NOVEMBER 10 - 23, 2017 • VOL. 11— NO. 23
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City Springs’ big arts plans on track after legal tangle
Strings for Sandy Springs
BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
A multi-week grand opening and a new theater company are among the big plans for City Springs’ arts programming debut next year. And those plans are finally moving forward with the resolution of a legal tangle that delayed booking shows and raising key funds — including through facility naming opportunities — and pushed back the theater’s opening schedule. The Sandy Springs Foundation, a See CITY on page 17 PHIL MOSIER
Elisabeth Levy, a sixth-grader at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School, dons a Santa hat to perform in the school’s strings group at the Elegant Elf Marketplace Nov. 5. The seventh annual fundraiser for the Sandy Springs Society, which included an arts market, music, dance, fashion show and book-signing, was held at Lake Forest Elementary School.
STANDOUT STUDENT Brookhaven ballerina balances school, life
I believe thanks to our veterans must begin with a recognition and understanding of the unique liberties you and I are afforded as Americans and then celebrating those freedoms.
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Election brings change, and more to come BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
The Nov. 7 election brought some significant political changes to Sandy Springs – and promised more to come in the Dec. 5 runoffs. The City Council gained two new members: Steve Soteres in District 2 and Jody Reichel in District 4. Gabriel Sterling, the councilmember Reichel will replace, lost his bid for Fulton County commission chair. Rival candidates Robb Pitts and Keisha Waites will fight on into the runoff. And the local state Senate District 6 made See ELECTION on page 19
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