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Blue Ridge, Ga., Reinvents Image to Attract More Residents.

By Norman Arey, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 14--BLUE RIDGE, Ga.--Joann and Ron Pizell were out for a Sunday drive four years ago. They stopped for gas in Blue Ridge and basically never left after buying a place on the Toccoa River.

Although both still live and work in east Cobb, they drive up to their weekend home in Blue Ridge "every chance we get," she said.

This quaint little village in Fannin County has quietly and quickly remade itself for folks like the Pizells and thousands of others who no

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