April 17, 2020 By: Ali Elizabeth Turner We had yet another interview over the phone, and the first thing Mayor Ronnie told me...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: “Stay Tuned”
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner When I caught up with Mayor Ronnie on Saturday to confirm our appointment for his bi-weekly...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: “Work Together To Get Through It Together”
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner I met with Mayor Ronnie and Holly Hollman, City of Athens Communications Specialist and Grant Coordinator,...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Buzz Estes And “Fire In The Hole!”
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner We as a community have just said goodbye to Buzz Estes, and it seemed at the...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll — The Amazing City, Part 4: The “Zing” in Ama-zing
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner “I have been thinking a lot about joy and happiness,” said Mayor Ronnie as we started...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Amazing Cities 3 – Sparkplugs And “Parkplugs”
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner As we discussed what we would pull from James Hunt’s Amazing Cities for this edition of...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Amazing City, Part 2
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner It was a rare Monday morning indeed, as neither one of us was in “zoom” mode....
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Go Vertical
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner For several years, we have done a “look-back-look-ahead” Ronnie for the first edition of the New...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Celebrating The Season And Our City
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Mayor Ronnie had just come from another “Scotland Skype” (or more accurately a Zoom) session held...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: The Amazing City, Part 1
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Mayor Ronnie was back from a national conference of fellow mayors and city planners which was...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Charrettes Come To Our Community
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner The City of Athens has just experienced something that is alleged to have begun in Paris...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: “Zooming To Stonehaven”
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Most Monday mornings with Mayor Ronnie start out with a cup of coffee and settling in...
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Well, Kids, Who Picks Up The Tab?
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Mayor Ronnie had a dead battery, (or “battry,” as his granddad used to say) and had...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Budgets Are A Blessing?
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner …It depends on who you ask! Mayor Ronnie is the only leader I have ever met...
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I Hope You Dance – What Makes Ronnie Roll
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Monday morning by any stretch was a hard beginning to the week, and yet it ended...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: It’s Times Like These When You Need Louis Armstrong
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Mayor Ronnie and I started off our time together sharing the shock of what happened the...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: “Haste Ye Back”
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Mayor Ronnie and the intrepid crew that travelled to Scotland made it back in one piece...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Stonehaven, Singer Songwriters, And Spy Pilot
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner “Are you packed, Mr. Mayor?” I asked. “Almost,” he said, referring to the fact that he...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Serve Day And Stonehaven
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner Last week, several churches in the area were involved in what is one of the best...
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What Makes Ronnie Roll: Gary, Gary, Keith And The 4th
By: Ali Elizabeth Turner In came Mayor Ronnie fresh from a staff breakfast held in honor of his 75th birthday,...
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