NOV. 24 - DEC. 14, 2017 • VOL. 11 — NO. 24
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Bonding through blessings
PHIL MOSIER
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Across Buckhead, different views, awareness of mayoral race BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
Buckhead is getting a spotlight in the Dec. 5 runoff election for the Mayor’s Office, with local resident Mary Norwood facing Keisha Lance Bottoms on the ballot. From Chastain Park to Lindbergh Center, many residents have diverse opinions about who they’ll support, while some say the campaign has turned them off from voting at all. The Reporter talked to 20 residents in the Chastain Park neighborhood, near Lenox Square and in the Lindbergh Center area. Many had not decided who they would vote for in the runoff, especially in the Lindbergh area, where several said they weren’t following the election, and a couple didn’t know an election was happening. Residents in the Chastain Park and Lenox Square area more often knew who they were voting for and expressed more support for Norwood.
Tanner, the canine companion of Savannah Bowen (not pictured), is blessed by Rev. Katie Aumann at Covenant Presbyterian Church’s “Blessing of the Animals” Nov. 12. Several other dogs were blessed during the annual event.
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OUT & ABOUT There’s something about sipping coffee and eating a cinnamon roll that brings back so many memories. It’s the little things! 22-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
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Get into the Holidays 14 Ways to Celebrate the Season
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Historic store building makes endangered list BY EVELYN ANDREWS evelyn@reporternewspapers.net
A Peachtree Road commercial building dating to 1929 is on the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2018 “Places in Peril” list of threatened historic sites due to possible demolition. Currently home to Peachtree Battle Antiques & Interiors, the building at 2395 Peachtree Road was built as the National Library Bindery, a book-maker, and later housed the iconic shop Oxford Books. The developer of a planned apartment tower behind the store says it will save the building’s See HISTORIC on page 23