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June 3 — Water was the talk of the town all weekend after a series of water main breaks left many Atlanta residents and businesses without water. Keep scrolling for our team coverage.

🌦️ The first rains should give way to sunny skies and 84° today.

📮 U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff vows to put “maximum pressure” on Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to improve service at the Palmetto Regional Mail Processing Center.

🚆 Several MARTA parking lots in the Dunwoody area will be temporarily closed during the month of June, according to an announcement from the transportation company.

💼 Atlanta business owners and city officials launched the Summer Youth Jobs Program, which provides paid employment to young people ages 14 to 24.

🎭 The Puppetry Arts Center has announced the programming for its 2024-25 season.

⚾ Georgia defeated Georgia Tech 8-6 in extra innings to advance in the NCAA baseball tournament.

⚽ Decatur FC, which has yet to allow a goal in its inaugural season, beat Nashville 6-0 on Saturday.

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💒 Rupert Murdoch, 93, married retired biologist Elena Zhukova, 67, on Saturday at his California vineyard. This is the Australian-born media mogul’s fifth marriage.

🎫 Live Nation has confirmed that its Ticketmaster subsidiary suffered a data breach that could affect more than 500 million customers.

🕖 Here is the content of today’s newsletter:

• Water problems in Atlanta
• Special section SCAD: 60 years of civil rights
• Invest in Atlanta
• Global news
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• Watch and listen: Stones podcasts

Have a good week,
Collin and Sammie

🏀 Don’t miss it The 2024 Hawks Draft Party powered by Georgia Natural Gas at State Farm Arena on June 26. Watch the Hawks win the No. 1 draft pick live! Tickets are $5 and benefit the Hawks Foundation and its community partner, the YMCA of Metro Atlanta. Win tickets now!

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Photo by Beth McKibben

1. Atlanta’s weekend water woes

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🚰 After two major water main breaks Friday and a series of smaller outages this weekend in Atlanta, the city’s water crisis is finally turning a corner.

As of 7 a.m. Monday, water had been restored to most of the cut-off area, but a boil water advisory was expected to last until Monday for parts of the city. Repairs to a major break in the heart of Midtown were still underway overnight and the water was shut off near the intersection of 11th and West Peachtree streets at 1 a.m.

📍 Here is a link to an interactive map of boil water advisories.

🚒 Residents who need water can go to Atlanta Fire Stations, including Station 11 and Station 15.

The weekend was punctuated by several business and restaurant closures as well as problems at local hospitals and the cancellation and postponement of major events – including Megan Thee Stallion’s shows at State Farm Arena ( which took place last night and this evening instead).

📺 Expect the issues and the city’s response to be front and center at today’s Atlanta City Council meeting at 1 p.m. You can stream it here.

🚿 Our team has been following all updates on the water over the weekend, paying particular attention to the status of repairs, and you can read our coverage here.

▶️ Press Play: Guided tour of the “transformed” 285/400 route

SPONSORED BY THE PERIMETER COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS

10.5 miles road improvements.

Bridges rebuilt for better connectivity.

New and improved underpassesand viaducts for smoother circulation.

THE Project Transformer 285/400 of the Georgia Department of Transportation has come a long way, promising significant improvements to daily travel throughout Dunwoody, Sandy Springs and Brookhaven.

See these improvements for yourself with our hyper-real video tour of the flyover.

👉🏼 Watch it here.

Illustration by Melissa Richardson

2. Rough Draft partners with SCAD for the student-led section

✊ For our June issue of Atlanta Intown, Rough Draft Atlanta partnered with Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to let students run the show.

Atlanta Intown first collaborated with SCAD writing students for a special issue of their reporting in 2011. To celebrate Intown’s 30th anniversary, we decided to do it again.

In honor of the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, we asked a class of SCAD students to write articles on the topic of civil rights. With topics ranging from book bans to the lives of gig workers to how independent bookstores shape Atlanta communities, each student found an engaging way to explore what civil rights means to them through a unique perspective.

On our SCAD homepage, you can find all of the students’ work, as well as a note from Professor Paige Gray on the project.

🎒 Click here to learn more.

Photo courtesy of Invest Atlanta

3. Invest Atlanta to finance the creation of 444 affordable housing units

🏠 Mayor Andre Dickens announced that the Invest Atlanta Board of Directors approved resolutions at its May meetings to fund the creation or preservation of 444 affordable housing units in the City of Atlanta.

The approved funding will support the development of affordable multifamily housing in the city’s South, West and Downtown neighborhoods with a range of area median incomes (AMI), including some low-income housing at or below 30% AMI.

“The Invest Atlanta Board of Directors continues to prioritize investments in affordable housing so that more Atlanta residents have access to safe, quality housing in the communities they choose to live,” said Dickens said in a press release. “Thank you to the Board and staff for this important investment that brings us closer to our goal of housing affordability and our commitment to making Atlanta a city of opportunity for all.”

📍 More on this story here.

4. Sheinbaum will lead Mexico after historic elections; 80th anniversary of the Landing

🇲🇽 Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum will become Mexico’s first female president, according to the Associated Press. Sheinbaum, the protégé of outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is a climate scientist whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust by fleeing Bulgaria.

🇮🇱 U.S. officials are working to get Israel to agree to a ceasefire proposal involving a six-week halt to hostilities in Gaza, humanitarian aid and an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners, despite the opposition from certain far-right Israeli leaders, which threatens to fall. the current government.

🇭🇹 Garry Conille has been named the new Prime Minister of Haiti.

🇺🇳 373 million Europeans in 27 countries have the right to vote in this week’s European Parliament elections. They will select 720 members of Parliament who will decide whether Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen gets a second five-year term as president of the European Commission.

🇫🇷 Paratroopers jumped from World War II planes in Normandy, France, marking the start of a week of ceremonies honoring the Allied troops who fought on D-Day 80 years ago.

🐼 The pandas are coming! The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington, D.C., says China has agreed to send two new giant pandas named Bao Li and Qing Bao by the end of the year.

🇫🇷 After Novak Djokovic’s five-set victory at the French Open ended after 3 a.m., Coco Gauff criticized late-night tennis matches, calling them “not healthy.”

🗓️ Join the World Affairs Council of Atlanta for a Members’ Forum Lounge: Exploring the geopolitics of the Global South Wednesday, June 5.

🏫 Galloway School announced Galloway Forward, a project to revitalize its campus with a new Upper Learning building, a safer campus, renovated existing buildings and preserved heritage, enhancing the learning environment and ensuring the school’s future excellence . Learn more.

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5. Paint It Podcast: Get Ready for the Stones

The Rolling Stones, sponsored by AARP (this is no joke), are at Mercedes-Benz Stadium Friday night. To get in the mood for Mick and the boys, including Georgia’s Chuck Leavell, here are some podcasts to check out.

🎙️ The Disgraceland episode “The Rolling Stones: Fugitives in Exile” details what the Stones did while living in France to avoid British taxes that would ultimately lead them to produce “Exile on Main St.”

🎧 “Under the Radar: A Rolling Stones Podcast” interviews Stones recording engineer and co-producer Chris Kimsey.

🎙️ iHeart Radio’s podcast series, “Stones Touring Party,” discusses the Stones’ iconic 1972 tour, featuring recordings of the Stones’ conversations with Rolling Stone magazine reporter Robert Greenfield.

🎧 Finally, here are the Iconic Rolling Stones Moments of the 70s according to The Rolling Stones.

🧠 Did you miss Saturday’s News Quiz? Click here to test your knowledge of last week’s events.

📧 Today’s newsletter was edited by Julie E. Bloemeke.

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