Category: Rocking Chair Reflections
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Goodbye Home Phone
By Paul Bolster Don’t call me on my home phone ever again. I am cutting it off. For 50 years friends found me, Riki, and my children at 627-1697. When I think about all the connections made through that number it makes me sad. We raised our three kids on 627-1697. We found their babysitters […]
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How to Appeal Your Property Tax Reappraisal
By Bill Adams, Adams Realtors Upon receipt of a Notice of Reassessment of your property you have 45 days from the date of your notice to object in writing to the new valuation. Your letter should be addressed to the Board of Assessors. It should reference the property by both address and parcel identification number. […]
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Paradigm Shift or a Perpetuation of Injustice: The Atlanta Prison Farm and the South River Forest
By Margaret Spalding This month, the Atlanta Regional Commission kicked off a community input and pre-planning process for protecting greenspace in southeast Atlanta and southwest DeKalb County, an area also known as the South River Forest and of which the old Atlanta Prison Farm property located at 1420 Key Road is the linchpin. Georgia State […]
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Letter to MJHS PTSA Families
By Jill Strickland Luse We made it through a miraculous, in-person school year that I’m sure we all will remember FOREVER! As I watched the honors and awards being given to the 2022 graduating class at the Maynard Jackson High School (MJHS) Visions Ceremony on May 22, I could only imagine the excitement, anxiety, and […]
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Ormewood Park Became the Birthplace of SANDBy Paul and Riki Bolster We drove slowly south on Moreland Avenue. With a fresh PhD in hand and a job teaching American History at Clark College, Riki and I, both country-raised, were starting a new life in the big city and looking for a neighborhood we could call home. We had only two requirements. […]
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Progress on Moreland Avenue Projects
By Paul Bolster According to a report from The South Moreland Avenue Working Group (SMAWG), the resurfacing project should have started prior to April 3. Georgia DOT announced that the $2.8 million project will resurface Moreland Ave. from the Starlight to the Edgewood Shopping Center. Lanes will be closed as the work progresses at night […]
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That Food Desert…
By Tom McGowan When I moved to Grant Park in 1977, it was in today’s parlance, a food desert. The only restaurant nearby was the Kozy Grill. It was located on Park Avenue 200 feet south of Memorial Drive where the residential building with Doc Chey’s now stands. It was 500 square feet, if that, […]
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Nan Orrock and the 2022 Legislative Session, a Commentary
By Paul Bolster She is proof that some people get better with age. Maybe at just a few things. Nan Orrock was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1986. She was elected to the Georgia Senate in 2007 and is still there. That is a total of 34 years of experiences under the […]
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Policing Alternative Diversion Program
By John Prevost, Instructor, Dept. of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University and Chris Newman, Public Safety Committee Chair, Grant Park Neighborhood Association Have you witnessed an individual in mental health or behavioral crisis? Atlanta now has PAD, a program to assist or relieve the police from having to intervene on many of these issues. […]
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State Senator Elena Parent Will Not Seek Re-Election
By Elena Parent, State Senator, District 42, State of Georgia and Chair, Senate Democratic Caucus In a few months, the state legislature will enter the once-a-decade process of redrawing Georgia’s political maps. In 2011, Republicans used their trifecta in the State Legislature to manipulate the redistricting process. Their priority was to increase their own power, […]