SEPTEMBER 1 - 14, 2017 • VOL. 11— NO. 18
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► Few local dams have emergency plans ready PAGE 4 ► Commentary: Tackling hate in schools, for kids’ sake PAGE 10
Water wars
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City Council District 4 is only race on ballot BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
Sandy Springs will have a city election so quiet, they almost didn’t have one at all. Two candidates — Le’Dor Milteer and Jody Reichel — vying for the City Council District 4 seat make for the only competitive race and the only one that will appear on the Nov. 7 ballot, the city says. No election will be held for all other, noncompetitive races. That means Mayor Rusty Paul and four incumbent councilmembers will remain in office without a vote, and newcomer Steve Soteres will automatically win the District 2 seat for which he is the See CITY on page 15 PHIL MOSIER
Left, Sisters Sophia Tadeo, 9, and Natalia Tadeo, 5, compete to knock down cups with water pistols in one of many family activities at the Movies by Moonlight screening of “The Lego Batman Movie” Aug. 25 at Sandy Springs United Methodist Church on Mount Vernon Highway. Sponsored by Leadership Sandy Springs, the movie series continues Sept. 8 with “Beauty and the Beast.” See Out & About, p. 16. ►
EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATOR Pursuing ‘pizzazz’ in every lesson
Civil War monuments should be about marking transitions and remembering what happens when we can’t find peaceful solutions. People who attempt to violently remove them are exactly why we need them.
OUT & ABOUT ‘Beachy soul’ comes to the Springs
— A 35-year-old Brookhaven man
What should metro Atlanta officials do with Confederate monuments that stand on public land? See COMMENTARY, Page 11
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After 30 years, CAC grows to meet needs BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net In its 30th year of preventing homelessness and hunger, the nonprofit Community Assistance Center says needs in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs are only growing. So the CAC is growing, too. With a $2 million capital campaign underway, the CAC is starting work on a greatly expanded food pantry at a 14,000-square-foot Roswell Road building it recently purchased. And on the drawing board: two satellite locations for food pantries and counseling services in Dunwoody and Sandy Springs. After starting small in 1987, says CAC See AFTER on page 14
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