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History lovers unite against demolition of Masonic Lodge By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
PHOTOS BY HAYDEN SUMLIN/APPEN MEDIA
Representatives from the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce off Cogburn Road in Alpharetta. Former Headmaster David Rhodes, and King’s Ridge Christian School shovel dirt April 25 at the pictured left center with sunglasses, thanked sponsors of the Be Bold groundbreaking ceremony for the school’s new varsity baseball field campaign, which funded the land acquisition and new field.
Baseball legend pitches in for new school field By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — What’s better than John Smoltz, Chick-fil-A and a beautiful spring morning? King’s Ridge Christian School, located off Bethany Bend, broke ground on its new varsity baseball field April 12 off Cogburn Road. The school sits in the City of Alpharetta next to North Park with City of Milton roads surrounding its campus. Around 50 people, including a former school headmaster, members of the King’s Ridge Board of Trustees and representatives from the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce gathered around a meadow at 13600 Cogburn Road for the ceremony.
See FIELD, Page 14
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Hall of Fame Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz, a founding board member of King’s Ridge Christian School, smiles after clearing some dirt at the location of the new varsity baseball field off Cogburn Road.
Roswell Mayor’s Ride cycles in 22nd year ► PAGE 7
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ROSWELL, Ga. — More than a dozen speakers argued for the preservation of the historic Masonic Lodge at Roswell’s open forum April 29, three weeks after the City Council voted to exercise eminent domain on the property. Around 550 people signed a petition for the same cause, under the new Save Roswell’s History Committee pulled together by former Roswell Mayor Jere Wood. Many of the speakers were under Wood’s direction, coming before the council to lay out individual concerns about the transaction which is currently in litigation. Eminent domain, generally, is the taking of a property for fair market value for redevelopment purposes toward public use. The city plans to construct a 10foot shared-use path and pedestrian plaza where the still-active lodge currently sits at 1054 Alpharetta St., adjacent to the lot slated for the bond-funded public parking deck. The council also exercised eminent domain on 1056 Alpharetta St., commonly known as the “Chophouse” lot of the Masonic Lodge grounds, in the same April 8 vote for surface parking. The lodge is a Greek Revival structure built in 1859 on land
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