Press Releases
For Immediate Release | 6/15/2007
The Sandy Springs Fire Department will be participating in the 2007 International Fire and EMS Safety Stand Down, being held the week of June 17-23, 2007. The Stand Down is sponsored by the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), the International Association of Fi...
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Media Advisory | 6/11/2007
The City of Sandy Springs Police Department will hold a one-year celebration on Thursday, June 28, 2007, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. The event will be held at Police Department Headquarters at 5995 Barfield Road. All residents and friends are welcome to drop by headquarters...
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For Immediate Release | 6/7/2007
The Sandy Springs City Council was presented a staff-recommended draft of the City’s budget for the 2008 fiscal year at its regular meeting Tuesday night, May 22. The budget is scheduled for adoption at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting on June 19. Read Full Release >>>
For Immediate Release | 6/6/2007
The City of Sandy Springs’s will enter the second stage of its first-ever resurfacing project tentatively slated to begin on Monday, June 11. Eleven roads are included in the six-mile project.
June 11-15
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Old Riverside Drive from Rive...
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For Immediate Release | 6/1/2007
The City of Sandy Springs’s first-ever resurfacing project is tentatively slated to begin on Monday, June 4. Eleven roads are included in the six-mile project.
June 4-8
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Mountain Brook Way from Edgewater Drive to cul-de-sac&nbs...
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For Immediate Release | 5/30/2007
Sandy Springs Police Lt. Trudi Vaughan traveled to Israel as part of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), which is a two-week training program focusing on counterterrorism, emergency management and other types of policing strategies. GILEE began in Ma...
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For Immediate Release | 5/30/2007
A 15-year-old Sandy Springs teenager has been arrested today in connection with a May 14th murder that took place on Northwood Drive in Sandy Springs.
Deputies with the Forsyth County Sheriffs Office arrested the 15-year-old boy and a female teenager after a brief v...
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For Immediate Release | 5/23/2007
Just five months into the City of Sandy Springs’s EMS program and many milestones have been passed and numerous accomplishments have been reached.
“May 18th marked ‘day one’ of our own in-house inaugural EMT-Intermediate class. It is incredib...
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For Immediate Release | 5/22/2007
Sandy Springs Districts 3 and 4 Councilmembers Rusty Paul and Ashley Jenkins, respectively, will hold a joint Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, May 29th. This meeting centers on the budget hearings and the upcoming adoption of the budget that is slated for the regularly schedul...
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For Immediate Release | 5/15/2007
It has been proven that Automated External Defibrillator (AEDs) save lives. AEDs are portable electronic device that diagnose and treat potentially life threatening cardiac arrhythmias by applying electrical impulses which stop the arrhythmia, allowing the heart to re-estab...
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For Immediate Release | 5/15/2007
Sandy Springs Districts 5 and 6 Councilmembers Tibby DeJulio and Karen Meinzen McEnerny, respectively, will hold a joint Town Hall Meeting on Monday, June 11th. This meeting is one in a series of Town Hall Meetings held to update residents on City issues and progress. &ldqu...
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For Immediate Release | 5/10/2007
Sandy Springs firefighters are helping battle the southern Georgia wildfires that have consumed 125 square miles of swampland and forests. The City sent a brush truck equipped with a 300gallon tank down to the area between Waycross and Jessup on April 22, rotating fire...
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For Immediate Release | 4/20/2007
Homeowners, builders and developers, are integral to the development of our busy and growing City and therefore the City has made efforts to trim time waiting for permits while also making the best use of our staff time. Effective immediately, to allow for quicker permittin...
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For Immediate Release | 4/16/2007
The neutral on top of the Georgia Power line has fallen into a tree at Mt. Vernon Highway and Hammond Drive resulting in sparking in the tree. It was sparking enough to energize the City of Sandy Springs signal cabinet on the right of way. City control specialists opened th...
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For Immediate Release | 4/12/2007
With warmer weather approaching and the school year drawing to a close, now is a perfect time to plan for kids’ fun summer activities. The Sandy Springs Recreation and Parks Department is offering a variety of fun, instructional activity & sports camp programs thr...
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