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Newspaper Page TextInside Protest power Park trail hearing set for Jan. 31 COMMUNITY 2 Tough transit MARTA must change to better serve patrons COAAMENTARY 8 Wall flower Offices to showcase local artists OUT a ABOUT 18 Cookie queen Local Girl Scout is tops in sales AAAKING A DIFFERENCE 19 All their love Creatures large and small bring joy to many PET REPORTER 20-21 Scan here to get Reporter Newspapers in your inbox or sign up @ ReporterNewspapers.net Dun woody Reporter www. Reporter Newspapers, net JAN. 25 - FEB. 7,2013 • VOL. 4 - NO. 2 Tackle those twigs City adopts moratorium on new ethics complaints BY JOE EARLE joeearle@reporterenewspapers.net Dunwoody City Council has imposed a 90-day moratori um on ethics complaints while officials rewrite the city’s eth ics ordinance. After ethics complaints divided the council last year, council members have decided to take a look at the proce dure the city uses to handle ethics complaints. The council on Jan. 14 unanimously approved the moratorium on new complaints while a new process is developed and adopted into law. “The responsible thing to do while going through the process is to put the moratorium in place,” City Manager Warren Hutmacher told council members. City Councilman Denis Shortal said the moratorium on CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 PHIL MOSIER Tiffany Robinson, a student at Georgia Perimeter College in Dunwoody, volunteers during a school-sponsored civic engagement project at the Dunwoody Nature Center on Jan. 21. Students created a new trail, remulched an existing trail and cleared invasive plants. More photos on page 23. Spruill Gallery seeks developer for its acreage BY MELISSA WEINMAN melissaweinman@reporternewspapers.net The property surrounding the Spruill Gallery is back on the market. The nonprofit Spruill Center for the Arts is hoping to attract a developer to build a mixed-use project on the ap proximately 5 acres fronting Ashford Dunwoody Road. “The Spruill family donated the property to us in 2001 along with the farmhouse that’s now the gallery,” said Bob Kinsey, CEO of the Spruill Center for the Arts. “There are some deed restrictions on how they donated the prop erty. It has to be used for the arts and the farmhouse has to be maintained.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 A HEARING AID THAT CAN DO AIL THISP See our ad on page 29 to learn about our 14 day test drive! Audiological Consultants of Atlanta “Since 1983” You Could Be Hearing From Us.

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Dunwoody reporter. (Sandy Springs, GA) 20??-current, January 25, 2013, Image 1