to be treated for signifi cant inju-ries to his head, face, hands and legs.

3200 Lenox Road—A man was sitting on his sofa when a man with a mask entered, pointed a knife and demanded money. Th e man complied and gave the suspect $50.

1900 block of Piedmont Circle—A man with a 9mm gun and a woman en-tered a room at a suites hotel, threatened the resident, took his TV and drove off in a red Ford Explorer. Th e suspects and a second man were located in the vehicle a short distance away, and identifi ed by the resident. Th e residents and robbery sus-pects know each other and use drugs to-gether. Th e robbery suspects claimed the resident said it was okay to take the tele-vision because he owed them money for drugs.

2100 block of Monroe Drive—A man left his white Dodge Char-ger running while he entered a store. While in-side, he heard his vehicle speed off . He exited the loca-tion and yelled out “HEEEY!” A man stuck a black gun out of the window, which made the car owner re-treat back inside. Video captured the man exiting the driver side of a powder blue In-fi niti and the male passenger sliding over to the driver’s seat.

2400 block of Coronet Way—A man approached a woman and demanded her cellphone. When she refused, the man said, “Look, I’m going to ask you one more time or I’m going to punch you in the face.” She handed the man her iPhone 5C and he ran off .

1400 block of Mecaslin Street—Peo-ple met up in person after connecting on Craigslist to sell an X-Box. Two men pulled an AK-47 and a black handgun, fi red shots in the air and demanded their X-Box, wallets and keys. Th ey fl ed in a Silver Nissan Altima and fi red shots at the seller when he ran after their vehicle. Eleven .40-caliber shell casings were re-covered. A projectile struck one vehicle in the parking lot.

First block of 25th Street—Men drove up to a driver in a gold sedan, pointed guns and stated “You know what we want [expletive deleted],” and “You know what we do, ho.” Th ey took the driver’s keys, wallet, necklace, credit cards and cell phones.

First block of Roswell Court—Two men in a black Nissan approached a man. One suspect showed a gun in his waist-band while the other suspects took $660 from his pocket. Th e victim said the driv-

er is known as “El Abuelo” and that he and his girlfriend know when the victim gets paid and has taken money from him in the past.

4200 block of Roswell Road—Some-one walked into a cellphone store with a revolver, forced the clerk and custom-ers into the back and demanded electron-ics items (phones and tablets). Employees complied and placed several items and monies form the cash register into a black plastic bag. An arrest has been made.

AGGRAVATED ASSAULT 2600 block of Peyton Road—A ver-

bal altercation turned physical when someone picked up a stick. Both par-ties pushed each other to the ground and one person retaliated by beating the oth-er with the stick. A patrol offi cer noted visible lacerations to one person’s hand, bruises to the forearm and back.

3200 block of Roswell Road—While handling a booting dispute, a man used a handgun to knock on a driver’s window several times. While on scene, the man with the gun was positively identifi ed by the driver as he walked by. Th e handgun was recovered after a “consent to search” warrant was obtained.

1700 block of Northside Drive—Sev-eral men attacked a man, who was out-side an apartment complex in the pool area. He reported being punched, kicked and thrown into the pool. He received several rib fractures as a result of the in-cident.

I-75 at Northside Drive—A man pulled beside another man on the high-way, lowered the passenger window and pointed a handgun at him.

3400 block of Kingsboro Road—An intoxicated man showed up at a woman’s front door and began a verbal argument. When she refused to open the door, he kicked the door in, splitting the door-frame. Once inside, he choked her and said he would kill her. Th e man snatched the woman’s iPhone when he realized she was recording the entire episode. Arrests were made.

3100 block of Roswell Road—A man and a group of men were engaged in a verbal dispute that turned physical when he was struck in the face and head with a glass bottle. He was later treated for fi ve fractures and also some possible muscle and tissue damage behind his left eye.

200 block of Sardis Way –After being thrown out of a bar for a argument, one person was stabbed in the stomach while walking down the street. Th e suspect lat-

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2400 block of Piedmont Road—Dur-ing a fi ght, a person was struck in the face with a drinking glass and cut about the face. Th e suspect was able to leave the lo-cation undetected, but was later iden-tifi ed when a member of his entourage showed police his Facebook page.

2600 block of Piedmont Road—Police units were dispatched to a shop-lifting call at a depart-ment store. Upon ar-rival, police saw someone trying to run away. As police approached, the suspect picked up a chair and swung it at offi cers, who tased the suspect be-fore arrest.

2300 block of Cheshire Bridge Road—A man cut off a woman’s vehicle as she entered a parking lot. When she began honking her horn, he “gave her the mid-dle fi nger” and used profane language. As she was walking from the ATM, he sped his vehicle in the direction she and a mi-nor child were walking, almost striking them. When she said she was phoning police, the man said he didn’t care and

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1700 block of Cheshire Bridge Road—A man said he was struck in the head with a fl ashlight when he refused to leave a nightclub parking lot. He drove him-self to Atlanta Medical Center for treat-ment and later to Grady Medical Hospi-tal for follow-up. Police were unable to confi rm or deny the incident took place. Th e victim sustained a contusion to the forehead.

RESIDENTIAL BURGLARY 3200 block of Paces Ferry Road—A 70-

inch fl at-screen TV, a Bose Surround Sys-tem, Apple TV box, a Blue Ray player, a di-amond ring, a pair of diamond earrings and other jewelry were taken from a house that is being renovated.

700 block of Huff Road—Several drawers inside an apartment were ran-sacked, but no items were taken.

2500 block of Defoors Ferry Road—A washer, dryer, stainless steel stove, re-frigerator and a Kitchen-Aid dishwasher were taken from a house.

1100 block of Collier Road—A MK watch, a MK diamond necklace and an MK ring were taken from an apartment.

2000 block of Northside Drive—A Dell laptop, a Ryobi tool kit, an electric scooter and two blue bikes were taken from a house.

700 block of West Wesley Road—A basement window was broken and a GE refrigerator, a white Whirlpool washer and a white dryer were taken.

2000 block of Peachtree Road—A 50-inch TV, a Visio laptop, a wallet and two Money orders were taken.

200 block of Laurel Forest Circle—A Kitchen Aid gas stove top was taken from a house that is vacant.

3500 block of Roxboro Road—A Honda gas powered pressure washer, 47-inch TV, a 50-inch Sony TV, a Blackberry Device, an Xbox, a 37-inch Samsung TV, a brown comforter, a Dell Inspirion laptop and a Daniel Wellington watch were taken.

2100 block of Piedmont Road—Apart-ment keys, key fob, a vehicle key and a keyless remote entry were taken by the resident’s ex-boyfriend.

4000 block of Conway Valley Road—A gas-powered leaf blower was taken from the carport and an iPad Mini and change jar were taken from the resident’s room. A pillow case was discovered on the kitch-en counter.

1900 block of Hollywood Road—A burglar bar was found lying on the ground and a window was broken. Th e interior of the residence was ransacked and the alarm panel ripped form the wall and broken. An LG 60-inch LED

TV, a Phillips 55-inch TV, two Dell 13-inch laptops, a Sony Dolby stereo, a wed-ding ring, a women’s handbag and a set of house/work keys were taken.

500 block of Collier Road—A Whirl-pool microwave and gas stove were taken from a vacant house that is currently list-ed for sale.

4000 block of Arden Way—A Sony Bravia 40-inch TV, a MacBook Air lap-top and a leather wallet with a checkbook and credit cards were taken.

4200 block of Wiecua Road—A Nin-tendo WII, an Xbox One, two laptops and three fl at-screen TVs were taken from a house currently listed for sale.

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2400 block of Bolton Road—A win-dow air conditioner and 100 DVD mov-ies were taken.

1300 block of Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard—A black TV stand, a black LG fl at-screen TV and three Dell mon-itors were taken.

3200 block of Roswell Road—A cash drawer that contained $300 in currency was taken.

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