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Inside
Dying deed
Motion requests cemetery
be returned to heirs
COMMUNITY 2
Center city
What does $84
million look like?
COMMUNITY 3
Future forecast
Mayor says city is
on ‘right path’
COMMUNITY 4
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
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PAGES 18-22
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Taking it to the streets
PHIL MOSIER
Elita Lerner, left, and Emily Dalton stretch before the start of the Chattahoochee Road Runners Race on March 2 in
downtown Sandy Springs. Participants used a side wall of the Goodwill Industries store for support as they prepared
for the race. Both the 5K and 10K got under way in 30-degree weather, complete with a few light snow flurries.
Council awards park
contract, reviews districts
By DAN WHOM?
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
City Council during its regular meeting on March 5 awarded a
construction contract to finish a park that is months behind sched
ule, and also looked at potential changes to council districts.
Construction of the next phase of the Abernathy Greenway Lin
ear Park will begin soon and city officials hope it can be completed
by spring 2014. City Council awarded the $3.2 million contract to
Johnson Landscape.
Johnon Landscape will have 180 days to complete the construc
tion, which will include installing sidewalks, lighting, bathrooms
and parking facilities.
The delay in awarding the contract has kept plans to install
“playable art” — playground equipment designed by artists and do-
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Crossroads area fights
‘as one’ over issues
BY DAN WHISENHUNT
danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net
Barry Lebowitz said he remembers
when residents living around the his
toric Crossroads Cemetery became a
neighborhood.
In 2010, Verizon applied for a per
mit to erect a cell phone tower across from the historic Crossroads
Cemetery.
“That was the lynchpin,” Lebowitz said. “That’s exactly what did
it. When we got that notice, everybody’s ears perked up.”
The cell tower proposal fired up the community and resulted in
the creation of the Historic Cross Roads Community Association,
a group that includes roughly half a dozen subdivisions near the in-
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