By: John Wolfinger Passing on this message from our APD Zone 6 Commander, Major Tim Peek, with a look back at the 2013 Zone crime stats and looking forward to 2014, urging citizen participation in crime prevention. To see how big Zone 6 is – look at the map at http://atlantapd.org/Zone6.aspx Zone 6 goes from Amsterdam…
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By: Lola Carlisle, North Virginia Avenue Special thanks to Matthew Baughman (also of North Virginia Avenue) for providing information from his 2002 interview with Mary Alyce Ware. There was nowhere we would rather live than Virginia-Highland. My first introduction to the area was in 1984 when a friend picked out bridesmaids dresses from Mooncake. I…
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Set your calendar now for the first annual Callanwolde Arts Festival! This event is a two-day indoor arts festival on January 25 – 26, 2014 which promises to become one of the premier partnerships of art institutions in the Atlanta area. It is a festival for artists by artists, letting the artist have a voice…
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Ryan Hidinger, chef at Staplehouse restaurant and co-founder with his wife Jennifer of The Giving Kitchen – a nonprofit that provides assistance to metro Atlanta restaurant workers in financial need – passed away last week after a year long struggle with cancer. You can read more about Ryan and why so many people were saddened…
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Many Virginia-Highland residents will recall Paul Reed who for several years was a manager at the Taco Mac location at Virginia and N. Highland avenues. Paul passed away last week from complications related to the diabetes he’d struggled with recently. Paul was a wonderful man, with a heart and sense of humor to match his…
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