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The state champion Bailey Johnson basketball team gathers to celebrate 50 years since their big win. Front row, from left, are Charles Grogan, Almond Martin and David Taylor. Back row are Jimmy Taylor, Melvin Peters and James Emerson.
50 years later… Bailey Johnson state champs recall victory HATCHER HURD/STAFF
City and county officials formally open the new East Roswell Library Feb. 20.
East Roswell Library opens amid fanfare By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com
ROSWELL, Ga. – After more than a dozen years, East Roswell finally has a new library.
The East Roswell Library opened to the public Feb. 20 amid much fanfare and a packed house with the public eager to see what their new local library offered.
With 450-500 people in attendance, county and city officials officially opened the 15,000-square-foot library at
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By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenemediagroup.com NORTH FULTON, Ga. – On Feb. 27, 2015, it will be 50 years to the day since the boys of Bailey Johnson public school won the state championship in basketball. There were 12 members of that team in 1965. Six of the surviving members gathered Feb. 18 at Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church in Roswell to reminisce about their shining moment five decades ago. The men went to Bailey Johnson public school, the only all-black school for North
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Fulton students. A grade 1-12 school, it only had about 100 students. It schooled students for all of North Fulton County as far south as Dunwoody. “This team was a machine,” said Almond Martin. “We were all spark plugs. If one of us sputtered, it didn’t run.” They were coached by Jerry Hobbs, a former college football player who taught physical education as well as math. For a basketball team, they were small guys. Averaging in the upper 5-foot range, they were dwarfed by their competition. But that didn’t matter. They had speed on their side. “Coach would make us run over and over for so long,” Martin said, laughing as he called it “abuse.” Hobbs would have them
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