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Fellowship Bible Church leaders present a check to Hembree Springs Elementary School for a new ADA-accessible playground Feb. 13. From left is Fellowship Bible Church CFO Monty Rivers, Hembree Springs Elementary School Principal Nancy Lahey, Elkins Pointe Middle School Principal Andrea Smith, Fulton County School Board member Katha Stuart, and Fellowship Bible Church Pastor Jason Cook.

Roswell church raises money to support four local schools

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Fellowship Bible Church in Roswell raised thousands of dollars at the close of 2023 to support specific needs of four local schools.

The fundraiser was one of the church’s NEXT initiatives,

what Pastor Jason Cook defined as a “God-sized vision to do something great for the community.” Cook said it is a strategic, end-of-year financial push, when churches and other nonprofits tend to see the most giving.

There has been an overall decline in donating, though, he said, which he attributed

to the COVID-19 pandemic, a slew of church retirements, and the cultural and political debates in recent years.

“NEXT, for us, was our really prayerful hope that we would get out of that decline, and by God’s grace, we were able to by the end of last

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta has agreed to accept $1 million from True North 400 to help fill the Kimball Bridge Road gap, a project that will add lanes to the roadway between Northwinds Parkway and Waters Road.

At a formal meeting Feb. 19, the Alpharetta City Council unanimously approved an agreement with the community improvement district True North 400 for the design, rightof-way and construction of the Kimball Bridge Road gap project.

True North 400, a self-taxing entity of commercial property owners, is a community improvement district that encompasses much of North Fulton County.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is constructing a four-lane overpass over Ga. 400 on Kimball Bridge between Northwinds Parkway and the entrance to Georgia Power Company.

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ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell Police Department, in collaboration with the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc., or CALEA, invites the public to contribute feedback and comments as part of its annual accreditation compliance review.

The accreditation process aims to foster continuous improvement and promote professional excellence within the Roswell Police Department, with community input being integral to this work.

The department has held CALEA accreditation since 1995 and must adhere to nearly 400 individual standards to gain and maintain accredited status. Copies of these standards are available for review at the Roswell Police Department, 39 Hill Street. For inquiries or to request a copy, contact Detective McKinnon at 770-640-4484.

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to entering several vehicles at dealerships along Alpharetta Highway.

A security company monitoring cameras at Nalley Toyota of Roswell notified police about a suspect entering multiple vehicles and then fleeing on foot.

Officers saw seven vehicles at Nalley Toyota with doors open and hazards on.

Police contacted a key holder for the dealership, who reported that a $20 quickcharge kit was missing from a red Toyota Tundra and a $600 navigation card was missing from a white Porsche Cayenne.

At the adjacent property, Gravity Autos, an officer said he saw two vehicles with doors open and hazards on. The key holder there told police nothing was missing from the vehicles.

Other vehicles at dealerships along Alpharetta Parkway were found with hazards on or doors open.

Officers said they were unable contact key holders at Mazda of Roswell, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Palmer Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram. Meanwhile, the security team at Nalley Toyota provided officers with security footage of the break-ins that included a description of a female suspect. With that information, an officer located a woman matching the description at the RaceTrac at Hembree Road and Alpharetta Parkway.

The officer said the suspect admitted to entering the vehicles because she was curious.

She was arrested and transported to the Roswell Police Department headquarters, where officers obtained a warrant for entering auto.

She was transported to the Fulton County Jail.

All crime reports published by Appen Media Group are compiled from public records. Neither the law enforcement agencies nor Appen Media Group implies any guilt by publishing these names. None of the persons listed has been convicted of the alleged crimes.

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A Sandy Springs man reported Feb. 3 someone stole his firearm from his parked vehicle at a car dealership on Mansell Road.

The victim reported parking his vehicle behind the dealership around noon and heading inside for work. He said he remembered removing the firearm from his jacket and putting it inside the center console.

He reported leaving his car unlocked, and when he returned around 7 p.m., he said the firearm was missing.

Officers reported the value of the firearm, a Springfield XD-S, at $411.

No suspects have been identified.

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Alpharetta woman cited for disorderly conduct ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police arrested a 41-year-old Alpharetta woman Feb. 8 who was allegedly disorderly while under the influence at Buffalo Wild Wings on Haynes Bridge Road.

Alpharetta officers reported speaking with the suspect and calming her enough to pay her tab around 8 p.m.

As the restaurant manager completed the transaction, the suspect reportedly saw another woman filming her, raised her middle fingers and cursed at the woman.

Officers reported the suspect had slow motor skills while grabbing her debit card and slurred speech.

After asking the suspect to stop speaking to the other patron, she reportedly said, “I can do what I do. You can’t stop me.”

While leaving the restaurant with officers, the suspect shouted profanities at other patrons, the report states.

The suspect was charged with disorderly while under the influence, a city ordinance violation.

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Roswell Area Park Pool drifts toward 50th year City plans big splash for summer of 2025

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — For about half a century, the Olympic-sized swimming pool at Roswell Area Park has served as a go-to spot for summer fun and finding community.

In October 1974, Roswell officials broke ground, and the following June, the pool was dedicated and opened soon afterward.

Janet Russell, who moved to Roswell from the San Francisco Bay area in 1973, goes to the pool every day when it’s in season, from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, doing exercises, “paddling around” and reading a book.

There, she said she found friendship, running into people she met at the pool around town.

“It’s fun to see young people grow up to be teenagers to be parents who come back to the pool,” Russell said. “I think the nice thing for me, too, is that we have so many people from around the world to come to that pool now.”

She said she hopes the city will put up a map of the world and a sticky dot, marking each time someone visits from elsewhere. During the 1996 Olympics, Russell said Fiji’s swim team practiced at the Roswell Area Park Pool, and Belarus’s gymnastics team trained in the building next door.

She emphasized the pool as an indiscriminate place.

“We’ve seen very fancy cars there, and we see people drive up in a taxi,” she said.

“We don’t really care where you came from, because when you take off your clothes and put on your swimming suit, we’re all in the same water together.”

She said Roswell was sparsely populated when the pool opened.

The city had a population of about

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At left, an archived image from 1975 shows a guest swimming a lap at the Roswell Area Park Olympic-sized pool. The City of Roswell will be celebrating the pool’s 50th anniversary next year. At right, a crowd enjoys the Roswell Area Park Pool in the modern day.

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A dedication plaque, dated 1974, lists those involved with bringing the pool and bathhouse to Roswell Area Park.

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This image shows the construction of the Roswell Area Park Pool before its opening in 1975.

5,500, according to the “1970 Census of Population” issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

“There was no social life, except church and the pool,” Russell said. “When I moved here, we had to vote for liquor by the drink. Let that sink in.”

She said it was one of three Olympic pools in the state.

“For a town of so few people, it was quite, I think, a leap of faith into the future … We built a pool for children whose parents hadn’t been born yet,”

Russell said.

The project had been funded using a portion of a $1.3 million bond, which also covered the city’s sewer system and two satellite fire stations. The pool and bath house cost around $411,000, close to $3 million in today’s dollars.

Each year, the pool averages up to 30,000 visitors. In addition to amenities like the children’s wading pool and mushroom waterfall, many programs are offered at the Roswell Area Park Pool.

They include aquatic exercise programs,

youth and adult swim lessons, lap swimming, swim team, lifeguard training, paddleboard yoga, and aquatic camps.

Russell recalls special events like “Dive-In Movies.”

“It’s very fun when the sun goes down at eight minutes to 9 [p.m.] behind the gymnastics building,” she said. “All the lights come on inside the pool, and the fireflies come out in the woods. It doesn't get any prettier.”

In light of the significant milestone, the city is gearing up for a grand celebration.

“Our dedicated staff is already hard at work, developing plans that include a season kick-off around the Memorial Day holiday in 2025,” said Steven Malone, Roswell director of Recreation, Parks, Historic and Cultural Affairs.

Malone said the season will be filled with special activities leading up to pool’s 50th anniversary celebration June 19, 2025.

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Teachers of the year honored across Metro Atlanta schools

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Schools Superintendent Jeff Bearden and representatives from the Chamber of Commerce and Andean Chevrolet visited the five finalists’ classrooms to surprise them with their nominations Feb. 8.

The 2023-24 Forsyth County Schools teacher of the year will receive a car lease from Andean Chevrolet.

Forsyth County is set to name its teacher of the year at a Celebration of Excellence luncheon at 11:30 a.m. March 14.

METRO ATLANTA — Metro Atlanta school districts are recognizing their distinguished and beloved instructors with the title of 2023-24 Teacher of the Year.

Here is a look at the winners and nominees from Fulton, Forsyth and DeKalb County schools.

Fulton County Fulton County Schools recognized Autrey Mill Middle School special education teacher Elise Kreitner as its 2023-24 Teacher of the Year April 18.

Kreitner previously taught at Ocee Elementary School, where she twice qualified as a Teacher of the Year finalist, until joining Autrey Mill staff in 2017.

The Johns Creek Civitan Club also named Kreitner one of four special needs teachers of the year in 2019.

Fulton County also named Northview High School professional assistant Barbara Rettker its School Professional of the Year, and Title I central office financial analyst Harriet Perry was recognized as Support Professional of the year.

Forsyth County Forsyth County began its process in

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Brandywine Elementary School teacher Jennifer Smith, center, is recognized as a teacher of the year finalist with a surprise classroom visit Feb. 8. Forsyth Schools Superintendent Jeff Bearden and representatives from Andean Chevrolet and the Chamber of Commerce stopped by to name Smith one of five finalists.

September. Schools in the district named their nominations Sept. 1, and the selected teachers submitted applications in October.

School district officials narrowed the nomination pool to 21 semi-finalists Nov. 15.

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DeKalb County DeKalb County School District named Kristen Jones its 2023-24 Teacher of the Year at its 10th annual Academy of Educational Excellence Awards Gala Nov. 4 at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Jones, a fifth grade math and social studies teacher at DeKalb Elementary School of the Arts, received a $1,000 check from Georgia United Credit Union at the ceremony.

The school district also recognized Redan High School Principal Vitella Dodson as 2023-24 Principal of the Year.

Donna Howard from DeKalb School of the Arts, Dale Collins from the Department of Public Safety and Syreeta McTier from Smoke Rise Elementary School were named Educational Support Professionals of the Year.

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By ADAM DARBY newsroom@appenmedia.com SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — A former top official with the DEA alerted area residents Feb. 15 that fentanyl is “the biggest monster that we’ve ever had in drug law enforcement.”

Speaking at a fentanyl awareness and drug prevention forum at Sandy Springs’ Studio Theatre at City Springs, Dan Salter, former DEA Special Agent in Charge, and current director of the Atlanta-Carolinas High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program, pleaded for parents to involve themselves in their children’s lives.

“This takes all hands-on deck,” Salter said. “For the parents that are in the room, get to know your kids and what’s going on.

Talk to them. Be aware of some of these things.”

The primary purpose of the meeting, one of a number community outreach events hosted by law enforcement agencies across the country, is to bring awareness to the widespread misuse of the popular painkiller, fentanyl, and the rapid increase in deaths and overdoses for users, especially in teens and young adults. Through social media platforms such as Tik Tok, younger users are easily purchasing the deadly narcotic online as user numbers continue to grow.

U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Ryan Buchanan also spoke at the event offering his experience and perspectives.

“We [as U.S. Attorney] work primarily to understand what poses the greatest threat to the citizens of our district,” he said. “It’s clear to us that fentanyl plays a huge role

in threatening our safety.”

Just last year, more Americans died from drug overdoses and drug poisonings than any other year in the history of the United States, Buchanan said.

Spreading awareness is vital, he said, and he hoped that everyone attending the meeting leaves with their “eyes wide open about what threatens us.”

The presentation included videos from drug experts expressing their thoughts on the recent popularity of fentanyl with firsthand examples and accounts of how it leads to nationwide fatalities.

Closing speaker Angela King offered her personal experiences of losing her teenage son, Jack, to a fentanyl overdose.

While she continues to mourn his passing, she is working hard to spread her message to parents and communities everywhere.

“We’re [her family] grieving and we’re hurting,” King said. “But we have to turn our pain into a purpose. Saying ‘don’t do drugs’ isn’t working. We have to start communicating. We have to start making this real…we have to be prepared. I’m committed not only to speak, but to take action.

We have to end this terrible epidemic that we’re faced with. I will be talking with legislators to get legislation passed. I will do what I can.”

The event closed with a Q&A session between attendees and each of the contributing speakers.

To watch the full presentation, visit Sandy Springs’ YouTube channel at youtube.com/@CityOfSandySprings.

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — To commemorate his sister Laura’s retirement from United Parcel Service after 34 years, Neal Hieb paid for her and her best friend to have a hands-on experience at Cherry Street Brewing.

Cherry Street founder Nick Tanner said Neal Hieb offered $2,000 for the brewing classes. Tanner chose to further the company’s mission by donating the funds to Mentor Me North Georgia, a nonprofit that connects children to adult volunteers who provide support, advice and guidance.

Tanner said Cherry Street’s mission is community, sustainability and education, and the donation to Mentor Me satisfies the company’s goals.

The Hiebs, Laura Turnbow and Cherry Street and Mentor Me staff gathered at the brewing company’s Halcyon location at noon Feb. 16 to commemorate the donation.

Laura Hieb said she used to live near Halcyon, and she often visited to enjoy beer and support the brewery.

“We said, ‘This is perfect,’” Laura Hieb said. “We have a passion for beer, and we also have a passion for giving back to the community.”

Laura Hieb and Turnbow, who is also retiring from UPS, brewed an IPA-

style beer. Tanner dubbed the new brew “Laura Squared.”

Laura Hieb is pursuing a level one Cicerone certification, which teaches the fundamentals of beer flavor, styles and service.

Tanner said Cherry Street has offered “be a brewer for a day” opportunities at silent auctions in the past, but Turnbow and Hieb’s experience was a bit more involved.

“We’ve done a lot of charities,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of work with [the] Mentor Me program since we’ve been open, 11 years ago,” Tanner said. “So, it’s a really good program. As affluent as Forsyth County is, there’s still a lot of underprivilege in Forsyth County, so it’s nice to see what Mentor Me does.”

Mentor Me Executive Director Kerry Carithers and Board Chairman Jerry Frasso joined the Hiebs and Turnbow at Cherry Street to enjoy a taste of the IPA. “For us, being a nonprofit, having this type of support in our community is the reason we get to do what we do, and we couldn’t have the impact and serve the kids that we serve without our community supporting us,” Carithers said.

She said Mentor Me served more than 3,000 students in Forsyth County Schools in 2023. The nonprofit offers three mentorship programs: one-to-one, mentoring after school and connect club.

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Appen Media Publisher Hans Appen leads about two dozen people in a Q&A session for the company’s second stop on its “Listening Tour” at From the Earth Brewery Company in Roswell Feb. 15. The tour’s next stop is in Johns Creek at Sugo on March 21 at 4 p.m.

Elections, human interest ideas take floor at Appen staff forum ROSWELL, Ga. — About two dozen people attended Appen Press Club’s second stop on its 2024 “Listening Tour” Feb. 15 at From the Earth Brewery Company.

Members of Appen Media’s newsroom made themselves available to the public to listen to feedback from readers and talk about what they would like to see more of in their local newspaper.

The Alpharetta-Roswell Herald has been serving the Alpharetta and Roswell communities since 1983 and is currently delivered to 28,000 homes weekly. It also serves as the legal organ for the City of Roswell, which means that it publishes all of the city’s legal notices about public meeting dates, tax dollar allocation and rezoning of property.

Newsroom staff also fielded questions about whether they disclose sources, how news is localized, best practices on facilitating city council debates and other election coverage.

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“We appreciate the people of Roswell welcoming us and providing us with some great story ideas and ways we can better serve them,” Appen Media Publisher Hans Appen said. “They are an engaged citizenry, and it is important to us to give them information and tools to more effectively realize the vision they have for their future.”

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While people often think of chambers as strictly networking event related, Buckley said the organization also offers educational opportunities for its members by facilitating introductions to other resources in the area, like the University of Georgia’s Small Business Development Center which has a free mentorship program.

Through a partnership with the City of Johns Creek, the Chamber is also launching a new middle-management program, for members ready to expand their businesses. The program, starting in the summer, will operate like a buddy system with mentors.

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce, like other chambers around the area, serves as a resource hub for its members and the community.

But, President and CEO Robin Buckley says what makes the Johns Creek Chamber special is that it’s composed mostly of small businesses, mom-and-pop shops. She said more than half of the city’s businesses are homebased.

“You’ll see that in Johns Creek, there aren’t a lot of corporations and that kind of thing,” Buckley said, who had just returned from a ribbon-cutting at Moi, an Asian fusion restaurant and cafe.

She goes to a lot of ribbon-cuttings, especially at the beginning of the year. “It’s very personable. You can really make a difference in each other’s lives and each other’s days.”

The Johns Creek Chamber has 330 members, most of them businesses, with one or two individuals. At the organization’s office on Johns Creek Parkway, there’s a wall filled with members’ business cards, adjacent to stands filled with the 2023-2024 Johns Creek Guide Book the Chamber created to showcase the city’s newest park, Cauley Creek, on the cover.

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Robin Buckley, president and CEO of Johns Creek Chamber of Commerce, sits at her desk in the organization’s office on Johns Creek Parkway. Buckley has been with the chamber for more than a decade. allowing members to connect to potential customers and partners.

An annual all-day event that started five to six years ago is Chicks in Charge, where the Chamber features women speakers who are leaders in their industry. It takes place on or around International Women’s Day in March.

“When they come in, they’re talking about their story or their passion for whatever it may be, saying, ‘It’s possible,’” Buckley said. “‘You can be very successful. It’s not just a man’s world out there.’”

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“Not everybody does get to meet their elected officials,” Buckley said. “I mean, I never did until I got this job, when I started coming to the Chamber.”

Buckley immediately joined the Chamber when she opened Cocktails & Canvas in 2010, then started volunteering. Two years later she sold her paint party business and got a full-time position, eventually climbing to the top as the president and CEO, a role she’s held for four years.

Small business community Describing the health of Johns Creek’s business community, Buckley said it’s small compared to the number of residents.

The resident-to-business ratio is about 15 to 1. There are around 83,000 residents in Johns Creek, which has a little more than 5,300 businesses, based on the number of licenses issued last year.

That’s more businesses than in Alpharetta – even Roswell, whose population is 10,000 more than Johns Creek’s. Alpharetta, with a population of about 70,000 has close to 4,700 businesses, and Roswell has a little more than 4,300, according to documents obtained through an open records request.

Whether a higher number of business reflects greater economic impact has not been determined.

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going under or restructuring, Buckley said space is filling up, new ideas are coming in.

Economic development has become a priority for the City of Johns Creek, propelled by the introduction of Town Center. The 192-acre area along Medlock Bridge Road will feature Medley, a mixedused development headed by Avalon’s Mark Toro, who said his project will create a halo effect.

The Town Center area will also house biomedical engineering giant Boston Scientific as well as a 62,192-squarefoot commercial development, which was recently approved by the City Council.

Johns Creek is also in the process of adopting a Revitalization Plan for the four corners of Medlock Bridge and State Bridge roads.

Thriving business Whether businesses thrive once they’re established in Johns Creek is another story, though city staff told Appen Media that the 18 to 20 percent of nonrenewals seen each year is relatively even with the number of businesses entering the city.

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expendable money, but they don’t have a lot of expendable time,” Buckley said. “...We turn into a ghost town during the major holidays … Everyone travels to get out of here because they can afford to do that. But, when they’re home, they don’t tend to necessarily spend locally.”

Buckley said it’s a tough situation for businesses when the local community shops online.

“That was a mistake I made too when I opened my studio,” Buckley said. “I was like, ‘Oh, you know, this is one of the richest cities in Georgia,’ but [residents] just don’t have the time.”

She says networking and getting involved in the community are huge to the success of new businesses.

It also helps to have a plan.

“I see a lot of people that just do things on a whim, and then they wonder why people don’t come, and it’s because they didn’t do their homework,” Buckley said.

“Or, you know, it’s more of a hobby for them than a real job.”

She said owners should consider the space, if the surrounding businesses are in alignment, rather than just focusing on how much the rent is. Buckley said there needs to be some cohesiveness within the city’s shopping centers.

“It’s crazy,” Buckley said. “Sometimes you look, and you’ll see that there’ll be a Taekwondo studio, and then there’s a paint store, and then there’s the tattoo shop. Nothing meshes.”

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Johns Creek City Councilman Dilip Tunki, a former board member at Autrey Mill, and Assistant to the City Manager Olivia Gazda, who helped secure the city’s first Tree City USA certification for the year of 2023, joined Autrey Mill Executive Director Lizen Hayes and community volunteer Will Lance for the ceremony.

“There’s a disease that’s been killing the hemlock trees by the millions, literally up in the Appalachians and all the way across to the Great Lakes,” said Lance, who brought the hemlock for planting.

Lance said the disease is brought on by a microscopic insect, a woolly adelgid, which can kill a good-sized hemlock in half a decade once it infects the tree.

His efforts to save hemlocks started more than a decade ago, rescuing them and planting them in the Atlanta area, quarantining them away from threats.

“This is one of my favorite places to do that because Autrey Mill has been

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“With their conservation ethic, I figured it was a good place to plant it.”

Autrey Mill works with the City of Johns Creek to ensure that rivers and streams are healthy and clean. This year, Hayes said there will be three creek cleanings.

“It’s important to celebrate the trees because we need them to breathe fresh air, and they keep our rivers and streams shaded, specifically the hemlocks, and that provides good environments for multiple different species…” Hayes said.

Hayes also mentioned the oak trees are endangered by a fungal disease.

“The forests here in the southeast, in particular, are in danger and with climate change, we’re facing even more hurdles …” Hayes said.

Funded by the city, grants and donations, Autrey Mill has had a forest management plan in place since 2018. The plan includes cutting back invasives, like wisteria, and cleaning up brush to prevent forest fires.

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Ready to speak out, Milton residents kept in silence Milton City Council considering process for public comment

Some came to speak about proposed recommendations from City Attorney Ken Jarrard on streamlining meeting efficiency.

Others showed up to give their thoughts on the search for active park space, including the city-owned property on Hopewell Road. Some said they’d wanted to weigh in on the alcohol beverage license for a farm winery in the Boxwood Estates subdivision.

City Attorney Jarrard, speaking at a Jan. 17 special-called City Council meeting, recommended limiting public comment to two opportunities during formal sessions, one before the consent agenda and one before new business.

By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — While Milton officials consider new rules for public comment during City Council meetings, some residents are already a little frustrated.

Several residents at the Feb. 12 Milton City Council work session left disappointed after not being allowed to speak.

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Each public comment, he suggested, would be a maximum of 30 minutes, with three minutes provided to each speaker.

Other proposed changes include holding a work session once a month an hour before regular meetings, discontinuing the practice of reading emails into the record and encouraging residents to attend meetings in person.

In a Jan. 24 email, Jarrard said the City Council planned to discuss the changes at the Feb. 12 work session.

Because the published agenda at the Feb. 12 work session did not include any items related to meeting efficiency, park space or the winery, residents were not allowed to speak on those issues.

City Code allows general public comment only at regular meetings.

However, the code allows for public comment addressing agenda items during work sessions.

Three former City Council members, including Laura Bentley, attended the meeting but were unable to comment.

“It’s definitely something that they are considering,” Bentley said. “To just pull it and not give the community information about when it will be specifically revisited, that’s frustrating to people.”

Bentley said the recommendations for streamlining meetings were not available in the Jan. 17 special-called meeting packet. After an open records request, Bentley received the details.

“Last night was, I felt, very much directed at the negative feedback they were getting on it,” Bentley said. “I get, they don’t want to hear it anymore, but that’s the point of the negative feedback.”

A part of Bentley’s frustration stems from the original purpose of the Jan. 17 special-called City Council meeting, a refresher course on the Georgia Open Meetings Act after a violation Sept. 18 when all councilmembers assembled at Avalon in Alpharetta to discuss implementing Milton’s first self-run municipal election.

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“That really bothered me,” Bentley said. “While we were training on our Open Meetings Violation, we skipped over a significant portion of ethics…to get to meeting efficiency, which shutter public comment.”

Bentley said if residents were made aware of the proposed changes, dozens would have showed up to protest the recommendations.

“I don’t think the city attorney has thought through the impact on the citizens,” Bentley said. “It’s probably better for the council than the citizens.”

She also pushed back on aligning Milton City Council meetings with the practices of other North Fulton cities.

“That’s exactly the issue, we are not like our neighbors,” Bentley said. “We kept the sewer lines out of here, which equates to density, because we would show up with 50 people.”

While some residents were unable to give public comment about their concerns, the City Council heard from others on two matters that were presented at the work session. One dealt with the Fire Department’s CARES program, the other with changes to the Unified Development Code.

Appen Media reached out to Communications Director Greg Botelho and City Attorney Jarrard for comment after the Feb. 12 City Council work session.

“The issues pertaining to meeting efficiency remain under review, [and] there is no current timetable as to when that matter might be discussed next,” Botelho wrote. “However, citizens can visit the city’s website and review published agendas to see if that item is on an agenda.”

Botelho encouraged residents wishing to discuss meeting efficiency to attend a regular meeting of the City Council during the general public comment period.

The next regular meeting is Feb. 21 at 6 p.m.

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Continued from Page 1 year,” said Cook, who took over as pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in 2021. The church was founded 45 years ago.

In just two months, Fellowship Bible Church raised $40,000, primarily through personal contributions from its 1,250-member congregation and other creative means developed by CFO Monty Rivers.

Cook and Rivers presented a $10,000 check to Hembree Springs Elementary School Feb. 13, the last stop, to support the final cost of a new playground for students with special needs.

Nancy Lahey, named Hembree Spring’s principal in December, was joined by former Principal Andrea Smith, now at Elkins Pointe Middle School. Katha Stuart, Fulton County Board of Education member, who represents areas in Roswell, Alpharetta, Milton and Mountain Park, was also on hand.

Hembree Springs has two pre-K classes and a kindergarten class for students with special needs, which includes students bused from zones not offering those programs.

“When I heard we were getting this, it just was a sigh of relief for me, because now I don’t have to worry about toilet paper and stuff for the rest of the year,” Lahey said.

Without the donation, the fence would have come directly out of the school’s budget, an important feature to allow children to use it regardless of the recess schedule.

The playground, costing a total of $130,000, will be ready by next fall

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Fellowship Bible Church Pastor Jason Cook speaks with, from left, Church CFO Monty Rivers, Hembree Springs Elementary School Principal Nancy Lahey and Elkins Pointe Middle School Principal Andrea Smith about participating in a shadowing program to identify student needs. and will have low-lying features on flat ground to accommodate those with disabilities.

A track for tricycles and bicycles will also wrap around the perimeter of the playground.

“It will be a very safe way for them to learn how to do some of those basic things that maybe you and I take for granted, but they don’t have that same opportunity,” said Smith, who helped plan for the playground while working at Hembree Springs.

The nonprofit Hope Roswell, a network of local churches founded in 2009, facilitated the partnership between Fellowship Bible Church and schools, including Vickery Mill Elementary School, Crabapple Middle School and Roswell High School.

“After a few meetings with the pastors … some of the churches

got really excited about how they could help the schools,” said Brenda Orlans, director of Hope Roswell.

For the past two years, Orlans said member churches have provided joy boxes to schools, which are shoeboxsized boxes filled with essentials like toothpaste. The organization has also helped coordinate summer camps and provided backpacks.

With help from Fellowship Bible Church, Vickery Mill Elementary School and Crabapple Middle School are launching a school store where students can use Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PBIS) points they earn to purchase prizes of their choice.

PBIS is an evidence-based tiered framework for supporting students’ behavioral, academic, social, emotional and mental health,

Roswell Annual Day of Hope, a community-wide event where participating churches donate more than 1,000 pairs of free shoes and provide free haircuts, food and entertainment, is scheduled for Sept. 23 at Roswell City Hall.

Visitors are also educated on the signs and symptoms of mental health issues as well as human trafficking and addiction. also improving teacher health and wellbeing.

Roswell High School’s check will go toward its recent partnership with Pathways2Life, designed to support students who are dealing with social, emotional, coping and addiction issues.

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Alpharetta has completed roadway and streetscape improvements on the stretch between North Point Parkway and Waters Road.

The gap project seeks to widen to four lanes the remaining 500-foot, twolane gap between GDOT’s work and the city’s work.

Under the agreement, Alpharetta is responsible for design and rightof-way. City staff said design work is completed, and the city is finalizing right-of-way agreements.

True North 400 will work with CW Matthews, GDOT’s project contractor, to perform construction management and inspection.

The CID contract does not cover landscaping and lighting along the roadway.

GDOT estimated 2023 annual daily traffic on Kimball Bridge Road westbound at 5,750 vehicles and eastbound at 4,600. The agency estimated average daily traffic on Ga. 400 under the bridge at 128,000.

Commuters on Ga. 400 have faced reduced speed limits and lane shifts since May while GDOT wraps up work on the overpass, and Kimball Bridge

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The “gap” on Kimball Bridge Road between the two red lines is set to be widened to four lanes. The Alpharetta City Council approved a $1 million agreement with True North 400 Feb. 19 that will widen Kimball Bridge Road fully between Northwinds Parkway and Waters Road.

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has been closed between Northwinds and North Point parkways during construction.

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The CID’s offer allows the gap project to be completed while GDOT finishes its work on the overpass through May. If the City Council had not approved the agreement, the city would

have to bid the gap construction, and work would not begin until after GDOT completes the overpass, prolonging delays for drivers.

“The closure of the Kimball Bridge Road Bridge over Ga. 400 is not ideal for the thousands of commuters and those traveling to the numerous office buildings in the vicinity of the project,” city staff said in the project report.

The agreement with the CID was discussed at the City Council planning retreat Jan. 22, where Mayor Jim Gilvin said he thought the CID funds would be better spent on the city’s efforts to revamp the North Point Corridor.

Gilvin’s remarks followed ongoing discussions on the dais about whether the CID’s priorities align with Alpharetta’s.

At the retreat, councilmembers elected to consider an agreement to accept the CID money with a contingency for the CID to allocate construction funding toward the Encore Parkway Big Creek Greenway gateway.

City Council planning retreats serve as forums for councilmembers to discuss future agenda items, but no formal votes are taken.

The agreement was approved at the Feb. 19 meeting with no discussion of the Greenway connection.

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CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH WITH AFRO-LATIN SOUNDS CONCERT

What: Join the KT Collaborative in celebrating Black History Month with a night of Afro Latin sounds. The evening will consist of a cross-genre presentation of Afro-Latin, Brazilian music and vocals, using percussive and various rhythmic styles. The event is free and open to the public.

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GIRLS ON FIRE

What: The Alpharetta Symphony will feature the first symphony composed by an American woman, Amy Beach’s “Gaelic Symphony” and a work by a living composer August Read Thomas, who often writes for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The group will also feature a violin concerto, written

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NO MORE HIDDEN FIGURES: VISUAL ARTISTS ON BLACKNESS

What: The Johns Creek Arts Center will have an exhibit on display in recognition of Black History Month through the end of February.

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KARLA HARRIS AND THE JOE ALTERMAN TRIO

What: Karla Harris and the Joe Alterman Trio, longtime creative collaborators, will perform for an evening of jazz standards and original music, as part of the Center Stage Series.

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ATLANTA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2024

What: This year’s Atlanta Jewish Film Festival features a diverse array of 48 feature films and 15 shorts from 20 countries, including three world premieres, six North American premieres, two U.S. premieres, and 13 Southeast premieres. The festival, hosted across five Metro Atlanta venues including the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center, caters to both in-person and online audiences.

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OPINION

PRESERVING THE PAST

Tracking the winding trails of the Webb families

BOB MEYERS

The Webb families are numerous and widespread. According to House of Names, Webb is the 125th most popular surname in the United States with an estimated 179,000 people with that name.

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I appreciate the assistance of several people in the preparation of this column: Judy Webb, Pat Miller, Connie Mashburn and Ed Malowney, all of whom are steeped in the history of North Fulton County. Thanks also to Brent Lerch, an “avid reader” of “Preserving the Past,” for suggesting as a subject the Web family and “how deeply invested they were in the history of the Alpharetta/Ocee/Milton area.”

Perhaps we should start with Clinton Toliver Webb, born in North Carolina in 1778, moved to Georgia, raised a family, died and was buried in Alpharetta in 1862.

While he and his wife, Jane Christian Robinson (1777-1872), were not the first Webs to immigrate to the United States, they were probably among the first to settle in Georgia. They are buried in Old Big Creek Cemetery in Alpharetta. According to Judy Webb, they had 12 children who gave life to 40 offspring.

Pat Miller says that by the early 1920s, seven generations following Clinton Webb,

there were nearly 150 Webb descendants in the North Fulton area, including spouses and many more after that. Most of the descendants remained in the North Fulton area although some lived in Cherokee and Forsyth Counties. Through marriage with other local families, many if not most families are somehow linked genetically.

Surnames, such as Paris, Martin, Maxell, Shirley, Buice, Bagwell, Morton, Devore, Mansell, McGinnis, Medlock, Mayfield, Strickland, Phillips and other well-known names intermarried with the Webbs.

The name means “weaver” in Old English and can be traced back to the Norman conquest of 1066. Locally, various branches of the Webb family exist, some individuals with the same names or initials as previous generations which makes researching the family more challenging.

Judy Webb and her husband Lewis Webb graduated from Milton High School in 1966. Judy taught school in Cobb County and Fulton County for 41 years.

After serving in Vietnam, Lewis created software for AT&T and later formed his own company. In 1981 they built a home on family land purchased in 1942 from the Buice family by Lewis’ parents Horace David Webb and Violet Lenora Burgess in the Ocee Community.

One of the most repeated Webb stories concerns Add James Webb (1886–1924) who was related to Lewis Webb. During the Civil War, the federal government began to tax luxury goods such as liquor and

tobacco. Distillation went underground to avoid taxes which led to Prohibition in 1920. Moonshiners transported their illegal product in souped-up, high-speed cars from its source north of Atlanta to the lucrative Atlanta market. Their cars sped through Alpharetta, Roswell, Sandy Springs and other towns.

Milton County Special Officer Add Webb was shot and beaten to death Nov. 7, 1924, after police chased a car for some 10 miles near the community of Newtown.

The car suddenly stopped near Holcomb Bridge. The suspects shot, then beat the officers, killing Webb and seriously wounding the second officer, Verd Eison.

In February 1925 two of the participants turned themselves in but were acquitted in court after claiming that one of their guns accidentally discharged during the struggle. In March 1925, they were indicted for murder by a grand jury. In December they were acquitted but were fined $250 for assault and battery. The third participant surrendered after Christmas and declared his innocence.

Connie Mashburn’s book “Alpharetta, Milton County The Early Years,” tells the story of Alpharetta’s early hotels and commercial buildings. The R.J. Webb building, known as the Webb Hotel and later the Alpharetta Hotel, began operations in 1908. The hotel dining room had white linen tablecloths and waiters dressed in white jackets. Beginning in the late 1910s other families took over

the hotel. By the late 1960s, the building was empty except for a few residents and had deteriorated. It was demolished in the 1970s.

R.J. built several other buildings in downtown Alpharetta, including the Adventist School and Church. He and J.J. Webb built the Webb Guano House in 1901. Years later, the building was demolished to make way for the Hamilton Hotel which opened in 2021. J.J. also built the J.J. Webb and Sons Building in 1910 which included the Bates Grocery, Milton County Bank, Shirley Brothers store and a post office. C.P. Brady purchased the building in 1934 where he operated a Chevrolet dealership.

Judy Webb reports that John Webb was a prosperous farmer who owned about 1,000 acres east of Big Creek. Webb Bridge Middle School and a post office were built on the property.

Judy says, “When I was a child, my mother in-law was afraid of him. He was old with a long white beard.” John’s son Jim was a Georgia State Senator who helped draft the merger of Milton County with Fulton County in 1932.

An interesting family to say the least.

Bob is director emeritus of the Milton Historical Society and a Member of the City of Alpharetta Historic Preservation Commission. You can email him at bobmey@ bellsouth.net. Bob welcomes suggestions for future columns about local history.

PAST TENSE

Black soldiers from Georgia report to WW 1 Camp Gordon In 1917, a temporary World War I training camp was constructed on 2,000 acres in Chamblee.

U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Leonard Wood visited Atlanta to find suitable land, VALERIE BIGGERSTAFF near the railroad and with a good Columnist water supply. Today, DeKalb-Peachtree Airport is on land that was Camp Gordon. During World War II, this same land was home to Naval Air Station Atlanta.

The camp opened on Sept. 5, 1917.

Barracks had been constructed for 46,612 men. Sixteen similar training camps were set up across the country.

The first men assigned at Camp Gordon were White men from Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Later, men were sent to Camp Gordon from all over

the country and it became primarily a replacement facility. (“Atlanta’s Camp Gordon,” James Knettel) In September of 1917, the Atlanta Constitution announced the arrival of 3,755 Black soldiers at Camp Gordon on Oct. 3. Barracks were constructed for Black recruits in the northeastern section of the camp, separated by a strip of empty land.

According to the National Archives, over 380,000 Black men served in the Army during WW1, with over 200,000 being sent overseas. Over half of them were assigned to labor and stevedore battalions. They performed essential work such as building roads, bridges and trenches; and unloading and loading ships.

In November 1917, 1,300 Black soldiers from Camp Gordon were sent overseas to France, primarily as part of service battalions. (Atlanta Constitution, November 11, 1917).

Black soldiers who were sent overseas later and became part of the 92nd and 93rd divisions, fought alongside French soldiers. This included the 369th, 370th, 371st, and 372nd Infantries. According to army.mil, the 370th Infantry was the only one to be commanded by Black soldiers.

Joe Roberson, Henry Mitchell Vaughan and E.C. Obean were among Black recruits who reported to WW1 Camp Gordon. Roberson, born in 1896, is listed on a record of soldiers ordered to Camp Gordon from Valdosta on April 29, 1918. He began in the 157th Depot Brigade, but later became part of the 372nd Infantry Company E, and eventually was a machine gunner in the 372nd. He returned to the U.S. aboard the ship Leviathan on Feb. 11, 1919.

Feb. 12, the Atlanta Journal reported around 10,000 troops were unloaded from the Leviathan at Hoboken, New Jersey, including soldiers from the

371st, 372nd, 163rd, and 368th Infantry.

Henry Mitchell Vaughan of Nashville, Georgia, was inducted April 13, 1918 and instructed to report to Camp Gordon. He began his service in the 157th Depot Brigade, but later was part of the 370th Infantry sent overseas. He served overseas from July 1, 1918, until Feb. 9, 1919.

Among the men inducted at Hamilton, Georgia, on July 19, 1918, was E.C. Obean. He was born in Fortson, Georgia, in 1892. Obean reported to Camp Gordon and served in the 157th Depot Brigade. He later served overseas with Company B 584 Engineers.

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Fulfilling wish of being weightless as a feather Remember the Sears Wish Book?

Okay, I’m dating myself with that one. But if you’re of a certain age, I’ll bet you know exactly what I’m talking about. You may remember, too, the STEVE HUDSON hours and hours Columnist you (that is, I) spent immersed in its pages, thinking of all the fun you (that is, I again) could have with a genuine die-cast fire truck or an electric race car set with four authentically detailed cars or, if I was really good, an honest-to-goodness oldfashioned tree swing.

I really wanted that swing. I really wanted to get it going, to see how high I could go, to arc up-up-upwards till my feet were far from the ground and my head was in the clouds and I was weightless as a feather, over and over again...

Yeah, it was good to be young.

Fast-forward a few years (we won’t say how many). These days, the nature of wishes has evolved. But they’re still there. And so…

The other weekend, we took a day and went to the Atlanta Camping and RV Show.

“Let’s look at the campers!” she said.

She is seriously into this camping thing, let me tell you, and we are having a blast with it. Our home in the woods is a tent, which she somehow magically transforms into a palatial estate, and it’s grand.

But there’s always that wish book fantasy, right? And so we start by looking at the campers.

Let me tell you. Campers are serious business. We look at the little pull-behinds, including a cute pink one with a retro look. She likes that. We look at some fancy pop-ups, including some high-tech models that fold into compact packages but unfold into country estates. She likes those too.

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“One could get used to that,” I say.

We look at the price tags. Wow. “Maybe we’ll stick with the tent,” I say.

“Yes, maybe so,” she says.

We start to make our way back to the car. But on the way, without even knowing it, we stumble across another wish, one just waiting to be granted.

What’s this? Oh boy! A tree swing!

Suddenly that Wish Book wish is alive and well!

Do you remember how much fun it used to be to play in trees? To run among them? To climb them? To float back and forth on a swing tied to a limb?

I do, and it all came back just then as I stepped up to the GoSwing display.

GoSwing, which may be the world’s

first completely portable tree swing, is the brainchild of Georgia native Matt Morgan. It’s a tree swing in the grand tradition, but it solves the big problem that has flummoxed generations of tree swing lovers: How do you take down a tree swing at day’s end so you can take it home and swing another day somewhere else?

Among tree swing fans, that’s a big deal. But fear not. Matt has come to our rescue. Tree swing lovers, rejoice!

As Matt puts it, inspiration struck one day over a decade ago during a visit to Charleston, S.C. “I was walking through Battery Park,” he says, “a beautiful landscape on the ocean.” As he walked, he was struck by the park’s spectacular treescape.

“The landscape included

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magnificent trees with large limbs that seemed to stretch out for miles,” he says, and that got him to thinking.

“I thought it’d be nice to have a swing you could hang up, swing for a while, and then bring back down to take with you,” he continues. “I quickly wrote the idea down, and when I returned home, I searched to see if there was anything out there like it.”

To his surprise, he found that no one had come up with the idea before.

“So I started putting ideas into action,” he adds, and the rest – as they say – is history.

Matt’s GoSwing is elegant. It features a wood swing seat and a rope, of course. Those are tree swing essentials. But the brilliance is in the patented system he developed for getting the swing out of the tree at day’s end. You can see it for yourself on his website, goswing.net.

At first, Matt made each swing by hand in his own workshop, one or two at a time. He sold his first one in 2014.

“My first customer was a childhood friend,” he recalls, adding, “I’ve still got the check.”

But as demand began to grow, he outsourced the manufacturing. Now he manages the business in his spare time.

“My only marketing time is after the kids go to bed,” he says.

To date, Matt has sold close to a thousand GoSwings, either through his website or through mom-and-pop shops or at festivals and fairs. But he looks for the numbers to grow, and he’s already planning his next product – a lightweight molded plastic version, just the thing to fit in a daypack.

As Matt sees it, though, GoSwing is more than just a business. He sees it as a way to help families connect with one another while enjoying the outdoors.

“I’m trying to get kids and families off their screens and phones and back outside,” he says.

He’s doing it, too.

And I wonder if he knew that he was granting a Wish Book wish along the way?

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genres.

This week’s reading included earlier books by two authors whose later books I enjoyed.

The first is part of a cozy mystery series. The second is a standalone novel. Both are set in England, but they’re different

“Death of a Cozy Writer” by G. M. Maillet I read Malliet’s Max Tudor cozy mysteries eons ago and had a hankering to check out her St. Just series. The Max Tudor series features an Anglican priest as the main character. Det. Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just is the likeable main character in Book I— “Death of a Cozy Writer.” This 2008 entry in the

series won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for many other awards, including the Macavity and the Anthony.

Set at a house party in a manor house in the English countryside, the mystery involves family intrigue that stretches over 40 years until, of course, it ends in murder. That a cozy mystery author is a central character made my day. I may write cozy mysteries, but I’ve yet to be involved in a real-life murder mystery and hope I never am.

Imagining murders is enough for me.

The author includes a helpful cast of characters in the front, and it was reading her Max Tudor mysteries that inspired me to include one in my books, too. It’s a feature that my readers often comment on. The fifth book in the St. Just series comes out later this year, and I plan to read the next several so I’m ready.

“Ghosted” by Rosie Walsh Billed variously as romantic suspense, sisters fiction, and women’s friendship fiction, this love story is a page-turner. Sarah and Eddie meet, spend a week together, and fall instantly in love. She’s visiting England from her home in California, and he’s off on a vacation with a friend. They plan to connect when he returns from his week away — but he ghosts her.

Therein lies the mystery. Is Eddie like every other man who’s ghosted a woman? How can that be when he expressed his undying love for Sarah? She can’t believe he ghosted her and worries that something awful has happened to him. He’s disappeared from social media and disconnected his phone. She does everything she can to locate him before returning heartbroken to California.

This alternately heartbreaking

and heartwarming love story-cummystery kept me guessing until the very end. If I hadn’t already read Walsh’s second book, “The Love of My Life,” I’d be off to get it. It was that 2022 book that sent me in search of “Ghosted,” and I honestly can’t say that one is better than the other. My hope is that Walsh will soon release a third book.

Meanwhile, I’ve got the St. Just and Max Tudor mysteries to keep me busy, not to mention all the other books on my TBR list. Can there ever be too many?

Award-winning author Kathy Manos Penn is a Sandy Springs resident. Find her cozy mysteries on Amazon or locally at The Enchanted Forest, Bookmiser, Tall Tales, and Johns Creek Books. Contact her at inkpenn119@gmail.com, and follow her on Facebook, www.facebook.com/ KathyManosPennAuthor/.

Waiting for baseball, the Masters and spring It’s tough to not quote Dusty Rhodes, the late professional wrestler who cut a classic promo that decried how he was going through “hard times.” It was a masterful blurb MIKE TASOS of showmanship.

Columnist If you’re bored waiting for spring, look it up on YouTube and enjoy.

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boy at Christmas, making ourselves giddy with anticipation of all the delights of springtime.

But before we can get excited about baseball, we are forced to deal with annual buzzkill, which arrives at a different date or month every year. Of course, I’m referring to Ash Wednesday, which isn’t a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church, but a day that you are nonetheless expected to be present to have your forehead “smudged.”

It has been my observation that there all types of “smudges” that are worn after attending mass on the day

that is somewhat of the green flag for signaling that an Easter feast is a mere 40 days down the road. It’s been my experience that different priests put their own personal touch when they dole out ashes. Some barely leave a trace while others go all-in, leaving residue that might necessitate lots of soap and two or three washcloths.

Some years ago, I was instructed by a less enlightened non-Catholic trying to be helpful to: “Go wash your face. Your forehead is nasty.”

Lent is never a barrelful of laughs, nor is it meant to be. There are some brighter points in the season of sack cloths and ashes. For instance, there are Friday fish dinners galore at most Catholic parishes. The events are usually quite festive and a perfect opportunity to mingle and make friends.

If eating fish doesn’t float your boat, there’s solace in knowing the Atlanta Braves will be playing the Tampa Bay Rays as the curtain rises for spring training baseball beginning Feb. 24. The regular season begins Thursday March 28 in Philadelphia. No love lost there. The home opener is Friday April 5 when the Arizona Diamondbacks will visit Truist Park. For you who like to plan ahead, the season closes on Sunday, Sept. 29.

The sports calendar fills up with March Madness and a full slate of NASCAR races for fans who like to watch screaming, speeding machines that never seem to make a right turn.

Let’s not forget there’s a little golf tournament in Augusta that begins the weekend of April 11. You know the venue will be gorgeous. Here’s hoping the Masters weekend weather will match Augusta National’s beauty.

For me, I will accept the doldrums of a sports slate that is uninspiring, biding my time until baseball’s AllStar break in early July. I will take solace in knowing college football is so close.

I’ll sprinkle in some summertime Black Beauty rides in the breathtaking beauty that encompass the scenery of the mountains of Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina.

I’m counting on a healed right foot. When I’m knee deep in all this, I’ll smile and give thanks that all is right in my world. I hope you get a chance to smile too.

Mike Tasos has lived in Forsyth County for more than 30 years. He’s an American by birth and considers himself a Southerner by the grace of God. He can be reached at miketasos55@gmail.com.

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Will Social Security be there when you retire?

If you query the Internet as to when the Social Security Trust Fund will run out of money, you get a variety of answers. Estimates range from 2033 to 2041.

Consider a LEWIS J. WALKER, CFP current posting on Columnist the Social Security The Investment Coach website, ssa.gov.

“The Social Security Board of Trustees now estimates that based on current law, in 2041 the Trust Funds will be depleted.”

That’s only 17 short years away and the oldest Gen Xer will be age 61, and most likely deep into retirement planning. So what happens to Social Security benefits if Congress keeps kicking the can down the road?

The Social Security Administration notes that “people are living longer, and the birth rate is low, (and) the ratio of workers to beneficiaries is falling. Therefore, the taxes that are paid by workers will not be enough to pay the full benefit amounts scheduled. However, this does not mean that Social Security benefit payments would disappear. Even if modifications to the program are not made, there would still be enough funds in 2041 from taxes paid by workers to pay about $780 for every $1,000 in benefits scheduled.”

That’s a 22% cut in benefits.

Data shows that about half of the American population aged 65 or older lives in households that receive at least 50% of their family income from Social Security benefits. About 25% of senior households rely on Social Security for at least 90% of their family income. Any cut in benefits will hurt! Even now, for a person who worked for his or her entire adult life at average earnings and retires at age 65, Social Security benefits replace only about 37% of past earnings. Social Security was never intended to be a living!

Many people do not understand the

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workings of the Social Security Trust Fund.

They think that their payroll taxes are held “in trust” for them in real assets and then the funds are used to pay them income when they retire.

Actually, the funds that you pay in are paid out to current retirees and what is held for you is essentially an “IOU,” a promise to pay you a future income stream based on a variety of variables. Here’s how the Tax Policy Center, sponsored by the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, explains it, objecting to suggestions that the trust funds are “not real.”

“Social Security trust funds are real and hold real Treasury securities for which the federal government has an obligation to pay. They reflect any accumulated excess of Social Security taxes plus other revenues, such as interest received, over expenditures. At the same time, the trust funds ‘fund’ only a portion of outstanding obligations. The trust funds are invested in special-issue Treasury securities backed by the full faith and credit of the federal government.”

But here’s the rub, where the cat gets let out of the bag.

Continues the Tax Policy Center: “The trust funds are not a free lunch for taxpayers. Money from the general fund used to repay debts to the trust funds cannot be used for other purposes, like building roads or providing for national defense. And as an additional outlay for the government, those general fund payments increase the Treasury’s need to borrow from the public, increasing federal deficits and adding burdens on future taxpayers.”

So, do we continue to run up gargantuan deficits ad nauseam, raise Social Security taxes, increase the age for full retirement benefits to say, age 70, currently pegged at age 66 t0 67 depending on your date of birth, or all of the above?

No matter what, somehow you will help to pay the piper as a taxpayer, beneficiary, or both.

From a financial planning standpoint, a better solution is to work toward financial

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The following item will be heard at a public hearing held by the Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7:00 PM in the Roswell City Hall Council Chambers, 38 Hill Street, Roswell, Georgia. a. BZA 20235019 - 180 Thompson Place The applicant, Robert Myers, is requesting a Stream Buffer Variance; land lot 371.

The complete file is available for public view at the Roswell Planning & Zoning Office, 38 Hill Street, Suite G-30, Roswell, GA, 770.817.6720 or planningandzoning@roswellgov.com. Refer to www.roswellgov.com.

independence and self-sufficiency so that Social Security, when you get it, regardless of the monthly benefit, is a “high side plus.” The money can be used for travel, taking grandchildren on trips, hobbies, and increased donations to your house of worship, charities and other philanthropic endeavors.

Starting early in life with consistent investments in wealth-building channels like an IRA, a 401(k), or other retirement planning tools, as well as a growing investment portfolio outside of your retirement plans, will set you on the road to wealth and self-sufficiency.

Invest in assets likely to grow over time in excess of inflation and taxation, in diversified stock portfolios and real assets such as real estate, private equity, etc.

Understand risk/reward tradeoffs and use a professional financial adviser to help create a road map. Own a home versus renting. Have a budget, and do not pay interest on credit card debt. Use all debt

prudently. Build your own business with growing value if you have entrepreneurial aptitudes. Pay your taxes on time, but use a CPA in sync with your financial adviser to limit tax liabilities using lawful strategies. Carry adequate levels of insurance – life, health, disability and umbrella liability − so that life’s setbacks don’t result in financial ruin.

When married and retired, you get two Social Security checks. When your spouse dies, you only get one check, but it will be for the higher amount of the two checks received prior to the passing of your loved one. But you would like for that to make no difference in your lifestyle or options as a survivor. No widow or widower wants to be a burden on the children. You want to be able to afford the best when you or your loved one needs care, a nursing or senior living facility, for example.

Comprehensive financial planning starting early in life is the best approach to “senior security” and the blessings of choice!

The City of Roswell Announces Public Comment Period for Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) Substantial Amendment.

In alignment with the City of Roswell’s 2023 Citizen Participation Plan (CPP), the City is opening a 30-day public comment period for an amendment to its 2019 Annual Action Plan (AAP). This amendment identifies the reallocation of Community Development Block Grant-Coronavirus (CDBG-CV) funding in the amount of $37,901.04 that the City received from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The funds will be reallocated to the City of Roswell’s Recreation, Parks, Historic, and Cultural Affairs Department to enhance the Roswell Adaptive Friendship Camp in May 2024. For more detailed information about the activity, please visit roswellgov.com/CDBG. In addition, hard copies of the plan will be available at: City of Roswell 38 Hill St., Suite 130 Roswell, Georgia 30075 East Roswell Public Library 2301 Holcomb Bridge Road Roswell, GA 30076 Housing Authority of the City of Roswell 199 Grove Way Roswell, Georgia 30075 Roswell Public Library 115 Norcross Street Roswell, Georgia 30075 The public comment period will begin on Thursday February 22, 2024 and conclude at 5 P.M. EST on Monday March 25, 2024. Written comments from the public may be submitted to CDBG@roswellgov.com during this period. All comments will be considered and submitted to HUD with the amendment. If you have any questions, please contact the Grants Division at (770) 641-3847 or at CDBG@roswellgov.com.

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CITY OF ROSWELL PUBLIC NOTICE

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PLACE: Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St Suite 215

PLACE: Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St, Suite 215

DATE & TIME: Thursday, March 7, 2024, at 10:00 am.

DATE & TIME: 10:00 AM, Thursday, March 7, 2024

PURPOSE: Application for Full Pouring Liquor/Beer/Wine/Sunday Service

PURPOSE: Application for Full Pouring/Liquor/Beer/Wine/ Sunday Sales

APPLICANT: Muslum Gulmez

APPLICANT: Shehzad Patel

BUSINESS NAME: Loquom Lounge / Zara Lounge LLC

BUSINESS NAME: Fiesta Bar Y Parrilla/Alishmaan Investements Inc

BUSINESS ADDRESS: 915 Holcomb Bridge Rd. Ste B. Roswell GA 30076

BUSINESS ADDRESS: 11235 Alpharetta Hwy, Suite #102, Roswell, GA 30076

NOTICE OF LOCATION AND DESIGN APPROVAL P. I. 0017187 FULTON COUNTY Notice is hereby given in compliance with Georgia Code 22-2-109 and 32-3-5 that the Georgia Department of Transportation has approved the Location and Design of this project.

The date of location and design approval is: January 31, 2024 The proposed project is located in Fulton County and is within Land District 1.

The proposed project intends to widen SR 120/Old Milton Parkway from 4-lanes to 6-lanes with a 20-foot raised median from North Point Parkway to Kimball Bridge Road. All the widening except near the bridge over Big Creek will be to the inside. Total project length is approximately 2 miles. The project will replace the two existing bridges (EB & WB), that span over Big Creek and the Big Creek Greenway Trail, with one wider bridge.

The City of Alpharetta would be responsible for acquiring property rights for this project.

Drawings or maps or plats of the proposed project, as approved, are on file and are available for public inspection at the Georgia Department of Transportation: Britni McCullough – Area Manager District 7, Area 2 bmccullough @dot.ga.gov 1268 Kennestone Circle Marietta, GA 30065 478-234-7985 Any interested party may obtain a copy of the drawings or maps or plats or portions thereof by paying a nominal fee and requesting in writing to: Kimberly Nesbitt, Office of Program Delivery Administrator Attn: Rodney Leverette, Project Manager RLeverette@dot.ga.gov 600 West Peachtree Street NW Atlanta, Ga. 30308 (404) 424-9033 Any written request or communication in reference to this project or notice SHOULD include the Project and P. I. Numbers as noted at the top of this notice.

CITY OF ALPHARETTA PUBLIC NOTICE PH-24-AB-02 Please note that this meeting will be a virtual meeting, conducted online using Zoom meetings.

PLACE To Attend the Virtual Meeting: Using Your Computer, Tablet or Smartphone Go to: https://zoom.us Meeting ID: 894 0417 7793 Dial In: +1 646 558 8656 US February 26, 2024 at 2:00 P.M. PURPOSE Eating Establishment Consumption on Premises Distilled Spirits, Beer, Wine & Sunday Sales APPLICANT Jalomane, LLC d/b/a Zazza Restaurant and Lounge 124 Devore Road Alpharetta, GA 30009 Owner: Jalomane, LLC Registered Agent: Vania Mane

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CITY OF ALPHARETTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The following items will be considered by the City Council on Monday, March 25, 2024 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. a. E-24-01 Greco/1530 Stelten Way Backyard Chickens Consideration of an exception to allow backyard chickens on a 0.47 acre residential property with a chicken coop that is approximately 13’ from the side property line. Unified Development Code (UDC) Subsection 2.3.3(C)(9) Accessory Uses and Structures, Uses Customarily Accessory to Dwellings Located in Residential Zoning Districts requires that backyard chickens be located on a minimum 1-acre property with a single-family detached dwelling and associated structures (chicken coop) having a minimum setback of 25’ from the side and rear property lines. The property is located at 1530 Stelten Way and is legally described as being located in Land Lot 1201, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

Note: Georgia law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to the Mayor or to a Council Member in excess of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) within the past two (2) years must complete a campaign contribution report with the Community Development Department. The complete text of the Georgia law and a disclosure form are available in the office of the City Clerk, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

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CITY OF ROSWELL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLACE: Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St Suite 215 DATE & TIME: 10:00 AM, Thursday, March 7th, 2024 PURPOSE: Application for Package/ Beer Sale APPLICANT: Shehzad Patel BUSINESS NAME: San Miguel #3 Alishmaan Inc BUSINESS ADDRESS: 11235 Alpharetta Hwy, Suite 103, Roswell GA 30076

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CITY OF ALPHARETTA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The following items will be heard at a public hearing held by the Planning Commission on Thursday, March 7, 2024 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

Items forwarded by the Planning Commission will be considered by the City Council on Monday, March 25, 2024 commencing at 6:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. a. CLUP-24-01/Z-24-04/V-24-04 Upper Hembree Tract/Empire Communities Consideration of a comprehensive land use plan amendment, rezoning and variances to allow for the redevelopment of the former’s Harry’s Market with a 149-lot single-family detached subdivision on 19.32 acres. A comprehensive land use plan amendment is requested from Commercial to High Density Residential and a rezoning is requested from PSC (Planned Shopping Center) to R-8D (Dwelling, ‘For-Sale’, Detached Residential – High Density). Variances are requested to Unified Development Code (UDC) Subsection 2.2.9(D) to increase building coverage by principal buildings from 40% to 65%, and reduce minimum lot width from 50’ to 31’ and to UDC Subsection 3.2.8(B)(1)(a) to reduce the 50’ undisturbed buffer. The property is located at 1180 Upper Hembree Road and is legally described as being located in Land Lots 550 & 553, 1 st District, 2 nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia. b. Z-24-06/PH-24-06/V-24-06 55 Canton Consideration of a rezoning, parking in-lieu fees, and variances to allow for the construction of a mixed-use building with 36 ‘For-Sale’ condominium units and 7,303 square feet of restaurant space on 1.02 acres in the Downtown Overlay. A rezoning is requested from C-2 (General Commercial) to DT-C (Downtown Core) and parking in-lieu fees are requested for approximately four (4) parking spaces. Variances are requested to Unified Development Code (UDC) Appendix A: Alpharetta Downtown Code Subsection 3.5.5 to increase the maximum building footprint and to UDC Subsection 2.5.5(J) to allow tandem parking spaces to count toward minimum parking requirements. The property is located at 32, 38 & 44 Old Canton Street and is legally described as being located in Land Lot 1269, 2 nd District, 2 nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia. c. PH-24-07 Unified Development Code (UDC) Text Amendments – Hotels Consideration of text amendments to Articles I and II of the Unified Development Code (UDC) to add a definition for ‘Hotel, Hybrid’, add the use in certain zoning districts, and miscellaneous regulations.

The following items will be considered by the Board of Zoning Appeals on Thursday, March 21, 2024 commencing at 5:30 p.m. in the Alpharetta City Hall Council Chambers, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia. a. V-23-25 Busch/212 Brook Drive Consideration of a variance to reduce a front setback from 35’ to 20’ and side setback from 10’ to 8’ to allow for a garage addition. The property is located at 212 Brook Drive and is legally described as being located in Land Lot 1251, 2nd District, 2nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia. b. V-24-05 Barbaree/61 Creekline Drive Garage Addition Consideration of a variance to reduce a corner side setback from 20’ to 13.5’ to allow for a garage addition on a single-family detached home on 0.34 acres. Unified Development Code (UDC) Subsection 2.2.6(D) R-12 Dwelling, For-Sale, Residential, District Regulations requires a 20’ corner side setback. The property is located at 61 Creekline Drive and is legally described as being located in Land Lot 542, 1 st District, 2 nd Section, Fulton County, Georgia.

Note: Georgia law requires that all parties who have made campaign contributions to the Mayor or to a Council Member in excess of two hundred fifty dollars ($250) within the past two (2) years must complete a campaign contribution report with the Community Development Department. The complete text of the Georgia law and a disclosure form are available in the office of the City Clerk, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia.

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