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Plan gives walkers, bikers safer passage on Lenox Road
INNOVATION Mount Vernon ’s ‘sc a school’ tackle hool within s real-world projects
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LUNCH MONEY School district s develop policies for unp aid meal bills
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BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
The Buckhead Community Improvement District presented plans for a more walkable Lenox Road Sept. 6 to an optimistic crowd that mostly welcomed the plans for new multi-use trails along the major corridor. The hope of the project is to get Lenox Road to “at least resemble a city street,” complete with walkable trails that can also be used by cyclists, instead of a place for only See PLAN on page 14
Group steps up to help more homeless people OUT & ABOUT
North Atlanta High marching band sousaphone players, from left, Kennedy Wright Jr., Michael Ashley Jr. and Xavier Anderson take the field at Chamblee Stadium on Sept. 8 to help cheer their Warriors on Caption versus the Dunwoody High Wildcats in Friday night football. The Warriors won, 14-0.
COMMUNITY Residents, visitors cope with historic storm Irma
We have the individual and collective responsibility to let it be known that DACA recipients are brave human beings who are making this nation extraordinarily great.
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Southern culture and crafts at History Center
Maritza Morelli Executive Director of Los Ninos Primero,
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As Buckhead Christian Ministry, an organization that assists those facing homelessness, hires a president and CEO and celebrates its 30-year anniversary, it will face the challenge of supporting additional people displaced in the closure of the PeachtreePine Shelter in Midtown. Keeva Kase, BCM’s president and CEO who began work Aug. 24, said they expect an increase in the visitors seeking financial assistance and necessities. The beleaguered shelter was officially closed Aug. 28 after years of controversy and questions over management, crime and disease. See GROUP on page 22
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