Tuesday Polls
Sep. 24 — Polls are open in parts of North Fulton and Cherokee counties until 7 p.m. today as Democrat Debra Shigley faces Republican Jason Dickerson in a runoff for Georgia’s 21st Senate District seat vacated by Brandon Beach’s appointment as U.S. Treasurer.
🏠 Two Atlanta City Council candidates – Keith Lewis, Jr. and Sherry B. Williams – have been disqualified for not meeting the residency requirements for the Dist. 11 seat.
💵 The Atlanta Community Food Bank received a $100,000 grant from Norfolk Southern through its Thriving Communities Grant Program.
✅ The City of Brookhaven is conducting a resident satisfaction survey to gather feedback on city services, following up on a similar 2023 questionnaire.
🏢 A proposed 500-unit apartment complex at Northlake Mall in Tucker is proving unpopular with residents.
📻 Local arts leader Shawn Vinson has started a petition urging WABE to rethink its recent decision to end the “City Lights Collective” program. WABE announced last week that it was cutting the weekday arts program due to the Trump administration’s funding cuts to public media.
🕓 Here’s what’s in today’s newsletter.
• Theatre Review: ”Fiddler on the Roof’
• Solidarity Sandy Springs
• Community gardens
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• Stories of Atlanta | Lance Russell
Enjoy!
Theatre Review: Alliance, Atlanta Opera duet on spectacular ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
🎭 The legendary musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” a co-production by the Alliance Theatre and the Atlanta Opera, is now running at the Alliance and has been extended through Oct. 12.
The show throbs with humor, vitality, joy, and some unforgettable songs: “Tradition,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” “To Life,” “Sunrise, Sunset,” and “Now I Have Everything.”
The show itself is spectacular to look at and listen to, and the Alliance uses its large stage in surprising ways, including very effective video projections.
➳ Read Manning Harris’ full review.
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Solidarity Sandy Springs provides 1M pounds of food annually
🥗 Solidarity Sandy Springs co-founder and board member Jennifer Barnes told the Sandy Springs City Council at its recent meeting that the organization provides more than one million pounds of food annually to food-insecure families.
Barnes said the organization uses the city’s $25,000 grant to buy fresh produce for its shoppers.
What was started as a temporary emergency food pantry that Barnes and her friend, Sonia Simon, thought would feed 10 families for two weeks has now served more than 100,000 shoppers in the past five years.
Is a community garden becoming a must-have amenity?
🌻 Drive or walk past a newer housing community and you’ll notice a new category of green-minded amenities.
These days, more people want sustainability, and housing communities are accommodating this must-have by including energy-efficient appliances, organic landscaping, using recycled and salvaged building materials, and incorporating walkability and access to public transit.
As more eco-conscious communities gain momentum around the country, amenities such as pools and fitness centers just don’t seem to cut it anymore. Some Metro Atlanta apartment complexes and housing communities are going beyond the traditional amenities, building shared garden spaces and even farms into the residential package. While community gardens aren’t exactly new, the privatization of such an amenity brings fresh context to agrarianism.
➳ Read more from Sarra Sedghi here.
Stories of Atlanta by Lance Russell
VIA SAPORTAREPORT
🌹 Pay a visit to pretty much any cemetery in the world and you will notice that, in addition to the traditional gift of flowers, people leave all kinds of items behind after their visit. Stones and coins are a favored way to show that the departed has not been forgotten, as are pictures and family mementos. But for some people, what is left behind is influenced by tradition. As you might expect that tradition is the subject of this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
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🖋️ Today’s Silver Streak was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.
