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Roswell Woman's Club's "2022 Boo Y’all Scarecrows" event returns Sept. 26 through Nov. 1. (Courtesy Roswell Woman's Club)

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Scarecrows returning to Roswell this fall
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Three bridges located in the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area need repairs. (Courtesy Chattahoochee Natural Park Conservancy)

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Chattahoochee National Park seeking donations for bridge repairs
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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
The Roswell City Council recently authorized the police department to apply for a grant to purchase police equipment. (Courtesy Roswell Police Department)

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Roswell seeking grant for police equipment
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The Rev. Malone Dodson headed Roswell United Methodist Church for decades, growing the church as the community grew into a burgeoning Atlanta surburb. Dodson died this month from COVID-19. (ALICIA HANSEN/STAFF)

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Rev. Malone Dodson, key figure for Georgia Methodists, dies at 85
Catalytic converter thefts on the rise in North Fulton County

Catalytic converter thefts on the rise in North Fulton County
Polara Capital is planning to convert the Atlanta Street Baptist Church property at the front of their neighborhood into a residential and commercial project. Credit: Adrianne Murchison

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Overflow parking for mixed-use project worries Roswell neighbors
The candidates are executives and business owners.(Courtesy City of Roswell)

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Roswell City Council candidates set for special election
Roswell is applying for a Cultural Facilities Grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts. (Courtesy City of Roswell)

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Roswell seeking grant from Georgia Council for the Arts
Roswell is using a Georgia Transportation Infrastructure Bank loan to resurface approximately 83 roads this year. (Courtesy City of Roswell)

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Roswell paving 83 roads this year
The 1,400-square-foot house was the original homestead of the Hembree family. Amariah Hembree, the family patriarch, came to Roswell in 1835 with his extended family and settled on what is now Hembree Road. They raised livestock and farmed the land growing cotton for old Roswell Manufacturing Company, according to the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. Courtesy Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

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$125K for a historic home? Friday deadline to bid on Roswell farmhouse
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The Roswell Fire Department will trade in 14 cardiac monitor/defibrillators and 8 chest compression devices. AJC FILE

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Chick-fil-A is just one of many restaurants and stores who help supply surplus food to the North Fulton Community Charities food panty. (Courtesy North Fulton Community Charities)

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North Fulton Community Charities seeks volunteers
Roswell Fire to distribute weather alert radios
Partnership may bring improvements to Liberty Square Park
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Neighbors in North Fulton don't want Georgia 400 express lanes exiting into their neighborhood

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In Dec. 2021, Christina Kwan completed the beautiful mural on a utility box at the corner of Woodstock and Canton Road in Roswell. (Courtesy Roswell Arts Fund)

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Roswell Arts Fund offering three artist opportunities
Roswell to vote on new downtown parking deck
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Members of Northview High's Psi Alpha High School National Honor Society in Psychology planned a spring bubble tea sale that raised more than $1,300.

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Jejna Mujkic, school staff, greets students arriving for the first day of school at Seckinger High School in Buford on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. All Gwinnett County employees were required to wear masks in school buildings to start the year. The requirement was lifted the second week of classes. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Masks are again optional for Gwinnett schools employees
Angelina Jolie dropped off her daughter Zahara (second from left) at Spelman College in downtown Atlanta this week. In this photo, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (from left), Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Maddox Jolie-Pitt and Knox Jolie-Pitt pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film "Eternals" on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, in London. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

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Angelina Jolie drops daughter off at Spelman College
Jonathan Peraza-Campos, a local educator, speaks during a back-to-school rally for Georgia educators on Saturday, July 23, 2022, at Piedmont Park in Atlanta. Teachers, community members and students gathered to speak against new state legislative action banning selected books from school libraries and prohibiting the teaching of divisive concepts in U.S. History. (Christina Matacotta for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Teacher: We have to reclaim our power and public school mission
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wills listens to Judge Robert McBurney talk to the jurors at Fulton County Court during the selection of the special grand jury to investigate allegations that former President Donald Trump criminally interfered with Georgia’s elections in 2020. Monday, May 2, 2022. Miguel Martinez /miguel.martinezjimenez@ajc.com

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Alternative Energy Southeast employees Aaron Basto, center, and Russell McCune, right, installs one of eighteen solar panels to the roof of a resident Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Ellenwood, Ga. (Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com)

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Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp race for Georgia governor

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U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., speaks to reporters outside of the U.S. House of Representatives for a press conference with the Congressional Progressive Caucus regarding the passage of a health care, tax and climate change measure that's now headed to the desk of President Joe Biden. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times).

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Gov. Brian P. Kemp on Friday announced a $240 million grant program to help expand internet service in rural Georgia that will be funded through federal COVID-19 relief money. That's on top of $400 million he announced earlier for boosting rural broadband, also using federal funds. Curtis Compton / Curtis Compton@ajc.com

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05/07/2019 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Anti-Abortion protestors rally outside of the Georgia State Capitol building following the signing of HB 481 in Atlanta, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill, surrounded by supporters and Georgia lawmakers, in his office Tuesday morning. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

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A Cobb County police officer stands outside at a shooting scene on Olive Spring Road. (Photo: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Grady EMS personnel leave the scene of a fatal shooting on West Marietta Street in Atlanta early Saturday, August 13, 2022. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, and Atlanta police are investigating. (Photo: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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The Atlanta Police Department on Friday released body camera video that showed Santerius Kemp's Aug. 4 arrest at an Atlanta apartment.

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Atlanta police arrest ‘most wanted’ auto theft suspect
Officers were called to a home on Silvery Way in a development called Tapp Farm after getting reports of the home invasion just after 12:30 a.m. Friday, Powder Springs police said.

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Police ID woman arrested in Powder Springs home invasion
Body camera footage from a controversial arrest by an Atlanta police officer was released this week by department officials.

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Atlanta police release bodycam, defend officer’s actions during woman’s arrest
Lt. Terry Payne, 59, has been employed with Georgia State University police since 2016.

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Georgia State University police officer charged with rape, kidnapping
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