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Community Assistance Center’s Food ‘n Fun Festival cancelled
In a mass email, the Community Assistance Center in Sandy Springs announced its inaugural Food ‘n Fun Festival, set for today from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Morgan Falls Athletic Complex, has been cancell...
May 19, 2013 02:49 PM | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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Karen Handel announces senate bid
ROSWELL, GA – Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel announced in a statement today that she is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Saxby Chambliss. Below is Handel...
May 17, 2013 08:47 AM | 2 2 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Schools’ scores mixed in new evaluation system
(UPDATED AT 6 P.M. THURSDAY WITH QUOTES FROM HEARDS FERRY ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL BRENT MCBRIDE REGARDING THAT SCHOOL'S SCORES.) The Georgia Department of Education Tuesday released both district an...
May 16, 2013 05:54 PM | 0 0 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
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Perimeter market continues to flourish
The state of banking and its effects on the Perimeter business market, along with its correlation to commercial and residential real estate were the main topics of last week’s Perimeter Business Al...
May 15, 2013 01:10 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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2013 graduation ceremonies
Editor’s note: the following list of graduation ceremonies was compiled based on information from the schools’ websites and their staff. School: Date - Location Atlanta Girls’ School: Satu...
May 15, 2013 12:01 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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City Council eyes property values during budget talks
Sandy Springs officials continue to navigate their way through successive rounds of fiscal 2014 budget talks. Council members, presented with the new tax digest at last week’s workshop session, ex...
May 15, 2013 09:40 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Front from left, Evan Hersh and Amarah Hersh, both of Sandy Springs, and, back from left, UPS team leader Pete Saunders and  Food ‘n Fun Festival chairwoman Judy Pollock gear up for the event.
Food 'n Fun Festival set for Sunday
Promoting a just cause amid a festive, family friendly environment is the essence of the Community Assistance Center’s inaugural Food ‘n Fun Festival. The event is set for Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. a...
May 15, 2013 09:29 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Holy Innocents’ valedictorian Kendall Jackson, 18, daughter of Kelley and Robert Jackson of Marietta, looks ahead to her upcoming studies at Harvard University.
Jackson named valedictorian at Holy Innocents'
(SEE THE BOTTOM OF THE ARTICLE FOR A LIST OF LOCAL SCHOOLS' VALEDICTORIANS AND SALUTATORIANS.) Kendall Jackson’s proverbial floor would perhaps be a welcome ceiling for many. The Holy Innocents’ ...
May 15, 2013 09:25 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. Department of Labor to host women veterans’ summit
In a news release, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau Tuesday announced it is sponsoring a Women Veterans Resource Summit Thursday from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federa...
May 14, 2013 03:01 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Kevin Bracher
Whitefield promotes interim headmaster to permanent role
In a news release, the Whitefield Academy board of trustees Monday announced the appointment of Kevin Bracher, PhD, as headmaster of the Cobb County private school located near Vinings. Bracher had...
May 13, 2013 01:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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City Council eyes property values during budget talks
Sandy Springs officials navigated their way through the second round of fiscal 2014 budget talks this week. City Council members, presented with the new tax digest at Tuesday’s workshop session at ...
May 09, 2013 12:01 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Simcha Pearl
Weber School head of school to resign next year
In a news release, the Doris and Alex Weber Jewish Community High School board announced Dr. Simcha Pearl will be stepping down as head of school at the end of the 2013-14 academic year. Rebecca Mc...
May 08, 2013 02:15 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Galambos taking leave of absence
    by Staff Reports
    04.30.13 - 03:36 pm
  • Ben Carson makes appearance in Buckhead
    by Bobby Tedder
    btedder@neighbornewspapers.com
    04.26.13 - 11:10 am
  • The Tams will perform Sunday to kick off Heritage Sandy Springs’ spring/summer concert series, Concerts by the Springs.
    The Tams to kick off Heritage concert series
    Familiar faces and music to dance to will be the order of the day as the Concerts by the Springs series returns with a Mother’s Day show at Heritage Green Park. Crowd favorites The Tams will headli...
    May 08, 2013 11:14 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Janet Horvath, left, talks with Dan Ellithorp and Susan Jones at the Perimeter Expo.
    Dunwoody, Sandy Springs provide networking opportunity with business expo
    While Sandy Springs and Dunwoody have a bit of a sibling rivalry, the cities have learned that coming together for a business expo is more beneficial than having separate events. The combined effo...
    May 08, 2013 11:05 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Marietta, cuts the ribbon on the Johnson Ferry Road/Abernathy Road widening project as other officials look on. From left, District 6 Sandy Springs City Councilwoman Karen Meinzen McEnerny, Perimeter Community Improvement Districts President Yvonne Williams, District 5 Sandy Springs City Councilman Tibby DeJulio, District 51 State Rep. Wendell Willard, R-Sandy Springs, District 32 State Sen. Judson Hill, R-Marietta, Georgia Department of Transportation Deputy Commissioner Todd Long (behind Hill), District 6 GDOT board member Brandon Beach and Sandy Springs City Councilmen Gabriel Sterling (District 4) and Chip Collins (District 3).
    Isakson cuts ribbon on road project
    In a news release, the city of Sandy Springs and the Georgia Department of Transportation announced U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Marietta, last week cut the ribbon on a much-anticipated project in S...
    May 07, 2013 06:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Angelia Salas, 50, of Smyrna, won the top prize playing the instant game $550,000 Grand Money at the Publix grocery store at The Prado on Roswell Road in Sandy Springs, where she works.
    Sandy Springs Publix employee wins lottery
    (UPDATED AT 3:45 P.M. THURSDAY WITH PHOTO OF ANGELIA SALAS AND HER CHECK) In a news release, the Georgia Lottery Wednesday announced a Smyrna woman working at a Publix in Sandy Springs had quite ...
    May 05, 2013 10:15 AM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Weekend events still planned despite rain
    Despite this weekend’s inclement weather, three local events are still taking place: o Derby Day, the annual fundraiser for Shepherd Center, the Buckhead hospital for patients with catastrophic bac...
    May 04, 2013 12:23 PM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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This year’s team is comprised of, from left, Daniel Gordon, Adina Karpuj, Hillel Brenner, Daniela Friedman and Ilan Palte. Judaics teacher Marc Leventhal, not pictured, serves as team adviser.
    Weber wins national Jewish Law competition
    It has become a ritual of spring the Weber School in Sandy Springs competes against two dozen Jewish high schools from around the U.S. and Canada in the National Moot Beit Din (Mock Rabbinic Court)...
    May 04, 2013 08:00 AM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Event Marketer Kate Hewitt, of {three} Sheets bar in Sandy Springs,left, and Sandy Springs Chamber members Cory Jackson and Lynne Walker look forward to the start of Tuned Up Tuesdays.
    Chamber bringing back business-after-hours networking
    Merchants soon will have more chances to mingle courtesy of the Sandy Springs/Perimeter Chamber of Commerce. The entity will kick off its new business after-hours networking initiative, Tuned Up-Tu...
    May 03, 2013 02:21 PM | 0 0 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Experts discuss federal budget woes, effects on Georgia
    In 2001, the federal budget was actually balanced and the country’s economy was considered to be “booming.” The obvious reason as to why America’s economic situation is far from “booming” today, is...
    May 02, 2013 01:28 PM | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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    County to hand $127K back to Uncle Sam due to bad loans
    Fulton County is being forced to get out of the loan business and pull the plug on bad debts incurred by recipients of Clinton-era federal stimulus funds. Through a settlement with the U.S. Departm...
    May 01, 2013 07:31 PM | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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    National Park Service closing park access
    In a news release, the National Park Service Wednesday announced it will close two areas of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area to vehicles beginning Wednesday. Johnson Ferry South, ju...
    May 01, 2013 03:12 PM | 1 1 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Nathan Deal
    Common Core makes sense, says governor
    Gov. Nathan Deal, who was in Cobb County last week for a bill-signing ceremony, was asked to explain his support for the controversial Common Core school curriculum. The Common Core State Standards...
    May 01, 2013 03:03 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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    Sandy Springs budget talks heat up
    The slow economic recovery continues to be a drag on Sandy Springs, city officials revealed Tuesday during another round of preliminary budget talks for fiscal 2014, which ends June 30. Case-in-poi...
    May 01, 2013 02:00 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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  • Child advocates to salute change agents
    by Bobby Tedder
    btedder@neighbornewspapers.com
    04.24.13 - 11:53 am
  • Paul to run for mayor; Galambos not seeking re-election
    by Bobby Tedder
    btedder@neighbornewspapers.com
    04.22.13 - 11:40 am