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Couple seeks relief for damage brought on by backyard flooding City says its insurer won’t cover damage BY CATHY COBBS newsroom@appenmedia.com
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Maura Binkley, a yoga instructor from Dunwoody, was slain by a gunman three years ago in Tallahassee.
Nonprofit builds on memory of slain Dunwoody instructor BY CATHY COBBS newsroom@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. – Observing her mantra of “only love can conquer hate,” community members gathered at the Dunwoody Nature Center Nov. 2 to commemorate the 3-year anniversary of the death of resident and yoga instructor Maura Binkley. Binkley, a Florida State University student who grew up in the Dunwoody Station subdivision, was shot and killed by a gunman at a Tallahassee hot yoga studio. Another woman, Nancy Van Vessem, 61, an FSU professor, was also killed. Six women were shot that night
and a man was pistol-whipped before the gunman, Scott Paul Beierle, 39, killed himself. The mass shooting was classified later as misogynist terrorism by the International Center for Counter-Terrorism. Binkley’s death spurred her parents, Jeff and Margaret, to form the nonprofit Maura’s Voice Research Fund that supports reducing violence and researching the complex causes and effects of firearm violence. According to its annual report, the nonprofit uses new approaches to forensic evaluation, management, treatment,
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DUNWOODY, Ga. — A Dunwoody homeowner whose basement has flooded three times in the past 15 months says he is frustrated by the lack of action by the city to remediate an “inadequate” canal behind his house. City officials, however, say they aren’t responsible for the damages associated with the flooding. Ly and Mark Douglass moved to a home on Meadowcreek Drive in the Wyntercreek subdivision in late 2020 after doing extensive renovations to the home, but even before they completed the overhaul, problems began. “In September of 2020, as we were finishing the work, there were some torrential rains, and we were flooded twice in a short period of time,” Mark Douglass said. “It happened again about a month ago. Both times we had to replace the flooring at a cost of $3,000 to $4,000 each time.” The couple doesn’t have flood insurance, and traditional homeowners’ insurance doesn’t cover the costs associated with the damage, Douglass said. So, they turned to the city for assistance, thinking that the deficiencies in the stream’s drainage capacity would pay for the damage.
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Photos taken by the homeowners show the extent of the flooding to their basement after heavy storms rolled through the city.