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November 12, 2015 | johnscreekherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 19, No. 45
City Council Post 2 (Regular election)
28% 28%
44%
1%
City Council Post 4 (Regular election)
97%
City Council Post 6 (Regular election)
60%
(Special election)
40%
36%
18% 11%
3%
1%
1% Todd Burkhalter (1,451) Chris Coughlin (1,377) Patty Hansen (726) Arun Misra (432) Write-In (45)
Bob Gray (3,333)
Steve Broadbent (2,448)
Chris Coughlin (1,224)
Write-In (99)
Thomas Radford (1,618) Write-In (26)
Write-In (25)
City Council Post 6 (Special election)
34%
Jay Lin (1,897)
Todd Burkhalter (1,199)
City Council Post 2
49%
39% 11% 1%
Stephanie Enders (1,979) Nazeera Dawood (1,577) Carlos Carbonell (452)
Low turnout leaves 3 races still hanging By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Post 6 incumbent Steve Broadbent won re-election handily, but a turnout of only about 4,000 voters split their votes more evenly in
Write-In (24)
See RACES, Page 6
Tyler’s Trail opens at Findley Oaks
JC No. 3 best place to live in country
Family, friends and supporters of the Tyler’s Way Foundation gather at Findley Oaks Elementary School to dedicate Tyler’s Trail, a 0.7-mile nature trail. They came also to honor the short but meaningful life of Tyler Safarriyeh. Read more, Page 12.
Only Ga. city to make 24/7 Wall St. list By HATCHER HURD hatcher@appenmediagroup.com
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – Yet another data aggregator has put Johns Creek on one of its “Best Of” lists — but when it says you’re the No. 3 best place to live in the entire United States, you gotta look at it. 24/7 Wall St., a webbased financial news and opinion company, does have its articles published, in whole or in part, by leading news sites that include MSN Money, MarketWatch, USAToday and the Huffington Post, according to its Editorin-Chief Douglas McIntyre. 24/7 Wall St. compiled its
list of the top 50 U.S. cities in which to live by looking at a “host” of empirical factors that would go into choosing a new city to move to and, based upon the weight put on those factors, ranked the cities. The top five are: No. 1 Meridian, Idaho; No. 2 Danbury, Connecticut; No. 3 Johns Creek; No. 4 Centennial, Colorado; No. 5 Eagan, Minnesota. “We are a news organization,” said McIntyre. “The content is purely the opinions of our researchers. But they do a pretty thorough job.” In looking at why someone would want to move to a new city, researchers noted there are many reasons, but finding a good job is often a prime motivator. Johns Creek does re-
See BEST, Page 48