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After more than 100 years, visitors to Oakland Cemetery will once again be able to enter the grounds from the corner of Boulevard and Memorial Drive.

Historic Oakland Foundation has announced that it will reconstruct the East Gate this summer to restore the graveyard’s connection with the Cabbagetown and Reynoldstown neighborhoods.

The original East Gate was installed along Boulevard in 1899 and, after much debate, closed by Atlanta’s Cemetery Commission in 1908 for safety reasons. At the time, locals were unhappy about having to walk nearly a mile to the main gate, which now sits at the end of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (then known as Hunter Street). A compromise was reached by opening a gate on Decatur Street along the railroad tracks.  The East Gate gate was eventually removed when the retaining wall was rebuilt.

A portion of the existing brick wall on Oakland’s southern border will be deconstructed, and salvaged bricks will be used in the new gateway. Two brick columns capped with granite will frame an opening spanned by a double swing gate modeled Oakland’s historic gates.

The new access point will be located near the site of the old East Gate, making it easier for visitors coming from the Atlanta BeltLine and the neighborhoods surrounding the cemetery. In addition to the new gate, this area will see the introduction of new user amenities including park benches, pet stations, and wayfinding signage, along with significant restoration efforts to improve visitors’ experience and safety.

The construction of the East Gate is part of a larger effort by Historic Oakland Foundation to make improvements to the East Hill section of the Cemetery. Historic Oakland Foundation has received funding for this project through the Aderhold Family Foundation and a Park Pride Community Building Grant (supported by The Home Depot Foundation). The Foundation is proud to partner with these two organizations that represent the Atlanta communities served by Oakland Cemetery.

For more information about Historic Oakland Foundation and its restoration and preservation work, visit http://oaklandcemetery.com.

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Atlanta Public Schools and partner organizations will provide limited meals on three Mondays in June as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

APS and Southwest Foodservice Excellence, its food service vendor, created a massive free-meal program in March as the coronavirus pandemic closed the district. That program in its various forms served 160,000 meals a week, according to APS. That program ended May 18. The limited summer-break replacement is projected to serve 60,000 meals.

On June 1, 8 and 15, the new program will provide five-day meal packs through the partner organizations Horizons, Breakthrough and the Boys and Girls Club, to be distributed to families enrolled in their food programs.

In addition, the student meal program for designed English for Speakers of Other Languages communities in Buckhead’s North Atlanta Cluster and the Grady Cluster will resume on those days through LaAmistad. Grocery distribution to those families ended May 19, but APS says plans are in the works with additional partners for summer groceries for approximately 1,000 ESOL families across the district.

For more information, see the APS website here.

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Atlanta Streets Alive was supposed to celebrate its 10th anniversary last week with a party, but the COVID-19 outbreak meant the festivities wound up – like everything else these days – being held via Zoom.

Atlanta Bicycle Coalition Executive Director Rebecca Serna said it was good to see organizers and supporters even if it was virtually. Serna was the brainchild of Atlanta Streets Alive, taking the idea to close the city’s streets to vehicular traffic from a regular event she witnessed while living in Bogota, Colombia.

The success or the program in Atlanta – with 29 open streets programs and 1.7 million participants over the past decade – has shown that there is a desire by people and businesses for more open streets.

Before COVID-19, Atlanta Streets Alive was planning its most ambitious undertaking yet: Closing Peachtree Street every Sunday during the month of October.

“The pandemic has everything up in the air,” Serna said. “Since the city won’t be issuing permits for large gatherings anytime soon, we are now looking at next spring for this weekly pilot program.”

Serna said the idea of closing Peachtree every Sunday for a month was also inspired by her time in Bogota. A main thoroughfare is closed to traffic every Sunday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. and has become a weekly tradition.

“We believe a weekly program with change how people experience streets,” Serna said. The idea is to move away from the festival atmosphere of Atlanta Streets Alive and make it something more high frequency that changes perception and habits. You can’t change habits by holding it three times a year.”

Serna said the pilot program would be used to assess if Atlanta Streets Alive could morph into a weekly event similar to Bogota.

To keep abreast of Atlanta Streets Alive’s plan, visit atlantastreetsalive.com.

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