10-12-18 Dunwoody Reporter

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OCTOBER 12 - 25, 2018 • VOL. 9 — NO. 21

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Spruill Center considers moving out of city

Strolling through community history

BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

The Spruill Center for the Arts is currently “gridlocked” at its home at the North DeKalb Cultural Arts Center and says more classroom space is needed immediately if the renowned nonprofit organization is to stay in Dunwoody. That was a major message presented to the mayor and City Council Oct. 8 when they were presented with the city’s first Arts and Culture Master Plan, dubbed See SPRUILL on page 14

Local historian Chris Turnbull gestures as he leads a “Twilight Tour” of the 1859 Stephen-Martin Cemetery in Perimeter Center on Oct. 6. The tour kicked off the Dunwoody Preservation Trust’s “Apple Cider Days,” a month of events related to local history and culture, culminating Oct. 27 with Boy Scout Troop 477’s Halloween festival at the Donaldson-Bannister House and Gardens. For a list of events, see appleciderdays.org.

EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATOR Livening up the library with crafts, therapy dogs

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State committee orders two more ambulances to Dunwoody BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net

Two more ambulances are expected to be soon stationed in Dunwoody after a state subcommittee studying DeKalb County’s EMS strategy acknowledged there was a “problem” with ambulance service in North DeKalb. But a decision on possibly creating a new EMS zone specifically for Dunwoody has been delayed until after the first of the year. At an Oct. 4 meeting of a state subcommittee tasked to evaluate DeKalb and its am-

A 37-year-old voter

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