Thornton Kennedy
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Column: Middle school takeover case of history rep...
by Thornton Kennedy
Northside Neighbor Columnist
02:44 PM, Wednesday, May 22
This summer Sutton Middle School will take over a Buckhead high school, repeating a scene that has played out once before. In the early 1970s, three public high schools served the community. North Fulton High School was the original, dating back t...

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Residents object to Scientology rezo...
EDITOR: We represent several hundred homeowners who live in the immediate vicinity of 5395 Roswell Road. We object...
02:14 PM, Wednesday, July 11
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Societal shift has time, place
In a matter of 20 years the question “Are we there yet?” has been replaced by the most joyous of noises on a nine-ho...
01:42 PM, Wednesday, July 11
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Officer Larry Jacobs
Column: Door-to-Door Solicitors
Times have changed. Remember the good ole days when someone came to your door and explained, “Hi, I’m John Smith fro...
03:14 PM, Friday, July 06
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: We the unwashed don’t find lobby reform ‘silly’
Everyone seems comfortable with the relationship between lawmakers and lizard-loafered lobbyists except We the Unwas...
03:29 PM, Monday, July 02
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Randy Evans
Column: Thanks for reading
Of course, 1,127 columns did not just write themselves. Instead, although it might be hard to believe, an entire tea...
03:26 PM, Monday, July 02
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Dale Cardwell
Column: Here to serve; them
I was excited to be a first-time voter. It took a former actor to finally say what no other politician would... Amer...
03:11 PM, Monday, July 02
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Buckhead could have been Terminus
The founding of Atlanta can be traced back to two settlements, one right here in Buckhead and the other in the center...
02:57 PM, Monday, July 02
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Officer Larry Jacobs
Column: When should you call 911?
Easy, when you see or hear something that seems out of the ordinary (suspicious) and those little hairs stand up on t...
01:39 PM, Friday, June 29
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: It’s not menu that’s threatening women’s longevity...
I read several news reports recently about a study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the Unive...
10:56 AM, Thursday, June 28
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Randy Evans
Column: King Barack Hussein Obama
Somehow it seems appropriate that my next to last column would begin with a farewell address. On Sept. 19, 1796, Pres...
10:52 AM, Thursday, June 28
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Dale Cardwell
Column: With government, what goes up, doesn’t come down
I was stunned. After five years of real estate free fall, I received my new property tax assessment. According to co...
10:29 AM, Thursday, June 28
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Neighborhoods grew out of summertime ritual
Logic dictates Buckhead’s neighborhoods should at least chronologically follow Peachtree Road starting just north of...
06:15 PM, Wednesday, June 27
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Letter to the Editor: T-SPLOST the Wrong Answer
Few would argue that Metro-Atlanta does not need traffic congestion relief; however, the percentage of money in T-SPL...
10:00 AM, Saturday, June 23
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Larry Jacobs
Column: Can you trust emails anymore?
As we continue our lesson on garbage and hoax emails; I wish to thank Sandy Springs own IT department for their contr...
11:29 AM, Friday, June 22
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: Methodists more than a match for secularists
I received a press release last week from the Secular Coalition for America, a group of “atheists, agnostics, humani...
03:59 PM, Thursday, June 21
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