City approves funds for $5.7 million park recognizing veterans

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — City officials plan to have a fully completed park honoring local veterans in downtown Sandy Springs by Veterans Day this November,.

The Sandy Springs City Council gave final approval March 8 to a $5.7 million construction contract with Reeves Young to build Veterans Memorial Park on a triangle-shaped property between Roswell Road, Johnson Ferry Road and Mt. Vernon Highway, directly adjacent to City Hall.

Plans call for the park to include a series of large fountains that mirror the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center fountains on Roswell Road, a memorial area commemorating local veterans and wide multi-use sidewalks connecting the park to City Springs and the rest of the city.

The park project, which has been under consideration for more than 10 years, was approved by a split 3-2 vote, with District 6 Councilman Andy Bauman and District 4 Councilwoman Jody Reichel casting dissenting votes.

Bauman and Reichel each said that while they

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By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Investigators in Sandy Springs have charged an alleged Cherokee County drug dealer with murder in connection with a fatal 2022 overdose.

Sandy Springs police arrested Jacob Cain Anglin of Woodstock Feb. 26. He is charged with murder, making false statements to police, and possession of cocaine, arrest reports and Fulton County Jail records show.

In an email to Appen Media, Sandy Springs Public Information Officer Matthew McGinnis said they believe Anglin is responsible for supplying fentanyl-laced pills that killed, James Travis Edenfield, a 26-year-old Thomaston, Ga. man Oct. 3, 2022.

Sandy Springs police have refused to release additional information about this case, including Appen Media’s open records requests for warrants filed. Documents obtained from the Fulton County Superior Court allege that Anglin “frequently” sold pills to multiple individuals at the Comfort Inn on Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, that he knew were laced with fentanyl.

Arrest warrants alleged that “irrespective of malice” Anglin committed murder by knowingly selling laced pills that killed Edenfield. Anglin was taken to the Fulton County Jail and is being held without bond.