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Balance Salon owner reflects on 25 years in Atlanta By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — Not many can say they have both good and bad luck, normally it’s just one or the other. But for longtime salon owner CJ
Nicotera, every cloud has a silver lining, and with a little hard work, even the worst luck can be overcome. For the past 25 years, Nicotera, who runs Balance Salon in Dunwoody, has battled every kind of bad luck, from the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19
pandemic to roof collapses, but still she hasn’t lost her love of providing top service to loyal clients. “There’s something about her energy and her spirit,” said Lisa Rayner, a longtime customer and friend. “She’s just such a vibrant, uplifting person I went,
‘This is what I need in my life.’ Then she turned out to be a great hairdresser as well.” Nicotera got her start in the business in 1997, working with partners out of
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‘Profound delays’ headed for I-285 Ga. 400 interchange project will close lanes for months By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com
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Eastbound commuters on I-285 are in for some serious delays as the Georgia DOT closes the two innermost lanes between Roswell Road and Ashford Dunwoody Road for bridge reconstruction. Westbound drivers will lose one travel lane in the coming week.
ATLANTA — Drivers should expect major disruptions to daily commutes on I-285 due to long-term lane closures between Ashford Dunwoody Road and Roswell Road, the Georgia Department of Transportation announced. Starting Saturday, Oct. 8, and lasting about 8 months, lanes of the interstate will be incrementally closed so that the I-285/Ga. 400 interchange reconstruction project can be completed, GDOT announced on Oct. 3. With the scope of the project, state officials said drivers who frequent I-285 should prepare for the major delays the project will ultimately cause. “The traveling public should expect major disruptions to their daily commutes and driving routines during this time and
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