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Photos of the Week: Dunwoody Christmas Lights

Share the Christmas light photos from your house and neighborhood

A few weeks before Christmas and few homes have yet to be decorated with lights. As Christmas nears, homes throughout Dunwoody will be adding to the holiday spirit with twinkling lights, candles in the windows and decorations on the lawns. Please share your photos of your home and neighborhood lights. This home on Trowbridge Dr. is elegantly decorated for the holiday season.

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Finding That Perfect Pine, Spruce or Fir

Local Christmas tree stands offer their tips on getting the right Christmas tree and keeping it healthy.

Thanksgiving has passed, the table is cleared and most of us have awoken from our deep tryptophan induced comas.  The holiday season is upon us and for many, buying and setting up a Christmas tree is near the top of the holiday to-do-list.  To make sure you bring home the right tree, we hit the streets and asked local Christmas tree stands the keys to picking out the perfect tree and how to care for it once it's home.  From Frasier Firs to Douglas Firs and Scotch Pines to Balsam Firs, local experts offered their knowledge. Ashley Duel, whose family has owned and operated the tree stand on the corner of Mt Vernon Rd and Dunwoody Club Dr for the past 15 years, said the key to making sure your tree stays healthy through the Christmas season …

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Christmas season begins in Dunwoody Village

Big John's Christmas Trees sets up shop in Dunwoody for the holidays

The scent of pine needles in the air in Dunwoody Village means one thing – the Christmas season is here. Saturday morning, workers with Big John's Christmas Trees, an Atlanta Christmas tree company, began setting up shop in a Dunwoody Village. Lot Manager Chris Wing and his co-workers Sam Fulbright and Billy Betz spent the day unloading trees, unbailing them and setting them into stands. Wing and Fulbright are down from Charlotte, N.C. to help. Betz is from Dunwoody. Wing said trees were delivered at 1 a.m. He expects they'll sell between 700-800 trees on the lot over the next four and a half weeks.

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Spruill sale connects artists and community

The gallery's 17th annual holiday market, located in one of the oldest buildings in Dunwoody, keeps artists and customers coming back year after year.

If there's any indication of how strong a sense of community the Spruill Gallery has built around its Holiday Artists' Market, it's artist Barbara O'Connell. Her preparation for the sale, which opens Friday, started back in February. O'Connell is nearly blind from macular degeneration, has lung and liver cancer and, earlier this year, had to have her stomach removed to keep stomach cancer from spreading. But for months the 73-year-old crafter and seamstress worked "diligently every day" on ornaments and decorations for Spruill's 17th annual art sale, her daughter-in-law Maria O'Connell said. "It's really the thing that's kept her going," she said. "Any time she'd be up and awake, she'd have something in her hands. She'd sit and work, work…

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