'TrailFest' Brings Food, Music to Downtown Woodstock
The Greenprints Alliance' annual festival, which is designed to draw attention to its purpose of raising money to build trails, will be held on Saturday March 23.
The Greenprints Alliance' annual festival, which is designed to draw attention to its purpose of raising money to build trails, will be held on Saturday March 23.
The Greenprints Alliance has finalized its list of music acts for Trailfest 2013, which will be held on March 23.
Organizers behind the fourth annual Trailfest 2013 have released the final line up for its music acts for its festival slated to hit Woodstock later this month. The Whiskey Gentry and the Kurt Thomas Band, among others, will headline the festival organized by Greenprints Alliance, which is slated for 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. March 23 in downtown Woodstock. Having recently been chosen by Paste Magazine as the "Best of What’s Next," The Whiskey Gentry have established themselves among the Atlanta music elite. They have shared the stage with artists such as Doc Watson, Old Crow Medicine Show, Rhett Miller of the Old 97s, John Popper, Ed Roland of Collective Soul, Chatham County Line and Slobberbone. A recent finalist in the Chris Austin …
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Freight Kitchen & Tap will host the second-annual Greenprints Beer Dinner to raise money for the Woodstock chapter of the Southern Off-Road Biking Association, or SORBA.
Freight Kitchen & Tap will team up with Woodstock's Greenprints Alliance to raise money for a local mountain biking advocacy organization. The second-annual Greenprints Beer Dinner will be held at 7 p.m. March 13 at Freight, located at 251 East Main Street in downtown Woodstock. The five-course dinner will have craft beer pairings and will feature guest chef Kyle Shankman of Sur La Table and Chef Robert Morneweck of Freight and Table 33. The event will benefit the Woodstock chapter of the Southern Off-Road Biking Association, or SORBA. Seats are $100 per person, with roughly $50 going towards SORBA. Reservations are required to participate in the event and can be made by calling the restaurant at (770) 924-0144. Neel Sengupta said the …
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The Greenprints Alliance' annual festival, which is designed to draw attention to its purpose of raising money to build trails, will be held on March 23.
The Greenprints Alliance' annual festival, which is designed to draw attention to its purpose of raising money to build trails, will be held on March 23.
An event that draws thousands to Woodstock in an effort to raise money to build trails will return in March. Greenprints Alliance's Trailfest 2013 is set for March 23 in downtown Woodstock. The event, originally coined Streetfest, is going into its fourth year. "After extensive focus groups and market research, we decided to gear the event to a more trail focused theme and event," the organization noted on its Facebook event page. "It took as a very long time to come up with this rebrand of the event." The event will take place at the Park at City Center and blends music, activities, food and entertainment with education about the organization's efforts to raise money to expand the city's trail network. Some of the musical acts that …
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The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners will consider awarding a bid to build part of Woodstock's multi-use trail network with parks bond revenue.
A new multi-use trail system could soon be on the way for Woodstock. The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners will consider awarding a bid to Georgia Development Partners, LLC of Atlanta to build the trails in the city during its meeting today. The meeting will start at 6 p.m., following the 3 p.m. work session. Both meetings will be held at the county administrative building. The cost of the project is $999,939.29 and the funding would be taken out of Woodstock's $5 million portion of the $90 million parks bond county voters approved in 2008. The Downtown Spur trail will run south from the new Market Street at its intersection with Elm Street toward Highway 92 at Noonday Creek. The trail will run west of Main Street and alongside the …
The trails will be built using a portion of the $90 million parks bond Cherokee County voters approved in 2008.
The Woodstock City Council will consider a maintenance agreement with the Georgia Department of Transportation for a portion of the city's trail system during its meeting on Monday. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Chambers at City Center in downtown Woodstock. Two of the trails will pass under Interstate 575, which falls under GDOT's right-of-way. One trail, the Towne Lake Pass trail, will cross under the interstate at the Towne Lake Parkway interchange and will connect Towne Lake to the downtown area. The second trail system is a portion of the Taylor Randahl mountain bike trails at Olde Rope Mill Park that will cross under the interstate just north of Little River. GDOT has already approved permits requested by the city for the …