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Inside Voter’s guide Who’s who running for mayor, City Council COMMUNITY 2-4 Slim shady City Council needs to rework Tree Ordinance COAAMENTARY 6 Life changing Residents become U.S. citizens at river ceremony AROUND TOWN 7 Hello again Two local pastors return to take the pulpit FAITH 8-9 Scan here to get Reporter Newspapers in your inbox or sign up @ ReporterNewspapers.net OCT. 4 - OCT. 17,2013 • VOL. 7 - NO. 20 Got you in my sight PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER Above, Kate Brosnan, 7, gets a bead on a feathered friend at the Morgan Falls Bird Walk event at Overlook Park on Sept. 21. Right, Shantaram Bharadwaj, back, with twin sons, Shlok, left, and Sachit, take a close look as well. Sponsored and led by the Atlanta Audubon Society, the outting gave attendees the chance to view migratory and local birds during peak migration season. Another photo on page 15. Review finds fewer voter registration issues BY DAN WHISENHUNT danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net Sandy Springs officials say they’ve checked the numbers again and there aren’t as many problems with the list of registered voters as they first thought. City Manager John McDonough updated City Council about the city’s latest count of discrepancies found in the current list dur ing council’s Oct. 1 meeting. At the first City Council meeting in September, an analyst told council members he’d found nearly 5,000 problems with the coun ty’s list of registered voters in the city. Problems included voters liv- SEE REVIEW, PAGE 19 ‘Neighborhood Friendly’ rating draws ire BY DAN WHISENHUNT danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net The Sandy Springs Council of Neighborhoods this month rat ed members of the current City Council on whether their votes are “friendly” to neighborhood interests, but some council members say the list is unfair. According to the SSCN, only 31 percent of votes cast on 10 controversial zoning decisions during this City Council’s term were considered “Neighborhood Friendly.” SSCN is an advocacy group that lobbies City Council on neighborhood issues. SSCN produced a similar ranking after the first term of the first SEE ‘NEIGHBORHOOD FRIENDLY’, PAGE 5 A REVOLUTIONARY HEARING AID THAT GAN HEAR LIKE YOUR EARS DO. FREE demonstration and hearing screening! See our ad on page 10 to leam about our 14 day test drivel AUDIOLOGICAL CONSULTANTS of ATLANTA “Since 1983” You Could Be Hearing From Us. Lyric can. Helena Kadyn Solodar, Au.D. Williams, Au.D.
