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In Support of the East Atlanta Library
By Shannon Sanders Did you know that there is an active Friends of the East Atlanta Library (FEAL) group which supports the programs and efforts…
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Maynard Jackson PTSA: Supporting the School through Pandemic
By Shannon Sanders It was a tough year for the MJHS (Maynard Jackson High School) community as all the Jackson Cluster schools. With school held virtually…
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A Day in Service of Neighbors
By Sarah Spencer East Atlanta Community Association’s (EACA) Neighbor in Need (NIN) volunteers gathered at the Brownwood Recreation Center on the morning of May 15.…
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East Atlanta Library Reopens
By Henry Bryant The East Atlanta Library branch closed in September of 2019 for remodeling and renovation. Then the pandemic hit and closed all of…
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Preservation Center Walking Tours Are Back
By The Atlanta Preservation Center Staff Join the Atlanta Preservation Center for a walking tour. Learn about Atlanta’s vibrant history and experience the city from…
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Atlanta Removes ‘Lion of the Confederacy’ Statue
By Carol Willey Following almost two years of repeated defacement, Oakland Cemetery’s “Lion of the Confederacy” monument was moved to an undisclosed location last month.…
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Nearby COVID Testing
By Henry Bryant This is a photo of half of the automobile line for Covid Testing on Labor Day 2021 at Drew Charter School in…
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Local Homeless Advocate and Neighbor Passes in South Carolina
By J. Henry Stuhr, Inc. James Wilson Beaty, PhD, lately of Charleston, South Carolina, husband of Anita Law Beaty passed away on May 11, 2021.…
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Many Grant Park Shops Have Weathered the COVID Storm, Though Not All
By Robert M. Sarwark Needless to say, the last fifteen months or so have seen massive upheavals in how we all work, interact, raise families,…
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Events Returning to City Parks
By the Grant Park Conservancy Staff The City of Atlanta has approved events for under 2,000 attendees and will be issuing permits for events as…
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Cherokee Avenue Bike Lane Update
By the Grant Park Conservancy Staff As part of the Mayor’s Action Plan for Safer Streets, the Atlanta Department of Transportation (ATLDOT) is announcing plans…
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NeighborWood Tree Planting in Ormewood and Grant Park
By Brent Huff and Mike Gardner On March 13th, a group of neighbors worked with Trees Atlanta to coordinate two NeighborWood Tree Plantings. One planting…
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New Children’s Book by Ormewood Park Neighbor
By Melanie Regnier In Paul Schwartz’s new children’s book, Why DIDN’T the Chicken Cross the Road?, it does look pretty great on the other side.…
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Ormewood Park Sign-Maker Franklin Bachrach
By Melanie Regnier A native of Atlanta, Franklin Bachrach has lived in the Ormewood Park neighborhood for fifteen years – long enough to put down…
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Your Tree Is Talking, Are You Listening?
By Christie Bryant I truly love to speak tree with anyone willing to listen, but I get even more excited when I turn any corner…
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Getting It Right: Volunteer
By Henry Bryant The Porch Press makes an effort to get it right. Spelling? Grammar? Typos? Continuity? and even Libel? Our first (and sometimes last)…
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Support the Friends of the East Atlanta Library
By Lyn Hillman The Friends of the East Atlanta Library (FEAL) is inviting the community to join in its efforts to support the library. One-year…
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A Day of Service in East Atlanta
By Sarah K. Spencer On Saturday, March 20, the East Atlanta Community Association (EACA) continued its Day of Service initiative for 2021, by completing a…
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How the Bauhaus Came to Atlanta
Design Exhibition at Georgia Tech By Henry Bryant with info from the Georgia Tech Library Bauhaus-educated designer Hin Bredendieck is featured in a new exhibit…
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Grant Park Conservancy Spring Membership Campaign: Join the GPC or Purchase an Engraved Playground Brick!
By Alisa Chambers We know how much you’ve been enjoying Grant Park over this past year—we see you out there all the time! Become a…
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East Atlanta Village Farmers Market Moves Forward with Spring Events
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren East Atlanta Village Farmers Market (EAVFM) opens for business again on Thursday, March 25. Area neighbors and visitors are welcome from…
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St. Paul UMC Repents for Past Racial Injustice with a Very Public Visual
By Rebecca Wallace On January 18, this year’s day of honor and remembrance for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, St. Paul UMC…
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BPA School Garden Gives to the Kids
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren This spring, the Burgess-Peterson Academy (BPA) will plant 700 square feet of raised beds in its school courtyard garden this spring.…
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New Year, New Improvements to Grant Park
By Robert M. Sarwark With the completion of several substantial preservation and construction projects in and around Grant Park, 2021 promises to be a banner…
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Masonic Lodge Project Coming Soon
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren After receiving zoning approval from the community and City of Atlanta in May 2019, the 525 Moreland Development Team closed on…
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EAV Farmers Market Returns
By Stephanie Luke The East Atlanta Village Farmers Market (EAVFM) returns on Thursday, March 25. Swing by from 4:00pm until 7:00pm for neighbors to stock…
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East Atlanta Kids Club: Food, Fun, and Learning Pods
By Ryan Downey 2020 was a year of firsts for East Atlanta Kids Club (EAKC). The out-of-school-time program operating at the Brownwood Recreation Center has…
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Ormewood Mourns Loss of Katherine Carter, Age 101
By Riki Bolster “You can always change. You can make it work even if it’s not exactly what you expected.” Ormewood Park resident Joy Carter…
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“Take One or Leave One” – A Neighborhood Lending Library is Born
By Susan Westergard It all began with an idea springing from a need to connect with people during the 2020 COVID crisis—people isolated in their…
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Early Voting for January 5 Runoff at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
By Jessica A. Corbitt-Dominguez Fulton County voters will once again have the opportunity to cast their ballots in world-class sports venues for the January 5…
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East Atlanta Strut Grant Recipients
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren The East Atlanta Strut gave away $4,000 this year during its Strut in Place event. Winning streets were asked to choose…
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goPuff Donates Goodies in APS Meal Bags for Families
By Rebecca Wallace On October 16, goPuff, the go-to platform for consumers’ everyday needs, partnered with Atlanta Public Schools (APS) to donate kid-friendly essential items…
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New Congresswoman Follows Lead of John Lewis
By Riki Bolster Some Porch Press readers were in short pants or wore ponytails when he was first elected to Congress. For 33 years, the…
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Grant Park Might Have Gone to College
By Henry Bryant In 1870 there was a report of a meeting with interesting possibilities. Atlanta’s city fathers had already sewn up a deal to…
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Neighbors Meet with Warnock on Zoom
By Riki Bolster Led by State Senator Nan Orrock and State Representative David Dreyer, neighbors in the NPU-W area spearheaded a Conversations with Warnock online…
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Strut-ON!
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren When the Strut Committee first met in February to plan the 2020 East Atlanta Strut, the word “pandemic” had yet to…
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Southside Trail Updates: Ormewood Avenue Bridge and United Avenue Bridge
By Robert M. Sarwark The historic Ormewood Avenue Bridge, located on Ormewood Avenue at the Southside Beltline Trail, serves as a gateway between the Ormewood…
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A Chat with Grant Park’s Jon Ossoff, U.S. Senate Candidate
By Robert M. Sarwark The attendees of November 2019’s Grant Park Neighborhood Association monthly general meeting were visibly surprised to see a new face in…
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Correction
Last month’s Porch Press incorrectly referred to Joe Price as Joe Parker in the article East Atlanta Considers Branding, Again. Joe, of Joe Price Designs,…
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Local Children’s Author Publishes Third Book
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren Joe Freeman, a resident in the SAND community, will release his latest book in The Adventures of BG series, Lucky Enough…
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Glenwood-Moreland Realignment Begun
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren The long-awaited work on the Glenwood-Moreland realignment project began quietly amid the COVID-19 crisis. The goal of the project is to…
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Untraditional Festival Style for Summer Shade This Year
By Alisa Chambers The Grant Park Conservancy (GPC) is excited to announce that on Saturday, August 22, we will what is affectionately being called the…
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2020 East Atlanta Strut Returns — In Place
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren Are you ready for the 2020 version of the East Atlanta Strut? What, you thought a little issue with big crowds…
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St. Nicholas Academy Plans to Re-Open in August
By Pamela Summers Showalter The year 2019-2020 at St. Nicholas Orthodox Academy hummed with activity and interaction: weekly excursions to the zoo, local pool, and…
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Neighbor Adapts Event Photo Business for Corona Times
By Henry Bryant Longtime family and event photographer and neighbor Dani Weiss has shifted her event photography shoots into something new. Since springtime she has…
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The Return of the Dragon in EAV
By Aly Ryan Inspired by nearby neighborhoods, Aly Ryan and Asa Burke sought to contribute to the unity of East Atlanta Village (EAV) by making…
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Why Doesn’t Grant Park’s Police Precinct Actually Serve Grant Park?
By Chris Newman Recent events have drawn attention to the Zone 3 precinct building here in Grant Park. Why is this precinct located here when…
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Burgess Peterson Continues with Georgia’s Teacher of the Year
By Henry Bryant The first thing I noticed when talking to Tracey Pendley on the phone was that she is very high energy. That no…
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Grief and Grace in the Spring of Coronavirus
By Robert M. Sarwark From the front porch of a house on the western edge of Grant Park, near where it borders Summerhill, night fell…
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Battle Commemoration Brings in $1,000
By Henry Bryant This year marks the 15th annual Battle of Atlanta Commemoration Organization. Launched in 2004 in Brownwood Park, the organization (known as BATL)…
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Bike Races & Family Fun at the 15th Annual Brownwood Bike Rally
By Jill Sieder Get your bikes primed and ready for the 15th annual Brownwood Bike Rally, to be held at Brownwood Park in East Atlanta…
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East Atlanta Business Owner Expands Coffee Empire
By Leslie Colley When Krystle Rodriguez had her first child, Lily, she faced a conundrum familiar to many parents: she wanted to go back to…
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Library Wall Demolished for Party?
By Henry Bryant You may be aware that the East Atlanta Library is closing this month on September 16 for renovations, and there will be…
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BeltLine Master Plan Updates Announced
By Jenny Odom Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. (ABI) held a study group meeting on July 31 at Church of Atlanta Lighthouse on Boulevard. The purpose of…
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Exhibit Opens at Art-Haus
By Lyn Hillman Art-Haus gallery in Grant Park held an opening reception on Friday, June 28 for its current exhibition, “Vine & Vineyard” by Leah…
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22nd Annual East Atlanta Strut
By Michelle Rice The East Atlanta Strut will be here before you know it! And this year the Strut is offering a day and a…
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Grant Park Summer Shade Festival Returns
By Caitlin Kreidler The Grant Park Summer Shade Festival returns for its 17th year on Saturday, August 24 and Sunday, August 25. The event is…
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BPA Teacher Tracey Pendley Named 2020 Georgia Teacher of the Year
By Carlen Hultgren Tracey Nance Pendley, an Atlanta Public Schools (APS) fourth-grade teacher at Burgess Peterson Academy (BPA), has been named the 2020 Georgia Teacher…
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Jackson HS Senior Supports Grant Park Conservancy’s Historic Preservation
By Jill Strickland Luse For Maynard Jackson High School rising senior Michael Huff, Grant Park has been his playground for most of his life. The…
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Grant Park Summer Shade Festival Celebrates Its 17th Annual Event This August
By Caitlin Kreidler The Grant Park Summer Shade Festival, an annual tradition, will welcome music and art lovers to Atlanta’s oldest park for its 17th…
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Porch Press Ad Prep Volunteer Needed
By Henry Bryant Your neighborhood newspaper is in need of a person to review the ads that come in from our advertisers each month to…
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Memorial Drive Corridor Initiative Winds Down After Four Years
By Greg Giuffrida In 2015 stakeholders created and funded a full-time planning position for the Memorial Drive Corridor from downtown Atlanta to East Lake. This…
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J. William Hill Is the Library’s Current Featured Gallery Artist
By Linda Bernard Images courtesy of William Hill J. William Hill is a resident of East Atlanta Village but his art takes you to the…
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East Atlanta Library Book Sale and Summer Reading Kickoff
By Nancy Mullins The next Friends of East Atlanta Library (FEAL) book sale takes place on Saturday, June 8. The sale will coincide with the…
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STRUT Gives $40,000 Back to the Community
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren The East Atlanta Strut is thrilled to announce it has donated $40,000 to more than 40 worthy causes in the East…
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Adopted By You 5K and Fun Run
By Brian Tomlin Join Gift of Adoption (GOA) on Saturday, June 8 for the third annual Adopted By You 5K & Fun Run benefiting at-risk children in…
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Art Show and Closing Party at Art-Haus Gallery
By Eva-Maria Connolly By mid-April there will be a new art show on view in Grant Park’s own Art-Haus Gallery and creative space featuring the…
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Street Art Inspires in and out of the Classroom
By Amanda Atwell & Justin Ball Atlanta’s incredible street art scene became the source of imagination, creation, and education at the Grant Park Cooperative Preschool…
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J. William Hill is the Library’s Next Featured Gallery Artist
By Linda Bernard J. William Hill is a resident of the East Atlanta Village but his art takes you to the Amazonian rainforest, where the…
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Porch Press Neighbors Gather for the Last of the Series: Get to Know the Authors of Southeast Atlanta
By Lucette Bernard Friends and neighbors gathered for the last of three Get to Know the Authors of Southeast Atlanta, March 16, at Ormewood Church.…
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GPC’s New Leadership and Board Members to Drive Transformative Changes to Grant Park
By Michelle Blackmon Matthew Friesen, Director of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture for Jacobs, and Jason Winston, founder of Winston Media Group, have been re-elected…
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9th Annual Charity Poker Tournament Returns to East Atlanta
By Nancy Carpenter and Dawn Rivera Neighbor in Need – East Atlanta and Midway Pub will once again be hosting the very popular Charity Poker…
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Grant Park Cooperative Preschool Annual Auction on March 23
By Leo Juarez Grant Park Cooperative Preschool’s (GPCP) annual auction returns on Saturday, March 23, with Gala in the Grove, a Roaring Twenties-themed evening featuring…
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A Fun Afternoon Getting to Know the Authors of Southeast Atlanta
By Lucette Bernard The second gathering of authors and neighbors, held on February 9 at Ormewood Church, was again well-attended—and a lot of fun. Moderator…
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Parkside PTA Hosts 4th Annual Parkside Stride 5K and 1-Mile Fun Run Neighborhood Race
By Rebecca Wallace On March 16, the PTA of Parkside Elementary will host the fourth Annual Parkside Stride 5K and 1-mile fun run. Parkside welcomes…
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Drew Charter School Opens Student Show at the East Atlanta Library
By Henry Bryant The Friends of East Atlanta Library (FEAL) are proud to feature students from the Drew Charter School, in the art exhibit on…
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Restoration of Brownwood Park 2019
By Alex Levy The East Atlanta Community Association’s (EACA) Parks and Greenspace Committee is continuing to partner with Trees Atlanta in 2019 to restore a…
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January 12 “Get to Know the Authors of Southeast Atlanta” Gathering Was Well-Attended
By Lucette Bernard Neighbors from the SAND neighborhoods, Grant Park, and East Atlanta gathered at the Ormewood Church Fellowship Hall on January 12 for the…
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NYEAV Returns for a Blockbuster Event
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren East Atlanta Village’s landmark fireworks event, New Year’s in East Atlanta Village, (NYEAV) is growing this year due in large part…
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Calendar Editor Still Needed
By Lyn Hillman The Porch Pressis looking for an additional volunteer. We need someone to compile the calendar listings each month. An eye for detail…
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Art as a Journey: Vernon Robinson Art Exhibit Opens at the East Atlanta Library
By Lucette Bernard For Vernon Robinson, it was a long journey to where he is today, working full time on his art in a studio…
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Holiday Frontlines Tour Returns
By Henry Bryant On New Year’s weekend you can get out of the house without going far. The Battle of Atlanta Commemoration Organization (BATL) will…
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East Atlanta Alight for the Holidays
Photo(s) by Henry Bryant and Santa Volunteer East Atlanta Santa was on hand all weekend to get wish lists for children and pets of all…
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Atlanta Habitat ReStore Teams up with Local Celebrity Designer
By Cher Hain Atlanta’s own celebrity designer and expert craftsman, Chip Wade, will join local Do it Yourself home decorators to repurpose items from the…
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Library Volunteers Recognized
By Mike Pousman The Atlanta Fulton Public Library Service holds an annual volunteer recognition assembly at the Central Library. Friends Groups and individual volunteers from…
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If Only These Walls Could Talk
By Corinne Cox Atlanta Trolley Car 604 rests comfortably on the southern end of Gilbert Street, looking good for a 96 year old. But oh,…
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GPC’s 8th Annual Halloween Lantern Parade October 26
By Bex Godsey The Grant Park Conservancy (GPC) welcomes everyone to participate in the 8th Annual GPC Halloween Lantern Parade. Come play in the dark…
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Celebrate Community with the Annual Giving Thanks Potluck in East Atlanta
By Bang Tran On Thursday, November 15, come celebrate the East Atlanta Village (EAV) community with the EAV Farmer’s Market (EAVFM) at the annual Giving…
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Race for Fun and Glory at the Brownwood Bike Rally
By Jill Sieder Lube your chains and pump your tires to be ready to roll at the 14th-annual Brownwood Bike Rally, to be held in…
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Nicholas House Hosts 2nd Annual Sleep Out to Support Homeless Families
By Norma V. Nyhoff On Friday, October 5, Nicholas House, a nonprofit that helps homeless families achieve self-sufficiency, will be hosting its second annual Off…
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Proofreading Manager Needed
By Lyn Hillman The Porch Press is looking for someone to lead the proofreading sessions held each month to get our content ready to print…
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Dogs March in East Atlanta Village for 6th Annual Dogtoberfest
By Carlen Ruth Hultgren The family-friendly Dogtoberfest returns to East Atlanta Village (EAV) on Sunday, October 21, and once again hundreds of Atlantans of all…
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New Art at the East Atlanta Library
By Linda Bernard Opening October 6 at the East Atlanta Library is a new exhibit that is surely to be of interest to The Porch…
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Summer Shade Recap
By Lauren Klopfenstein On Saturday, August 25 and Sunday, August 26, the 16th annual Grant Park Summer Shade Festival welcomed thousands of music and art…
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Race for Fun and Glory at the Brownwood Bike Rally
By Jill Sieder Lube your chains and pump your tires to be ready to roll at the 14th-annual Brownwood Bike Rally, to be held in…
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Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever Comes to Grant Park
By Lyn Hillman The third annual international Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever took place on Saturday, July 14 with events in more than 20 cities…
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