SEPTEMBER 30 - OCT. 13, 2016 • VOL. 8 — NO. 20
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Perimeter Business ► Consulates help small businesses cross borders PAGE 4 ► Electric bikes roll into Perimeter PAGE 5
Buford Highway apartments to be torn down for houses BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
Ready to wing it Alan Armstrong does a final pre-flight check on his Mitsubishi Zero, a Japanese WWII torpedo bomber, during Atlanta Warbird Weekend at DeKalb-Peachtree Airport on Sept. 26. The two-day event featured commemorative aircraft, cockpit tours, rides and a nod to the AVG Flying Tigers 75th Anniversary. See more photos on page 15.
EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATOR ‘On fire’ for art
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... An inclusive, better educated and empowered community provides better opportunities for everybody.
See BUFORD on page 14 PHIL MOSIER
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Pulte Homes is seeking to buy land on Buford Highway where two large apartment complexes sit. The company plans to tear them down to build single-family houses and townhomes, potentially displacing hundreds of people now living there. Pulte Homes, based in Atlanta, is one of the country’s largest homebuilding companies. The company is seeking to buy The Terraces at Brookhaven and Northeast Pla-
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Residents clash with city leaders over possible parkland purchase BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net More than 50 people packed a conference room at Brookhaven City Hall on Sept. 21 to confront city leaders over what they planned to do with nearly 2 acres of land at the end of Remington Road at the southern end of Murphey Candler Park, should the city purchase it. Mayor John Ernst, Councilmember Linley Jones and City Manager Christian Sigman met with residents of the Dunwoody Forest Neighborhood Association, several See RESIDENTS on page 13
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