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Artists, crowds flock to Dunwoody festival By STANLEY LEARY newsroom@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — The popular and award-winning Dunwoody Art Festival returned to Dunwoody Village Parkway for Mother’s Day weekend, transforming the heart of the city into a vibrant outdoor celebration of art, music and community. Located just minutes from Perimeter Mall and behind the Dunwoody Post Office, the festival stretched along picturesque Dunwoody Village Parkway, where artists and artisans from across the country showcased paintings, photography, folk art, glasswork, metalwork, fiber art, ceramics and culinary creations. “The businesses in the Village area love having the big crowds in front of their doors to help showcase their shops and restaurants, and we are excited to let the fun artisans and vendors hang out in the Parkway,” said Cindy Flynn, co-owner of Splash Festivals and producer of the event.
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Sofia Spivey receives a unicorn face painting from artist Robbin Smith with Mystical Parties at the Dunwoody Arts Festival, adding a touch of whimsy to the family-friendly Kidz Zone.
DeKalb Schools delays redistricting process By JIM BASS jim@appenmedia.com DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — The DeKalb County School District is overhauling its Student Assignment Project that was initially slated to close dozens of schools. The overhaul, first discussed at the Student Assignment Project Committee
meeting on April 29 and reported by Decaturish on April 30, received an official district announcement on May 5. The project will now focus on cluster-based community engagement. The decision follows more than 10,000 community feedback submissions, with the majority of submissions opposing school closures.
The closure and redistricting effort is due to a significant enrollment decline seen broadly across metro Atlanta. With 110,000 seats and about 90,000 students, the district is trying to become more fiscally efficient by balancing buildings, boundaries and programs. “We learned that the process felt too top-down,” Sauce said in a video update
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about the SAP process. “We learned that the student experience was not enough at the forefront of the conversation. We learned that the scenarios felt predetermined and that it didn't make sense to separate buildings from boundaries, boundaries from programs.”
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