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JULY 2020. VOL. 14 — NO. 7
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► Worth Knowing:
A salute to
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Sandy Springs
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
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Black
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AROUND TOWN
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JOHN RUCH
Black Lives Matter movement protesters on Mount Vernon Highway hold
up signs to Sandy Springs City Hall and passing motorists June 8
Hammond Drive widening
project moves to $1.7M
design phase
BY BOB PEPALIS
The Hammond Drive widening project
is moving to the design phase after the City
Council heard a report on June 16 on com
ments made about the conceptual plan and
staff responses to those concerns.
The idea to widen the road originated
long before Sandy Springs became a city.
The controversy about the project has lasted
just as long, with the Glennridge Hammond
Neighborhood Association saying in 2016
that the project is a threat to one of the city’s
largest and oldest neighborhoods.
Opposition continued in February pub-
BY BOB PEPALIS
In the wake of the nationwide George
Floyd protests, which came to San
dy Springs City Hall several times last
month, May
or Rusty Paul
made an un
precedented
call for a city
wide dialogue
on race and rac
ism. But getting
true diversity in those conversations will
be challenging. And it has already been
an issue in city plans to redevelop the ma
jority-minority North End, a concept that
experts say in part reflects the pattern of
systemic racism in Atlanta with its risks
of displacement and gentrification.
For more about
race and local
policing,
see p. 15-16.
See HAMMOND on page 22
See AS on page 14
