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Inside Ladder up Some fire facilities to see upgrades COMMUNITY 3 Mixed bag Opinions differ on Altanta public schools COAAMENTARY 8 Wither winter? Searching for spring along Chattahoochee River AROUND TOWN 9 Crafting calm Creative therapy helps trauma victims AAAKING A DIFFERENCE 10 Rifles, riots Experience home life, battle lines during Civil War OUT a ABOUT 14 Business boom Brookhaven considering self-taxing business district COMMUNITY 27 Summer Camps A special advertising section PAGES 18-22 Scan here to get Reporter Newspapers in your inbox or sign up @ ReporterNewspapers.net Buckhead Reporter www. ReporterNewspapers. net MARCH 8 - MARCH 21,2013 • VOL. 7 - NO. 5 The times of your life PHIL MOSIER Don Rifenberg, front, left, and fiancee Mary Masi, right, intently scrutinize the “Looking at Buckhead: Our Story” exhibit, part of the community’s 175th anniversary celebration held on March 1 at the Buckhead Theatre. More photos on pages 4 and 5. Happy birthday, Buckhead! BY DAN WHISEHUNT danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net Drink up, Buckhead: it’s your birthday. Buckhead officially celebrated its 175th birthday on March 1 at a fundraiser sponsored by the Buck- head Heritage Society. The venue was the Buckhead Theatre, in keeping with the tradi tion that everything in Buckhead should have “Buckhead” some where in its name. Attendees came to the event dressed to the nines, dining on sushi, steak and choco late-covered strawberries, stopping to pose for pictures in front of a mockup of Irby’s general store, the original Buckhead tavern. In 1838, entrepreneur Hen- SEE BUCKHEAD, PAGE 4 Community forged by Ga. 400 fight BYDANWHDH1T danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net Tire Buckhead Re porter offers this look at the North Buckhead neighborhood as part of a series of articles on where res idents live. More than 100,000 drivers on Ga. 400 pass through one of At lanta’s biggest neighborhoods ev ery day. The North Buckhead Civic As sociation formed in 1972 to keep the Georgia Department of Trans portation from building the toll road. Buckhead Neighborhood Association President Gordon SEE NORTH BUCKHEAD, PAGE 6
