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July 29, 2015 | miltonherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 10, No. 31
Arnold Mill overlay nears completion Will come before Council in August By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com
Players from the Milton Steelers donate backpacks on the first day of conditioning on July 13. The backpacks, filled with school supplies, will benefit the Foster Care Support Foundation.
Milton Steelers give back to community MILTON, Ga. - The Milton Steelers are not just an ordinary football team, but a ministry for Tim Lester, founder of the New Found Life Youth Football League and the Milton Steelers flag and tackle football teams. While many other leagues and teams are preparing for the 2015 football season to begin, the Milton Steelers are thinking beyond just football. They have planned three outreach opportunities to give their players and families opportunities to give back. “We would like each of our players to see how truly blessed we are and how in life it is always a great thing to help others when given the opportunity,” Lester said. The Steelers’ outreach opportunities include collecting backpacks filled with school supplies for a foster-care organization, feeding families at a women’s and children’s shelter
and taking part in a community clean up. On July 13, the first day of conditioning, players and families brought backpacks filled with school supplies for the Foster Care Support Foundation. The Foundation estimates that 1,350 children have come through their facility this summer to receive clothing for school. The kids who had been served already were at risk of not getting school supplies until the fall since the foundation was short on many items. As a result, Carrie Hildebrandt, director of community outreach for the Milton Steelers, made it a priority to gather school supplies as quickly as possible. Hildebrandt delivered the backpacks to the Foster Care Support Foundation on July 14, the day after the first day of conditioning. —Cameron Osburn
MILTON, Ga. – As the Arnold Mill Form-Based Code nears completion, the public has been able to weigh in. At the most recent public meeting, held July 21 in the Alpharetta Courthouse, in Crabapple, a dozen residents of the area turned out to hear about the code and changes made since the prior public meeting. Form-based code is a zoning overlay that regulates development in a way that demands a consistent architecture style and character for the community. Instead of determining use, form-based code concentrates on the physical
form and style of a community and organizes land uses in a master concept of transect zones. These design regulations describe: the building types, how the buildings orient to the streets and other public spaces, the street cross-sections with landscaping and the size of blocks. Milton currently has two areas of the city with established form-based code: the Crabapple and the Deerfield/ Ga. 9 areas. Arnold Mill is the final area to undergo the process. “We know growth is coming,” said Caleb Racicot, the consultant working with the city on the plans, “but we have to concentrate some growth, put it into a more compact space and make it more mixeduse and walkable.” The idea is to have two
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Forsyth deputies: Man kills family, self Wife, children dead in apparent murder-suicide By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – Four members of a Suwanee family are dead after an apparent murder-suicide July 22. Forsyth County Sheriff Deputies say Matthew Fields, 32, killed his estranged wife, Rebecca
Manning, 37, and her two children, ages 8 and 9. He also shot her father, Jerry Manning, 75, before turning the gun on himself. Jerry Manning is listed as being in critical condition and the only survivor of the incident. Deputies say they were called out to the Old Atlanta Road residence in Suwanee about 6 a.m. by Fields’ mother, who called 911 after she said
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