An East Cobb resident involved in youth sports in the community is expected to announce his campaign this week for a seat on the Cobb Board of Education next year.
That’s the Post 5 seat currently held by four-term Republican David Banks, whose term expires at the end of 2024.
John Cristadoro referenced Friday in a post on a Facebook page created for his campaign a “Special Announcement Coming Soon” at the Cobb Republican Party breakfast on Saturday, April 1.
He’s also launched a “John4Cobb” campaign website indicating he’s seeking the Post 5 seat, but has posted no further information.
In response to a message from East Cobb News, Cristadoro acknowledged he will be officially launching his campaign on Saturday and providing more details later.
Post 5 includes most of the Walton and Wheeler and some of the Pope attendance zones.
Cristadoro is the president of Alliance Tax Solutions, with offices in Atlanta and Houston, which helps businesses resolve tax issues.
He’s a parent in the Walton attendance zone and is involved with the Walton youth football and wrestling programs and East Side youth baseball.
Cristadoro, who is is married with two children, hails from New Orleans and is an Air Force veteran.
He also is involved in Advocates for Love, a Christian ministry that cares for orphans in the Dominican Republic.
Banks, who was first elected in 2008, has not indicated if he will be seeking a fifth term.
His seat is one of four on the Cobb school board that will be up for election in 2024. They include two other posts also held by Republicans, who hold a 4-3 majority.
Banks, who is the current board vice chairman, fended off primary and general election competition in 2020. But he won by his slimmest margin, by only 2,639 votes.
He has been a controversial figure, primarily about immigration, racial issues and COVID-19. Most recently, he sparked outrage about comments he made about Roman Catholicism.
Following reapportionment in 2022, Post 5 was altered to include most of the Walton and Wheeler attendance zones that had been in Post 6, which was shifted to the Smyrna-Cumberland area.
Post 6 was represented from 2019-22 by Democrat Charisse Davis, who did not seek re-election last year.
Some of the old Post 5, including much of the Lassiter attendance zone, was placed in Post 4, in which Republican David Chastain was elected to a third term last November.
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Several hundred kids and their families turned out at Mt. Paran North Church of God Saturday for an Easter Egg Drop sponsored by the Janice Overbeck Real Estate Team.
Helicopters hovered over the school’s soccer fields for three different age-group deliveries of eggs, candies and other goodies, and kids enjoyed on-the-ground fun that included face-painting, balloon art, a magician’s tricks, and a visit from Rapunzel, who was available for photos.
Godie bags were available to take home, courtesy of the event sponsors that included Sponsor Perrie and Associates, Holly Walther Lending Team, and Trotter Roofing & Gutters.
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The small retail building at the new MarketPlace Terrell Mill development is half-occupied, with a dentist and nail salon.
The plans were to include some restaurant space, and elsewhere on the property a Wendy’s, Chick-Fil-A and Panera Bread have opened.
The Power Ferry Corridor Alliance civic group reports that two restaurants will be coming soon to the open spots at the Shoppes, which fronts the MarketPlace Village apartment building.
Los Abuelos Mexican Grill will be opening in June, the chain’s first location outside of its base in Newnan.
The other space will be taken up by a location of the Brass Tap Craft Beer Bar, a Tampa-based chain with Atlanta-area locations at Perimeter Center, Milton and Hapeville.
The Brass Tap’s parent company, FSC Franchise Co., also runs the Beef O’Brady’s restaurant chain.
There’s no signage yet at either of the forthcoming restaurants. They’ll be among the final pieces of the MarketPlace project to be filled along with the anchor Kroger superstore (90,000 square feet) that’s still under construction.
There’s fencing around that building—where the former Brumby Elementary School once stood—and an accompanying Kroger gas station will be fronting Powers Ferry Road. That’ slated to open next month.
The new Kroger store is expected to relocate from the Delk-Powers Ferry intersection by the fall.
The Powers Ferry Corridor Alliance is having an Adopt-A-Mile cleanup day April 15 from 9-10:30 a.m. at the Powers Ferry-Terrell Mill intersection. They’re springing for a free Starbucks there at 8:45 a.m. for those who volunteer, and you can sign up by clicking here.
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The Atlanta branch of the American Jewish Committee is organizing two Unity Seder events next week, including one at Temple Kol Emeth in East Cobb.
That event is Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m. at the synagogue (1415 Old Canton Road), and you can sign up by clicking here.
The Unity Seder celebrates the Jewish holiday of Passover, commemorating the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, from slavery to freedom, and uses the lessons of that observance “to tell stories of freedom and responsibility from all of our faith and ethnic traditions, applying lessons to envision a better future for our city and world,” according to the Atlanta Jewish Committee.
This year the official Passover dates are April 5-13, which includes Seder observances the first two nights.
Kosher dietary laws will be observed at the Temple Kol Emeth dinner.
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Members of the Hightower Trail MS robotics team. Photo: Cobb County School District
Students from Hightower Trail Middle School and Wheeler High School in East Cobb will be competing in world robotics championships in Texas later this spring.
The five-member Hightower Trail team will be making the trip to the VEX World Robotics Championships for the first time, after placing 14th in the state skill challenge and earning the Teamwork Champion Award.
They are led by Joey Giunta, a teacher at Tritt Elementary School, where three of the current team members got their start in VEX robotics.
In a release from the Cobb County School District, Hightower Trail principal Dr. Hannah Polk said the school began a VEX robotics program this year, backed by the Husky Foundation.
“How impressive to have reached this milestone during their inaugural year, which speaks volumes of the hard work and dedication of each member of the team,” she said in the release.
At the state competition, Wheeler students won the Inspire Award, an award that goes to the team that best displays the FIRST principles.
The Walton High School team is attempting to qualify for the FIRST Competition, and at a recent district competition was given the Excellence in Engineering Award, which recognizes teams that demonstrate outstanding engineering practices and design principles in their robot.
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An East Cobb investment advisor whom federal authorities say defrauded clients out of more than $25 million has pleaded guilty.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta, John Woods, 58, pleaded guilty to a single charge of wire fraud and he awaits sentencing.
Woods has been active high school sports and civic affairs in East Cobb.
U.S. Attorney Ryan Buchanan said in a release that Woods solicited investors to invest in a fund called Horizon Private Equity, promising rates of return of six to seven percent.
He told investors their funds would be invested in government bonds, stocks and small real estate projects, according to the release, which said Woods assured investors would be safe because Horizon had a diverse portfolio.
But the U.S. Attorney’s Office said the investments were used to repay other investors, saying that Woods misled clients “by failing to disclose that the Horizon investments had not generated a positive percentage of return sufficient to cover the interest.”
More than $110 million was invested in the Horizon fund, from 400 investors in more than 20 states, federal prosecutors said.
“Losses are still being calculated, but investors have lost more than $25 million because of Woods’s scheme to defraud,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
“Investors should respond with caution to financial offers that sound too good to be true and are cloaked in the promise of low risk and high rates of return,” Buchanan said in the release.
Woods was formerly on the executive board of the Walton Touchdown Club and was a member of the original East Cobb Cityhood committee in 2019.
He was a minority owner of the Chattanooga Lookouts baseball team, in his Tennessee hometown, and also has been the head of the Friends of Chastain Park Foundation in Atlanta.
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The series is presented by Wellstar Health System.
There will be three concerts in April and another in May, starting off next Sunday, April 2, with The Woodys, a local duo that performs classic rock favorites, including Fleetwood Mac.
On April 16, the performer will be Jeannie Caryn, who’s released an album of her own music and has an extensive cover repertoire.
A longtime East Cobb live music favorite, the LooSe ShoEs Band, returns on April 30, specializing in rock n’ roll and the blues.
On May 21, the Dark Star Brothers will be in concert, with a mix of rock and blues, soul, funk, oldies and country tunes.
The concerts are all at the back pavilion and last from 4-6 p.m. They’re free and open to the public, and you’re invited to bring food, chairs, and a blanket.
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The first weekend of spring has plenty of seasonal activities on tap in the East Cobb area.
The action gets underway bright and early Saturday morning with the Noonday Shanty 5K/10K run to support future greenspace and trail projects in the Town Center area.
The venue is the Noonday Creek Trail and the first runners will go off starting at 7:30 a.m.; race-day parking is at the Town Center at Cobb.
With Easter just a couple weeks away, the Janice Overbeck Real Estate Team is staging an Easter Egg Drop for kids Saturday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Mt. Paran North Church of God (1170 Allgood Road).
In addition to age-group drop periods, the fun includes magicians, balloon art, and goodie bags.
Music is in the air at two musical concerts this weekend.
Saturday night, The Art Place-Mountain View is continuing its new Concert by Candelight series with the Atlanta Flute Choir.
The show starts at 7:30 p.m. in the black box theater and is preceded by a “mocktail” coffee hour starting at 6:15 p.m. (no adult beverages are allowed on county property). Tickets are $25 a person and can be reserved here.
On Sunday, the Cobb Wind Symphony is holding its semi-annual concert at the Lassiter HS Concert Hall (2601 Shallowford Road) at 3 p.m.
The event starts at 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public, and donations are accepted.
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The Cobb County School District Thursday announced that several principals will be retiring after the current school year, including two in East Cobb.
Donna Long, who has been the principal at Shallowford Falls Elementary School since 2018, will be retiring as of July 1, the district said at a Cobb school board meeting.
Before her appointment at Shallowford Falls, she was an assistant principal at Murdock Elementary School.
Also retiring on July 1 is Kristin Erbskorn of Davis Elementary School, who has been in that position for the last six years.
She has been a teacher and administrator with the Cobb school district for 27 years.
Kristin Erbskorn
Also on Thursday, the Cobb school board voted to renew the Walton High School charter for another five years.
That item was on the consent agenda.
In separate unanimous 7-0 votes, the school board approved spending nearly $16 million to expand and renovate the theatre at Lassiter High School, and nearly $5 million for classroom and parking upgrades at Wheeler High School.
More details about all three of those items may be found by clicking here.
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The Cobb Board of Education on Thursday approved a special request from Superintendent Chris Ragsdale to build a $50 million multi-purpose facility for a variety of academic and instructional purposes.
During a work session Thursday afternoon, Ragsdale said the most important reason to have such a facility is for high school graduations.
He presented an outline for a facility that would be used nearly every day of the year, and would be able to hold 8,000 people for commencement exercises. There also would be an accompanying parking deck.
A location hasn’t been announced; Ragsdale said he couldn’t offer a timetable for construction until land is purchased.
Currently, most Cobb graduations are at the KSU Convocation Center, which holds 4,000.
Other uses for the building would be for SAT/ACT testing, college and job fairs, band and fine arts programs, science fairs, robotics competitions and other special events.
Currently the school district pays to rent the KSU arena and other facilities for some of those special events, including employee recognitions at Roswell Street Baptist Church.
Ragsdale had wanted a multi-purpose facility included in the current Cobb Education SPLOST VI sales tax, but the school board deleted it, citing more pressing facility needs.
Cobb school district construction and maintenance are financed with SPLOST funds. But in his proposal Thursday, Ragsdale said the project would be funded with $23.4 million from the sales of former school properties—including Mountain View and Brumby elementaries in East Cobb—and $26.6 million in current and future capital outlay reimbursements.
“If there is a top priority for using one-time funds, this is the top priority,” Ragsdale said during a board discussion.
While the vote was 6-1, some board members expressed concerns about school district facility needs elsewhere in the county.
Becky Sayler of Post 2 in South Cobb, who was the only vote against, said that “while I can see the need for this, I don’t feel like it’s a pressing need.”
Ragsdale disagreed, saying that “for far too long, we have had families that cannot have grandparents on both sides attend a once-in-a-lifetime event.
“I think it’s very pressing. Literally, we owe this to the parents. We have tried to find a solution for this for years.”
The closest similar facility is a new convocation center and gymnasium at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta.
Although he didn’t offer specific dollar figures, Ragsdale said it’s getting more expensive to hold graduation and other events that can now be consolidated in one district-operated facility.
“All of those things are going to cost us exponentially more money to do this year,” Ragsdale said.
He said the main challenge now will be obtaining land for the new facility, especially in finding enough land in a relatively central location in Cobb County.
“I feel like the stars have aligned,” said board member David Chastain of Post 4 in Northeast Cobb. “The finances are there. If we wait any longer, we’re not going to have the geography that we need to build this.”
“It’s very important to do this today, while we still can,” added board member Randy Scamihorn, who made the motion to approve the project.
Board member Tre’ Hutchins of South Cobb made a motion to delay the vote until the board’s Thursday evening meeting, but withdrew it.
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When we stopped by Westfield Tavern on Monday, managing partner Erik Tierney was giddy about his latest restaurant opening.
“It’s going to be this week,” he said as employees moved about the 4.200-square-foot space at Shallowford Corners Shopping Center (4401 Shallowford Road, Suite 138).
On Thursday morning, he announced that the “family-friendly community tavern” was open for business.
As for now, the hours are limited as they ramp up staffing and get the word out. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., and dinner service is from 6-9 p.m.
“As we adjust, we will stay open longer and later,” Tierney said in an Instagram message to East Cobb News.
This is the third such tavern for Tierney, an Irish native who’s the proprietor behind Whitehall Tavern in Buckhead and Creatwood Tavern in the city of Smyrna.
We spoke with him in January when he was hopeful of opening in “a couple of weeks,” but permitting, licensing, hiring an remodeling prompted some delays.
On Monday, he pointed to a flat screen TV and said Direct TV needed to be installed.
“It’s March Madness,” Tierney said, referencing the NCAA college basketball tournaments that are in progress.
Work also was finishing on an enclosed patio area on our Monday visit.
The interior looks very similar to the short-lived East Cobb Tavern and the Keegan’s Public House that occupied the same space.
But it’s been freshly painted, and the kitchen was completely remodeled to serve a wide variety of tavern fare.
“We’re all about the neighborhood, all about the family,” said Tierney, who named this spot after the nearby Westfield subdivision.
The clientele will be slightly different from the other places in that it is expected to be more family-oriented, “but I think we will be very successful.”
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The following food scores for the week of March 20 have been compiled by the Cobb & Douglas Department of Public Health. Click the link under each listing for inspection details:
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The Cobb Board of Education Thursday will be asked to renew the charter status of Walton High School and fund major renovations at Lassiter and Wheeler high schools.
Those agenda items will be presented for discussion at a work session that begins at 12 p.m. and will be voted on at a 7 p.m. business meeting.
An executive session follows the work session. Agendas for the public meetings can be found by clicking here.
The meetings take place in the board room at the Cobb County School District central office (514 Glover Street, Marietta).
Walton is officially a “conversion” charter school—it opened in 1975 as a traditional school, then converted to a charter school in 1998.
Charter status gives Walton more flexibility in parental governance and curriculum. Walton routinely is near the top in Georgia in standardized testing results and other academic performance metrics, and offers a wide range of Advanced Placement, honors and college preparatory courses.
Although the state of Georgia doesn’t allow conversion charter schools any longer, those that still remain must renew those charters every five years.
The school board agenda item said that this will be the fifth five-year charter for Walton, which has used that status to implement the Walton Enrichment Block program, an International Spanish Academy, a STEM Academy and other programs.
“The autonomy the charter has allowed has been most influential in the curriculum we provide,” according to the renewal application submitted by the Walton Governance Board in September (you can read it here).
“Walton has been able to expand and reorganize the state standards to best serve our students, focusing on critical thinking and deep understanding.”
The agenda item states that 99 percent of Walton’s teachers and 99 percent of parents who responded to a survey about the charter approved renewal.
Also on Thursday’s agenda is a request to spend nearly $16 million in Cobb ED-SPLOST V revenues for theatre modifications at Lassiter High School.
The Cobb school board last fall approved spending $365,000 for architectural design for the project, which includes an expansion of the present facility, along with general upgrades and renovations.
The expected completion time for the work is this December, according to an agenda item.
Another agenda item requests nearly $5 million for classroom renovations and parking improvements, also from SPLOST V collections, at Wheeler.
The renovations are slated for the school’s STEM magnet program building and are expected to be done by this July, with the parking changes slated for completion by July 2024.
At the Thursday evening board meeting, recognitions include state high school swimming champion athletes from Walton and Lassiter.
Also to be recognized is Krista Lewis of Shallowford Falls Elementary School, who was recently named the Georgia art educator of the year.
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They’re part of an organization called STARS, which stands for Structural Nucleic Acid Anticancer Research Society, which formed in 2019.
As she has informed us before, STARS student Susanna Huang, a Walton High School graduate now attending Georgia Tech, has passed along word of the 2022 winners of the Cobb County Crystal Growing Competition.
That was held recently at Dodgen Middle School with 8th grade physical science teacher Debbie Amodeo, and this Friday they’ll be honored in a special ceremony at East Cobb Park.
“Over the course of several days, we taught her students how to grow crystals, led hands-on activities for growing the crystals creatively with the students, gave them the opportunity to submit their crystals to the competition, and hosted mega Kahoots with King-sized candy bars as prizes,” Susanna tells us.
She passed along the individual winners, and there are quite a few that you can read through at this link, and we’ve attached some photos she also sent us.
The recipients of the Medals of Scientific Excellence and those given Scientific Achievement Awards will, in addition to their medals, be given crystal pendants.
Friday’s ceremony starts at 5 p.m. with a reception. There will be a raffle drawing where nine students will be chosen to take home a National Geographic Mega Crystal Growing Lab ($40) for vibrant-color crystals and real gemstone specimens.
This awards ceremony is funded by the American Crystallographic Association, which boasts more than 40 Nobel Prize Laureates and over 1,300 members from 37 countries worldwide (https://www.amercrystalassn.org/crystal-growing-contests).
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The entrance to the Robinson Farms neighborhood. ECN photo
Tuesday was the first full day of the spring season (following the vernal equinox Monday afternoon), and with it returned some warmer weather to follow a few nights of freeze warnings.
Temperatures pushed back up into the 60s and will get as high as the low 80s by the end of the week.
The weekend also will be warm, with highs in the 70s, but the forecast calls for rain from Saturday through next Tuesday.
Next week should stay warm during daytime hours, with highs ranging from the high 60s to low 70s, but lows could drop to near freezing next Wednesday.
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At their monthly zoning hearing, commissioners voted 5-0 to hold a proposed site plan amendment on Gordy Parkway near Shallowford Road to April due to community opposition.
Stein Investment Group Inc., which converted the former GTC Cobb Park 12 movie cinema into a self-storage facility, wants to build the fast casual King’s Hawaiian on a 1.1-acre portion of the property, featuring a double drive-through and 29 parking spaces (agenda item here).
But residents from the adjoining Highland Park and Highland Terrace neighborhoods objected to increased traffic and safety. In 2017, commissioners rejected a Lidl grocery store on the site for those reasons.
King’s Hawaiian wants to have opening hours from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, and possibly extending to 11 p.m.
“I walk the intersection daily, and find the area very dangerous, as drivers do not pay attention to anyone except to other drivers,” Highland Park resident Denise Fissell said.
She noted that other restaurants in the area are in shopping centers with better access and parking capacity.
“We’re not opposed to King’s Hawaiian becoming a part of the Cobb County community. However, we feel that the corner they chose creates more danger to our community,” Fissell said.
“A fast food restaurant is too intense for this small piece of property.”
The East Cobb Civic Association also was opposed, citing the reduction of a 40-foot tree buffer between the property and Harrison Park to just a few feet.
Cobb Commissioner JoAnn Birrell said she had several issues that needed to be addressed before she could support the site plan request, which was recommended for approval by the Cobb zoning staff.
“Traffic is a concern and the storage facility is there,” Birrell told Garvis Sams, an attorney for Stein Investment Group. “What the applicant is trying to do is too intense for one acre. . . I can’t support eliminating a 40-foot buffer next to a Cobb County park.”
Sams agreed to a 30-day delay proposed by Birrell.
Commissioners also voted 5-0 to deny a request for a self-storage facility on Freeman Road, near the Johnson Ferry Road intersection (agenda item here).
Noble Storage LLC wanted to rezone an acre of wooded land from low-rise office to neighborhood retail to build a 57,668-square-foot, four-story storage building.
Adam Rozen, an attorney for the applicant, said the land has been marketed for LRO purposes for years but has not found a buyer.
It is surrounded by some commercial property, including the La Strada restaurant and a small retail center, but also is next to a residential community.
A storage facility would be too intense for the area, the Cobb zoning staff concluded in recommending denial.
Clifton Goodman, president of the Breckenridge neighborhood association, said he and his neighbors aren’t opposed to a business being built on the property.
But “you have to draw the line somewhere,” he said.
He said the Cobb land use map dictates that NRC zonings should be located in the middle of a neighborhood activity center.
The Noble Storage proposal would be on the edge of that area, and that such a usage “is completely inappropriate for that property,” Goodman said.
He noted that commissioners in 2011 rejected a rezoning request for an automotive use under NRC and approved the LRO category instead.
Goodman also said there are no three-story buildings in the vicinity (the bottom floor of the storage building would be underground), and what’s proposed would be the only commercial use in that area that wouldn’t have direct access to Johnson Ferry Road.
“Noble Storage is asking the county to pretend there is no Cobb County code,” he said.
The East Cobb Civic Association also opposed the rezoning.
Commissioner Jerica Richardson said the LRO zoning was meant to be a “step down” commercial use to protect nearby residents, and made a motion to deny.
Birrell noted the 2011 case and “many of the same people who are here” were in opposition then, when the area was in her district.
“This is too intense for the property and the impact to the neighborhood surrounding it,” she said. “It was zoned LRO for a reason.”
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L to R: Barbara Means, Ryan’s Case for Smiles; Linda Bailey, ECQG President 2022; Abbi Rabeneck, Co-chair, ECQG Community Service; Tawana Benard, Department of Family & Children Services; Andrea Rapowitz, Cobb Senior Services/Meals on Wheels.
The East Cobb Quilters’ Guild is holding a special one-day event Thursday to produce special items for various charities.
What the organization is calling a “Sewcial” takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Community Room at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Town Center (625 Big Sandy Road, Kennesaw).
A total of 18 quilters will bring their machines and materials to sew Beads of Courage bags for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta cancer patients, placemats for Meals on Wheels, pillowcase for hospitalized children through Ryan’s Case for Smiles and quilts for the Cobb Department of Family and Children Service.
Beads of Courage bags are a new addition to their outreach, 18 quilters will bring their machines, materials and dedication to sew all day to continue their commitments of community service.
Last year the Quilters’ Guild donated more than 1,300 items to local community organizations. This year they’re tracking progress toward those goals that can be found by clicking here.
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Two officials with North American Properties will be discussing the current redevelopment of The Avenue East Cobb at a Thursday breakfast meeting of the East Cobb Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce.
The breakfast starts at 7:30 a.m. at Indian Hills Country Club (4001 Clubland Drive) and admission is $30 for Chamber members and $40 for non-members. Walk-up admissions and payment cannot be granted.
The speakers are Mike Lant, a redevelopment executive with NAP, and Cayley Mullen, who leads a guest experience team for the management company.
The East Cobb Area Council holds three breakfast luncheons per year at Indian Hills.
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The addresses include ZIP Codes; subdivision names and high school attendance zones are in parenthesis:
Feb. 27
1951 River Forest Drive, 30068 (River Forest, Walton): Stephanie Loomis to Connie Loomis and Kelly Henslee; $650,000
2681 Forest Way, 30066 (Forest Chase, Lassiter): 2018-4 IH Borrower LP to Nazco Holdings LLC; $150,000
114 Vintage Club Circle, Building 3, 30066 (Vintage Club Condos, Sprayberry): Richard Kevin Pounds, executor to Richard and Janice McCullough; $405,000
3250 Casteel Road, 30062 (Normandy, Pope): Rock Solid Property Systems Inc. to Wilhelmus Schaffers and Clara Hotten; $515,000
3927 Vinyard Trace, 30062 (Arthurs Vinyard, Pope): JHB Homes LLC to Paula Yando Johnson; $432,000
2144 Coleman Street, 30062 (Sprayberry): Patricia Nickerson, administrator, to Integrity Financial Group LLC; $210,000; Integrity Financial Group LLC to Omar Hernandez Cruz; $262,000
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