A newsy week
🏈 The sporty edition
Wednesday, Aug. 12 — It’s Cathy from Rough Draft with my weekly newsletter on Dunwoody. After two weeks working remotely in the western North Carolina mountains, it’s time to get back home, which is both sad and okay. There’s just so much meaningful conversation you can have with a Great Pyrenees, although she is a good listener.
Let’s take care of business before we move on to this week’s news.
♻️ Dunwoody’s next household hazardous waste event will be held on Sept. 19, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the parking lot at Dunwoody City Hall, located at 4800 Ashford Dunwoody Road. You have to register in advance. Even though it should go without saying, please leave your radioactive materials at home.
🏗️ The Dunwoody Planning Commission met last night for more than two hours, and it was an action-packed agenda with lots of zoning requests. I will catch up on it this week and have a full report in next week’s newsletter.
🍨 Van Leeuwen Ice Cream is opening at Park Place, with special deals from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow through next Wednesday. According to AI, it’s gained a loyal following for using simple, high-quality ingredients to make rich French-style ice cream (with double the egg yolks), vegan options, and wild viral flavors.
🥵 Back to reality,
Cathy
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Vape shop ordinance passed; moratorium lifted
💨 The Dunwoody City Council, after a prolonged debate at its Aug. 10 meeting, passed an ordinance that defined regulations and limitations on vape shops within the city.
It ends a lengthy moratorium as the council and staff worked to define parameters for vape shops without an outright ban. The original measure discussed during a May 11 meeting defined the areas where vape shops would be permitted and set parameters for what would constitute a vape shop, either 25% or more of its total products sold being vape-related, or 25% of its interior space used for vape-related sales.
However, the council tabled the agenda item and directed its staff to propose an alternative regulatory scenario, which was presented at the August meeting.
🚬 Here is more on the meeting.
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The ‘other’ football is back
👟 Now that we’ve finished up that pesky World Cup business, it’s time to focus on something much more important: high school football. Our August issue has a rundown of nearly every team, including its schedule, a recap of last year, and prospects for this year. For local fans, the issue includes Chamblee, Marist, Mount Vernon, and, of course, Dunwoody.
Here’s what our experts at Score Atlanta had to say about the Wildcats: Dunwoody established a new culture last season in its first year under head coach Matthew Schmitz after he was promoted to the lead role following three seasons as the Wildcats’ offensive coordinator.
Dunwoody began the season with three close games as the Wildcats lost 15-12 to St. Pius X at the Corky Kell + Dave Hunter Classic at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, defeated Pope 24-16, and dropped the final non-region game 32-24 to Lumpkin County. They opened region play with double-digit wins over Tri-Cities, Lakeside-DeKalb and Arabia Mountain, beginning the region slate 3-1.
Dunwoody then suffered a loss to Woodward Academy, dominated Chamblee, and lost by a touchdown in the regular season finale to Shiloh. For the third straight year, the Wildcats’ season ended in the first round of the playoffs as they were handed a 48-3 loss by Gainesville, extending the program’s playoff win drought to 16 years.
📣 Read about all the teams in our print edition.
Dunwoody grad gains glory
⚾️ The Brookhaven Bucks (24-9) swept the Lake Oconee Wild Things in the best-of-three Sunbelt Baseball League Championship Series on Aug. 1. The championship is the third in franchise history – first since the team won back-to-back championships in 2018 and 2019, according to a release from the team.
Three members of the Bucks were named to the All-Sunbelt Team, including Kason Gleaton (Bethune-Cookman University), Chip Glogorski (Georgia College), and John Kosobud (Centre College). Kosobud, from Dunwoody, was named the Sunbelt League Cy Young Award winner, awarded to the best pitcher in the league.
🦌 Here is a brief roundup of the season, thanks to Jay Kapp.
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That got out of hand in a hurry
🔫 A minor traffic accident at the Drift Apartments in Dunwoody on Aug. 4 around 7 a.m. turned into a fist fight and a shooting that inflicted minor injuries on one of the suspects.
According to a release from the Dunwoody Police, officers were dispatched to 4000 Dunwoody Park, after reports were made regarding an armed person. Upon arrival, officers determined the incident stemmed from a minor private-property vehicle crash in the parking deck. Then one of the drivers called her boyfriend, who thought it was best to bring a gun along for the ride.
🤪 What happened after that was a little bonkers.
PICTURE THIS: A PARKLET
☕️ Dunwoody Village is getting a refreshed gathering spot, thanks to its owner, Regency. Construction is underway on improvements to the “parklet” under an oak tree in front of The Fresh Market in Dunwoody Village. Regency is upgrading and enlarging the seating area, while preserving the oak tree that has graced the parking lot for so many years. The best news is that if you need coffee, you can go here, here, here, and here, all within a half mile of the parklet.
