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Tag: Sandy Springs turtles

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Colorful turtles take to the streets and a new city symbol is born

by Reporter Newspaper Staff December 2, 2010December 2, 2010

By Joe Earle joeearle@reporternewspapers.net They could have been salamanders. That was Jan Collins’ first idea. After all, she had seen salamanders living in the springs that gave Sandy Springs its name, so they seemed a natural subject for the public art project she and others were trying to organize for the community back in 2004. […]

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