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Author: Kathy Mitchell

Business News 

Entrepreneur combines love of trendy athleticwear with desire to help community

April 17, 2023April 16, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Anthony “T.J.” Bennett, financial literacy, mental stability, Sole Play, STEM

When Anthony “T.J.” Bennett was an undergraduate at Troy University in Troy, Alabama, he took a job in a sneaker

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News Opinion 

Things we used to laugh at

April 13, 2023April 12, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments

There are lessons to be learned from watching old movies and television shows. One shift in cultural norms that can

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Business News 

Officials break ground for 40-unit housing development in East Lake

April 10, 2023April 9, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, East Lake, Trust at East Lake

Atlanta’s easternmost neighborhood, East Lake, has a history worthy of an epic novel. It has gone from a country club

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Lifestyle News 

End of summer won’t be the same without Decatur Book Festival

April 7, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Linda Harris, Richard Lenz, The Decatur Book Festival, Tom Bell

The Decatur Book Festival has been a staple of metro Atlanta’s literary scene for some 15 years, attracting thousands to

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Business News 

Easter spending now more likely to be for brunch than bonnets

April 6, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments CEO Matthew Shay, National Retail Federation, NRF President

Easter Sunday for many generations was celebrated by showing off new spring finery—dresses, suits, shoes, and hats—a tradition immortalized in

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Decatur News 

Novice pastor seeks to build church-community ties

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments DeKalb County Police Chief Mirtha Ramos, Freddie Mack Jr., Gresham Park Christian Church, Larry Johnson

There are many things taught in theological school to prepare a new minister for a first position as a pastor,

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News 

Local student to represent Georgia in poetry recitation competition

March 29, 2023March 29, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Molly Pitra, National Endowment for the Arts, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Out Loud

Molly Pitra said she enjoys that poetry speaks through time and cultures. In reciting poems, she said, she is able

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Business News 

New Create Dunwoody leader aspires to connect arts, business, community

March 27, 2023March 26, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Create Dunwoody, Jennifer Long, The Creatives Project

Art and business are very much connected, commented Jennifer Long, newly appointed founding executive director of Create Dunwoody, an organization

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Business News 

Fernbank exhibit explores natural and manmade aspects of color

March 23, 2023March 22, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments

A current exhibit at Fernbank Museum of Natural History explores something that’s all around—that is, in fact, so common that

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Business News 

Jointly owned power plant in final steps before going into operation

March 17, 2023March 16, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Oglethorpe Power Corporation, Plant Vogtle

Georgia will soon have an additional 1,215 megawatts in electrical capacity available because of a corporate partnership that includes Oglethorpe

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Business News 

Business seeks to provide sustainable food source for a growing population

March 10, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Akissi Stokes-Nelson, Karim Nelson, WunderGrubs

Akissi Stokes-Nelson and her husband Karim Nelson laugh as they explain how they started encouraging people to eat bugs. “It’s

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Cities News Stone Mountain 

Stone Mountain St. Patrick’s Day party returns to raise more green

March 9, 2023March 8, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments ART Station, St. Patrick’s Day, Stone Mountain

ART Station in Stone Mountain in 2020 was taking final steps toward its annual St. Patrick’s Day-themed fundraiser—its biggest financial

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News 

Rise in Black homeownership slow, but slightly faster locally

March 6, 2023March 3, 2023 Kathy Mitchell 0 Comments Apartment List, Black access to homeownership

A report released in February by Apartment List, an online apartment listing service that also does research in the national

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