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Fire forces
Local cities considering
joint fire department
COMMUNITY 2
Business boom
Brookhaven mulling self
taxing business district
COMMUNITY 7
Out of focus
Residents vent over
DeKalb school system
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
Summer
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MARCH 8 - MARCH 21,2013 • VOL. 4 - NO. 5
Braving the chilly weather
PHIL MOSIER
Austin Elementary School Principal Ann Culbreath, right, walks with
students Erin Howe, left, Elise Kelly, right, Noelle Chatigny, second
row, left, and Kindergarten teacher Jennifer Loner, at center,
while they participate in “Walk to School Day” on March 6.
Music in the
park this
summer? Maybe
BY JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
There will be music on some summer
evenings in Dunwoody this year. The ques
tion now is, just how many?
Dunwoody city officials and officers of
the Dunwoody Homeowners Association
both recently debated whether to put to
gether a series of free concerts in Brook Run
Park. But neither group formally committed
to going on with the shows.
“There’s a lot of interest in it,” DHA
president Stacey Harris said. “We just have
to get it right.”
Meanwhile, the Dunwoody Chamber
of Commerce plans a series of four sum
mer evening events that will feature musical
performances. And the Dunwoody Nature
Center will host six outdoor concerts on Sat
urday nights this spring, summer and fall,
executive director Alan Mothner told mem
bers of the DHA board.
The chamber events, called “Dun
woody at Dusk,” are intended to lure peo-
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New parent
group monitors
DeKalb schools
BJ JOE EARLE
joeearle@reporternewspapers.net
Hundreds of Dunwoody parents filled a
church auditorium one recent Sunday after
noon to discuss how best to deal with the is
sues facing the county’s schools.
“The way it is now doesn’t work,” par
ent Lindsay Ballow said after the gathering
at Kingswood United Methodist Church in
Dunwoody. “We have to do something.”
DeKalb school officials confront a num
ber of problems, including the loss of the
system’s accreditation.
The Southern Association of Colleg
es and Schools, the accrediting agency gen
erally called SACS, criticized the board for
the way it runs the system and put the sys
tem on probation. Parents fear that if SACS
eventually revokes the system’s accredita
tion, the action could have an effect on
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