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REVUE NEWS
October 2, 2014 | northfulton.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 32, No. 39
Eaves to residents: ‘We can do better’ Roswell town hall meeting gives residents chance to air grievances By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com ROSWELL, Ga. – Fulton County Commission Chairman John Eaves brought Sept. 23 many of his department heads to the Roswell Branch Library to listen to residents and tell them what the county could do. “We are here to get the pulse of the city,” Eaves told a full house at Roswell Library’s meeting room. “We will seat a new Board of Commissioners with some new faces,” he said. “I think
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Members of the Historic Roswell Kiwanis Key Club made sure volunteers had plenty of healthy snacks and drinks for Rivers Alive.
Keeping Roswell beautiful Rivers Alive cleanup yields trash By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@northfulton.com ROSWELL, Ga. – Roswell’s Riverside Park was abuzz with activity on the morning of Sept. 27 as volunteers and city workers banded together for the annual Rivers Alive river cleanup.
Each year, Keep Roswell Beautiful, the Historic Roswell Kiwanis and the city organize the effort to clean up the city’s riverbanks along the Chattahoochee River and tributary streams. Vicki Culbreth, environmental education coordinator for the city of Roswell, said about 200 people had volunteered for the cleanup, so many that this year Rivers Alive was able
See RIVERS, Page 38
we can find some common ground and do a better job.” North Fulton Commissioner Liz Hausmann and North Fulton CommissionerEAVES elect Bob Ellis were listening, but did not speak. Eaves opened the meeting by touching on some issues
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‘We’ve all had traffic fatigue’ Ga. 9 widening to four lanes a welcomed project By ALDO NAHED aldo@forsythherald.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Hundreds of residents and business owners participated in the Georgia Department of Transportation input open house meeting to address the widening of Ga. 9. For Jo Woodard, who attended the open house at Vick-
ery Creek Middle School and lives off Campground Road in south Forsyth, the population growth has really put stress on county roads, especially on the two-lane Ga. 9 (Atlanta Highway). “I think we need to hasten it,” Woodard said. “I don’t know how you can build it fast enough.” The proposed widening would take Ga. 9 from the Fulton-Forsyth County line (McFarland Parkway) to Ga. 141 (Bethelview Road/Peachtree Parkway) in Cumming.
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