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Area's construction job losses among worst
Metro Atlanta has seen some of the steepest declines in construction jobs in the country since peaking five years ago, a new study shows.
Housing Authority commissioners investigated
An investigation of two Atlanta Housing Authority commissioners has determined that they made hostile and offensive comments to agency employees late last year, according to an 18-page report that a local law firm representing the agency has sent to Mayor Kasim Reed.
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George ‘Ray' Mitchell, 77: Dedicated life to libraries, reading
Inspired by his mother, a civil rights activist in Atlanta during the turbulent 1960s, George "Ray" Mitchell took a courageous stand in 1971 in the South Georgia library district where he was newly hired.
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Dr. Tim Almeroth, 73: Physician was a great ‘go-to guy'
As a young Naval sailor, Tim Almeroth was serious about his grooming. And it paid off, because it was his neatly manicured hands that first drew the attention of the former Nellie McGauran.
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Dr. William Roberts, 68: Dentist who volunteered to help others in need
When Bill Roberts retired in 2010 after 44 years as a Conyers dentist, his passion for the profession didn’t end.
