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State officials considering city’s request for own EMS agency
Icy fun at Food Truck Thursday
BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
Lennon Mazikowski, 2, enjoys a raspberry-lime ice treat from King of Pops, with a little help from mom Scotti, at Food Truck Thursday at Brook Run Park May 31. The food truck fest is one of Dunwoody’s most popular annual events, running every Thursday through October, 5 p.m. to dark, in the park at 4770 North Peachtree Road.
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I’m not sure there will be new or different policies, but there will be more diverse conversations around all policy discussions. A 54-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, COMMENTING ON THE IMPORTANCE OF WOMEN ON THE BALLOT
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State officials are considering the city’s request to create its own EMS service provider after the City Council last month approved a “Declaration of EMS Emergency” following years of complaints of slow response times from DeKalb County’s contracted provider, American Medical Response. But AMR and DeKalb County officials say they continue to work on improving response times to the city and have initiated a plan including adding a permanent ambulance to the city that they is already showing progress. Nancy Nydam, spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Public Health, which oversees EMS service providers in the state, said the city’s formal request to open the Region 3 “zone” is in the hands of the chairperson of the Regional 3 EMS council. See STATE on page 14
Dunwoody Village plan highlights design tensions BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
The developer for a planned restaurant/retail building at the visible corner of Mount Vernon and Chamblee-Dunwoody roads is asking the city to approve a sleeker, more contemporary architectural design they say they need to attract a fast-casual restaurant. One major problem — the new design doesn’t fit in with the decades-old Dunwoody Village Overlay District where that corner lot sits. Crim and Associates, developer of the See DUNWOODY on page 17