Dunwoody Reporter

Just off Peeler Road and across from the DeKalb County Water Works basins is Dunwoody’s Windwood Hollow Park, a secluded 11-acre park with nature trails, a playground, tennis courts and a pavilion. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//beloved-dunwoody-park/

The city’s new Create Dunwoody Arts and Culture Plan lays out several reasons that city government should be involved in supporting arts and culture organizations, including providing a better quality of life for residents while also boosting the local economy and attracting businesses. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//create-dunwoody-plan-/

In 1968, international jet travel was still a glamorous adventure, and Joan Policastro signed on as a Pan American World Airways flight attendant to get her taste of it. She soon got adventure in a risky, historic form four years of flying rest and recuperation flights with U.S. troops in and out of the Vietnam War, sometimes with bombs going off outside the base. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//flight-attendant-reca/

Will everything be OK at the Spruill Center for the Arts? Only with a better deal, says its director. The iconic Everything Will Be OK mural on Ashford-Dunwoody Road next to the Spruill Art Gallery is a key element of the city’s identity. But the nonprofit organization that owns it, Spruill Center for the Arts, says it’s squeezed for space and might have to expand outside Dunwoody without a better deal from the city for classroom space. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//art-center-says-it-ma/

A lot of questions on what is being planned, but GDOT still has few answers. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//dunwoody-questions-i-/

Code Enforcement Officer James Lemoine has been working as a code enforcement officer for the city just over year. He previously worked in Norcross and Lawrenceville. The type of complaints code enforcement officers handle varies with each city and with different demographics, he said. Here, it is signs galore, he said. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//code-officer-works-to/

Local leaders decry hatred and call for "respect" and "civility" in the wake of a mass murder at a Pittsburgh, Pa., synagogue. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//local-leaders-decry-h/

Our newest publication takes a look at the City Council funding improvements to Brook Run Park, a ride along with the code enforcement officer and why the ED of the Spruill Center for the Arts says it needs more space. https://issuu.com/reporter_newspapers/docs/102618_dun_web

The developer for a planned restaurant/retail building at the visible corner of Mount Vernon and Chamblee-Dunwoody roads is set to ask the city to approve a sleeker, more contemporary architectural design they say they need to attract a fast-casual restaurant.One major problem the new design doesn’t fit in with the decades-old Dunwoody Village Overlay District. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//developer-seeks-new-c/

City of Dunwoody says it still wants to form its own EMS agency. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//dekalb-amr-reach-agre/

Dunwoody voters will get a chance to vote on the brunch bill to allow local restaurants to start selling alcohol on Sundays at 11 a.m. rather than 12:30 p.m. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//brunch-bill-referendu/

The Dunwoody City Council on May 21 awarded a $286,137.51 contract to GC&E Systems Group for the installation and maintenance of a video surveillance system at Pernoshal Park, Georgetown Park and a portion of the trail system entering Brook Run Park from Pernoshal. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//cameras-coming-to-dun/

A five-year contract with Axon Enterprise for in-car video camera replacement was approved by the Dunwoody City Council May 21. Cost for the contract is spread out: $156,531.96 for the first year, and then $73,789.51 for years two through five. https://www.reporternewspapers.net//dunwoody-police-to-re/