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Inside All aboard? MARTA plans to expand rail line up Ga. 400 COMMUNITY 2 Pay up Letters urge city to fairly reimburse businesses COAAMENTARY 8 Keep truckin’ Food ‘on wheels’ extremely popular COMMUNITY 10 Empty shelves Food banks feel pinch of economic slowdown AAAKING A DIFFERENCE 13 Nature calls Club members are ‘addicted’ to outdoors OUT a ABOUT 14 Center circles Labyrinths making comeback in local churches FAITH 22 Scan here to get Reporter Newspapers in your inbox or sign up @ ReporterNewspapers.net Can you hear us now? PHIL MOSIER The Greenfield Hebrew Academy of Atlanta performed a musical program “From Strength to Strength Songs From Our Journey,” on Nov. 2, helping the Atlanta Jewish Male Choir celebrate their 10th anniversary. Front row, from left, Gabriella Schakett, Rebecca Robins and Ariel Scher. Middle row, Kinneret Weismark, Elli Russutto and Lydia Miller. Back row, Guy Wainstock, Kira Berzack and Miriam Raggs give it their all. More photos on page 25. Alarm program still news to some residents New council, new mayor prepare to take over BY DANWHISENHUNT danwhisenhunt@reporternewspapers.net City Council said during its Nov. 12 meeting that the city’s po lice department must refund fines paid by people who didn’t regis ter their security alarms. The council’s was reacting to a report from Police Chief Ken DeSimone about the city’s false alarm reduction program. City Council signed a contract with CryWolf that required residents to register alarms with the city by Oct. 1, or face a $100 fine. City Council adopted the false alarm program in November of 2012, and has spent nearly a year urging residents to register their alarms, and more than 6,000 have complied. Police are still re sponding to calls at homes and businesses with unregistered alarms, DeSimone said. DeSimone said more than half of the alarm calls are generated by alarms not registered with the city. SEE AMNESTY, PAGE 26 BY PATRICK FOX AND DANWHISENHUNT There will be new faces when the next City Council takes of fice in January. And for the first time in the city’s short history, there will also be no wom en holding elected office in the city. In the meantime, vot ers must decide who will fill the District 6 seat be ing vacated by Council- woman Karen Meinzen McEnerny. No candidate in the race received more than half the votes, so the top two fin ishers — Andy Bauman and John Stoj — meet in a runoff election Dec. 3. Patty Berkovitz, who finished third in the voting in Dsitrict 6, SEE NEW AAAYOR, PAGE 27 Mayor-elect Rusty Paul looks ahead to the next four years Page 4
