Be the Voice
Roswell's new "Abbey"
New campaign to stop bullies ►►PAGE 9
What goes around…
Brewery to open doors, kegs ►►PAGE 30
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Pay-it-forward group helps one of their own ►►PAGE 34
Alpharetta-Roswell
REVUE NEWS
September 17, 2015 | revueandnews.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 33, No. 37
DRIVE-THRU SNOBBERY:
Chick-fil-A snub irks Avalon developer Planning Commission rejects Avalon franchise citing drive-thru appropriateness By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com
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ROSWELL REMEMBERS:
Hosts Sept. 11 memorial event By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. – The large American flag billowed in the breeze over the lake at Roswell Area Park during the city’s Sept. 11 memorial event. Traditionally, the Sept. 11 memorial is held at the Faces of War Memorial near City Hall. This year, the event was at the memorial to a fallen resident. “This tragedy left a hole in our hearts,” said the Rev. Malone Dodson. The tribute occurred beside a memorial to Mike Gann, a Roswell resident who was killed in the attacks of 2001. A firefighter lowered the flag on the flagpole to half-mast and bagpipe players from the
U.S. Coast Guard Pipe Band performed “Amazing Grace.” Students from the Holcomb Bridge Middle School eighthgrade chorus sang to the crowd lining the banks of the lake. Roswell Councilmember Rich Dippolito said the day of the attacks began like any other. “That morning, everything went like normal,” he said. People went to work or boarded flights, expecting nothing unusual. Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the attacks, including 2,563 civilians, 71 law enforcement officers and 343 firefighters. “We will never forget,” said Sen. John Albers, himself a volunteer firefighter. “This was our modern-day Pearl Harbor.
We will always remember this day and hold it sacred.”
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The rejection of a Chick-fil-A franchise zoning request in the tony Avalon mixed-use development has North American Properties Managing Partner Mark Toro fuming. Four years ago, when Toro first broached the subject of a $600 million mixeduse development on 86 acres at Old Milton and Westside parkways in Alpharetta, he only mentioned one tenant by
By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com
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County seeks input on new Ga. 400 interchange Will add exit near McGinnis Ferry Road
Roswell police officer Tracy Quan and firefighter Ed Botts watch the ceremony.
name, and that was Chickfil-A. North American Properties’ request for the Chickfil-A in an outparcel on the 86-acre property was denied, ostensibly because of fears the restaurant would be too
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Public comments were gathered and maps were explained Sept. 10 as Forsyth County held a public information open house regarding a new interchange on Ga. 400 between the Windward Parkway and McFarland Parkway ramps.
The project includes construction of an interchange on Ga. 400 at McGinnis Ferry Road, widening Ga. 400 south from McGinnis Ferry to McFarland Parkway, widening McGinnis Ferry Road and making operational improvements at intersections along McGinnis Ferry. The proposed interchange is a Georgia Department of Transportation partnership project included in the Forsyth County transportation bond approved by county voters in 2014.
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