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David Cockrell, City Manager of Atlanta, has sent out a number of press releases over the last three days alerting the community of a boil advisory. In the early hours of Feb. 19 the water system went down. For some, the water came back on later that day. The city has been trying to resolve it since then, with area residents saying “as of the 20th they had been without water for about five days”, though it is unclear if their water was managed by the city or not. On Feb. 21 the water was again off but came back online quickly.

1. Harrison Goree (1861-1925) was the first black principal of the colored free school in Atlanta. He was active in politics and community affairs. He later moved to Texarkana and built a school in the Newtown area.

Atlanta alum Nolan Williams spent a few days traveling around snow-ridden northeast Texas so he and his family could deliver bottled water to families who didn’t have usable or drinkable water at all.