JULY 21 - AUG. 3, 2017 • VOL. 11 — NO. 15
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Gripping gaze at ‘Doggie Daze’
Kiran Judge pets Bingo during the “Doggie Daze” event at Blue Heron Nature Preserve on Roswell Road on July 15. The event let visitors explore the preserve with their pets and adopt or foster a dog as well.
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BeltLine trail may soon enter Buckhead BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net The Atlanta BeltLine may soon extend into the southeast portion of Buckhead. Plans for that portion of the trail, called the Northeast Trail, were presented at a public meeting July 13. The Northeast Trail would be the second segment of the BeltLine to be built in Buckhead following the completed Northside Trail near Piedmont Hospital. BeltLine planners propose working with Georgia Power Co. to pave an existing interim hiking trail from Ansley Mall in Midtown to Mayson Street, just past I-85 on the Buckhead border. The trail would cross the Buford-Spring Connector on an existing rail bridge and pass through an existing tunnel under I-85. Room for a future streetcar rail is planned to run along the trail. The trail would be part of the larger BeltLine plan, which proposes a loop of 22 miles of streetcar route, 33 miles of multiuse trail and 2,000 acres of parks, accord-
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The city of Sandy Springs can be held up as a great example of thoughtfully approaching its public art program with carefully crafted goals, strategies, criteria and policy. CHERI MORRIS Chair of Art Sandy Springs’ “ArtSS in the Open” public art program
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Shepherd Center calls for fixes to nearby sidewalks BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
Sidewalks providing access to the Shepherd Center on Peachtree Road are damaged, and wheelchair-using patients say it makes their commute to the spinal cord and brain injury hospital dangerous. City officials say they’re looking at the issues, but it remains unclear who is responsible for fixing any problems. “The sidewalks on Peachtree [Road] are a travesty. Peachtree is Atlanta’s supposedly premiere street and the one the world knows us by,” said James Shepherd, the See SHEPHERD on page 14