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Cauley Creek part of Fulton water plan? Closed wastewater treatment plant could be key to ending EPD impasse By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – The Fulton County Commission and county staff are working on a plan that would bring the county back into compliance with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division regulations for land irrigation. If the county can’t do that, future development in Fulton will eventually stall because it will have run out of sewer capacity.
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Johns Creek author Tracy Solheim turned to writing fiction and published her first book in 2013. Four books later, she has a loyal following and book deal that will keep her at her computer for some time to come.
Local author finds writing for profit a real pleasure Tracy Solheim promises her readers romance, real characters By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Like many working Johns Creek moms, Kathy Solheim starts each workday by kissing her
husband goodbye, packing her kids off to school and then – unlike other moms – she goes into another world. It is a world of her own imagination because, after years at a government job,
Solheim decided to write a novel. Now, six books later – with more books in the works - she has a much more rewarding job than writing reports and summaries for the U.S. Congress. Solheim writes about women and for women. “There’s kind of a blurred
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Fulton County is now trying to come back into compliance because one of its wastewater
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Schools sees leadership changes across N. Fulton 3 JC schools see new principals in place for 2015-16 school year By CANDY WAYLOCK candy@appenmediagroup.com NORTH FULTON,, Ga. – A flurry of recent personnel changes means a slew of new principals at several North Fulton schools when the school year begins Aug. 10. In some cases, new leaders will come from other area schools, creating a domino effect of changes across the area as vacancies are created and filled. With school set to start in less than two weeks, several
schools will open with interim leaders until a permanent principal is hired, noted Fulton officials. During summer board meetings in June and July, promotions and resignations involving principals at nine area schools were approved. These leadership changes impacted schools primarily in the Northeast Learning Community. Schools slated to have new
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