Inside
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
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MAY 31 - JUNE 13,2013 • VOL. 7 - NO. 11 pa § e 22-23
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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
