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FINAL WEEKEND FOR BOO AT THE ZOO PRESENTED BY GEORGIA NATURAL GASJust one weekend remains to experience Atlanta’s favori...
10/22/2025

FINAL WEEKEND FOR BOO AT THE ZOO PRESENTED BY GEORGIA NATURAL GAS

Just one weekend remains to experience Atlanta’s favorite fun family Halloween festival, Boo at the Zoo presented by Georgia Natural Gas. The festival returns this Saturday and Sunday, October 25 and 26, with activities from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Seasonal fun will include trick-or-treating for kids on Trick-or-Treat Lane; classic carnival games; Halloween crafts; meet-and-greets with strolling characters; spooktacular photo ops; and more in a Zoo transformed in the spirit of the season. Don’t miss a chance to discover animal superpowers with a ride on the all-new Safari Express aboard the Norfolk Southern Zoo Train (additional ticket required).

Exclusive animal trading cards featuring four of the animal kingdom’s classically “creepy” creatures will be available at stations around the Zoo. Also exclusive to the Halloween season is Jinxed: A Spooky Virtual Reality Experience presented in partnership with Immotion at the Zoo’s Wild Explorer VR Theater (additional ticket required).

Check out family-friendly live entertainment on both Saturday and Sunday:

Saturday, October 25: Princess Sing-Along and Captain Crimmins and The Story Boat Band

Sunday, October 26: Ghoulish Grooves with Music with Alyssa and Squeeze the Clown

Family-friendly costumes are welcome and encouraged. Find costume guidelines at zooatlanta.org/boo.

Boo at the Zoo is free with general admission; free for Zoo Atlanta Members and children under 3. Get full event details and general admission tickets at zooatlanta.org/event/boo-at-the-zoo.

It’s beginning to look very Halloweeny ‘round these parts .atlanta 🎃
10/11/2025

It’s beginning to look very Halloweeny ‘round these parts .atlanta 🎃

10/07/2025

BOO AT THE ZOO PRESENTED BY GEORGIA NATURAL GAS

Atlanta’s spooky season scene is never complete without the city’s favorite fun family Halloween festival. Boo at the Zoo presented by Georgia Natural Gas returns on Saturdays and Sundays, October 18, 19, 25 and 26, 2025. Activities will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Seasonal fun will include trick-or-treating for kids on Trick-or-Treat Lane; classic carnival games; Halloween crafts; meet-and-greets with strolling characters; spooktacular photo ops; and more in a Zoo transformed in the spirit of the season. Don’t miss a chance to discover animal superpowers with a ride on the all-new Safari Express aboard the Norfolk Southern Zoo Train (additional ticket required).

Exclusive animal trading cards featuring four of the animal kingdom’s classically “creepy” creatures will be available at stations around the Zoo. Also exclusive to the Halloween season is Jinxed: A Spooky Virtual Reality Experience presented in partnership with Immotion at the Zoo’s Wild Explorer VR Theater (additional ticket required).

Family-friendly entertainment will run on all four days of the festival:

Saturday, October 18: Squeeze the Clown and Ghoulish Grooves with Music with Alyssa

Sunday, October 19: The Magic of Tommy Johns and a performance by Mahealani’s Polynesian Entertainment

Saturday, October 25: Princess Sing-Along and Captain Crimmins and The Story Boat Band

Sunday, October 26: Ghoulish Grooves with Music with Alyssa and Squeeze the Clown

Family-friendly costumes are welcome and encouraged. Find costume guidelines at zooatlanta.org/boo.

Boo at the Zoo is free with general admission; free for Zoo Atlanta Members and children under 3. Get full event details and general admission tickets at zooatlanta.org/event/boo-at-the-zoo.

Our raffle continues! See us at Makers Fest on Saturday, October 18 for another chance to enter.Shown here are two item...
09/29/2025

Our raffle continues! See us at Makers Fest on Saturday, October 18 for another chance to enter.

Shown here are two items, but the full list is as follows:
 
Autographed books by local authors:
-Their Wild Island (2 copies) by Bolster (Ormewood Park)
-Ilze’s Daughter (1 copy) by (Ormewood Park)
-East Atlanta (Images of America) (1 copy) by Henry Bryant (East Atlanta)
-The Dragon in World Mythology and Culture (2 copies) by (Grant Park)
 
-Ceramic rocking chair planters (set of 3)
-Original art piece by (Grant Park)
-EAV Strut 2025 T-shirts (2)
-Ormewood Park Makers Fest T-shirts (2)
-Porch Press T-shirts (2)
-EITHER sunburst, dragon, or trolly (winner’s choice)
 
TOTAL PRIZE ITEMS: 15
 
Raffle will take place between September 27 and October 26, 2025 — (9/27), Ormewood Park Makers Festival (10/18), Red’s Fall Festival (10/26)
 
DRAWING: Late October

Root Local and Oakland Cemetery Present Halloween Costume SwapSaturday, October 4 - Sunday, October 510:00a - 3:00pEach ...
09/29/2025

Root Local and Oakland Cemetery Present Halloween Costume Swap

Saturday, October 4 - Sunday, October 5
10:00a - 3:00p

Each Fall, thousands of costumes are worn once and then tossed away. Let’s keep costumes out of landfills and make the spooky season more sustainable and affordable!

Historic Oakland Foundation & Root Local are collecting Halloween costumes & accessories of all sizes to share with families in our community.

You can drop off your gently-used donations at the Oakland Cemetery Visitor's Center, 374 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
until Thursday, October 2 from 10:00a - 5:00p daily.

Then, join us on Saturday & Sunday to “shop” the collection at Oakland Cemetery’s Pumpkin Patch. No Cost to Participate.

Volunteers Needed
Our Pollinator Steering Committee could use your help in fitting and accessorizing the kiddos during the swap.

No fashion or retail experience needed! Just a desire to help families save money and keep waste out of landfill.

If you can help, please contact Lee Dalton at [email protected] for more details.

Come STRUT with us! We’re here in front of the old Glenwood Bar on Glenwood Avenue selling T-shirts and raffle tickets. ...
09/27/2025

Come STRUT with us! We’re here in front of the old Glenwood Bar on Glenwood Avenue selling T-shirts and raffle tickets. 🎟️

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09/27/2025

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The Porch Press, a Community Service

By Henry Bryant

When The Porch Press began 33 years ago, there had been community newspapers in the three neighborhoods of Neighborhood Planning Unit-W (NPU-W) for a while. The Park Bench had served Grant Park, The Sand Paper had served the SAND neighborhoods, and The Fishwrapper had served East Atlanta as the area started to be seen as ripe for redevelopment in the late ‘70s. There had even been newspapers before that going back to the 1950s. The Porch Press, as it was devised by volunteers from the East Atlanta Community Association (EACA), the Grant Park Neighborhood Association (GPNA), and South Atlantans for Neighborhood Development (SAND), thought that by combining efforts they could create a monthly publication that would serve all of NPU-W and help improve the quality of life in these neighborhoods.

The new neighborhood newspaper, supported by neighborhood businesses and the neighborhood organizations, met with immediate success. That success has always depended on that support and the efforts of an all-volunteer staff. Without the money from advertising, the paper could not be printed or mailed. Without the volunteers, there would be no articles and the paper would not get assembled.

As the neighborhood real estate market began to boom and more new businesses moved to the area, Porch Press advertising also boomed. Early on, the paper established a policy of setting aside money so that the paper could withstand a drought of advertising funding. Along the way, the paper became a 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation. The Porch Press Board decided that after printing, mailing, and other expenses were met, we needed to not only be nicer to our volunteers, but that we needed to give back to our neighborhood. For years, the newspaper became philanthropic, supporting various tours, races, festivals, and other events with money. At the same time, we gifted the tickets to our volunteers to thank them for their support. Even as our finances have shrunk, The Porch Press has still been able to support the Neighborhood associations with some pro bono advertising, and the newspaper has never charged for printing press releases about the neighborhood activities.