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Newspaper Page TextInside Growing family Reporter group buys Atlanta Intown monthly COMMUNITY 2 Move or not Heard’s Ferry parent outlines consquences COMMUNITY 3 Go for it Make your own success, says company president COAAMENTARY 8 'eri meter Business Transportation issues still a hot topic PAGES 9-15 Wow factor Modern home designs on tour OUT a ABOUT 19 Selfless act Volunteers prepare dead for Jewish burial FAITH 20 Scan here to get Reporter Newspapers in your inbox or sign up @ ReporterNewspapers.net MAY 31 - JUNE 13,2013 • VOL. 7 - NO. 11 pa § e 22-23 Tough enou gh PHIL MOSIER Back to front, Samara Harber, 7, Eileen MacDonnell, 6, and Ava Kreiss, 7, give it their all throughout a tug of war contest during “National Kids to Parks Day” at Hammond Park in Sandy Springs on May 18. The event encouraged families to engage in healthy, outdoor activities. More photos on page 30. Roswell Road getting better, officials say BY DAN WHISENHUNT Danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net One of Atlanta’s most notorious north-to-south corridors gets a bad rap, traffic officials say. The people who drive the road every day see it a little differently. Turning left onto Roswell Road re quires patience. Sidewalks fade in and out of view. Finding a driveway into a business can be tricky. Pe destrians often cross the road wherever they please. When school buses drop students off at apartments along Roswell, the road becomes a parking lot. Traffic officials with the city of Sandy Springs and the Georgia Department of Transportation say traf fic flow along Roswell Road in Fulton County has improved in the last few years. State Route 9, as the road is known to state officials, begins in Midtown and ends in Dahlonega. The Georgia Department of Transportation has spent $191 million over the last 10 years making im- SEE ROSWELL, PAGE 4 Judge considers Heard Cemetery arguments BY DAN WHISENHUNT danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net After a two-hour hearing May 29 about the use of a family cemetery in Sandy Springs, a Fulton Coun ty judge is deciding whether a lawsuit over who owns the land should go to trial. Fulton County Superior Judge Kimberly Adams heard arguments from lawyers for property owner Christopher Mills and descendents of Judge John ITeard, the Confederate veteran buried at the ceme tery. Many of the descendants attended the hearing. Mills and his attorney, Christopher Porterfield, asked the judge to rule against a summary judgment request, and to allow the case to proceed to trial or to rule that part of the property can be used for a ceme tery and part can be used for private property. They also argued that part of the land would still be subject to taxation because portions of it aren’t being used as a cemetery. SEE JUDGE, PAGE 29

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Sandy Springs reporter. (Sandy Springs, GA) 2007-current, May 31, 2013, Image 1