NOV. 23 - DEC. 13, 2018 • VOL. 12 — NO. 24
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Perimeter Business ► In bid to attract visitors, hotel taxes seek ‘free money’ with few strings PAGE 4 ► Sandy Springs, Brookhaven refresh their tourism tactics PAGE 4-5
Buckhead’s BeltLine connections shape up
BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
PHIL MOSIER
Jack Wotton takes his daily walk Nov. 17 on the newest part of Buckhead’s BeltLine trail network, the Northwest BeltLine Connector Trail along Bobby Jones Golf Course, which had a ribbon-cutting the day before. The path eventually will connect with the BeltLine’s main Northeast Trail segment near Armour Yards and the Lindbergh Center MARTA Station.
The very clear message to our returning and newly elected representatives should be that the era of one-party rule is over and there is no entitlement to these seats for one particular party or the other.
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Residents helped provide early design ideas for a piece of the Atlanta BeltLine’s Northeast Trail in Buckhead at a Nov. 8 meeting, pitching connections to key neighborhoods and parks in an area with many obstacles. Meanwhile, some of those connections are already being made, as a network of related multiuse paths See BUCKHEAD’S on page 14
Norwood returns with an eye on subways, elections BY JOHN RUCH
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Mary Norwood is back. Nearly a year after her razor-thin loss to Keisha Lance Bottoms in the bruising mayoral election, the longtime Buckhead neighborhood activist and former at-large City Council member has returned to the public stage — calling for a new subway line and accepting a behind-the-scenes nomination to chair Fulton County’s Board of Registration & Elections. “I felt the best thing I could for the city is See NORWOOD on page 22