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May 20, 2015 | miltonherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 11, No. 21
Student essays give life lessons Contest sees 6 Milton winners
Rotary Club of Milton-Windward Meets Mondays at noon St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, 13560 Cogburn Road, Milton
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From left are Milton-Windward Rotary President Cindy Ringwall with Laws of Life essay contest winners Boltin Teeter, Yasser Seif, Jillian Snow, Monica Behara and Laws of Life Director Susan Mason.
City hosts Conservation Subdivision meetings 3 public meetings for questions, comments MILTON, Ga. - After significant public response to the city’s efforts to establish a Conservation Subdivision Ordinance, the City of Milton Planning Commission will hold a series of three meetings in the coming weeks to ensure the public’s desires are heard and incorporated into any plan
moving forward. The meetings will be held: • Wednesday, May 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Milton City Hall • Saturday, May 30 at 10 a.m. at Milton City Hall • Wednesday, June 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Alpharetta Courthouse in Crabapple At these meetings, Donald Broussard of Town Planning and Design will lead discussion and public input on the concept and process of creating subdivisions where units are planned to preserve more greenspace than current zon-
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ing allows. The meetings will follow resident discussion organically, said Peyton Jamison, chairman of the Planning Commission. They have a loose schedule and guidelines, but what’s most important, he said, is a healthy dialogue about the city’s intention and process. “If you have an opinion on the future growth in Milton, then by all means please stop by these meetings,” said
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MILTON, Ga. – All students write essays. It’s a tried-andtrue form of schooling to get students to think creatively. For the Laws of Life essay contest, hosted by the Georgia Rotary Club, it gets thousands of students in the state writing about their lives and what matters to them. The Laws of Life essay contest is the largest such contest in the country, and certainly in the state, said Susan Mason, executive director of the program.
“It’s based on character values,” Mason said. “Students get their own saying to apply to life, something that is meaningful to them” Students must write an essay about a saying – everything from Shakespeare to “Git ‘er done” – that has impacted their lives. They must then explain the impact.
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Ga. 400 exit planned for McGinnis Ferry Open house for feedback later this year By SHANNON WEAVER shannon@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. — Transportation projects are moving forward that will include the addition of an interchange at Ga. 400 and McGinnis Ferry Road and ease traffic headaches for North Fulton and Forsyth commuters, a contractor told the Milton
City Council at a work session May 11. Representatives from Moreland Altobelli Associates, the contractor for the McGinnis Ferry interchange project, updated council on their progress at the work session. Construction will not only involve adding on and off ramps to Ga. 400 at McGinnis Ferry but widening the road to four lanes on the west side to Bethany Bend and six lanes on the east
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