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Traffic calming policy sparks debate Residents, Sandy Springs officials study cost sharing in neighborhoods By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenemdia.com

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Sandy Springs Transportation & Traffic Manager Kristen Wescott details the city’s current neighborhood traffic calming program and the qualifications for treatments and devices to move toward implementation.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — The Sandy Springs City Council discussed its neighborhood traffic calming program June 3 considering changes to how work is funded and approved by nearby residents. The program began shortly after incorporation with policies adopted in March 2006. Since then, there have been several updates, the most recent in 2020. During the 2026 budget workshops, city officials opted not to fund the program at $50,000 in order to conduct a review at a later meeting. By the end of the June 3 work session, elected officials seemingly agreed that staff had direction to bring back some of the changes for a later discussion. Sandy Springs is split up by I-285 and Ga. 400, major freeways that carry hundreds of thousands of motorists a day. When drivers begin zip-

ping through neighborhoods to bypass congestion, neighbors petition the city for traffic calming. Out of 80 requests from 2020-25, using the current program policies, the Public Works Department has worked 22 neighborhoods, according to city staff data. Kristen Wescott, traffic and transportation manager for Sandy Springs, said the neighborhood traffic calming program is funded through several budgets for roadway studies, new construction and pavement management. Currently, the process begins when an individual or homeowner group requests traffic calming. That triggers a meeting with staff, a city-funded traffic analysis that defines an area of study. If the study finds the street segment meets the criteria for traffic calming, then engineering staff develops a treatment plan and presents it to residents. The criteria to implement a treatment plan includes an average speed of more than 8 mph over the limit, 100 percent support of adjacent property owners, 75 percent support of the impacted area and half of the construction cost.

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Fulton County celebrates solar panel installations on 46 more buildings By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — When the sun’s out, solar panels generate cheap, clean energy on the roof of the Dorothy C. Benson Senior Multipurpose Center off Vernon Woods in Sandy Springs. Fulton County is installing solar panels on 53 of its facilities as a part of a push to have the sun power 25 percent of its electricity by 2030. The county says it hopes to have some installations complete by the end of 2025 with other major ones wrap-

ping up early next year. The Board of Commissioners hosted two ceremonies in late May on both sides of Atlanta, billing them as a major expansion of its sustainability program. The other solar panel installation was just inside the city of South Fulton at the Evelyn G. Lowry Library at Cascade. Another existing installation from the original contract is at the Alpharetta Branch of the Fulton County Library System off Park Plaza.

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By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — After months investigating, the Sandy Springs Police SWAT team executed a search warrant May 29 and arrested a 53-year-old resident for narcotics, weapons and elder abuse felonies. The operation occurred at a home off Highbrook Drive in the High Point neighborhood south of I-285 in Sandy Springs. The suspect is the son of the registered homeowner, an 85-year-old woman who lost her husband in March 2023.

According to police informants and an Adult Protective Services agent, the victim’s son had allegedly been taking advantage of her cognitive state for more than two years. Appen Media obtained the criminal warrants, containing descriptions of the investigations, through the Fulton County Clerk’s Office, which makes law enforcement records available to the public as is required by law. According to the warrants, the investigation began in June 2024 with a tip about possible drug activity at the residence. Police then executed two “trash pulls,” according to county records. Sandy Springs Police spokesman Sgt. Leon Millholland told Appen

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Atlanta Police Foundation ordered to release ‘Cop City’ records Judge: Public records cannot be withheld because of who asks By ALESSANDRO MARAZZI SASSOON Atlanta Civic Circle ATLANTA — A Fulton County Superior Court judge has ordered the Atlanta Police Foundation to turn over records related to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center — or “Cop City” — within 30 days. Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick’s decision follows a closely watched legal battle initiated by journalists and researchers seeking greater transparency about the polarizing project’s construction on city-owned land. The plaintiffs — the Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC) and Lucy Parsons Labs, a Chicago-based research group — requested emails, APF board meeting agendas, and minutes. “This court concludes that APF was under a duty to provide records to ACPC and Lucy Parsons Labs pursuant to the Open Records Act,” Barwick wrote in her 12-page order, delivered two months after a two-day bench trial in April. “Under the authority explained in this order, no exemptions applied.” However, Barwick narrowly tailored her ruling, only forcing APF to hand over the records at issue. While many observers hoped the decision would clarify how Georgia’s Open Records Act applies to non-profits whose work is almost exclusively related to a government agency, the judge explicitly declined to set broader

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Atlanta Police Foundation CEO Dave Wilkinson sits in Barwick’s courtroom in April. not done “knowingly and willfully.” In doing so, Barwick also agreed that, while not valid, APF’s stated reason for denying the requests was reasonable. APF lawyers argued that releasing the records would endanger named individuals, citing the harassment and sometimes violent tactics Stop Cop City activists have employed to oppose the facility. APF also argued that ACPC was functionally an arm of the activist movement, equating their actions to “terrorism.” ACPC rejected that characterization, asserting that Georgia’s Open Records Act does not permit withholding public documents based on the requester’s identity, an argument that Barwick endorsed in the closing sentence of her order. “Let the record also be clear that the identity of the requester does not determine whether records are characterized as public,” she wrote. Samantha Hamilton, ACPC’s staff

attorney, said she was glad that Barwick “saw through” APF’s stated justification for withholding the records, and that in reality they had done so simply because they had published information critical of APF and the training center. “It’s frustrating that we had to go through the whole process of filing a lawsuit a year and a half ago to prove what we knew to be true all along: that these records related to Cop City are subject to the Georgia Open Records Act,” she said. It is unclear whether APF plans to appeal the ruling. Former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Howard Melton, the Troutman Pepper attorney who represented APF during the trial, declined to comment for this story. This article was originally published on atlantaciviccircle.org. The nonprofit newsroom covers housing, democracy and labor in Metro Atlanta.

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METRO ATLANTA — A year from now, commuters in North Fulton may begin seeing familiar orange barrels lining Ga. 400 regularly. Just as the major I-285/Ga. 400 interchange project is wrapping up in Sandy Springs, Georgia DOT is poised to begin work on a 16-mile express lanes project along Ga. 400 from North Springs MARTA station north to southern Forsyth County next summer, just as Atlanta prepares to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup from June 15-July 15. The Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce estimates some 300,000 people will visit the city for eight games. Already, GDOT contractors are scheduling several overnight lane closures this summer to perform roadwork activities on sections of the Ga. 400 the express lanes project. Substantial competition of the estimated $4.6 billion express lanes project is expected in 2031. The major mobility improvement project has a minimum five-year construction timeline. The State Transportation Board selected SR 400 Peach State Partners as the project’s private-sector partner last August setting up an expected financial closure within 12 months. In November, GDOT and the State Road and Toll Authority signed agreements and reached commercial close with Peach State Partners, signifying a key milestone in projects with publicprivate partnerships. The project’s timeline is subject to change as the developer advances final design concepts, obtains the necessary financing and begins permitting. In the last few months, GDOT says it has continued to purchase necessary right of way. SR 400 Peach State Partners is a union of local, national and international experts with expertise in transportation design, construction and operations. The team includes Acciona, ACS Infrastructure and Dragados from Madrid; Meridiam from Paris; and Virginia-based Parsons. According to Peach State Partners, Parsons has more than 50 active contracts with GDOT with more than 200 employees in Metro Atlanta. The Ga. 400 project will add new express lanes in both directions from the North Springs MARTA station Park & Ride (Exit 5C) in Sandy Springs to about 1 mile north of McFarland Parkway (Exit 12) in Forsyth County.

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There will be two express lanes in each direction between the North Springs station and McGinnis Ferry Road in Alpharetta, switching to a single lane north to the project limits in south Forsyth County. According to GDOT’s May 2025 fact sheet, the express lanes will operate like others in Georgia with dynamic congestion pricing based on traffic conditions. The corridor will be widened as part of the project with the express lanes running along the median of the state highway, like those along I-75 south of Atlanta. The state is also investing $100 million for parts of the planned MARTA bus rapid transit (BRT) line, which will ride for free in the express lanes. The BRT line is designed to run north from the North Springs station to a planned MARTA Park & Ride and transit-oriented development at Windward Parkway in Alpharetta. GDOT says SR 400 Peach State Partners is providing MARTA with $26 million to build the bus rapid transit lanes. Peach State Partners is also set to build two BRT stations at Holcomb Bridge Road and near North Point Mall with additional access to the North Springs station and Windward Parkway. The interchanges for BRT stations are expected to have slip ramps throughout the corridor and some direct express lane connections to existing highway exits like Holcomb Bridge Road. Speaking at the May 20 Envision Perimeter gathering at the King building, GDOT Commissioner Russell McMurray said ongoing mobility investments will make Central Perimeter and the surrounding region thrive. After more than seven years of construction delays and orange cones, the I-285 and Ga. 400 interchange project is all but wrapped up. The redesigned interchange covered some 12 lane miles at an estimated cost of $800 million. “We’re going to give you a reprieve from orange barrels for a little bit,” McMurray said. “Enjoy the Transform 285/400 for now … there’s more investment coming in future mobility that will continue to make this Perimeter Center thrive economically and competitively.”

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Johns Creek artist gives animals second chance By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A raccoon wearing a strawberry-print bonnet, a mouse pushing a chrome toaster into a bathtub and a possum boasting a shock of blue hair and incandescent eyes were watching Morgan Hayes. Working at her desk in a second-floor home workshop, Hayes, their creator, was focused deeply on her work, holding a hot glue gun in one hand and a taxidermied duckling in the other. The dimlylit workshop, a converted bedroom, is filled with her taxidermy, which share space on shelves and tables loaded with miniature furniture, antique dolls, plushies, art supplies, crystals and all kinds of art supplies. “I have always had an absolutely insane imagination, and I never grew out of it,” Hayes said. In 2023, Hayes, a Savannah College of Art and Design graduate, left a decade-long corporate career working in graphic design to found her Johns Creek business Perfection and Oddities. Now, she works from home, running an online shop and fashioning whatever catches her imagination. The online shop, where she does most of her business, offers graphic T-shirts and fine art prints and delightfully weird taxidermies, which have become her most popular items by far. Under her website’s “oddities” section, customers can peruse almost 50 different options of literallystuffed animals arranged in uncannily life-like poses often amid painstakingly detailed miniature settings. Prices range from $75 to more than $300, and the pieces include a beret-wearing artistically-inclined duckling painting a canvas, two mice in a book nook with noses buried between pages and a gentlemanly bespectacled bunny rabbit complete with a purple bow and pocket watch. “It’s basically all the things that come straight out of my mind,” she said. Hayes did not start out making art from animals. She said the first graphic designs she sold soon after founding Perfection and Oddities meant little to her. Afraid of scaring off business, she instead made prints and T-shirts she thought would cater to the average customer. “I didn’t believe people would like what I liked,” she said. But lukewarm sales got Hayes wondering what would happen if she fully embraced her personal tastes, no matter how weird they might be. “It made me realize I had nothing to lose and made me want to jump into my imagination,” she said. She was pleasantly surprised with the results. Customers loved the irreverent and bizarre T-shirt designs she had previously kept locked inside her mind, and sales suddenly took off. In 2024, Hayes took that philosophy to another level with taxidermy, which she said she has always held a fascination for. She was shocked to find customers of all kinds were fascinated by her work. She even has been approached by professionals like doctors and dentists eager to commission custom pieces. Hayes taught herself taxidermy with help from online message boards and YouTube videos. She admits getting over the revulsion of working with dead things took some work, but now she is unfazed. “At first, it was really icky,” she said.

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Morgan Hayes works on a taxidermy duck at her home workshop in Johns Creek May 14. She sources the animals from a variety of places. Mice are purchased frozen and of the “feeder” variety, meaning they are meant to serve as meals for pets like snakes. She also uses roadkill. “I am probably one of the only moms whose kid calls and says a squirrel got hit — but not too hard,” she said. A bag of about 100 mice sits out in a garage freezer, nestled between bags of frozen dumplings, fileted fish and chicken thighs. After dethawing the animal, she removes the skin with an Exacto knife. She stuffs the skin with a framework of wire filled with soft clay and cotton. Pins hold the skin in place until it is set in just the right pose. From the start, Hayes said it was important to her to never kill an animal for a creation. In fact, she said she is an animal lover who has volunteered at numerous rescues and fostered more than 50 strays. At her home, she cares for four dogs and two cats, all rescues. Her three-legged Parsley has become the business’s mascot and logo. Most days, Parsely sits in her workshop, watching her work. Hayes said she sees the taxidermy as a way of honoring deceased animals, which can live a second life as an art piece. She draws the line at cats and dogs, but jokes she wouldn’t mind being taxidermied when her time comes. “When you are looking at these things, you don’t see death anymore,” she said. “You just see the beauty.”

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A mouse sitting at a tiny desk is one of dozens of similar taxidermy creations sold by Morgan Hayes through Perfection and Oddities.

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Family fun, fireworks scheduled for City Springs’ Stars & Stripes SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs is inviting the community to a star-spangled evening of fun for its annual Stars & Stripes Fireworks Celebration Friday, July 4 at City Springs. Now in its 12th year, the Stars & Stripes Celebration has become a beloved community tradition, filling the heart of Sandy Springs with music, community spirit and patriotic sparkle. Perfect for families and visitors, the nation’s 249th birthday celebration kicks off on the City Green at 4 p.m. The fireworks are set to launch at 9:30 p.m., lighting up the sky in celebration of Independence Day. Hot Flash, playing the best in ’80s dance rock, will take the City Springs stage at 7:30 p.m. Food trucks will start serving at 6 p.m., offering a variety of delicious bites. The city says guests are welcome to bring a picnic or grab a bite from nearby restaurants, but tents, outside beverages and personal sparklers are not allowed for safety reasons. For helpful tips to plan your visit, check for updates on parking, rideshare options and road closures at sandyspringsga.gov/fireworks. For real-time updates and weather info, follow the city on Facebook or Instagram. — Hayden Sumlin

Taxidermy: Continued from Page 6 Hayes admits her work sometimes gets a negative reaction. At markets and festivals where she sells, she is sometimes approached by animal lovers who find her pieces grotesque. But she stands by what she does. “It’s more of a respect for the circle of life,” she said. “It is a way to honor the animal.” Wife Lizen Hayes said she thinks Perfection and Oddities has become more than just a means of making money for Morgan. The couple met in Washington when Morgan was working in an art gallery and doing painting on the side. Although Lizen was a little surprised by her wife’s interest in taxidermy, she has since embraced the art. “I wasn’t super thrilled to have a bunch of dead animals in my house, but honestly I think it’s cool now,” she said. Lizen remembers how Morgan seemed unhappy while working in the corporate world. She is pleased to see the business and its taxidermy giving Morgan a muchneeded outlet. “She absolutely needs that,” Lizen

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said. “For her to be happy, she needs to be creative.” Art, especially the weird kind, has always been an interest of Morgans’, Lizen said. “She has been doing these creations forever, and I think she is really discovering herself making these,” Lizen said. As a teenager, Morgan spent hours in her family’s basement making puppets and other strange art. At the time, she was hardly popular and still finding herself. But the success of Perfection and Oddities decades later has made Morgan realize the world is filled with people who share her eclectic tastes. That success offers her a comfort she thinks would shock her teenage self. “I think she would be really happy,” she said.

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The history of Doraville School spans to 1866 The first Doraville School was established by John Y. Flowers in 1866, five years before Doraville became a city. The school was built in the area that became Flowers VALERIE BIGGERSTAFF Park, at 5921 New Peachtree Road. Columnist (Images of America: Doraville, by Bob Kelley) Later, the school moved across the street and next door to the Doraville Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church at Church Street and Central Avenue. There were six grades at the school, taught by two or three teachers, depending on the number of students. The school and church shared a well. There were two outhouses. The boy students sometimes turned over the men’s outhouse as a Halloween prank. A new Doraville Elementary School was built in 1933 as a Works Progress Administration project. The WPA was established during the Great Depression to provide jobs through public works projects. The new brick school was located where Tilly Mill and Flowers Road meet. It was built with growth in mind, plenty of space for the current enrollment plus room for increased enrollment. There were six classrooms, an auditorium and a basement. A lunch program was started at the school to help children whose families were struggling during the Depression. Students brought in old pots from home so meals could be prepared. Programs included art, music, square dancing, tap dancing and radio instruction. Doraville School principal John Bickers was anticipating the impact of the General Motors Assembly Plant construction and opening in 1947 on school enrollment. The school was expecting a sudden, substantial increase in students, but it was more of a steady increase. In September of 1947 there were 175 students, 204 one year later, and 210 two years later (North DeKalb Record, 1949, “Part III: Report on North DeKalb schools,” DeKalb History Center Archives) Two classrooms and a cafeteria were added in 1948, and a new furnace and additional improvements were made in 1949 at a cost of $40,000. Throughout Georgia, schools were segregated until 1968. Black

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This photo of the Doraville School was taken in 1931. As is typical during the Great Depression, some children are not wearing shoes. children living in Doraville would not have attended Doraville School, but L ynwood Park School in Brookhaven, first in a one room schoolhouse on Mae Avenue and later at the 1949 L ynwood Park School. The Brown vs. Board of Education 1954 ruling asserted that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white students were unconstitutional. In Georgia, an “equalization” policy was established, where new schools or changes to schools for Black students were made but schools remained segregated. Improvements were made to L ynwood Park School in 1954. The improvements did not make the school equal, because facilities, books and supplies were not at the same level as those for white schools. The school was also much further away for Black children living in Doraville. The Doraville school building at Tilly Mill and Flowers Road later became a DeKalb County bus maintenance facility and is the Doraville Fleet Annex of DeKalb County schools today. Award-winning author Valerie Biggerstaff is a longtime columnist for Appen Media and the Dunwoody Crier. She lives in Atlanta. You can email Valerie at pasttensega@gmail.com or visit her website at pasttensega.com.

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Darling daylilies provide more than ‘beauty for a day’ Hemerocallis – The botanical name for the daylily. It means “beauty for a day.” Why would anyone want to spend the time and energy to have a plant that only provides beauty for a single day? Well, VIKI BREELAND while the individual Guest Columnist bloom lasts for only one day, the stem (also referred to as the scape) on which that bloom was produced has at least a dozen flower buds. Therefore, you’ll have several weeks of beauty from these plants. Most of us, myself included, grew up thinking that a daylily was that orange flower often seen by the roadside or in a field where an old home once stood. I am delighted to share with you that there are now more than 100,000 registered cultivars available! Number 100,000 was registered last year: ‘Alpenglow Magic’ (Rich, 2024). Visit daylilydatabase.org and click on the name of the cultivar and you can see the flower and the stats. There is a type of daylily for every garden enthusiast. If you like large blooms, small blooms or something in between, there is a flower for you. You can have blooms from late May through September here in Zone 8. There are cultivars that are early bloomers, midseason bloomers and late bloomers. I actually have a very late bloomer, ‘Final Touch’ (Apps, 1991) that blooms from late July through September/October. Daylilies are hardy plants. They multiply very well and form large clumps. When purchasing a plant from a hybridizer/grower, you normally get two fans (two whole plants). These two fans will become at least three and probably four fans by the next growing season. With each new fan comes the potential for more scapes that provide more buds/blooms. It is very exciting to inspect your plants when they come out of dormancy in the spring. Finding new fans coming out of the soil is a favorite pastime of mine – it is almost as exciting as finding the first scapes as they emerge from the foliage. Daylilies are also very forgiving. While they really appreciate being fertilized in the early spring and in the fall before being put to bed for the winter, they will still give you lots of beautiful blooms even without regular feeding! The plants are heavy drinkers but will tolerate dry spells. Daylilies prefer full sun, which is a minimum of 6 hours. After four or five years, your clumps will need to be divided. Here in Zone 8, the best time to dig and divide daylilies is late summer or very early fall. You can amend the hole where you dug the

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This week’s “Garden Buzz” guest columnist is Viki Breeland, a master gardener alumnus who lives in Roswell. Daylilies have become her favorite plants. Viki’s gardening goal is to make her property a place of beauty and relaxation. Her garden is shared with a couple of bunnies, birds and a brown snake (tiny, and its main diet is slugs). clump, add just a small amount of fertilizer and water, pull some of the soil back into the hole and replant 5-6 of the fans in the “mud.” You can share the extra fans with friends, or if you join the Daylily Society of Greater Atlanta (DSGA),

you could contribute the extra fans to the sale at The Duluth Fall Festival. If my enthusiasm has sparked an interest in daylilies for you, I would like to invite you to visit our annual show and sale, June 14, at Sexton Hall Enrichment Center, 2115 Chloe Road, Cumming, GA 30041 (It faces Sharon Road). The show judging usually wraps up around 11 a.m., and the public can enter the hall to see all the blooms. It is a wonderful experience. Our club members will have plants available for sale. The plants will be tagged with the name of the cultivar, and the prices are beyond reasonable! You can arrive early to shop or shop after you’ve visited the show and you have that irresistible urge to start your own collection. Free admission. Warning: Daylilies, the addiction is real.

Daylilies are NOT deer resistant. If you do decide to grow them, make sure you spray them regularly with various deer repellents and or have a system in place that keeps deer away from your flower beds. Happy Gardening! North Fulton Master Gardeners, Inc. is a Georgia nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose purpose is to educate its members and the public in the areas of horticulture and ecology in order to promote and foster community enrichment. Master Gardener Volunteers are trained and certified by The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension. Learn more at nfmg.net. Previous Garden Buzz columns are featured at: https://www.appenmedia.com/opinion/columnists/garden_buzz/

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informants and Georgia Adult Protective Services investigators as they built a case against the victim’s son. On May 12, 2025, a Sandy Springs detective said he spoke with one of the elderly woman’s caregivers about the suspect’s alleged abuse of his elderly mother. The detective spoke with a second caregiver May 24, along with the elderly mother. The detective said the caregivers told him that the son was stealing money from his mother’s bank accounts and psychologically abusing her. After the caregivers told the detective they were not licensed to care for the woman and could not do so properly, the detective said he contacted Adult Protective Services and discovered a home equity loan in the mother’s name. The woman’s home is reportedly paid off, and the home equity loan is in arrears, with over $800 past due. A pivotal point in the investigation, according to court reports, was when the homeowner’s son took her to purchase a car May 27. The sale agreement, with a 28 percent interest rate, carries the victim’s name as the sole signatory. Sandy Springs police cite a medical document from Adult Protective Services indicating that the woman should not be making financial decisions. Detectives and the District Attor ney’s Office say the vehicle contract and its high interest rate, in combination with the medical record, is evidence of financial exploitation. In petitioning for warrants, Sandy Springs police also allege that the suspect recently purchased several vehicles, including two Teslas, a motorcycle and a BMW. The warrants claim the man is unemployed. Day of arrests The caregivers transported the elderly homeowner to the Fountain Oaks shopping center off Roswell Road May 29 before Sandy Springs SWAT entered the home and executed the warrant. During the search, officers said they found 18 grams of meth, 1 gram of psilocybin, a Winchester lever action rifle and a possible hallucinogenic liquid, which is awaiting lab testing. While the June 2024 tip refer enced a potential meth lab, police received a video from a source in May 2025 that allegedly shows a drug lab used to produce dimethyltryptamine, or

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The red pin on the map shows the location of a May 29 Sandy Springs SWAT raid on a residence along Highbrook Drive, which resulted in the arrest of the homeowner’s 53-year-old son for narcotics, weapons and elder abuse felonies. According to the Sandy Springs man’s arrest warrant, his 85-year-old mother was removed from the home before the raid and taken to Northside Hospital.

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This reporting began with readers asking Appen Media about a purported SWAT event occurring in their Sandy Springs neighborhood. The newspaper asked local police officials for information and filed open records requests for related reports. Response was scant, and the report police released contained two

words – “Narcotics investigation.’ Appen then obtained records from the Fulton County Clerk’s Office, laying out a substantive timeline of what took place leading up to the neighborhood event. With the court documents in hand, the newspaper went back to the police department, who then answered more questions.

DMT, considered a powerful psychedelic. “The NVU did not recover a DMT lab, but did see images of something consistent with such a lab,” Millholland said. “The NVU did locate an unidentified liquid consistent with DMT and sent samples of it for Georgia Bureau of Investigation lab testing.” Officers arrested the son and two other people who were in the home, a 35-year -old East Point man and a

33-year -old Marietta woman. They were charged with disorderly conduct involving narcotics. According to Fulton County Jail records, the elderly woman’s son was booked May 30 and remains in custody on a $20,000 bond. His felony charges include two counts of elder abuse, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of schedule I controlled substances.

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Continued from Page 1 Commissioners adopted a Sustainability and Resilience Plan in 2019, entering into a procurement agreement with Atlanta-based Cherry Street Energy a year later. Jessica Lavender, the county’s Energy and Sustainability manager, announced completion of the Benson Center installation in early April. “We started a smaller project in 2021 where we installed solar panels on seven buildings. That's gone really well, and we’ve saved almost $150,000 since then,” Lavender said. “That went so well that we expanded our contract with that vendor to the 46 additional buildings.” The county says commissioners approved a major expansion of the pilot program in December 2024 after its initial success. Fulton County officials, including Commission Chairman Robb Pitts and Commissioner Bob Ellis, joined Cherry Street Energy CEO and Founder Michael Chanin for the May 30 celebration of clean energy expansion. While it was a rainy morning, the installation’s springtime completion is set to have the solar panels soaking up the sun all summer. Under the agreement, Cherry Street sells the generated electricity to the county at a lower rate than commercial electric utilities like Georgia Power. Because the local company owns, maintains and operates the systems, county officials say it’s a win-win. The program is expected to generate $2.4 million in taxpayer savings over the agreement’s 20-year term. The solar panels are expected to last that long as well. Some of Cherry Street Energy’s clients include Emory

Traffic: Continued from Page 1 For some traffic calming treatments, like striping, additional signage or radar speed feedback signs, neighborhoods are required to pay the full cost. Some proposals turned down Wescott said there have been several cases in which residents approach the city with a specific treatment or traffic calming device, but staff cannot approve because of roadway design restrictions. The recommended traffic calming treatments, which are yet to be implemented, total around $440,000. Wescott said there are no immediate budgetary impacts unless the City Council opts to adjust the policy to a 100 percent city-funded model. In a presentation, Wescott compared the existing Sandy Springs policy to surrounding jurisdictions, including Alpharetta, Dunwoody, Johns Creek and Roswell. Out of eight cities in core Metro Atlanta, Roswell and Sandy Springs are the only ones that split costs with residents. City Councilman Andy Bauman, who advocates for neighborhood traffic calming, said he thinks the study’s area of impact is an issue with the policy because it’s hard to get buy-in from neighbors who don’t own

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New solar panels, installed by Atlanta-based Cherry Street Energy, line the back roof of the Dorothy C. Benson Senior Multipurpose Center off Vernon Woods in Sandy Springs. Fulton County officials celebrated two solar panel installations May 29 and 30 with a total of 56 completed or planned across the county. University, the cities of Atlanta and Savannah and Hartfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. One representative pitched a similar agreement to the Sandy Springs City Council in March. The county says the shift to solar energy supports its adopted environmental goals and is expected to bring down long-term energy costs, with lower prices compared to traditional commercial rates. The solar panel installations, especially their cost savings for local governments, are achievable through tax

property directly abutting a roadway with consistent speeding. “I think as a matter of policy, if it’s warranted by data and science, we should be reducing this area of impact … or getting rid of it,” he said. “If it’s warranted, I think we have to make a case for … prioritizing the projects we want to do.” Bauman said he supported recommendations from City Councilwoman Melissa Mular that projects should not move forward without consent of residents whose properties are directly impacted. “This is what we’re paying taxes for … I don’t want to split the difference,” he said, advocating that the city absorb the full cost of traffic calming devices. City Attorney Dan Lee said he thinks whether a traffic control device is implemented should not be due to the outcome of a popular vote, like polling neighbors. “It ought to be driven by traffic science, data and the like,” Lee said. Bauman said if roadway safety improvements are warranted, using the city attorney’s criteria, then he wants the devices or treatments to be installed. “It seems to me there is a need,” he said. “Our job in government is to be removing obstacles, not to be throwing up obstacles, and we need to find a way to simplify this process for staff and the neighbors.” Ranking proposed changes Of the proposed changes, council

incentives within the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 that can accelerate the transition to clean energy. The accelerant is a tax credit that allows Cherry Street Energy to sell electricity to the county at a competitive market rate. The county says the new batch of solar panels are expected to generate more than eight times as much electricity as the first seven sites, or 4,695 kilowatts. When the current program wraps up next year, Fulton County will be generating more than 5,000 kW across its facilities with solar energy.

members responded the strongest to clarifying the program’s process, criteria and maintenance responsibility with city staff and residents. Another proposed change removes some calming devices, like chicanes, splitter islands and roundabouts, which require roadway reconstruction. Other staff recommendations include changing the funding split between the city and residents from 50-50 to 75-25, reducing the approval from surrounding residents from 75 to 65 percent and increasing the speed threshold to 10 mph over the limit. Longtime resident Bill Griffith, who’s spoken at nearly every meeting for the last year about speeding along a 1-mile stretch near his home on Roberts Drive, added his thoughts during public comment. “The law says, “no person shall drive … at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions,” Griffith said, citing state code. “That should be the guiding principle of the review. Regrettably, it’s not.” Grifith began his effort to lower speeds along Robert Drive in November 2023, and he has messaged with city staff about it dozens of times. He said a lot of the examples of neighborhood traffic calming are along roadways that have fewer crashes than Roberts Drive. “Six of seven neighboring jurisdictions do not impose cost sharing — neither should Sandy Springs,” he said. “A budget

of $50,000 for traffic calming? That’s pathetic, particularly recognizing that traffic calming would go a long way towards public safety. “ Deck parking adjusted Elected officials met for three consecutive meetings June 3, beginning with the Public Facilities Authority at 6 p.m. The board, created in 2006, is composed of council members and serves as a financing and ownership partner for major city developments like City Springs. The city added an item after the meeting agenda was published to modify City Springs parking fees, making deck spots free during the city’s signature events like the upcoming Juneteenth and Stars & Stripes Fireworks celebrations. The Public Facilities Authority also renewed a 10,000-square-foot lease at 4410 Bankers Circle in Doraville for active shooter training. The lease, which began in June 2015 and was renewed in 2020, is coming to term. A staff memo says the facility is integral to the Police Department's training protocols. The monthly rent starts at around $10,300 this September and reaches $12,500 by 2030 when the term is set to end. City Manager Eden Freeman said she anticipates the city will need the space through 2030 because the proposed training facility off Morgan Falls Road is not expected to be completed before then.

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Let’s turn that into cash or new jewelry! JEWELRY & PRECIOUS METALS Gold, Silver & Platinum New, Used & Damaged Estate Jewelry Dental Gold Starling Silver Flatware

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By Appointment Only. Please call (770) 790-5371 or visit us at Iroff.com to schedule your appointment. 3960 Old Milton Parkway 300, Alpharetta, GA 30005 (770) 790-5371 | iroff.com Sun & Mon: CLOSED | Tues-Fri: 10am-5pm | Sat: 10am-4pm *See store for complete details.

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