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She’s on a breakaway Dunwoody’s Lady Wildcats take on Miller Grove’s Lady Wolverines

CALENDAR: TARTAN TROT | P17

Study supports renovation of Brook Run Theater

BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

PHOTOS BY PHIL MOSIER

At left, Dunwoody High School basketball player Anjanice Cutno breaks away from the pack as she heads down her home court during a varsity game against the Miller Grove High School Lady Wolverines on Jan. 15.

Above, Lady Wildcats Coach Angela Nash talks over strategy with her players.

The Lady Wolverines came out on top, 62-37, and currently have a 12- 8 record. The Lady Wildcats are 8-9 this season. See addi�ional photos on page 15.►

OUT & ABOUT Puppetry Arts Center expands under Atlanta’s own puppet master

Survey: No to ‘Religious Freedom’ law Reporter Newspapers is working with a new mobile market research firm, Atlanta-based 1Q, to survey residents of our communities periodically about topics of state and local interest. In our first poll, we ask about the proposed Religious Freedom Restoration Act being considered in the state Legislature. Nearly two-thirds of 200 respondents said the bill should be rejected. Here are two reactions to the law. Read more about the poll and local comments on page 11. ►

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I’m so sick of Georgia looking like backward buffoons. This is just legalized discrimina�ion, plain and simple. If that isn’t enough, it’s bad for the state economically.

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Even having a proposal of a religious freedom law seems to be a step in the right direc�ion... to start having more considera�ion for religion, period.

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Renovating Brook Run Theater would cost approximately $7.5 million and fit easily into the city of Dunwoody’s comprehensive plan, according to a new feasibility study from The Brook Run Conservancy.

“I am pleased to let you know that we are now certain that Dunwoody has a need for this facility and that there is significant support in the community for that need,” states Conservancy President Danny Ross in a Jan. 15 letter to the council.

The cost to construct a new theater at about the same size would cost $24.5 million, the feasibility study states.

The conservancy sent its feasibility study to City Council members recently and the issue is expected to come up at the council’s Jan. 25 meeting.

While Ross argues that there is support for renovating Brook Run Theater, he may still face an uphill battle from the council.

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Opinions on parks vary, as some feel they’ve been this way before

BY JOE EARLE joeearle@reporternewspapers.net

The chance to sound off on the city’s parks drew more than 120 people to Dunwoody’s library branch on Jan. 12.

They packed into a meeting room, standing room only, to voice their ideas on a rewrite of the city’s five-year parks plan.

Some found the discussion a bit familiar.

“A few years ago, we went to all these Continued on page 12

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Familiar sights crowd the new exhibit at the Atlanta History Center. Georgia Tech’s Ramblin’ Wreck holds center stage. A billboard-ready Chick-filA cow protests in one corner. A few feet away, a Varsity car-hop’s tray hangs from a door of a ’63 Plymouth Valiant.

It’s no surprise that JOE EARLE the items in this particular museum show Above, guest curator Amy Wilson, left, and Atlanta History Center seem familiar. They’re Exhibitions Director Dan Rooney, right, began planning for the all part of Atlanta. Each “Atlanta in 50 Objects” show in 2014. They solicited ideas online and was chosen to repre- through a suggestion box at the center, letting Atlantans pick what should be included. sent some important feature of the city, the torch and a classic Coke bottle, a mockup exhibit’s curators say. The exhibit, “Atof Hartsfield-Jackson International Airlanta in 50 Objects,” which opened Jan. port’s train-to-the-planes and a 1960s uni16 and is to be on display through July 10, form for a Delta Air Lines stewardess, a is intended to show, in its own way, what model of downtown from architect John makes Atlanta Atlanta.

Portman’s offices showing the buildings “I think my favorite thing is the King he’d designed and developed, a World Semanuscript,” guest curator Amy Wilson ries ring from the late broadcaster Skip said on the day before the show opened, Carey, a figure of a dying soldier from as she and History Center exhibitions the Cyclorama, the bat Hank Aaron used director Dan Rooney made last-minute to hit his 600th homer, Atlanta Constitweaks to the exhibit. She pointed totution Editor Ralph McGill’s Presidenward a case holding a series of handtial Medal of Freedom, a Time magazine written pages from a yellow legal pad naming Ted Turner “Man of the Year.” on which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Rooney said the curators couldn’t get had written the acceptance speech for his everything they wanted into the display.

1964 Nobel Prize. “It’s the original manuThey asked for an original typescript of script.”

“Gone With The Wind,” but that had to reWilson and Rooney started work on main in a vault.

At one point he thought it the project in November 2014. The origwould be a good idea to include the cockinal idea behind the exhibit – gathering pit from a Delta airplane, but decided it objects that represent important themes was just too big to fi t. or events in history – had been used in Still, some off-beat surprises did mana few other high-profile museum shows age to show up in the crowded exhibit and books, such as “The Smithsonian’s hall.

A mold of the Atlanta Zoo’s favorHistory of America in 101 Objects.” The ite gorilla, the late Willie B., has his handHistory Center wanted to add another elprints displayed near a car from Priscilla ement. They wanted to let Atlantans pick the Pink Pig, the children’s ride that once what should be included. “We turned it graced Rich’s downtown department over to Atlanta,” Rooney said. store.

The rise of the movie-making busiThe curators solicited ideas online ness is illustrated through a signature and through a suggestion box. Wilson sword one character uses to lop the heads and Rooney said they built a database of off zombies in “The Walking Dead.”

200 to 300 ideas and let the most-nomiAnd there’s a big banner from the nated notions rise to the top of the list.

Chattahoochee Raft Race, a Memorial “The folks who gave us these suggestions Day event that drew thousands to ride Athad more knowledge on these subjects lanta’s river in the 1970s. than we did,” Rooney said. “I think muWhat does the exhibit say about Atseums have evolved to realize they have lanta?

“It’s a very diverse place,” Wilson to share the authority. The authorship of said. this exhibit was the public.”

And, she said, looking at the cases List of subjects in hand, Wilson and around her, “it shows a lot of fun. When Rooney set to work finding the objects you look around, there are a lot of things to illustrate the various subjects. It made that are fun.” quite an eclectic collection.

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Briefs Peachtree Charter Middle School to hold new vote on charter renewal

Peachtree Charter Middle School will hold a new vote Feb. 8 on its charter renewal after a vote earlier this month was nullified.

The Jan. 8 vote was nullified by the Charter Committee of the Parent Teacher Charter Council “in the spirit of transparency” after a parent alleged tampering. The DeKalb County School District opened an investigation into the parent’s allegations.

“The process by which the ballots were collected has been challenged. In the spirit of transparency and community cohesiveness, the Charter Committee of the Parent Teacher Council has nullified the

vote of Jan. 8th. The vote has been nullified so that the committee can ensure the will of our community can be expressed unquestionably in a subsequent vote,” the committee stated in an email to parents.

Timothy O’Connor said he was concerned about the Jan. 8 vote because those in charge of the voting were removing ballots from a box.

Quinn Hudson, spokesman for the DeKalb County School District, said an investigation into the vote will still take place even after the vote nullification.

More than 350 individuals voted on Jan. 8, according to the charter committee.

Police arrest seven in military solicitation scam

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rested seven people Jan. 15 involved in an alleged illegal scam where people were going door-to-door seeking donations they said were to help those in the military.

The solicitors were seeking donations near Mount Vernon Road.

“Officers are responding to a dozen calls of illegal solicitation in the area of Mount Vernon Road. The solicitors claim to represent members of our nation’s armed forces and are collecting monetary donations to further their efforts,” wrote Sgt. Curtis Clifton on a Facebook post.

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Dunwoody council members concerned about traffic around proposed Dunwoody Crown Towers

BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net The history of the land where Dunwoody Crown Towers is being proposed played a significant role in developers deciding what to propose for the area, the developers say.

“We searched back to when the Indians, farmers and onward were on that land,” said veteran Realtor Charlie Brown, the man behind such projects as Atlantic Station, Technology Park/Atlanta, John’s Creek in north Fulton County and Lenox Park located in Buckhead.

Dunwoody Crown Towers, an ambitious development project of highrises on the former Gold Kist site off AshfordDunwoody Road, is proposed to include business, hotel and residential towers.

The planned development is named Dunwoody Crown Towers, a nod to Crown Holdings Group, which purchased the property more than two years ago.

One of the first office buildings in this area was Gold Kist, Brown said. But before it became Gold Kist it was the Cotton Producers Association, a cooperative founded in the mid-1930s by D.W. Brooks, an agronomy professor at the University of Georgia, to help farmers in Carrollton during the Great Depression market their cotton.

The Cotton Producers Association assured farmers were paid fairly for their cotton and also assisted them in having access to better technology and marketing for their product. By the 1950s, the coop had diversified beyond cotton to chickens, fertilizer, pork and other grains, and became known as Gold Kist.

“The definition of poverty at one time was being a Georgia farmer,” Brown said.

“And Gold Kist changed that. D.W. Brooks did that – he was a good farmer.”

In 2006, however, Gold Kist was sold to Pilgrim’s Pride Cooperation, creating the largest poultry business in the world.

“That building has been vacant a long time,” Brown said. “Dunwoody is an active market. This is one of the finest places in the country you could have a mixeduse development. This is a suburban area that is on the edge of being urban.”

The 15-acre site is already zoned for a 20-story hotel and two 24-story business

highrise buildings. On Jan. 5, Crown Development filed a pre-application review with the city of Dunwoody for a rezoning request to also be able to build two residential towers not to exceed 40 stories at the eastern end of the project.

The pre-application form says the property would be divided into two tracts, a 9.2-acre site for the hotel and business towers, and 4.75 acres for the two residential towers.

Zoning attorney Doug Dillard said the development would create a true “gateway to Dunwoody.”

“This is a real opportunity for the city Continued on page 9

New towers proposed Towering new developments are being proposed or are underway in the Perimeter.

In Sandy Springs, an Australian developer has proposed five new skyscrapers reaching 20 to 29 stories at 1117 Perimeter Center West. Also, the Texas-based developer Hines is taking the city to court over its denial of zoning for a 25-story office building and a hotel at Northpark at Ga. 400 and Abernathy Road.

Meanwhile, in Dunwoody, CRB Realty Associates is proposing a 20-story hotel, two highrise office buildings and two residential towers up to 40 stories tall each at Dunwoody Crown Towers.

And in Brookhaven, Seven Oaks is starting construction of a 15-story office building at 4004 Perimeter Summit.

Mixed-use developments are a hot trend, but they’re not for everyone

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When Scott Ruzycki, the area manager of the LA Fitness at Town Brookhaven looks around at the neighborhood, he likes what he sees: hundreds of potential customers living right next door.

“I think this is one of the smartest developments that LA Fitness has located in,” said Ruzycki. “We pull about a thousand more people than a regular LA Fitness.”

Many don’t have far to go. The gym Ruzycki manages sits in the middle of a massive “mixed-use” development on Peachtree Road in Brookhaven.

When it comes to new development, “mixed use” has become master of the moment. From The Shops Buckhead Atlanta to Sandy Springs’ City Springs project, mixed-use redevelopments are supposedly blending shops, homes and offices to create downtown-style centers from Perimeter suburbs.

The mix of retail and housing in “livework-play” developments has been popularized by such high-profile projects as Atlantic Station and Alpharetta’s Avalon.

Town Brookhaven was among the first smaller-scale versions of those mixed-use, mega-projects to launch in the Perimeter Continued on page 8

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The UPS Store in Brookhaven Station has moved to a larger space inside the shopping center, taking over part of the former Sherlock’s/The Cook’s Warehouse, according to a report from Tomorrow’s News Today.

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As Sandy Springs and the north PeLike anybody else in the area, we have rimeter area continue to grow, and with a common concern with traffic congesthe great infrastructure, a solid sense of tion. It does affect our guests and staff community, and a high degree of quality alike at some level. of life in general, our area certainly can We have a large percentage of guests compete with Buckhead and Downtown. who arrive by MARTA and utilize it for It is imperative that we continue to attransit to and from Hartsfield-Jackson Intract great talent to our labor force and ternational Airport and local work-relatcreate great opportunities and career ed travel. We also have a lot of staff that path growth for the talents that we alutilizes MARTA and the Concourse Shutready have in place. As long as the overall tle, and our hotel shuttles are used to progrowth path continues in our area, our vide pick-ups and drop-offs at the Mediindustry will remain hot as well. cal Center station in particular.

Any increased development of MARQ: What is the main attraction that TA is obviously encouraged, but appears makes a guest choose a Perimeter hotel? years away. The interest to explore adMany guests will choose to stay in ditional bypass and access roads where Sandy Springs due to the great business possible in the area is encouraged as well. infrastructure, the proximity to several The Perimeter is home to many high-end hotels and more are under construction or on the drawing boards.

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Ribbon Cuttings

The Dunwoody Perimeter Chamber celebrated the remodeling of Atlanta Hearing Associates, at 1713 Mount Vernon Road, with a ribbon-cutting on January 15. Attendees included, from left, Dr. Erica Pennesia, Janelle Thompson, Corine Davis, Mayor Denny Shortal, Dr. Rita Chaiken, and Chelsea Kilgore. Recently, Dr. Chaiken was elected president of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) for the professional group’s 2016 program year .

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That makes it a project that commercial developers keep in mind when they think about the mixed-use developments rising around the area.

“I love mixed-used developments,” said Steve Tate, who sits on the Sandy Springs Planning Commission and is a managing director at Genesis Real Estate Advisers, a commercial property firm.

But in Sandy Springs, which has made mixed-use redevelopment of its Roswell Road “downtown” a priority, notes of caution already are sounding about mixed-use zoning.

Sandy Springs City Council recently passed new guidelines out of concern that large apartment projects were being approved under the trendy mixed-use label and not providing enough of the walkable, street-front-retail environment the city wants. And some Sandy Springs Planning Commission members are wary of overpromoting mixed-use development in places it might not work.

“Not every place is made to be retail ... you just can’t have it everywhere,” Tate said. “Not every community can have that live-work-play environment. It’s just not feasible unless government underwrites

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ultimately, long-term, part of it.” He’s a supvery successful because porter of City Springs, the Buckhead commuthe public-private, nity will grow to it [and] $220 million mixedthe Brookhaven commuuse redevelopment nity will grow around it,” underway in Sandy he said.

Springs that will inRichard Munger, vice clude a new City Hall. president of development City Springs has alat North American Propready helped inspired erties, which created Avatwo other mixed-use lon in Alpharetta, said the redevelopment plans retail part of a mixed-use for a nearby shopping complex cannot be suscenter and office comtained by the complex’s plex. residents alone. The big Town Brookhavconcern for a developen is just the sort of JOHN RUCH Locally, Town Brookhaven was one er, Munger said, is “maklocation that raises of the first smaller-scale versions ing sure the location has concerns, Tate said. of mixed-use mega-projects. strong surrounding fun“I hear from [Town damentals to support the Brookhaven] retailcommercial uses, which include visibiliers that they hadn’t performed as well as ty, employment base, neighborhood demothey anticipated,” he said. “It’s a little bit graphics, access and demand.” between everything. It’s not connected to That calculation can be seen at Town anything…It sits so far off the road.”

Brookhaven, which combines 950 apartThe Sembler Company, which develments, office space and 460,000 square feet oped Town Brookhaven and leases its comof retail on a 48-acre site. It includes streetmercial property, did not respond to quesfront retail beneath apartments, like many tions. mixed-use projects, but also has some carTate said that connecting mixed-use deoriented big-box anchors, such as Costco. velopments to surrounding neighborhoods Ruzycki at the LA Fitness looks both inis key. “I think [Town Brookhaven] will be

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Meanwhile, he’s looking forward to having more customers from an apartment complex being built outside Town Brookhaven, but just across the street.

Munger and Tate said that mixed-use developers have higher planning and construction costs because of the complexities of blending residential and commercial uses. That’s another reason mixed-use could prove infeasible or unsuccessful on particular sites.

But some of the underlying goals of mixed-use developments—walkability, street-front retail, interconnected retail and residential areas—can be met in better-designed single-use complexes as well, Tate said.

One trend is reconfiguring old stripmall style shopping centers into street-facing, pedestrian-friendly centers.

Tate said his company is working on such a project in Florida now.

“We don’t need a lot of new shopping centers,” Tate said. “What we need to do is take the old ones and fix them.”

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Dunwoody Mayor Denis Shortal said traffic mitigation is a major concern and he plans to have town hall meetings to receive input from citizens on the proposed development. He also said the proposed Westside Connector will play a significant role in discussion moving forward.

The Westside Connector is a planned road coming off I-285, going under Ashford-Dunwoody Road and connecting with Perimeter Center Parkway. The road is part of a network of connectors planned for the area as new, highrise developments are being built. The Westside Connector was conceptualized in the 2011 Perimeter Community Improvement Districts’ 10-year plan, but wasn’t a reality until last year.

The idea for the Westside Connector plan started when the owners of Crown Holdings came to the city and offered the city the property for the road at no cost.

Brown, with Crown Holdings, offered to donate about 2 acres of the 15-acre site to the city of Dunwoody.

“That’s $15-$20 million dollars right there [to build that road]. The city doesn’t have that kind of money. That would need state and federal funds, and be a GDOT project,” Shortal said. “Unless the connector goes all the way through to Perimeter Center Parkway, it’s not much use to the city.”

Shortal added that the developers have only submitted a preliminary application for rezoning. “It’s not a permanent one. This is when we go back and forth,” he said.

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By John F. Schaffner and a 50 s eowners that is resulting dinance that require loophole in the presenthigher price. Crime stats editor@reporternewspapers.net a properties under a city of residential properties and four recommendation blotter to a developer at made for from their ordinance for the and Advisory Committee then sell their propertymade by the Advisory Commit- police chief talks about The proposed tree residents they can the Tree Ordinance s Police created a lot of discussion ordinance that many city’s staff, included: Sandy Springs has The four recommendation City ordinance by the between many concerned inclusion into the first six months. to see included but –Page 3 left out of the tree which would inan apparent breach but also among mem- in the community want 9 discussion. tee but tree” designation, historic event citizens and City Council,The question is which Council flatly rejected at its January •Create a “historic with a significant city staff and well. votes council members, any tree associated group with historic significance; bers of council as issue council clude one when The concert in loudest be or for large voices will be heard its February 6 meeting. most of the general public seem to section or life of a person tree designation See the center at gets on the ordinance •Allow for “landmark”immediate vicinity of structure; The Reporter calendar in the tree canpine trees not over 20 percent of the & About in Sandy Out removing you and owners • Require residential a tree removal permit; Board Springs and beyond. removal plan and obtain Conservation opy to submit a tree Tree a of and ordinance •Establishment new the under appeals City Council. hear to capacity to the during a straw serve in an advisory s were voted down All four of the recommendation voting against the “historic all council members Karen Meinzen vote by council with Councilmember s. only District 6 tree” designation and each of the other three recommendationset for Mayor Eva Galambos McEnery voting Jan. 9 work session, statement.

During the council with an introductory “I think discussion the tone for the ensuingtable loves trees,” the mayor said.

Ride the Peach we absolutely de“Everybody at this on the council that with meanyou have total unanimitymay be going on between a few, the Reporter and that –Page 3 plore any collusion who think they can sell their land faster is in city Street talk spirited homeowners, to cut down the trees” while the Do you feel safer now? collude with developers and trying to pass the new tree ordinance.

–Page 6 law that,” the mayor statbetween the present to do something about the “So, I think we ought of the homeowners are reluctant to cut

By John F. Schaffner Bullish on real percent The cure for that .1 estate ed. “Probably 99.9 editor@reporternewspapers.ne Harry Norman unless they have a hazard.

To require homeownt eight-month study trees on their own lawn ish on residential CEO bullworse than the problem. yard, after getting a leading The Chastain Park real estate up tonot should thebe the new master percent Atlanta History Center development their own locally.

Conservancy (CPC) of in plan. get a permit cut down trees has been process of forging is the collusion.” resultsto responsible is in the until February ers toSurvey Expanded facility hosts will bebecollected real problem overkill. The number of park exhibits on Ben 14. The an nership with “One the awonChastain Park—thea new master plan for 238-acre master of for arborist, hopes may improvements –Page 2 ‘blockbuster’ plan by CPC to haveattending the meeting, the city of Atlanta plan city’s a completed final in largest back. partthose Jr. and grow park—and wants the help of residents As it grow. told the park’s late summer and MLK movesTrees Thebymayor Franklin toward operating–Page trees The of this is that developing 7 year. partners. south back.” a new master is a things the the CPCforget, priorities and the and users of the park in setting formed CPC derful about organization non-profit like grow we wouldthey plan for the Buckhead Village to know from residents long-term vision

by Chastain neighbors we cringe. But visit Chastain To that end, the for the park. hance, of the two cities park, Tree Ordinance Park, whatAdvisory to restore, en- s of the When they go down, Is new development they like about if they recommendationwhat doesn’t and put on its websiteConservancy has distributed Since maintain and a responsibility preserve the just the park, andhas Addressing Chastain Park. what the council 2003, it has signed would out thatThose a survey to obtain said the park better. what works and around the corner? shemake put as part of the mayor pointed upthe interested For instance, over Committee, 1,000 information gathering public in- bers—almost evenly in mempassing when ingordinances. to the Conservancy’sparticipating in the survey can split between the budget –Page 2 aspect of the Atlanta business to consider ofdo residents of and residents website: www.chastain so by Taking care Chastain Park of Sandy Springs—and Directorgo5 parkconservan contains a great SSBA Executive cy.org.

TREES, Page ues—some of diversity finger on of facilities has a and which are independently Donna Gathers venhorse park, historic operated—inc of local business. pulse luding 10 See the center the and center, ball fields, golf course, pool –Page a tennis facilities, section gymnasium, The Reporter calendar arts one of Atlanta’s walking trails, most picnic areas and gets you The Conservancy popular and long standing Out & About in concert venues. Buckhead was formed in tain and preserve and beyond.

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By John F. Schaffner many projects Conservancy has for all of aimed atinmaking completed the process editor@reporternewspapers.net the park safer, In cooperation (CPC) iswith Conservancy know youand all Park—the greener. the park stakeholders, Didcleaner stalled a severe Chastain The Chastain Park weather detection usmaster plan for 238-acre andand CPC in& Figures Factsthe of forging a new warning system the help of residents the park. wants Springs at key CHASTA locavision for About Sandy IN, Page city’s largest park—and and the long-term 10its web site put on ers in setting priorities has distributed and asTo that end, the Conservancy information gathering input as part of the the new Christopher North Number of households a survey to obtain publicstudy leading up to the development of CPC pect of the eight-month will be collected until February 14. The year. results this of Survey summer plan. by late master master plan completed size

by Chastain neightree hopes to have a final Average household organization formed prunes a Chastain Park Chastain Park. Since The CPC is a non-profit Street talk of Odd Job Tree Specialists, the trees and bors to restore, enhance, maintain and preserve Springs Guidebook –Source: Sandy Can infrastructure Jesus Libogio, an employeeJob donates time and equipment to maintain handle

By John F. Schaffner Odd new growth? way to give back for 10 on a mild January day.

Thomas said it is his editor@reporternewspapers.ne CHASTAIN, page Company owner Eddie area. t –Page 6 walkways in the park. from the recreational The Atlanta International his family has received School, Buckhead leaders years of enjoyment and residents, won a beloved institution of most Buckhead Civic Association a struggle with profile the Garden Hills BBA’s Sharon Silva victory came only over three zoning matters this past after board of Neighborhoodsome heated exchanges among month, but the the long road home. takes members of the Planning The school had acquired Unit-B at its first meeting page –Page 11 backseeking Seewas of 2007. some additional to expand its property and operations. Those the school to obtain two separate plans required of nine pieces variances and of property along 2 to RG-3, Peachtree Avenue a rezoning both residential from RGgeneral One Zoning variance, sector zoning categories. Piedmont Hospital which applied es of property to the same nine was Outpatient unit piecPeachtree Avenue, to allow for parking in Howell Mill Road. going on the the construction where it is otherwise prohibited,front yard on of The second zoning a new school building and to allow for –Page 14 parking deck. variance was to of a structure from increase the isting school and 35 feet to 41 feet to allow for an maximum height a special exception addition the off-street parking from zoning regulations to the exto reduce All three of the requirement from 379 spaces requests had been to 150 ing committee approved by NPU-B’sspaces.

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Number of households to maintain the mittee had told Nov. 28 approval vote, however, that covenant. years of enjoyment Company owner Eddie Thomas trees the zoning comand an agreement the two parties to go said it is his his family has received back and work on the covenant on obtaining from the recreational way to give back for three zoning matters. as part of By the Jan. 2 NPU the NPU’s approval of the area.

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charts. The plan the city’s consultants developed then called for a long-term effort to dress up the city’s parks. But city voters rejected a proposed $66 million bond that was supposed to pay for the plan, leaving the city with relatively little money to finance park improvements or purchase new parkland.

City consultant Pat O’Toole, a principal of GreenPlay LLC of Lawrence, Kan., said that when the plan is finished next August, it • • would be based on reliable surveys of what Dunwoody residents think about and want in their parks. Consultants already have met with people with a direct interest in the parks, including city officials, to talk about what should be included. A random survey of residents is planned, likely in March, he said, as well as a broadJOE EARLE er online survey open John Crawfod of Dunwoody Senior Baseball to anyone wishing to wants to see more city ball fields. contribute. “This is just

meetings and put dots on drawings,” one resident said. “We ended up with Georgetown Renaissance Park, which is not what I thought we’d end up with.

I’ve never been there. It does not appeal to me.”

In 2011, City Council adopted Dunwoody’s parks plan after a series of public brainstorming sessions that sometimes included ranking proposals by posting green or red dots on maps or

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the beginning,” Parks and Recreation Director Brent Walker said. “This is a fluid process.”

Residents at the Jan. 12 meeting offered a wide variety of opinions on how to improve Dunwoody’s parks. Some recommendations conflicted with other suggestions. “There’re wide differences between what people want to do,” said John Crawford, treasurer of Dunwoody Senior Baseball, which plays on city fields at Dunwoody Park. “You’ve got people who want green space and people who want [sports facilities] for children.”

Several residents told the consultants the city needs more green places to allow residents to find a bit of the natural world in the city. “There’s nothing in your study about nature,” one resident said. “I’m not interested in paying my tax dollars for more baseball fields.” “We need to preserve the quiet and reflective places,” said Nancy Kestan, a self-described “tree hugger.”

But others, such as Crawford, say what the city really needs are more sports fields because Dunwoody’s kids have few places to play in the city. “There’s going to have to be more choosing here,” he told the consultants.

And there are other projects competing for space on city land. Several residents proposed rehabilitating the theater at Brook Run Park for use as a

performance space. Some wanted more bathrooms in Brook Run. One resident called for a senior center.

Resident Allen Paris said he’d like to see the city develop “a destination park” with, perhaps, a botanical garden. He thinks the city should add other neighborhood parks, “places where people can walk their dogs.”

Paris said that despite the disagreements over which direction to go, the discussion was “a good start” toward developing a new plan for Dunwoody’s parks. One lingering question, he said, appears to be where the money will come from. “If we spent all that money on Dunwoody Village [Parkway] and Mount Vernon [Road], I’m sure we can find it,” he said.

Paris and other residents said they thought the 2011 bond was voted down because homeowners didn’t understand how the money would be spent.

And, several said, some of the city’s plans, such as one to raze an apartment complex to build sports fields, drew strong critics who saw that proposal as an effort to drive poor people out of town.

Although some residents argued that Dunwoody voters won’t approve any bond issue, the consultants got a different opinion overall from the group gathered Jan. 12.

When O’Toole asked whether a “bet-

ter-targeted, better marketed” bond could win approval in the future, perhaps a quarter to a third of the members of the crowd raised their hands to vote yes. Only a handful voted no. The others indicated they just couldn’t say.

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Nancy Kestan, bottom, a self-described “tree hugger,” says the city needs more quiet, reflective places.

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Cooking up extremes When my first child was a toddler, his favorite show was a cooking show. It featured reruns of a genteel Graham Kerr charmingly slicing, dicing and “nice-ing” his way around his kitchen. My son loved to cuddle up next to me while we watched “the cooking man” together, presumably because my boy was so captivated by a person who did more in a kitchen than sprinkle Cheerios on a highchair tray.

Since then, the world of cooking shows has exploded, and I mean that literally. We have an entire network devoted to food and its preparation, and it’s been turned into a prime time battle. Other networks have taken notice and are getting in on the food fight; now our TV shows are like a middle-school cafeteria gone wild.

We might watch Ina Garten calmly create a ganache during the sunny daytime hours, but when the sun sets, we’re ready

for some action. So network producers are finding ways to make even the tamest of subjects… extreme. Chefs are chopped!

Kitchens are cutthroat! Brussels sprouts battle broccoli spears. Bobby Flay is in a boxing ring and cooking contestants are dressed as gladiators.

It’s not enough to help someone remake his restaurant—it has to be impossible!

Bash a sledgehammer to it, set it on fire, or link it to the mob, and we’ll take notice.

I caught an episode of “Hell’s Kitchen” one night. At first, I had no idea what I was watching; I never knew there could be such intensity in a kitchen that didn’t involve three kids who were late to a soccer game.

The program features Gordon Ramsay — a blonde, blue-eyed chef with a foreign accent and a foul mouth. He out-cooks and out-cusses everyone. The background music sounds like the score of a 50-year-old

WWII movie, and chefs dash around as if they’re performing triage while Ramsay shouts riveting dialogue such as, “Season it! Season it! Quick! Get-the-kale! The bleeping chicken is RAW!” It was strangely compelling, like watching a wrecking ball demolish a building Then a commercial came on so I clicked the remote and found “Mystery Diner,” a program whose purpose is to uncover kitchen criminals. An “investigative team” had placed hidden cameras all over a restaurant, and the restaurant owner and the head investigator were sitting in a private room, watching as employees accepted bribes and pilfered bags of flour. That one I watched for a while, but only because I really wanted to know who was stealing the beer kegs.

I clicked over to the Food Network again. “Cutthroat Kitchen” had just start-

ed, featuring Alton Brown trying to look sinister.

OK, I watched that for a while… but only because I wanted to see if the Italian guy could cook macRobin’s Nest aroni and cheese Robin Jean Conte in a metal pipe.

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I clicked past 30 different crime shows that were half over and an airing of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” I clicked back to the Food Network.

It was pretty tame in comparison. And the Italian guy won.

COMMUNITY WORKSHOP Wednesday, January 27, 2016, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Sherwood Event Hall 8610 Roswell Road #200, Sandy Springs, GA 30350 The City of Sandy Springs invites you to participate in a community workshop to review initial findings, ideas and concepts generated as part of The Next Ten planning process.

You will have the opportunity to: • Review findings to date as part of The Next Ten planning process (Comprehensive Plan and Small Area Plans).

• Comment on preliminary Comprehensive Plan visions and goals, as well as conceptual ideas for both Roswell Road and the Perimeter Center area.

• Discuss and provide input on the ideas and concepts presented, in a workshop session with the planning team.

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It’s the Lady Wildcats versus the Lady Wolverines

Photos by Phil Mosier Above, Dunwoody High School students, from left, Alexa Greenfeld, Caroline Madden and Madison McKnight take a break from cheeering on the girls’ varsity basketball team on Jan. 15 in the Dunwoody High School gym.

Above, Dunwoody High School varsity cheerleader Fionn Chakshuvej gets the crowd ino the game.

The Dunwoody Lady Wildcats took on the Miller Grove High School Lady Wolverines in regional action, with the Wildcats falling, 62-37.

Left, Lady Wildcat Sam Moss sets up for a shot.

The team, coached by Angela Nash, are 8-9 this season.

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Friday, Feb. 5, 8 p.m. Act3 Productions presents the musical, “Dogfight,” set in 1963. On the eve of their deployment to a growing conflict in Southeast Asia, three young Marines go out for a final night of debauchery, partying and maybe a little trouble. But then one meets a girl… Tickets: $15-$30. Show runs through Feb. 20. Go to: http://act3productions.org for more details and show times.

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Saturday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m. Dunwoody United Methodist Church welcomes the return of American pianist Thomas Pandolfi, featuring works by Liszt and Chopin as well as Andrew Lloyd Webber and Marvin Hamlisch. Suggested donation, $10. In the Sanctuary, 1548 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody. Call 770-3940675 to find out more.

Thursday, Jan. 28, 4:30 p.m. Galloway Theatre Company presents its winter production, “The Ash Girl,” about a girl huddled deep in an ashy hearth. With her mother dead and her father away, she lives with her stepmother and two stepsisters. When the prince invites her to the ball, she finds the strength to go with the help of her friends. Tickets: $10. Additional shows, Jan. 29, 7:30; Jan. 30-31, 2 p.m. At the Next Stage, 215 West Wieuca Rd., NW, Atlanta, 30342. To purchase tickets, visit: www.gallowayschool.org. Email: cami.d.watts@gmail. com or call 404-252-8389 with questions.

SPOTLIGHT ON ART Monday, Feb. 1, 6-9 p.m. The Trinity School hosts an Artists Market, open to the public. Discover works not found in any other gallery, including pieces from well-known names and new artists. Prices range from $5$5,000. “Meet the Artists” on Opening Night and also during Cocktails & Canvases, Friday, Feb. 5, 6-9 p.m. Market hours: TuesdayThursday, 8 a.m. -4 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free admission and parking. 4301 Northside Pkwy., NW, Atlanta, 30327. Go to: www.trinityatl.org or call 404231-8100 for information.

‘SIGHTS & INSIGHTS’ Thursday, Jan. 28, 6-9 p.m. Opening reception for the first show of the season at the Spruill Art gallery. Check out an all-medium exhibition of artists from throughout the Southeast, juried by Alan Avery. Free and open to the community. Show continues through April 9. 4681 Ashford-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody,

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Open to members of the Cancer Support Community. RSVP to 404-843-1880. 5775 PeachtreeDunwoody Rd., Suite C-225, Atlanta, 30342. Go to: www.cscatlanta.org for additional details.

BEAVER SUMMIT Saturday, Jan. 30, 12-2 p.m. Join others and guest lecturers for “What are the benefits and challenges of living with beavers in urban areas?” at Oglethorpe University in this twopart session. Continues on Saturday, Feb. 6, 3-5 p.m., at Blue Heron Nature Preserve, with a wetlands walk. $45. Find out more by calling 404-345-1008. Register at: www.bhnp.org.

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FOOD SENSITIVITIES Tuesday, Feb. 2, 6-7:30 p.m. This workshop discusses how diet impacts your health, weight and lifestyle. Free and open to the community. For adult audiences. For more information or to register, call 404-441-2380 or email: Cassandraw@mixwithintegrity.com. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Questions?

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RSVP to 404-843-1880. 5775 Peachtree-Dunwoody Rd., Suite C-225, Atlanta, 30342. Go to: www.cscatlanta.org to learn more.

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Saturday, Feb. 6, 4-6 p.m. Discover the ancient Chinese system of fortune telling. Find out how astrology works and what highlights the new year might hold. Free and open to all. For adults. Sandy Springs Branch Library, 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328. Call 404-303-6130 or email: comments@ co.fulton.ga.us for additional information.

Monday, Jan. 25, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Learn how to stay safe when bad weather arrives during this interactive musical. Free and open to all.

Suitable for kids ages 4 and up. Registration required and started Jan. 5. Space is limited.

Call 404-303-6130, email: leah.germon@fultoncountyga.gov or visit the Sandy Springs Library to sign up. 395 Mount Vernon Highway, Sandy Springs, 30328.

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Thursday, Jan. 28, 1-8 p.m. The Friends of the Dunwoody Library hold a book sale! Browse hardbacks, including fiction, non-fiction and children’s books. Free admission. From 1-4 p.m., members only; 4-8, open to the public.

Sale continues Jan. 29 and Jan. 30, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Monday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., which is Bag Day. Buy a bag and fill it! 5339 Chamblee-Dunwoody Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. To find out more, call 770-512-4640.

CATHEDRAL ANTIQUES SHOW Thursday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Browse period furniture, jewelry, art and accessories gathered under one roof. Net proceeds benefit Literacy Action. Photography, strollers, large bags, and outside food and beverages prohibited. Continues Feb. 5, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. and Feb. 6, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Cathedral of St. Philip, 2744 Peachtree Rd., Atlanta, 30305. For details, or tickets to this event and others, visit: www.cathedralantiques.org.

Saturday, Feb. 6, 8:30 a.m. St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church holds its annual 5K/10K Tartan Trot, benefiting local and global outreach efforts. 1-mile run, 8 a.m.; Tot Trot, 9:45 a.m.

Both 5 and 10K are Peachtree qualifiers. $30; $35 race day; $15 for 1-mile. Awards, longsleeved T-shirts for entrants. Leashed dogs, walkers and strollers welcome. Rain or shine.

Vehicle parking in Dunwoody Village; shuttle buses available. 1978 Mount Vernon Rd., Dunwoody, 30338. To register or to learn more, go to: http://tartantrot.com.

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MLK’S BIRTHDAY Monday, Jan. 25, 7-7:45 p.m. Celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. with a birthday cake and video, “Our Friend Martin.” Free. Open to the community. Suitable for all audiences.

Northside Branch Library, in the Multi-Purpose Meeting Room, 3295 Northside Parkway, Atlanta, 30327. E-mail: comments@co.fulton.ga.us or call 404-814-3508 for further information.

GYOTAKU! Tuesday, Jan. 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Study science through the Japanese art form Gyotaku, and create a masterpiece worthy of a refrigerator door! Free. All are welcome. Geared for preschool, elementary and mdidle school youth.

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Thursday, Jan. 28, 4-5:30 p.m. Heritage Sandy Springs presents “Grace’s Parisian Adventures.”

Learn history through crafts, games and snacks.

For ages 5-10. $8 members; $10 non-members.

6075 Sandy Springs Circle, Sandy Springs, 30328. For more information, call 404-851-9111 x2 or visit: www.heritagesandysprings.org.

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Vince Anthony’s choice of careers sounds simple enough, the way he tells it now. Decades ago, when he was in college, he set off for New York to make his fortune as an actor. While looking for an onstage job, he found something else. He found puppets.

He’d made puppets for school projects when he was a kid growing up in Florida, he said, “but it didn’t occur to me that I would want to pursue puppets as a career.” Then he saw an ad for a job with a touring puppet company. He went to see what that was about and ending up work a marionette, a stringed puppet he found to be elegant. “I made a career decision as I was auditioning,” he said. “I fell in love with it.”

Lucky thing. That marionette led Anthony to a career in puppetry. And his career path led Anthony, who now lives in Buckhead, to found and operate one of Atlanta’s most original museums and performance venues, the Center for Puppetry Arts, which opened in 1978. It now operates in a former elementary school building at 1404 Spring Street.

The center recently expanded its facilities. It added 7,500 square feet of exhibition space to its museum and an extensive Jim Henson collection that the center says is the most comprehensive exhibit of Henson artifacts in the country.

Just what was it about puppetry that caught Anthony’s attention all those decades ago? What about puppets stirs his affection? “I don’t know,” Anthony admitted one recent morning as he sat and chatted quietly in his cluttered office at the puppetry center. “The fact that you are creating something, taking something inanimate in nature and making it live and breathe. It was fascinating to me. ... I was working a marionette. I was just fascinated.”

He joined the company and hit the road with a three-puppeteer company.

They toured “across the whole Midwest, as far as Texas” playing “Pinocchio.” “We would travel in a truck. We would put up this puppet theater and perform and then move on. I did that for three years.”

After a while, he decided he wanted to return to the South from New York. He subscribed to an Atlanta newspaper to get a feel for the town, he said. This was

Puppeteer Vince Anthony, executive director of the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, works a shadow puppet display in the center’s museum.

“Puppetry can be a touchstone to so many kinds of things,” he said.

in the 1960s. There seemed to be a lot going on in Atlanta’s arts scene, he said, so he set up his own touring company, The Vagabond Marionettes, based in Atlanta. His company performed around the Southeast. Soon, he and other puppeteers started talking about creating a national base for puppetry.

The Center for Puppetry Arts once shared the old school building with other arts organizations. But at 38 years old, it now fills the building completely and has spilled out into additions. It hosts puppet shows, provides puppetry-based education programs, and houses a museum that is home to a collection of more than 170 puppets and puppetry artifacts from five continents. “We’re unique in what we do,” Anthony said. “There are some other puppet centers, but they’re very small.”

The Atlanta center, he said with a slight smile, has turned out “bigger than we thought.”

Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, helped launch the center in the 1970s, Anthony said, and now 75 of Henson’s creations and artifacts – including many familiar Muppets – anchor a major portion of the recently expanded puppetry museum. The museum displays Muppets from throughout Henson’s career, including Big Bird, and Bert and Ernie from the TV show “Sesame Street,” Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy from “The Muppet Show” TV program, and characters from other Henson creations such as the TV show “Fraggle Rock” and the movie “The Dark Crystal.”

The Henson portion of the museum also includes mockups of his office and a TV studio. “I think the Henson puppets are a great way to attract people to what we do,” Anthony said. Anthony hopes the crowds that come to meet the Muppets will then discover the rest of the collec-

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tion, too. The museum, after all, is a place to see the long, artful history of all sorts of puppets.

“Puppetry can be a touchstone to so many kinds of things,” he said. “It’s a unique art form. ... It has touched lives for many, many years.”

JOE EARLE Vince Anthony strolls through the new Jim Henson exhibit at the Center for Puppetry Arts museum.

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The school had operated the trout hatchery in past years. Fourth graders used it to learn about biology. But in the years since Matthew was in elementary school at Kinglsey, the program had been discontinued because the structure housing the hatchery, made out of metal poles and tarps, kept breaking.

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Ross went before the city council in March to ask for help in funding a $40,000 feasibility study to restore Brook Run Theater and said then there was strong support to do so.

Theater Design Solutions, hired by the conservancy to review options for the Brook Run Theater, states in its analysis that “The positive aspects of the existing location seem to outweigh the benefits of building a new theater in another location.”

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total renovation project could cost up to nearly $5 million.

“That’s not good for us, that’s not good for the city,” Williams said. “We are trying to contain costs on this project.”

Renovations and repairs to the historic Donaldson-Bannister Farm are underway and projections are to have the space open to the public this year.

The Dunwoody Preservation Trust, a nonprofit volunteer organization, presented an update on the project at the Jan. 11 City Council meeting.

“The problem has been that this is not a safe facility,” said Jim Williams, vice president of property management for DPT. “The house has significant issues that need to be addressed … but the property will be done in some SPECIAL fashion this year.”

Renovations are underway at the historic The farm and the 2.9 acres its Donaldson-Bannister Farmhouse. sits on is a public park owned by the city, and DPT has been contracted by the city to renovate and repair City Councilman Douglas Thompson the building. Phase one — or the stabisuggested DPT get members of the public lization of house — began in November touring the house as soon as possible in and includes repairing floors and walls order to keep interest in the project alive. eaten away by termites. The non-histor“You have the passion. I sense the pasical barn behind the farmhouse was torn sion in DPT. It’s clear. But I’m not feeldown Jan. 7; bathrooms accessible to peoing it outside in the community,” he said. ple with disabilities and a multipurpose “You don’t need to get the whole house room are planned to be built on that site. renovated to start programming.”

To date, $110,000 has been spent by “We agree with you 100 percent,” WilDPT on a master plan and $30,000 on a liams said. landscape plan, Williams explained, with Council members also were curious another $50,000 committed from DPT. about how parking would be handled.

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R O B B E RY  4800 Winters Chapel Road—On Jan. 1,

lifting.  4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody

 4400 block of Tilly Mill Road—On Jan.

On Jan. 1, arrest for aggravated assault/ battery with a gun.

6, arrest for sexual assault.

 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody

 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody

Road–On Jan. 4, report of larceny shoplifting.

 77 Perimeter Center East—On Jan. 4,

 4300 block of Dunwoody Park—On

report of business robbed by gunman.

Jan. 4, report of larceny from vehicle.

 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody

 4500 block of Village Oaks Drive—On

 4000 block of Dunwoody Park—On

Jan. 9, report of forced entry burglary and damage to business property.  100 block of Perimeter Center West—

On Jan. 9, report of entry burglary into a business.  6300 block of Abercon Avenue—On

Jan. 11, report of forced entry residential burglary.

Jan. 6, report of assault-intimidation.

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Road—On Jan. 2, report of strong arm robbery of a business.

On Jan. 2, report of burglary with no forced entry.

 4500 block of Village Oaks Drive—On

Jan. 4, report of larceny from vehicle.

 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody

 2400 block of Mount Vernon Road—

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 4700 block of Pine Acres Court—On

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Road—On Jan. 4, report of larceny shoplifting.

Road—On Jan. 13, report of forcible purse snatching robbery.

 5300 block of Tilly Mill Road—On Jan.

 2300 block of Peachtree Road—On

Jan. 1, report of assault/simple assault/ battery.  4600 block of Peachtree Place Park-

way—On Jan. 1, arrest for aggravated assault/battery-other weapon.  200 block of Perimeter Center Park-

way—On Jan. 1, report of simple assault.

Jan. 5, report of larceny from building.

 4400 block of Haverstraw Drive—On

 4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody

Jan. 3, report of family battery/simple battery.

Road—On Jan. 5, report of larceny shoplifting.

 2200 block of Asbury Square—On Jan.

 4700 block of Ashford Dunwoody

5, report of family battery/simple battery.

Road—On Jan. 6, seven arrests for larceny shoplifting.  4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody

Road—On Jan. 6, two arrests for larceny shoplifting.

 4600 block of Peachtree Place Park-

way—On Jan. 6, report of assault by intimidation.

ARRESTS  100 block of Perimeter Center Place—

On Jan. 2, report of shoplifting and an arrest.  4700 Ashford Dunwoody Road—On

Jan. 2, report of shoplifting and arrest.  4400 block of Ashford Dunwoody

Road—On Jan. 2, report of shoplifting and arrest.  4700

block Ashford Dunwoody Road—On Jan. 3, report of shoplifting and arrest.

 4700 block of

North Peachtree Road—On Jan. 6, report of family battery/sim-

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Lofts Circle—On Jan. 11, two reports of forced entry residential burglaries.

THEFT/LARCENY  5300 block of Roberts Drive—On Jan.

1, report of larceny of items from vehicle.  6700 block of Peachtree Industrial

Boulevard— On Jan. 1, report of larceny from vehicle.  5500 block of Chamblee Dunwood

Road—On Jan. 2, report of larcey from vehicle.

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1, report of vandalism of private property.  70 Perimeter Center East—On Jan. 3,

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Road—On Jan. 3, report of shoplifting.  4300 block of Ashford Dunwoody

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