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Friends of the Alpharetta Library have started a new book club and offer a monthly book sale. (Courtesy Friends of the Alpharetta Library)

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Alpharetta library starting “nonconformist book club”

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Alpharetta recently approved the annual replacement of information technology equipment including approximately 154 PCs, 80 iPhones and 65 iPads. (Wikimedia)

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Alpharetta to refresh IT equipment

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Activists protested during the City of Atlanta Council meeting; they support closing the Atlanta City Detention Center, where a vote is expected to lease Atlanta jail beds to Fulton County Jails on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. Miguel Martinez / miguel.martinezjimenez@ajc.com

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Fulton approves leasing beds at Atlanta’s detention center

The Autrey Mill Nature Preserve will host the Johns Creek cleanup, Creek Crawl 2022, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 20. (Courtesy Autrey Mill Nature Preserve)

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Johns Creek cleanup “Creek Crawl” planned

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Images of the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 2018. The museum is helping to create exhibits for a new Holocaust memorial center in Sandy Springs, (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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Sandy Springs approves lease for Holocaust memorial center ending debate, for now

The Sandy Springs-based Community Assistance Center recently received a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest independent charity evaluator. (Courtesy Community assistance Center)

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Sandy Springs nonprofit receives top charity rating

The Sandy Springs Police Department is accepting applications for the next Citizens Police Academy. (Courtesy Sandy Springs Police)

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Sandy Springs accepting Citizens Police Academy applications

Roswell residents may see technicians collecting sidewalk measurements using pathMet. (Courtesy Michael Cunniff via City of Roswell)

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Roswell planning citywide ADA transition plan

Fulton County election workers prepare before all voting machines come back to the warehouse at Fulton County Election Preparation Center on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Fulton seeks 2K poll workers two months out from Election Day

MARTA's Summerhill bus rapid transit line would operate in bus-only lanes for 85% of its route.

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MARTA approves station names, property purchases for Atlanta transit line

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Johns Creek’s mayor and city council recently appointed Erin Eggerton to replace a recently vacated spot on the Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee. (Courtesy City of Johns Creek)

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Johns Creek adds new recreation and parks member

Milton hires new finance director

MARTA gets $19.3 million for electric buses

Wine-centric Italian restaurant Sorella Vicina set to open in Alpharetta

The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is helping the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust to create exhibits, including one that would reproduce the 540-square-foot space where Anne Frank and seven other Jewish people hid for 761 days during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands,

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Sandy Springs plans for a Holocaust memorial continues to be controversial

Fulton commissioners to consider lease with Atlanta on jail space

August 4, 2022 Atlanta - Eric Massaro (right) and Aluana Freeman, both members of Teamsters and UPS employees, hold a sign in the employee parking lot after holding a contract rally inside UPS SMART Hub in Atlanta on Thursday, August 4, 2022. The Teamsters were holding a contract rally among workers in preparation for negotiations with UPS coming up over the next year. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Teamsters set stage for union contract battle with UPS

Scarecrows returning to Roswell this fall

Alpharetta selects medley of outdoor sculptures

Chattahoochee National Park seeking donations for bridge repairs

Featured artists at Roswell's 2nd annual Beaucoup Jazz & Blues Festival
and Pop-Up Art Village include Tinsley Ellis (shown), Grant Green Jr, Karla Harris and Huntertones. (Courtesy Roswell Arts Fund)

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Beaucoup jazz and blues festival and art village returns

Roswell seeking grant for police equipment

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Another swastika, anti-gay slur appear on Midtown’s rainbow crosswalk

Education

Principal Laurie Woodruff (left) and Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney speak with a parent on the first day of school at Sandy Springs Charter Middle School in Sandy Springs on Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. The school board on Thursday approved midyear raises for employees. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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Fulton County Schools to give employees 2% midyear raises

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A police school crossing guard directs traffic at the entrance of Kemp Elementary School on the first day of school on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. Cobb County wants to provide raises for its bus drivers. (Natrice Miller/natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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Cobb school district raises pay for bus drivers amid shortage

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Georgia state school Superintendent Richard Woods, the Republican incumbent, fields questions with challenger Alisha Thomas Searcy, a former Democratic state representative and charter school leader, on Aug. 18, 2022 at Georgia Public Broadcasting. (Ty Tagami / ty.tagami@ajc.com.)

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Superintendent candidates deliver contrasting views of Georgia schools

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In a guest column, an associate professor at the University of Georgia calls for the integration of children with disabilities in classrooms. Usree Bhattacharya's daughter Kalika, pictured here, has Rett syndrome, a genetic neurological disorder that affects nearly every aspect of the child’s life.

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UGA professor: We must stop segregating children with disabilities

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Politics

Herschel Walker (middle) takes a photo with Jan Smythe (right) and another woman (left), during a meet and greet event on Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at Longstreet Cafe in Gainesville, Georgia. Fox & Friends broadcasted live from the restaurant during which co-host Brian Kilmeade interviewed Walker. CHRISTINA MATACOTTA FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION.

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Under the direction of Sidney Powell, an attorney for then-President Donald Trump, a group including computer experts from Atlanta copied numerous sensitive Georgia election files in Coffee County on Jan. 7, 2021, according to documents produced in response to subpoenas. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

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Capitol Recap: Subpoenas reveal Trump team gained access to sensitive voting files

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Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams gives a press conference about abortion on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. The conference comes just after a federal appeals court allowed Georgia’s restrictive abortion law to take place. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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US Senator Raphael Warnock campaigns at First Baptist Church of Garmon Street in Warner Robins on Wednesday, August 17, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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‘Sales job’: Warnock hits the road to pump federal budget bill

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Gerard Lopez, Rivian's director of workplace and production real estate, speaks at a meeting arranged by the state of Georgia on Wednesday, August 18, 2022 to address community concerns about the company's plant that's expected to break ground near Rutledge later this year. Drew Kann/drew.kann@ajc.com

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As Rivian works to clear permit hurdles, residents want site details 15h ago

Georgia state school Superintendent Richard Woods, the Republican incumbent, fields questions with challenger Alisha Thomas Searcy, a former Democratic state representative and charter school leader, on Aug. 18, 2022 at Georgia Public Broadcasting. (Ty Tagami / ty.tagami@ajc.com.)

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Superintendent candidates deliver contrasting views of Georgia schools

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Crime

Atlanta police Lt. Z. Kramer looks over the latest defacing of the rainbow crossing at 10th Street and Piedmont Avenue early Friday morning.

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Another swastika, anti-gay slur appear on Midtown’s rainbow crosswalk

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Atlanta Police Department officers stand near the Citgo gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive during a rally against violent crime on Wednesday, August 17, 2022. (Natrice Miller/natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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In rare nuisance hearing, city pushes to close SW Atlanta gas station

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Verdict reached in 2020 shooting death of 7-year-old Kennedy Maxie

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Dunwoody police have identified an alleged serial rapist and are trying to capture the man.

Search on for man accused of raping, beating two women in Dunwoody

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Jimmy Alexander Mendoza-Orellana, 17, Alexis Lopez, 17, and a 16-year-old boy were charged after a botched drug deal left a teen shot and injured July 31 at Arbor Place mall, police said.

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Police: 3 teens charged after 16-year-old shot at Douglasville mall during drug deal

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The ninth season of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Breakdown" podcast examines Fulton County's special grand jury probe into whether President Donald Trump and his allies tried to illegally interfere in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Listen to Season 9 of the AJC’s ‘Breakdown’ podcast

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Fulton County DA says gang sympathizers are threatening a witness involved in Rapper Young Thug case

Young Thug case: Witness in protective custody after document leak

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GBI agents investigate a scene in LaGrange at the request of the police department after officers shot and injured Reginald Saffold, who they say hit his wife with his car.

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GBI investigates 2 police shootings after unrelated domestic incidents

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