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The Dunwoody budget for 2022 is expected to increase by $6.8 million from $45.6 million to $52.4 million, including more money for police detectives and officers. Contributed
Dunwoody budget to be adopted on Oct. 25
Dunwoody employees celebrating their award are (L-R) Recreation Program Leader Kate Borden, Recreation Program Leader Ian McLeod, Director Brent Walker, Recreation Program Supervisor Rachel Waldron, Park Operations Coordinator A.J. Beck-DeBlasi and Park Operations Manager Gabe Neps. (Courtesy of Dunwoody)
Dunwoody Parks & Rec awarded District 6 Agency of Year
The Dunwoody Police Department is among 19% of law enforcement agencies in Georgia to be state certified. Dunwoody Police Chief Billy Grogan is shown on the right. (Courtesy of Dunwoody)
Dunwoody Police Department recertified by state
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The Dunwoody Police Department is among 19% of law enforcement agencies in Georgia to be state certified. Dunwoody Police Chief Billy Grogan is shown on the right. (Courtesy of Dunwoody)
Dunwoody Police Department recertified by state
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Dunwoody changes law to better prosecute hotel pimps
This is a rendering of the High Street project in Dunwoody.
Massive High Street mixed-use project in Dunwoody gets construction financing
City of Dunwoody
Dunwoody becomes latest city to crack down on party houses
Police will close lanes Saturday morning, Oct. 16 in Sandy Springs and Dunwoody to accommodate over 2,000 runners participating in the 2021 Dyslexia Dash 5K run/walk. (Photo by Karen Huppertz for the AJC)
Lane closures planned Sat. for Dyslexia Dash in Sandy Springs
RoadSync employees Ivan Zhelezarov (L) and Alex Petralia work in the company's new office space in Atlanta. RoadSync and other companies are beginning to commit to having employees return to work by signing new office leases. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
New employer leases signal returns to in-office work
A woman gets a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a recent clinic organized by Hall County Health Department officials and St. Michael's Catholic Church in Gainesville. The clinic was held, in part, to increase vaccination rates in the area's Hispanic community. Photo Credit: The Georgia Bulletin.
Dunwoody funding vaccine event for Hispanic, Asian communities
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Former NASCAR driver, son of Zaxby’s founder killed in Athens double shooting
Former NASCAR driver, son of Zaxby’s founder killed in Athens double shooting
Delay of lane closures will push back end date for entire 285/400 project, GDOT says
Delay of lane closures will push back end date for entire 285/400 project, GDOT says
Bar Peri opens in early October 2021 in Dunwoody on the roof top at AC Hotel Atlanta Perimeter with several signature cocktails, tapas bites and a view. Photos taken on Tuesday, Sept 28, 2021. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Dunwoody’s new rooftop bar aims to offer skyline views, playful atmosphere
Dunwoody Village businesses, including Taqueria Los Hermonos in The Shops of Dunwoody strip mall, may soon have a new city center, in the mean time the locals enjoy whatever green space and outdoor patios they can find in the multiple shopping complexes, patched together in the area on Thursday, July 22, 2021. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
City leaders complete Dunwoody Village rezoning, ending yearlong dispute
Where does your vaccination data get stored in Georgia?
Where does your vaccination data get stored in Georgia?
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Redesigned landscape with new pool house. Text by Elizabeth Manderson
See the massive $9.5M Buckhead estate inspired by Muckross House
The benefits of exercising outside in winter
3 benefits of exercising outside in cold weather
Royal Caribbean is launching a 274-night cruise around the world
Royal Caribbean is launching a 274-night cruise around the world
Education
Student tutors work with peers in the tutoring space on the East Etowah High School campus.
Students share expertise with peers
Graduation rates rose in some metro Atlanta school districts, and fell in others. Overall, the rate for the class of 2021, which spent all of senior year in a pandemic, changed little from the year before, after climbing for nearly a decade. (AJC file photo)
Graduation rates rose, and fell, in metro Atlanta
Professors from several Georgia universities rallied Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta against state policies on COVID-19 and tenure.
In campus COVID battles, veteran professors lead the charge
Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney plans to lift the mask mandate a month after the district’s young students become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. (Curtis Compton/ccompton@ajc.com)
Fulton County Schools to drop mask mandate after next vaccine rollout
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Gov. Brian Kemp speaks at a press conference at the Capitol on Saturday, April 3, 2021, as he and his supporters blast Major League Baseball's decision to move the All-Star game from Georgia over the state's new voting law. (STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION)
Kemp takes a swing at MLB as Braves advance to World Series
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A state administrative law judge sided with former Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine in deciding that ethics investigators took too long to go after him on allegations that he illegally used campaign funds for a down payment on a house, luxury cars and other personal expenses. John Spink jspink@ajc.com
Judge rules for Oxendine in decade-long battle with Georgia ethics commission
Graduation rates rose in some metro Atlanta school districts, and fell in others. Overall, the rate for the class of 2021, which spent all of senior year in a pandemic, changed little from the year before, after climbing for nearly a decade. (AJC file photo)
Graduation rates rose, and fell, in metro Atlanta
State Republican Party Chair David Shafer sent a letter to GBI Director Vic Reynolds on Friday seeking an investigation into unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Reynolds had said Thursday that there was not enough evidence to merit an investigation based on GPS data that was supplied by a Texas-based conservative group called True the Vote. (Photo: Nathan Posner for The Atlanta-Journal-Constitution)
Georgia GOP chair pushes GBI to reopen ballot fraud probe
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., right, accompanied by Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., left, speaks during a news conference on the inclusion of Solar Tax Credit Legislation in the reconciliation bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Podcast: Filibuster debates, Walker questions Trump
In the newest Georgia Power Poll, community leaders reacted to the crowded Nov. 2 mayor’s race and two other hot topics – the state’s new election law and the ongoing battle against COVID-19. (John Spink / John.Spink@ajc.com)
Power Poll: Georgia leaders on the mayor’s race, voting law and COVID-19
A Georgia State House committee is studying ways Georgia immigrants can help improve the state's labor shortage. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
As Georgia faces labor shortage, lawmakers consider solutions from immigrant advocates
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks during former President Donald Trump's rally in September in Perry. During his speech, Walker steered clear of more contentious issues and talked about how “you can’t do anything unless you bring people together.” (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
‘High road?’ Why Herschel Walker is trying a different GOP approach in Georgia
Crime
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Man killed, 2 others wounded in shooting at DeKalb hotel
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A Conyers police officer works with his partner to save the life of a CSX Railway worker who had a heart attack Tuesday and collapsed on the tracks. (Provided by Conyers Police Department)
Video: Conyers police officers credited with saving heart attack victim
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Charges were filed against a 15-year-old student accused of stabbing another student during fight at Clarkston High School, police say
15-year-old charged in classmate’s stabbing at DeKalb County high school
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One man was killed and seven others were wounded during a shooting late Friday in Fort Valley. The Georgia Bureau of Investigations is investigating the fatal incident. (Provided by GBI)
Man killed, 7 wounded in shooting near Fort Valley State University
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Arrest made in killing of Gainesville man found dead on railroad tracks
Akil Sanders, right, with his wife, Stefanie, and their daughter, Nola, in their Old Fourth Ward home. Not all Atlanta residents agree about how to tackle Atlanta's crime surge. But many like Sanders see the issue intertwined with joblessness, poverty, desperation amid the coronavirus pandemic and shortages in affordable housing. Targeting those problems, they said, would make an impact. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
For many Atlanta voters, fighting crime is a top priority
Expect temperatures to hit the high 70s over the weekend with sunny skies all around.
SATURDAY’S WEATHER-TRAFFIC: Sunny skies, dry air over baseball, festival weekend
Officer Jimmy Cenescar used his patrol car as a battering ram to save a motorist who drove off a northwest Atlanta bridge early Thursday morning. ATLANTA POLICE DEPT.
Atlanta Police officer rescues driver who ran off bridge
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