MAY 11 - 24, 2018 • VOL. 12 — NO. 10
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Recycling facility may come to Lenox Square mall BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
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Caitlin Krachon pulls English ivy off a tree along the Bitsy Grant Tennis Center bike trail on May 6. She was among 12 North Atlanta High School students who volunteered to remove invasive plants from the woods in a Tree Atlanta program led by Aaron Bose. “Today is a learning and rewarding activity for all of us here,” said Keely Fitzsimmons, president of North Atlanta High’s Environmental Club.
STANDOUT STUDENT Collecting video games for kids in hospitals
I have always wanted to be part of a new theater in Atlanta and I was ecstatic to be able to help form an original season with a brand-new company.
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Golf course, environmental group seek compromise on construction BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
A dispute over the Bobby Jones Golf Course redesign’s impacts on creeks between course leaders and a major environmental group has led to some trees to be saved and some talk of further compromise. Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, the advocacy organization, claims that the construc-
SHULER HENSLEY Associate Artistic Director of the new City Springs Theatre Company Page 4
Tires, mattresses and other material could soon be headed to a new recycling center behind Lenox Square mall intended as a second location of a popular southeast Atlanta facility. The first Center for Hard to Recycle Materials, or CHaRM, opened at 1110 Hill St. in 2015, an inconvenient location for Buckhead residents to get to, District 7 Councilmember Howard Shook said. A Lenox Square CHaRM could come sometime this year. The operator of CHaRM, Live Thrive Atlanta, has been working for many years to build a new location in north Atlanta, Shook said. Simon Properties has offered to allow Live Thrive to build the facility on an unused lot at Lenox Square, he said. The facility would be built on a halfacre lot at the back of the mall, on the south edge where Simon’s property meets PATH400, said Peggy Whitlow Ratcliffe, the executive director of Live
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