Turning the page on Tuesday
July 22 — This week, Silver Streak brings you a story about the regulars that frequent famed meat-and-three, The Colonnade.
➵ We also have details on the release of more than 200,000 pages of records on the FBI surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Under court seal since 1977, the move was directly opposed by the King family. See our story below.
And, a new tuberculosis clinic is opening at Richardson Health Center next week. DeKalb County’s renovated facility will feature eight treatment rooms, negative pressure technology, and a new radiology site. Scroll down for more specifics.
And now for a few headlines:
🔎 The Georgia Department of Community Affairs’ (DCA) decision to pause state reviews of new data center proposals has drawn the ire of environmental advocates.
💰 The City of Sandy Springs will spend nearly $600,000 on structural integrity repairs to the underground parking lot at City Springs.
🏗️ The Dunwoody Planning Commission will make a recommendation at its Aug. 12 meeting on the type of development allowed for the long-simmering 84 Perimeter East project.
📚 Pulitzer Prize winner Kevin Sack discusses his new book about Charleston’s Mother Emanuel church tonight at Manuel’s Tavern at 6 p.m.
✂️ First Senior Center of Georgia (FSCofGA) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating a new addition to their food bank facility in Norcross.
🎒 Several area organizations are hosting back-to-school supply drives and giveaways in anticipation of the beginning of the 2025-26 school year.
🕓 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter.
• MLK Jr. records release
• Regulars at The Colonnade
• DeKalb’s new TB clinic
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• Stories of Atlanta | Lance Russell
Enjoy!
Trump administration releases FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr.
📖 The Trump administration has released more than 200,000 pages of records from the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the civil rights leader’s family.
The records have been under a court seal since 1977 after the FBI turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration. The King family were given advance notice of the release and had their own teams reviewing the records ahead of the public disclosure, according to an Associated Press report.
It’s unclear if the newly-released records will shed any new light on the assassination of King.
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These regulars are ‘the lifeblood’ of The Colonnade
🍽️ Open since 1927, The Colonnade has long been a destination in Atlanta for its classic meat-and-three fare. But over the last decade, the Cheshire Bridge Road restaurant institution has weathered several challenges – a series of bridge fires that cut off access roads for weeks (or months) at a time, a forced closure due to the global pandemic, and in 2024, a transition to new ownership.
But as The Colonnade approaches its 100th birthday, Atlanta’s second-oldest restaurant is more popular than ever, thanks to new leadership and a group of loyal regulars who can’t get enough of its fried chicken plates, ice-cold martinis, and the connections they’ve made with fellow diners.
“People sit at the same tables every week, introduce themselves to new people, and it’s a very welcome and lovely thing,” said co-owner Paul Donahue of The Colonnade’s enduring charm and appeal.
➳ Find out more about the regulars in Laura Scholz’s feature.
DeKalb gets new tuberculosis clinic
🏥 DeKalb County has the highest rate of tuberculosis cases in Georgia. Next week, it’s opening a new clinic to help test for and treat the disease.
Last year, DeKalb reported 52 cases of TB (a rate of 6.8 per 100,000), while neighboring Gwinnett and Fulton counties reported 35 and 26, respectively, according to a surveillance report from the state Department of Public Health.
The clinic at the county’s Richardson Health Center on Winn Way is in a renovated space on the ground floor. It features eight treatment rooms, along with a separate entrance and negative pressure technology to prevent the spread of the contagious bacterial infection. A new radiology suite has a digital imaging system for X-rays.
💊 Learn more about the new clinic here.
‘They tried everything, including this’: Stories of Atlanta by Lance Russell
VIA SAPORTAREPORT
⚾ It’s a matter of Atlanta history that the Atlanta Braves of the 1970s weren’t known for championships – but their promotions were legendary.
From ostrich races to on-the-field cash grabs, the Braves’ front office turned the ballpark into a spectacle, giving fans something to cheer about no matter what the scoreboard said. And at the center of it all was one wildly creative PR director: Bob Hope (no, not *that* Bob Hope).
In this episode of Stories of Atlanta, we revisit a promotion so wild it could have been a disaster – but instead, it became a legend.
𓅦 It isn’t just baseball – it’s Bob Hope baseball on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
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🖋️ Today’s Silver Streak was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.
