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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
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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
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