Email: adrianne.murchison@patch.com Phone: 404-353-1709 Hometown: Buffalo, NY Birthday: April 29 Bio: Although I grew up hooked on writing, news and information, journalism is actually my second career. I spent more than 10 years working as a registered sales assistant for a Wall Street firm. I left that business to promote a non-fiction book I wrote on relationships, and later became a feature and news reporter. My time in newspapers can be compared to a period I spent as a volunteer with the Innocence Project in New York City. Both experiences required gathering information, which anchored and taught me to be objective so I could complete my task and connect with people. That is my honored duty, as editor, to the residents of Sandy Springs – to be your most objective and fair source of news and information. At Patch, we promise always to report the facts as objectively as possible and otherwise adhere to the principles of good journalism. However, we also acknowledge that true impartiality is impossible because human beings have beliefs. I am inclusive and my interests tend to lean towards those that benefit everyone. Having said that, I am always interested in and welcome a perspective that is different from my own.
The funeral was held Saturday for Officer Shawn Smiley, who was killed with Officer Richard Halford in a police helicopter crash, last Saturday night.
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The victim is a student at North Springs Charter High School in Sandy Springs.
Nearby Sandy Springs, Miss USA will all be at the store for its grand opening at Perimeter Mall.
The second annual event by the Sandy Springs Society continues Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the SSUMC Hitson Memorial Activities Center.
Dakoro Edwards' artwork is featured in a wide-ranging multimedia showcase in Atlanta, next week. if selected as a finalist, Dakoro is off to Hollywood for another competition. See the attached video.
In two campaigns that spanned Kroger's Atlanta Division, including Sandy Springs, more than $450,000 was raised for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and more than $286,000 for Kroger’s “Giving Hope a Hand” campaign.
Sandy Springs approved an ordinance that will charge a penalty for false alarms, which make up 96 percent of citizen initiated calls.
State Rep. Joe Wilkinson is honorary chairman of the event, which starts at 11 a.m., Monday.
The Sandy Springs theater company has teamed up with an acting honor society at a New Jersey high school to help displaced residents.
North Fulton high schools will use cans to competitively build architectural structures.
There are several polling places in Sandy Springs.
The Sandy Springs students were on a Boosterthon fund raising team. Along with the Parent Teacher Organization were encouraged to get pledges from family and friends for each lap they completed in the fun run.
On Friday, lines wrapped around the North Fulton Annex and northbound traffic on Roswell Road was backed up to Abernathy.
An open house will be held from 2-5 p.m, Sunday on the new academies within North Springs.
Meet the Pet of the Week from the Atlanta Humane Society campus, near Sandy Springs in North Fulton.
A preview of what you will see on the ballot.
The average wait time Thursday was 40 minutes.
Just on the market in Sandy Springs, an open house will be held from 2-5 p.m., Sunday.
Darker mornings in Sandy Springs for a while. Daylight Savings Time ends. Apparently railroads were the culprits that made us start to count the minutes.
Eric de Groot had the idea for a miniature educational theme park 10 years ago, and now envisions it at LakePoint Sporting Community & Town Center near Cartersville in Bartow County.
