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Inside 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 Camps A special advertising section PAGES 18-22 Scan here to get Reporter Newspapers in your inbox or sign up @ ReporterNewspapers.net Dun woody Reporter www. Reporter Newspapers, net 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- CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 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 CONTINUED ON PAGE 26
