1+ hour, 57+ min ago   (184+ words) Local news for metro Atlanta Twenty-seven years ago, I bought a house because I fell in love with a tree. The huge silver maple growing through the elevated deck attached to the back of the house captured my heart the…...

4+ week, 20+ hour ago   (224+ words) “She was delightful. Sharp as a tack. Lovely. Charming,” Norwood said. When she passed away in 2022, she left behind a 7,000-square-foot home in the middle of Buckhead that sits in the middle of 30 acres of forest. “In our part of…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (501+ words) Wednesday, Aug. 5 — It’s Cathy from Rough Draft with my weekly newsletter on Dunwoody. School started this week, so the traffic party is pretty much over. I’m still in the mountains, where the weather is so cool that I am wearing…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (830+ words) The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is now a World Heritage site. “The Okefenokee is a place where nature still reigns,” Kim Bednarek, executive director of Okefenokee Swamp Park and Adventures, said in an acceptance speech. “Across more than 400,000 acres, water,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (572+ words) A documentary about Atlanta’s tree canopy has caught the attention of lawmakers in Brookhaven, a metro Atlanta city that takes great measures to protect the environment through law and conservation. “The Tree Economy,” a film by James Schroeder, explores how…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (432+ words) At 5:20 a.m. on a Monday morning, I sat in my car in a large, empty parking lot surrounded by pitch-black darkness and wondered if I was crazy. Should I walk alone down the forested trail beside the Chattahoochee River, as planned?...

4+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1040+ words) Friday, May 8 — Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you’re gearing up for a relaxing weekend, and hopefully not planning to drive anywhere outside of a two-mile radius from your home. If you need some homebody plans this weekend, the Atlanta Film Festival…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (172+ words) “Thank you for the memories. They’re all that I have now.” This line, at the beginning of Sophy Romvari’s feature film debut “Blue Heron,” offers the perfect encapsulation of what you’re about to see. Although, you don’t know quite how…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (571+ words) As spring blossoms burst open and the days turn warmer, let your spirit take wing at the Flight of Butterflies, an outdoor exhibit open now through June 7, 2026 at Fernbank Museum featuring 25 striking butterfly sculptures. Set along the paths of WildWoods,…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (625+ words) Campbell-Stone Sandy Springs residents gathered outside the retirement community’s main lobby on March 2 to welcome back Homer the Town Turtle, one of 75 statues created to raise money for the city’s incorporation in the early aughts. More than 20 residents at Campbell-Stone…...