Category Archives: Kirkwood

Kirkwood’s Champion White Oak Unable to be Saved from Developers (UPDATE 1)

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(APN) ATLANTA — The three hundred years-old Champion White Oak was the first tree, of forty healthy trees, to be cut down last week at 145 Norwood Avenue in the eclectic Kirkwood community to make room for eleven new homes, on Thursday, October 15, 2015.   http://atlantaprogressivenews.com/2015/02/02/dekalbs-oldest-oak-tree-faces-developers-removal-request/   A miracle did not happen in time to save the Champion White […]

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Profits Over Trees in Kirkwood, as Ancient Trees to be Cut Down

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(APN) ATLANTA — An ancient forest of over forty healthy trees, including six white oaks from 150 to 300 years old, are scheduled to be cut down for eleven new homes in the Kirkwood neighborhood.   The nutrient-rich old growth topsoil has already been bulldozed up and next the trees will be cut down, barring a miracle.   The developer, […]

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WRFG Rallies Listeners to Help Save the Legendary Station

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(APN) ATLANTA — Atlanta’s only independent, non-profit community radio station is again in danger of leaving the airwaves.   For over forty years, Radio Free Georgia, WRFG 89.3 FM, has lifted up marginalized voices through public affairs, news, and music programming that now reaches thirteen Metro Atlanta counties from its station in Atlanta’s Little Five Points Community Center.   Now […]

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