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JULY 2020 • VOL. 14 — NO. 7
Sandy Springs Reporter ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
K-pop fans cheer musicians’ Black Lives Matter activism
► Worth Knowing: A salute to 4th of July horses p18
City starts racism dialogue; North End talks show the challenge
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AROUND TOWN
A neighborhood advocate steps aside, but not out P6 COMMUNITY
An Air & Space Museum at PDK? P20
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Black Lives Matter movement protesters on Mount Vernon Highway hold up signs to Sandy Springs City Hall and passing motorists June 8
Hammond Drive widening project moves to $1.7M design phase BY BOB PEPALIS The Hammond Drive widening project is moving to the design phase after the City Council heard a report on June 16 on comments made about the conceptual plan and staff responses to those concerns. The idea to widen the road originated
long before Sandy Springs became a city. The controversy about the project has lasted just as long, with the Glennridge Hammond Neighborhood Association saying in 2016 that the project is a threat to one of the city’s largest and oldest neighborhoods. Opposition continued in February pubSee HAMMOND on page 22
BY BOB PEPALIS In the wake of the nationwide George Floyd protests, which came to Sandy Springs City Hall several times last month, Mayor Rusty Paul For more about made an unrace and local precedented policing, call for a citywide dialogue see p. 15-16. on race and racism. But getting true diversity in those conversations will be challenging. And it has already been an issue in city plans to redevelop the majority-minority North End, a concept that experts say in part reflects the pattern of systemic racism in Atlanta with its risks of displacement and gentrification. See AS on page 14
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