By Nan Brinson Atlanta loves a champion and East Atlanta has one in its own backyard; a champion southern magnolia, to be exact. Located in…
Posts published in “People and Places”
By Sean Keenan, Atlanta Civic Circle The sprawling new, community-crafted blueprint for the revitalization of southside Atlanta’s Thomasville Heights neighborhood reveals that the now-vacant and…
By Riki Bolster The group has met twice and discussed what we as NPU W neighbors can do about poverty. We agreed to meet again…
By Paul Bolster and Brent Huff At the July meeting with the South Moreland Avenue Working Group (SMAWG), there were a number of items to…
By Rebecca Wallace Oh the weather outside is frightful (-ly hot), but soon it will be delightful! So, save the date now for the 41st…
By Mike Gardner The SAND Neighborhood Association put on another successful Ormewood Park Makers Festival in May. The festival gave local artists and craftspeople the…
By Chase Miller On Sunday, July 23, the East Atlanta Community Association (EACA) kicked off its homeless outreach efforts with a Q&A Panel Discussion at…
By John Prevost and Chris Newman John and I (Chris) met out front of the fire station at 10:00am. We scheduled a conversation with Captain…
By Henry Bryant Scott Pickrel Petersen, of the SAND neighborhood, was a Defend the Forest proponent decades before it was in the news. He was…
By Henry Bryant When she passed last spring, Mary Ann Hightower still lived on Bouldercrest Drive, near the house where she was born. Her birth home still…