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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
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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
