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March 6, 2014 | northfulton.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 18, No. 10
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By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com
OCEE ELEMENTARY
RED DOTS: Denote School Zone Signs. YELLOW DOT: Denotes flashing light motorists don’t see making yield turn onto State Bridge Road.
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – After two Johns Creek residents lodged complaints about what they termed a “speed trap” in the city, it appears officials are taking steps to make signage more explicit near Ocee Elementary School at the intersection of Kimball Bridge Road and State Bridge Road. Two residents say they were cited for speeding in the Ocee ES school zone, but they say there is a hole in the city’s signage system. When they tried to explain this to officials, it fell on deaf ears. Keith Noelen and another man, who asked his name not be used, were in traffic court the same day. Noelen heard the other man explaining to the solicitor why someone making a turn northbound from Kimball Bridge Road onto eastbound State Bridge Road would almost certainly miss the “Entering School Zone” flashing light on State Bridge. They compared notes and decided the city was not interested in
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Arun Misra announces GA economy ‘optimistic,’ national recovery only tepid for City Council post GSU ECONOMIC FORECAST »
State ends 2013 on high note as unemployment falls By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com ATLANTA – Georgia State University’s economic forecaster Rajeev Dhawan likes many of the leading economic indicators swimming in calmer seas, but he is not predicting the U.S. economy will be charting any deeper waters in 2014. In other words, 2014 will not be the “big break-out year”
signaling a return to the good old days of 2003, ’04, ’05 and ’06, much less the glory years of the 1990s. While positive data shows DHAWAN a 30 percent growth in the stock market, continued improvement in auto sales and a falling unemployment rate, it is more than tempered by the sluggish 2013 growth in capital investment –
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Retired businessman wants to give back to community By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Ammersee Lakes resident Arun Misra, Ph.D., has announced his candidacy for one of the open seats on the Johns Creek City Council. He said he will decide which seat at the end of qualifying March 5. Misra retired from a 20year career as a research scientist and college professor and a second career of 25
years in real estate and insurance sales. Now he wants to give back to his city of 15 years and run for council. “I want to apply his knowledge and skills for the improvement of the quality of life for the citizens of Johns Creek, and to see that the city grows further and attracts quality people and businesses into its limits,” Misra said. That begins with making the city itself more attractive with better streetscapes.
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“We don’t have a post office, we don’t have a big mall where we can shop. We don’t even have our own ZIP code. We don’t have MISRA these things, and it hurts the city not to have them,” he said. Another reason for his campaign is to make minorities and immigrants more politically aware and involved. “I come to all the City
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