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Intown Academy celebrates volunteer-built playground

By Mark Niesse
May 13, 2013

Intown Academy is marking the completion of the first phase of its $56,000 playground project with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday.

The playground was built with the help of volunteers from intown Atlanta neighborhoods, Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business and Ernst & Young.

Intown Academy is a public charter school in Atlanta’s Fourth Ward neighborhood.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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