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Johns Creek staff, Recreation & Parks Advisory Committee members, and community members marked the official opening of the new Bell Road Pocket Park with a recent ribbon cutting ceremony. (Courtesy City of Johns Creek)
Johns Creek opens Bell Road Pocket Park
8h ago
Sandy Springs is adopting the Sandy Springs and Dunwoody Transit Signal Priority Implementation Plan. (Courtesy City of Sandy Springs)
Sandy Springs adopts transit signal priority plan
8h ago
Sensu Sushi is set to open at the Trilith development in Fayetteville. / Courtesy of Sensu Sushi
Trilith development to get sushi, coffee concepts and more dining news from the week
22h ago
Contractors working for the Georgia Department of Transportation will install daytime lane closures on Ga. 9/S. Main Street/Cumming Highway this weekend. (Courtesy Georgia DOT)
Lane closures on Main Street in Alpharetta this weekend
23h ago
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Student tutors work with peers in the tutoring space on the East Etowah High School campus.
Students share expertise with peers
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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
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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
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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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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
2h ago
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
7h ago
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
7h ago
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
20h ago
A student was stabbed Clarkston High School Friday afternoon.
Student stabbed at DeKalb County high school during fight
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Seven out of eight people have been arrested in connection to a Sandy Springs home invasion from earlier this month.
7 arrested in ‘violent’ Sandy Springs home invasion
23h ago
A teenager was arrested Friday in three armed robberies in Athens last weekend. A total of six armed robberies are under investigation over the busy football weekend, and some involved University of Georgia students.
Teen arrested, accused in string of Athens armed robberies
23h ago
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