Atlanta Club: Davis wins Robinson Award
Morehouse College sophomore quarterback Jimmie Davis on an academic scholarship at Morehouse, will receive the 100 Percent Wrong Club's first "Eddie Robinson Award" tonight when the Atlanta club holds its 53rd jamboree at 7:30 at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel.The Robinson award annually goes to an athlete who excels in the classroom as well in sports. When Morehouse College sophomore quarterback Jimmie Davis received his first-semester grades several weeks...
DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEEK
Olde Atlanta Club Golf, prices bring buyers to Forsyth
John and Kate Burgess decided to live in Olde Atlanta Club before there was even a model home to inspect.Only a sales trailer sat on the 594 acres in Forsyth County.The golf factor was a major lure, along with lower taxes than in Fulton. The rustic, rural touch was refreshing for the former Dallas, Texas, apartment dwellers."It's like you're in a forest, and we're about 2,000 feet from the Chattahoochee River," said...
Atlanta Club: CLOSE TO HOME
Where You Live: YOUR VOICE, YOUR QUESTIONS, YOUR COMMUNITY NEWS
ATLANTA: Club to show projects After making presentations at a national conference in Chicago, Atlanta Public School's Adventure Agent Technology Club is scheduled to show off its projects during the Board of Education's Aug. 13 legislative meeting. Students from Beecher Hills Elementary are set to do a presentation on Italy and those from M.A. Jones will share what they learned from senior citizens they interviewed about the civil rights movement. The two schools...
Atlanta Club: WHAT EACH TEAM IS DOING
-ATLANTA: Club owner Rankin Smith Sr. told The (Atlanta) Constitution ``it's to our disadvantage to play so many games at home (three in a row, including Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams) during the strike. If we were on the road, the fans would be able to see us on television and they could see the high quality of play.'' -BUFFALO: Twenty players were injured in Sunday's loss to New England. The most seriously were NTs Ira Albright (ankle),...
Atlanta Club: A new direction for traffic dispute
Columnist Dick Williams comments on the 14-year effort by the North Atlanta/Club Area Civic Association to get a four-way stop at Kingsboro and Cantrell Road. Many motorists moving south on Peachtree Road use Kingsboro Road as a short-cut to Roxboro Road and Lenox Square or Interstate 85. Dick Williams And you thought the longest ongoing battles in Atlanta were over the widening of Lenox or Piedmont roads or fixing the traffic hodgepodge on Campbellton Road.Wrong. Residents of one...