9-15-16 Brookhaven Reporter

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SEPTEMBER 15 - 28, 2017 • VOL. 9 — NO. 19

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EDUCATION GUIDE 15-28, 2017

High school TV : Student broadc asters link local scho ols to the world

► Solving real-world problems: One school’s innovation institute

A: North Spring School studen s Charter High t Amari Mosby right, interv , iews Hanna Quillen.

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B: Westminster students WilliamSchools Bennett Porson Turton and Ireland in Augusbroadcast from t 2016. The Westminster varsity footba team travele ll d to play in the AmeriDublin to can Football Classic.

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C: At Holy Innoce nts’ Episcopal School, Hollis Brecher, left, Faith Wrigh t broadcast fromand the studio while and Katie Smith Jack Wood work behind the scenes.

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A BY DONN A WILL IAMS LEWI S Students are The AV Tech live streaming lab at North assemblies, plays, holida Springs Charter High Schoo y pageants and l crackled with concerts and producing featur creative energy on a recent es that will afternoon as be emailed, played on closed students produced stories circuit televis for their biweek ion systems, or posted on ly news show. Arnardo Vargas Facebook, YouTu , 18, worked be channels, school tro and ending on an inwebsites and streaming netwo for his video Relatives can featuring the rks. school’s Sparta get ns football player great views ations from of graduJaylan McDo s. Seniors across the countr nald and Paris y. (Check out The Westminster Talbert search apps for “positi ed Schools’ 2016 ve” background graduation on YouTube.) their New Teache music for r segment. Parents don’t Senior Matan have to agoniz Berman spliced e ing over their kids’ sportin misshis feature, video for “Stereotypica g events. They l Students,” watch them Amari Mosby can on their phone and , 16, searched s. among the six Westminster iting rooms edsophomore for equipment Turner Cravens knows to film an interview about last first-hand how spring’s school parents rely WCAT, the school trip to Spain, Portugal and on ’s Morocco. station. He recalle student-run online TV Local high school d dealin g s with increasingly was worried a dad who coming broadc are beabout wheth asting and er the station nitely was going filmmaking breeding groun defito cover a basket ds in a state he couldn’t attend with a boomi ball game film industry. ng .

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Pool's Out for Summer!

PDK's proposed new hangars raise noise concerns

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 DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

A proposal to build more hangars at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport (PDK) has residents in Brookhaven and Chamblee raising concerns about even more noise from the second-busiest airport in the state. The airport, which is governed by DeKalb County and located in the city of Chamblee, is near the Brookhaven border. Residents living in nearby neighborhoods, such as Ashford Park, have in the past complained See PDK on page 14

City Council approves OUT & ABOUT surveillance Southern culture and cameras PHIL MOSIER

Julia Moore, 8, cools off with her paddling golden retriever Truman during “Doggy Dip Day” at the Murphey Candler Park pool on Sept. 10. The annual event, marking the end of the pool’s season, lets people and pets enjoy a swim together. More photos on page 22.

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.

crafts at History Center

Maritza Morelli Executive Director of Los Ninos Primero,

a nonprofit organization that helps underserved Latino children

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BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net The City Council unanimously approved Sept. 12 entering into a three-year lease agreement with Georgia Power to lease surveillance license plate reader cameras at nearly 30 spots throughout the city. The agreement comes after the Brookhaven Police Department in May became the first municipality in the state to team up with Georgia Power for a test run of the license plate readers to

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