👮🏼‍♀️ Protecting the blue

Sandy Springs candidate forums

Sept. 26 – Rough Draft and WSB-TV will host a Sandy Springs mayoral forum that will stream Thursday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. on WSB Now. Please let us know what questions you would like us to ask the candidates.

Rough Draft will also host online forums for Sandy Springs City Council on Monday, Oct. 6. You can register to watch the forums live or catch them on demand.

OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

If you’re heading to the Blue Stone Arts & Musical Festival this weekend, be aware some spaces in the City Springs parking decks may be blocked due to maintenance work.

Solidarity Sandy Springs provides more than one million pounds of food annually to food-insecure families.

Sandy Springs-based Newell Brands awarded $175,000 in an employee-led grant program that included four Atlanta nonprofit organizations.

New visuals have been released for Solis Sandy Springs, a partial office park redevelopment on Peachtree Dunwoody Rd.

A Sandy Springs mail carrier has been arrested for allegedly stealing hundreds of dollars worth of jewelry from a package.

Thanks for reading, and enjoy your weekend!
The Rough Draft Team

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Two motorists arrested in crash that injured a police officer

Sandy Springs Police traffic investigators arrested two motorists who were allegedly racing on GA 400, which resulted in serious injury to a Sandy Springs police officer on Sept. 20.

Sgt. Leon Millholland, public information officer for the Sandy Springs Police Department, said motorcyclist Riad Ahmed, who was allegedly racing the driver of a 2013 VW Jetta, approached the accident scene driving at a high rate of speed, lost control of the motorcycle, and was ejected. The motorcycle then struck the police officer and the vehicle involved in the accident that the officer was investigating.

The officer remains in a local hospital in stable condition.

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Sandy Springs to add more school zone speed limit signs after complaints

Sandy Springs will install more signs warning motorists of school zones after council members received complaints about speeding tickets drivers received since the city began using speed enforcement cameras.

City Manager Eden Freeman said during the Sept. 16 city council meeting that staff would install additional signs on Dalrymple and Heards Ferry Roads, warning that speed enforcement cameras are ahead. The cameras are installed in school zones near Riverwood and North Springs high schools.

“Folks swear they’re not speeding, and it’s a tricky situation, because the goal of this is completely worthy, and there’s speeding everywhere,” Council Member Andy Bauman said.

Sandy Springs spends $2.3 million in stream credits for Hammond Drive

The Sandy Springs City Council authorized buying $2.3 million in environmental stream mitigation credits it needs to start a widening project on Hammond Drive.

Public Works Director Marty Martin told the council on Sept. 16 that the credits will offset the impact the project will have on 900 feet of stream channel. The project will enclose streams that flow down to Hammond Drive within a pipe or concrete box culvert. Transportation sales tax revenues will fund the project.

Under the Clean Water Act, the city must buy credits if a project disturbs more than 100 feet of stream channel. Martin said that the city will buy them from the Soque River Mitigation Bank in Habersham County, GA.

Learn more about the project.

Sandy Springs figure skater a weekend regular at ‘Restaurant Row’

High school sophomore Jane Beeler first stepped onto the ice at Center Ice Arena in Sandy Springs in December of 2022, when the popular local skating rink was decked in holiday lights and greenery. After that initial outing with family, Beeler started skating there almost every weekend, eventually taking group and private lessons.

During the school year, she practices three to four times a week, working on footwork skills, jumps, and spins in preparation for entering her first amateur skating competitions in 2026.

After a hard session on the ice, Beeler usually grabs a post-skate snack or meal at one of the food vendors, supermercados, or restaurants near the rink, including her favorite restaurant, SATÉ Banh Mi & Grille. SATÉ is one of 120 independent restaurants in Sandy Springs situated along a 10-mile stretch of Roswell Road known locally as “Restaurant Row.”

Read the full story.

This article is part of The Regulars series, where Rough Draft freelance journalist Laura Scholz explores what it means to be a frequent restaurant patron.

What’s doin’ around Sandy Springs

Sept. 26:Regina Farm’s Jams and Cheeses pop-up

Sept. 26:Theology on Tap at Holy Spirit Catholic Church

Sept. 26 and 27: Blue Stone Arts & Musical Festival

Sept. 27:Blue Stone 5K-9 Road Race for People and Pups

Sept. 27: Wild Roots Native Nursery plant sale

Oct. 1: Sandy Springs Crafting Buddies

Add your event to our free, online event calendar.

The Sports Section

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FOOTBALL

Holy Innocents’ (4-1): Friday @ Lovett (4-1)
Lovett (4-1): Friday vs. Holy Innocents’ (4-1)
Mt. Vernon (2-3): Friday @ Fellowship Christian (4-1)
North Springs (1-4): Friday vs. St. Pius X (4-1)
Pace Academy (1-4): Friday vs. Drew (0-5)
Riverwood (1-5): Oct. 3 vs. River Ridge (5-1)
Westminster (2-4): Oct. 3 vs. Cambridge (4-1)

SOFTBALL

Holy Innocents’ (9-6): Monday @ Coretta Scott King (3-5)
Lovett (6-7): Monday vs. North Atlanta (5-16)
Mt. Vernon (15-2): Saturday vs. Blessed Trinity (9-8), 10 a.m.; Saturday vs. Chamblee (10-9), 2:30 p.m.
North Springs (6-11): Tuesday vs. Lithonia (4-16)
Westminster (10-11): Monday @ Pace Academy (9-6)
Pace Academy (9-6): Monday vs. Westminster (10-11)
Riverwood (10-8): Tuesday vs. Lassiter (11-8)

VOLLEYBALL

Holy Innocents’ (15-14): Tuesday vs. Pace Academy (19-7)
Lovett (29-1): Saturday vs. Bob Jones (29-7)
Mt. Vernon (17-17): Friday vs. Savannah Christian (22-5)
North Springs (3-19): Thursday vs. Chapel Hill (7-13)
Pace Academy (19-7): Saturday vs. Forsyth Central (13-15), 9:30 a.m.; Saturday vs. North Forsyth (21-4), 2 p.m.
Riverwood (15-14): Tuesday @ River Ridge (22-6)
Westminster (26-9): Saturday vs. St. Pius X (22-16), 8 a.m.; Saturday vs. Sonoraville (23-13), 10 a.m.; Saturday vs. Calhoun (24-7), noon; Saturday vs. Model (27-6), 2 p.m.

Score Atlanta Game of the Week: The Newton Rams (3-2) at the Class 6A top-ranked Grayson Rams (5-0) will be televised live at 8 p.m. on the Peachtree Sports Network (cable and YouTube TV), and streamed digitally on the Atlanta News First (ANF) website/app and the NFHS Network.Tune in at 7:30 for the Georgia High School Countdown to Kickoff and stay tuned after the game for the Georgia High School Postgame Show.

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