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Windsor Parkway pedestrian bridge opens
City Springs event rental rates proposed BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
Renting space at the new City Springs facility would run anywhere from $3,500 a day for the main theater to 50 bucks for a boardroom, in event rental rates proposed at a Sandy Springs City Council work session June 6. The rates include discounts for nonprofits and non-commercial events of 25 percent to 50 percent. City Springs is a public-private development, on Roswell Road between Johnson Ferry Road and Mount Vernon Highway, that will include a new City Hall, a large theater, a new park, housing and commercial See CITY on page 14 Residents and officials on June 5 cut the ribbon on a new pedestrian bridge over Nancy Creek along Windsor Parkway. The bridge is part of a $384,000 pedestrian accessibility improvement project that also included sidewalk installation. The bridge and sidewalks eventually will serve a new park, called Windsor Meadows, planned for vacant lots near the intersection of Windsor Parkway and Northland Drive.
EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATOR Creating a classroom comfort zone
COMMUNITY Perimeter CIDs deliver on $10M promise Page 8
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OUT & ABOUT Pitch your tent at Dunwoody Nature Center Page 11
Congressional race nears June 20 finish line BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net As the 6th Congressional District race nears a conclusion in the June 20 runoff election, Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel took their campaigns to local events in recent days — while accusing each other of not being publicly visible. Ossoff appeared at several events in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. Those events included a block party at a Dunwoody neighborhood, a concert in Hammond Park in Sandy Springs and a “community conversation” at Sharon Community United Methodist Church in Sandy Springs. U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Atlanta) also campaigned for Ossoff, holding a small early-voting rally at the See CONGRESSIONAL on page 16
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