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No Doubt tribute band Subliminal Doubt performs at The Cumming City Center on March 15 for the St. Paddy’s Day Rock Fest.
‘Sea of green’ fills city center for St. Patrick’s celebration
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — When headliner members of Subliminal Doubt took the stage March 15 at the St. Paddy’s Day Rock Fest at The Cumming City Center, they were shocked.
“It was just like a sea of green shirts,” frontwoman Monica Leamy said. “We thought we were going to play for nobody, but the city turned out.”
Leamy, whose stage name is “Fake Gwen,” sings and performs in the style of Gwen Stefani for the No Doubt tribute band. The St. Patrick’s Day concert attracted hundreds of locals and visitors.
Crowds turned out to ring in the holiday at the
third annual St. Paddy’s Day Rock Fest at The Cumming City Center, 423 Canton Road. Despite some stormy weather, about 3,000 visitors attended to listen to live music performances and drink green beer and other Irish beverages.
The day’s lineup included 90s alternative tribute band Wicked Garden, hard rock group Pushing Daisies and headliner Subliminal Doubt.
Hosted by The Cumming City Center and sports bar and live music venue The Well, the festival was an opportunity for residents to gather and celebrate community and music together, said Jennifer Archer, property manager for The Cumming City Center.
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Firm seeks city zoning for apartment project
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Cumming’s less restrictive zoning regulations are creating a haven for affordable housing amid a county where high rents and property values are pushing out many renters.
At a March 11 work session, the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners approved an apartment’s annexation into Cumming.
Owner Hoff Homes is seeking an annexation into Cumming for Hutchinson Place Apartments, 3300 Hutchinson Road, and an adjacent 0.44 acres to add six units.
Currently on county land, the two-story, standalone 20-unit apartment offers rents between $1,200 and $1,400 per month. Apartments at that price point can be hard to find in the county.
Forsyth County renters pay an average of $2,181 per month, compared to a state average of $1,970, according to Zillow. Cumming Mayor Troy Brumbalow said the City Council will consider the annexation after the Planning and Zoning Commission makes a recommendation.
“The lack of affordable housing is a problem nationwide and our community is no exception,” Brumbalow said.
About 15% of the county’s residents rent their homes, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Statewide, about 35% of residents are renters, according to USA Facts.
See ZONING, Page 13
Hutchinson Place Apartments, 3300 Hutchinson Road, features 20 units with rents between $1,200 and $1,400 per month.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A person was found dead in the remnants of a burned home after a fire in northeastern Forsyth County March 14.
Firefighters were dispatched to 9040 Fairlane Trail about 5 a.m. after receiving reports of a fire there, according to the Forsyth County Fire Department. The home is in a wooded neighborhood
off Bethel Road along the northwestern edge of Lake Lanier.
The first firefighters to arrive found a one-story, single-family home engulfed in flames. Firefighters battled the blaze with water from a nearby hydrant.
Heat damaged three adjacent homes.
The Forsyth County Fire Marshal’s
Office is investigating the fire with the help of the sheriff’s office’s Criminal Investigations Division. The Forsyth County Coroner’s Office will determine the cause of death.
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By CARL APPEN, PAT FOX and HAYDEN SUMLIN
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ATLANTA — The Georgia Court of Appeals ruled March 13 that a lower-court decision favoring the City of Sandy Springs in an Open Records lawsuit was premature.
The ruling is a setback for Sandy Springs and its practice of tailoring police reports released to the public to include nothing but the barest of data.
Responding to the ruling, Sandy Springs Mayor Rusty Paul said the appellate court’s procedural determination does not affect the substantive part of the trial court decision.
“Council will discuss this matter and proceed in a manner that ensures public access to vital information while protecting the integrity of the investigative process,” Paul said.
Appen Media brought suit against the city May 2024, claiming it is violating the Open Records Act by denying the newspaper access to initial police officer narratives that are routinely filed during early stages of investigations.
After a Fulton County judge ruled in favor of the city last December, Appen appealed the decision to the higher state court. In its ruling, the Court of Appeals determined, “the trial court’s grant of summary judgment was premature. Genuine issues of material fact remain based on this record and thus the trial court erred by granting summary judgment to the City.”
The Georgia Open Records Act maintains that all public records are open for public inspection, but it does allow exceptions. The law provides some latitude for withholding materials surrounding ongoing police investigations. However, initial police crime and incident reports are required to be made available to the public.
For over a year, the paper has pushed Sandy Springs for more details about calls its police officers have been dispatched to investigate.
In most cases, the agency has returned the requests with one-sentence narratives stating when and where police were dispatched to and, usually, for what reason. Unlike incident reports provided by police agencies in surrounding jurisdictions, the Sandy Springs reports lack details on the nature of the crime, an accounting of property damage, injuries associated with a crime, whether any arrests were made, and whether any suspects have been identified.
Sandy Springs admits that officers responding to incidents generally write more detailed reports in a second document, often written the same day. The city claims in its legal defense that this second report is not part of the initial incident report, and therefore doesn’t have to be disclosed.
In its complaint, Appen cited examples of Sandy Springs reports where both documents were created at the same time on the same day. When the newspaper filed open records requests for the reports associated with these incidents, the city only provided the first, one-sentence page.
Appen noted in its complaint guidance from the Attorney General’s Office that, “A common-sense interpretation of ‘initial incident report’ is that anything written at the same time as the first part of the report is part of the initial incident report.”
In December, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Adams ruled in favor of the city, saying Appen Media failed to prove it is unlawful for the department to withhold the additional information.
Adams said Appen’s use of the Attorney General’s assessment is not the law, “although [Appen] may be correct in its assertion that [the Sandy Springs Police Department’s] practice violates the spirit of the Open Records Act.”
Appen appealed the decision to the state Court of Appeals. On March 13, the higher court rejected the lower court action.
The ruling says the city did not prove that the records should have been withheld in the first place.
Authorities planned to remain at the location March 14.
— Jon Wilcox
One person found dead after early morning home fire Appeals court rejects previous ruling in Sandy Springs police records suit
“Here, it was the City’s burden to show why the requested records should not be disclosed as a matter of law,” the judgement states. “The City fails to meet its burden.”
The court also focused on the Georgia laws underpinning the case.
State open records laws read that “initial police arrest reports and initial incident reports,” are always subject to release, even if they are part of an ongoing investigation.
The appellate court’s decision points out that while, “the Act requires disclosure of ‘initial incident reports,’ it does not define that term.”
Even so, it argues that whether or not a document is an initial incident report must be weighed on a case-by-case basis, instead of the report’s title or when it was produced.
The Court of Appeals rejected the city’s blanket defense that only the first, brief report is always considered the initial document.
“Whether a narrative report prepared at the same time as an incident report actually constitutes part of that initial incident report is a fact specific inquiry,” the court wrote. “In some cases it may, and in some cases it may not.”
The appellate court’s ruling says it did not, nor did the lower trial court, have enough information to determine whether the documents in question should have been released.
During the lower court’s discovery process, Appen Media asked the city to submit the complete reports – both the brief account and the second account with more details – for the incidents.
Sandy Springs did not provide all of the materials.
Without these materials and the ability to compare the two, the appeals court says “the trial court’s grant of summary judgement was premature. Genuine issues of material fact remain based on this record and thus the trial court erred by granting summary judgment to the City.”
Cumming group honors student of the year
CUMMING, Ga. — Alliance Academy
Senior Simran Gupta is the student of the year for Sawnee-Cumming Optimist club.
Gupta was chosen as the 2025 Optimist Star Student, which acknowledges high school students who demonstrate academic achievement, extracurricular activities, leadership and good citizenship. The winner is given a $500 award.
Gupta has maintained a 4.6 weighted GPA, while serving as the math club president, history club president, Mu Alpha Theta (National Mathematics Honor Society) president, Rho Kappa (National Social Studies Honor Society) president and participating in the Governor’s Honor Program in Mathematics. Gupta also participates in several extracurriculars including Special Correspondence for PBS NewsHour, Georgia Superintendent Student Advisory Council, Cumming Youth Council and Silence the Shame Youth Advisory Council. She is graduating with a perfect ACT score and SAT score of 1590 out of 1600.
Runner-up for 2025 Optimist Star Student and winner of the annual es -
say competition is Gargi Surange, an Alliance Academy senior. This year’s essay theme was “How optimism has paved my road to success.” Surange’s essay provided her experiences and philosophy about optimism.
Surange’s also maintains a 4.6 weighted GPA, while participating in the National Technical Honor Society Georgia and Music Educators Association all-state band, and serves as president for Alliance in the Spotlight, a Leader in Training with Skills USA, a Leader in Training in DECA and a community service officer for Science Olympiad. Surange also volunteers with Meals by Grace, plays in the Alpharetta Youth Symphony as first chair orchestra bass clarinetist, was a district honor band musician five times and won 2024 Miss Georgia Teen Bharat.
“These are inspiring and accomplished young ladies,” Sawnee-Cumming Optimist Club president April Ferguson said. “Their resumes and achievements are impressive. Our community is fortunate to have the caliber of students they represent.”
— Sarah Coyne
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From left, Alliance Academy Principal Karl Mercer, Simran Gupta and Gargi Surange hold their plaques after being honored with 2025 Optimist Star Student and essay winner.
Forsyth groups plan environment cleanup events
CUMMING, Ga. — Help clean up Forsyth County roads now through May 31 in preparation for America’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
In partnership with Keep America Beautiful, Keep Forsyth County Beautiful invites members of the community to participate in The Greatest American Cleanup.
As part of Keep America Beautiful’s initiative to pick up 25 billion pieces of litter across the country, the local non-profit is inviting residents to pick up supplies from the office 426 Canton Hwy Cumming, GA 30040.
Those interested can sign up for a time slot on https://www.keepforsythcountybeautiful.org/litter-cleanup-events. Signups are open until April 29.
Volunteers can have the chance to get a free T-shirt while supplies last.
The Forsyth organization is an affiliate to Keep America Beautiful through a Memorandum of Understanding between Forsyth County Government and the Keep Forsyth County Beautiful Inc. nonprofit 501(c)(3) board of directors.
The non-profit aims to reduce waste, while promoting recycling, beautification and improving water quality
— Sarah Coyne
Roswell group schedules musical
ROSWELL, Ga. — Professional theatre returns to Roswell Cultural Arts Center March 21 through March 23 with “Violet,” a musical by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley.
The musical features Violet, a young woman on a journey of hope, love and self-discovery in the 1960s, after she boards a bus across the Deep South, seeking a miracle from a televangelist. Directed by Heidi McKerley and musically directed by Holt McCarley, guests can enjoy bluegrass, gospel and the blues, as Violet finds unexpected love and learns what true beauty is. Atlanta-based actor and director Jennifer Alice Aker plays Violet, alongside her costars Hayden Row as Monty and Daisean Garrett as Flick in the Tony-nominated musical and winner of the Drama Critics’ Circle Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical in 1997.
Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. March 21; 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. March 22; and 2 p.m. March 23. The musical will run approximately two hours at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center, 950 Forrest Street. Tickets are $32.50 with a discounted price for seniors, students and military at $29.25 on roswell365.com.
— Sarah Coyne
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New gallery displays vintage art, acts as ‘mini museum’
By JIM BASS jim@appenmedia.com
DECATUR, Ga. — For art collector Paul Beall, owner of Monkey Arm Art Gallery, the frames covering his new gallery walls don’t just hold artwork; they also carry the story behind it.
Decatur’s newest art gallery opened its doors to the community in November. The gallery features more than 150 paintings, many drawings, and several original prints spread throughout the building.
Paul Beall opened the new gallery, located at 107 N. McDonough Street, to act as a permanent home to display and sell vintage artworks that he and his wife, Denice Beall, have collected over the course of 25 years.
They purchased the 1920s-era building in late 2022 initially as an investment to renovate and lease out as office space. Denice, co-owner of local residential construction company 360 Construction, led the renovation project on the building, which previously sat in disrepair.
After weighing their options, the couple decided to turn it into Monkey Arm last year. Now, it serves as both a gallery and a “mini-museum” with artworks spanning many styles, origins, and eras, primarily from the midcentury period.
“He is definitely a historian of sorts…” Denice Beall said. “For almost every piece in there, he has a story to tell about it. I love the fact that there's so many artists who weren't even necessarily known or appreciated, now he can bring them into some light.”
Paul had 13 years of prior law experience and implemented those research skills into learning about
each piece. Across the many artworks on display, Paul can offer a plethora of stories to anyone who wants to listen.
“One of the reasons why I wanted to open the gallery is because I love sharing the information with people and interacting with them,” Paul Beall said. “I like sitting here waiting for people to come in, and if they give me the opportunity to geek out with them, then it's a win-win for me.”
Paul previously rented booths at events including Paris and Ponce, West Side Market and The Modernists before
opening Monkey Arm and has primarily relied on word of mouth and foot traffic to clients and observers to visit.
Among the many paintings in Monkey Arm, each has a background, including a William Langdon Kihn painting featured in 1947 Women’s Daily Magazine, artwork from Loretta Young’s estate, and a piece from the late Agnes Scott College art professor Ferdinand E. Warren.
Paul holds the clients who purchase his artworks in high regard and finds importance in not just transferring the
art but passing on their stories with them.
“I like to call my clients guardians of the paintings instead of owners because I believe that they don’t own the pieces so much as guard the pieces and protect it for the next generation,” Paul Beall said.
The couple's passion for learning each piece’s story is one of several reasons why they like collecting vintage instead of contemporary artwork.
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Paul Beall, owner of Monkey Arm Art Gallery, stands inside of the gallery at 107 N McDonough St in Decatur, Georgia on Feb. 17. Monkey Arm opened its doors in November and has over 150 paintings on display.
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“Instead of being compressed in time, as contemporary art is, where you only see something about 20 or 30 years of what has been going on in the art world, collecting vintage [allows] you to see what's been going on for much longer,” Paul Beall said.
The couple believes that the gallery fills the need for a vintage art gallery alongside the contemporary galleries currently in Decatur and could be another step to help grow the city’s art community.
“I would love for people to know that they don't have to go online. They don't have to pay outrageous prices at highend galleries in New York,” Paul Beall said. “They can get very good art here at home.”
Monkey Arm Art Gallery is open from Noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and appointments are available on Saturday and Sunday. With a small chalkboard sign indicating the gallery’s location, Paul hopes that anyone who stops by to shop or admire enjoys their visit.
“If I can bring a smile to somebody's face and they walk out happy that they were here, again it's a win-win. It's just great,“ Paul Beall said.
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A William Langdon Kihn painting hangs inside of the gallery at 107 N McDonough St in Decatur, Georgia on Feb. 17. Monkey Arm opened its doors in November and has over 150 paintings on display.
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It’s white bass season again!
It’s a chilly, windy March afternoon, and I’m knee-deep in the cold waters of a north Georgia river with a fly rod in my hand.
I admit it. I’m cold! Saner minds would probably be inside with a cup of hot tea and a good book. But not me. Not today. I’m shivering in the interest of fishing because white bass season has arrived.
For much of the year, white bass hang out in deep water in large lakes and are not accessible to fly fishers like me. But every spring, usually starting sometime in March and lasting into mid-April or so, huge numbers of white bass school near the mouths of major tributaries and then migrate upstream to spawn. That puts them within reach, and for several weeks the fishing can be off-the-chart good.
That’s what I’m hoping for today.
This is the first time I’ve waded this river this year, and I’m going slowly in case the bottom contours have changed. I ease along, feeling the bottom through the soles of my wading boots, noting changes since last year as I go. Time does that to rivers, you know, resculpting them and turning them into something always new.
Over there, where there used to be a good fish-holding run, there is now a shallow sandbar. But yonder, where last season the water was barely ankle deep, I spot a tangled mass of roots and limbs with strong current flowing through a brand-new zone of deeper holding water that must surely be 4 feet deep.
Ahh – I’ve found flowing water close to a brush pile. That’s what I’m looking for. Why? Because that’s what the white bass are looking for too.
White bass are ambush predators, and they continue to feed throughout their runs upriver. They’ll hold close to the cover waiting for the flow to bring something interesting their way (perhaps a small shad imitation like the one tied to the end of my line). Then they’ll grab it – and the battle is on!
I angle left to put myself in better casting position. Then I shake out a little line and make a cast – the first cast of the season. The rod bends like I want it to. The line does my bidding. The fly sails through the air, line unrolling smooth and straight and pretty as can be.
The fly lands with a soft splash a yard or two upstream from the tangle of brush.
Lowering my rod’s tip, I count (one… two…three) to let the fly sink. White bass in flowing water tend to hang out in the lower portion of the water column, and “counting down” your lure helps you try different depths to figure out where they are in each particular area.
Then I begin to retrieve in regular foot-long strips, roughly one per second, trying to make the fly look like a minnow that doesn’t have a care in the world.
It happens on that very first cast. One minute I’m stripping in line. The next, there’s an electric jolt and the rod’s tip surges and suddenly I’m tight into a fish. A minute or two later, I bring it to net. It’s a white bass of just over a pound.
It’s a good sign, a good omen.
White bass season has begun!
But what’s a white bass?
My friend the fisheries biologist tells me that white bass are known in scientific circles as Morone chrysops. They’re members of the Moronidae family of temperate-water true bass –unlike the more famous largemouth bass, which is technically just a sunfish!
As noted earlier, white bass continue to eat during their spawning runs and like to hold near cover waiting for small minnows to swim by. In addition to targeting brush piles and root balls, look for them along edges of deeper channels or sandbars. The area just downstream of a creek mouth can also be good. When white bass are running, you’ll pick up fish just about anywhere – but targeting holding spots will increase your odds of success.
Once you find suitable water, all you have to do is cast. If the white bass are there at the same time you are, that’s usually all it takes. No special techniques are required, and that makes white bass fishing a great way to share your joy of fishing with beginning anglers or with kids.
What kind of flies or lures work best?
Spin fishers use small crankbaits (silver is a great color), in-line spinners, or similar minnow imitations. A silver or white Rooster Tail or Mepps spinner is effective, as is a simple curly-tail grub on a white or red jig head hook.
Flyrodders like to use minnow imitations (especially silver or white ones) about 2 inches long. Good patterns include white Woolly Buggers, silver or silver-and-gold Rolex-style flies, or the ever-popular Red-Nosed Yeti shad imitation. Again, there’s no special trick to it; simply make the cast and retrieve with steady strips of 10 or 12 inches.
Now the big question: where can you fish for springtime white bass? In our area, and as the water warms and
spawning runs build, look for them in major tributaries feeding Lanier or Allatoona. Top Lanier tributaries are the Chestatee (at least as far upstream as the Georgia 400 bridge) as well as the Chattahoochee above Lanier. If focusing on Allatoona tributaries, look at the Coosa River system (many target the river downstream from Lock and Dam Park) as well as the Etowah (you’ll find fish as far up as Canton and beyond) and Little River.
Much of this water is best accessed by boat. Knowledgeable anglers fish it by drifting downriver, keeping the boat within casting range of near-shore holding areas. If they find fish they’ll stop and work that water thoroughly.
Don’t have a boat? In some areas it’s often possible to fish from shore –particularly with spinning gear. I think of the Etowah in Canton, where a great riverside parks system provides several spots where fishing from the bank is feasible.
There are some wade-fishing opportunities, too, though you may have do some hunting to find them.
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I’m close to getting past this business of fighting cancer and having my brother Matt just up and die in late January.
Close, but still feeling the sting. I reckon by sneaking up on 70, I should be used to people in my circle being here one day, then departing this dimension the next. As longtime friend Jon Howard lamented: “I’m tired of people dying.”
Me too, but for the life of me, I don’t know what I can do about it. So, I guess, as someone still among the living, I’m just going to roll with it and get ready to deliver another eulogy. Between my mom, Grandma, my brother Marty and Papa Kenny Cagle, I’ve become fairly adept at delivering poignant comments at a funeral.
It’s not something that I want to put on a resume. After I deliver Matt’s at his memorial service in April, I believe it’s time to retire my eulogy writing and delivering chops.
Let someone else have a go at trying to be somber, respectful, somber and witty.
Matt’s will be an easy one. I’ll have 64 years of inspiration, recollections, laughs and tears. I simply will go with the fact that I knew him longer than anyone, being there when he was transported home from that Long Beach, California, hospital some 64 years ago. I remember he would open only one eye.
“What’s wrong with him?” I asked Mom. “He’s not going to look like Popeye forever, is he?”
After being an only child for five years, even though I was spoiled by godparents who spoiled me rotten, springing for lavish presents at Christmas and birthday party extravaganzas complete with carnival rides in the backyard, I was giddy at the prospect of having a baby brother.
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How has the top of the mountain changed?
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My daughter and I were talking yesterday about music. She told me she had heard good things about the new Bob Dylan movie. I replied to her that I had too. We then moved on to other topics including how young people today make friends and socialize. I said that I know of young adults who have substituted online for in-person. I am sure we all know young people like that. The daughter of a friend of ours – an engineer with a degree from Purdue I think – lives 100 percent online our friend told us, really, 100 percent.
“She goes to work and then comes home and stays in front of her computer until it’s time to sleep. She doesn’t have any friends. She doesn’t go out. She just works and lives online,” she said.
She told us that her daughter recently commissioned an avatar for her online persona and was spending serious money, like thousands.
Our friend’s daughter lives at home with our friend in the same house where she grew up, the same town. She lives near the kids she went to school with, went to movies with, probably dated and went to football games with. Yet, her only friends are her online friends now – and if I am to understand it correctly – most of those friends are virtual friends, like avatars and such and not even actual people. Huh?
She recently quit her job and admitted herself to some sort of recovery program. From?
I am treading into space about which I know so little. I know what I don’t see. But I am not sure what it is that I actually do see.
I had a conversation with another friend’s daughter who recently moved to Atlanta. I told her that I could relate to moving to another place and struggling to meet people, make new friends and get one’s bearings. I told her that in another life, I had moved to Chile for two years and knew how isolated and at times lonely it made me.
She looked at me with a quizzical look and shook her head.
“I don’t have that problem” she said. “Last night I went to dinner with
one of my Facebook group friends. I don’t have problems meeting or finding people; I find them on Facebook or via (something to do with) TikTok. It’s not a big deal,” she shrugged her shoulders.
Like what planet did I live on or how dumb could I be - she intoned, without malice.
Instead of replying, I nodded and thought about what she said. I wondered how different she was – her life was – from the engineer whose friends were primarily virtual. Surely, I thought, she was navigating somewhat differently. I mean, she actually went out and did something with another person. But, I thought, how often does that really happen for her as opposed to a relationship only with screens?
My daughter listened to me and thought for a moment, then she told me a brief story. She said she’d recently watched a documentary on the Dylan movie. They played an interview that someone did with Dylan and asked him how he felt about the availability of music – all music – today at the tip of your fingers, access to every song, every symphony, every note via Spotify and the like on a smart phone.
She said Dylan replied that back in the day, when he was just starting out, there was no TV, just radio. So, when he would hear a song that struck him, he might not hear it again, but he would listen for it on the radio and would hope that it got played. She said that he would try to find out where the musician was playing or lived so he could go hear him or her. He said he would network to try to find the music; he would search for it and try to track it down – like he did with Woodie Guthrie.
My daughter then threw out an idea that struck me – like being hit in the face or head with something hard, cold, and unforgiving.
“What,” she pondered, “what happens to the top of the mountain? How does the top of the mountain change when you no longer have to work to get to it?”
I had no clue, just the weight of a great big rhetorical 800-pound gorilla standing on my chest.
Anyone who reads my columns knows that I have always said that everything important that I know, I have learned from my children. And that only continues.
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“At The Cumming City Center, we hold a profound appreciation for live music, recognizing its ability to elevate any occasion,” Archer said.
The concerts also support the local economy, she said.
“Such events play a significant role in boosting local businesses by increasing foot traffic, thereby contributing to the overall economic health of the community,” Archer said.
Completed in 2022, the 75-acre mixed-use facility is a premier shopping, dining and recreation destination for Cumming and Atlanta residents. The center features numerous shops and restaurants and an amphitheater, which hosts events year-round.
Featured events include everything from yoga and exercise classes to holiday celebrations to concerts.
“This event, akin to many others hosted at The Cumming City Center, serves as a vital gathering point for the community, promoting shared interests and camaraderie,” Archer said.
Leamy said she was deeply impressed by the center’s power to bring the community together in celebration.
Although winds and impending stormy weather slightly dampened attendance, about 800 concert-goers stuck around for Subliminal Doubt’s 90-minute set, Archer said.
“Die-hard” No Doubt fans danced and sang songs’ every word along with Leamy, and a host of young girls greeted her afterward to get autographed T-shirts.
Leamy, who hails from Orlando, Fla.,
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As a result of this decision, the case will go back to the lower court for reconsideration. Both parties also have the option to appeal to the state Supreme Court or reach a settlement.
Court of Appeals Presiding Judge Christopher McFadden filed a concurrent opinion in the decision, saying that the ruling should have gone a step further.
Citing the city’s actions for filing separate reports, McFadden wrote: “I would hold that this practice is an improper circumvention of the [Open Records] Act and that the responding officer’s full narrative about his or her initial response to the incident also constitutes an ‘initial incident report’ subject to disclosure under the Act.”
McFadden also addressed the lack of materials the city provided in the discovery process.
MONICA LEAMY/PROVIDED A leprechaun inflatable welcomes patrons to The Well, which hosted the St. Paddy’s Day Rock Fest in conjunction with The Cumming City Center.
has made a childhood love of No Doubt into a career. She said she was thrilled to see others share her appreciation for the ska-punk band.
She also said she was impressed by the quality of the facilities and green room, which can make or break a gig.
Although it was her first time playing Cumming, Leamy said she “absolutely” be back if asked.
“They took very good care of us,” she said.
“The possibility that the more detailed narratives associated with Appen Media’s requests might also contain information that is exempt from disclosure merely highlights the existence of questions of fact as to whether the City disclosed what it was required to in response to Appen Media’s requests,” he wrote.
“The evidence, viewed most favorably to Appen Media, shows that Appen Media requested incident reports but received only the short reports and not any more detailed narratives. And there is evidence, by way of examples from closed cases, of instances when responding officers included one- or two-sentence narratives about an incident in a short report and the rest of that narrative in a more detailed narrative report.”
After describing an example in the court record, McFadden went on: “A factfinder could infer from the closed-case examples that similar, more detailed narratives exist for the incidents that are the subjects of Appen Media’s open records requests, but the City did not disclose them.”
WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD
1. Unit of measurement. Gold__ (do nothing). Poker pot.
2. Gold __ (commendation). Barber shop request. Box.
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Additionally, Forsyth County’s rental inventory is far below nearby communities.
The county currently has 605 rentals available, according to Zillow. In Gwinnett County, that number is 5,922.
At a Feb. 18 Cumming Planning and Zoning Board meeting, Todd Vanderhoff, of Hoff Homes, said county officials told him the apartments would need to be mixeduse townhomes to qualify for an expansion.
“We met with the commissioners, and they said, ‘No, you can’t rent those. If you build them, you have got to sell them,’” Vanderhoff said.
Commissioner Laura Semanson said Forsyth County’s restriction of standalone apartments originates from a desire to control population growth and lessen the burden on county services.
For decades, the county’s population has increased steeply, increasing from
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As Mom’s belly grew, I told anyone who would listen that me and my brother were going to be a formidable team. Not wise to the intricacies of the way female “plumbing” works, I was dumbfounded when Mom’s water broke and she said it was time to go to the hospital and get me my brother.
I responded as I’m sure any highstrung 5-year-old would. I ran willy-nilly up and down our street, telling anyone
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One popular wading area is the portion of Little River near Olde Rope Mill Park, though it can be crowded. A bit of research will point you toward other (and less crowded) wadable spots on
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Ted Cook, 90, of Roswell, passed away on March 4, 2025. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
Joann Doyle, 82, of Alpharetta, passed away on March 4, 2025. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
about 100,400 in 2000 to 267,237 in 2022, marking a 166% increase, according to USA Facts.
A 2020 Atlanta Regional Commission projection estimated the county would add another 198,000 residents by 2050.
Located in a building constructed in 1989, the Hutchinson Place apartments were originally approved at a time when zoning rules were less strict, Semanson said.
Cumming zoning rules allow standalone apartments, and the city already hosts a few others, said Scott Morgan, director of Cumming’s Department of Planning and Zoning.
Hutchinson Place is home to numerous retired senior residents and currently has “quite” a waitlist, Morgan said.
Forsyth County now promotes commercial spaces in conjunction with rental residences to balance its tax digest, which needs more businesses, Semanson said. Mixed-use developments also benefit pedestrian access in a county that sees considerable vehicular traffic.
who would listen: “My mom wet her pants! I’m going to have a baby brother.” Luckily a neighbor corralled me, gave me an orange popsicle and sat me in front of the TV.
I am committed to Matt’s eulogy being one that gives me a final shot at sharing with others our lifetime of conversations and adventures. We had one planned for this summer involving a trip to Idaho and revisiting a Yellowstone adventure. Sadly, that one will have to be on a back burner.
Burford “Slats” McElroy got into the “How’re you doing?” game the last time we spoke. I told him, thanks to some wise words from a wise priest, I was en route
other white bass waters. In this case, the Internet really is your friend.
Folk wisdom says that the white bass runs peak about the time the dogwoods bloom, so keep your eyes on the trees!
But they’ll start their runs before that. Water temperature is key, and if you really find yourself getting into this (which a surprising number of white bass enthusiasts do) then pick
Maye Eaton, 86, of Alpharetta, passed away on March 11, 2025. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
John Horn, 82, of Alpharetta, passed away on March 5, 2025. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
Each day, about 81,000 residents commute out of the county for work with another 51,000 driving in.
County services, such as schools, firefighting and law enforcement, can be strained when population density increases dramatically.
“We really have to be very careful,” Semanson said.
Although commissioners understand the Hutchinson Place is a small apartment building, they are trying to manage the number of standalone apartments in the county to keep homeowner’s property taxes from “skyrocketing,” Semanson said.
“There’s the idea of death by a thousand cuts,” she said.
Affordably priced apartments may provide housing options for some residents, but high prices are primarily the result of land values, rather than government intervention, Semanson said.
High land values also often mean developers often look to high-density residential projects to make their investments profitable, she said.
to getting through these tough times. I told Slats that the anger I had with a God who would take my brother away had been replaced by a calm that is a soothing balm for my soul.
Father Rey Pineda put things in proper perspective when he said Matt is with me and doing things for me that I can’t even imagine. I’ll go with that. After all, who wouldn’t want some friends above and beyond. Those words have kept me going.
Slats wanted to know if there was any bitterness.
“No,” I told him, “I can’t think of any use for a bitter man. They serve no
up a stream thermometer and check water temperatures yourself! When the readings reach the mid-50s, you can figure that the white bass are heading up the rivers. From that point, the spawning runs (and the good fishing) will last for several weeks, sometimes well into April.
Start planning now, and you just might make fishing memories you’ll
Mamie Jacobus, 91, of Alpharetta, passed away on March 4, 2025. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
Viktor Kurenkov, 55, of Roswell, passed away on March 7, 2025. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
“The market dictates the price,” Semanson said. “It would be reckless for us as a county … by picking winners and losers.”
Cumming has approved requests similar to Hoff Homes’, Morgan said.
In 2019, the city greenlit an annexation for Two Maples at Tribble Gap and Polaris at Cumming Apartments, 1004 and 1006 Tribble Gap Road.
The apartments represent a part of a growing trend.
During Semanson’s eight years in office, she has seen a “very fast uptick” in annexation requests, driven in large part by multifamily apartments, she said.
Despite change in the jurisdiction, the properties’ geography and strain on services remain the same, posing a concern for commissioners, Semanson said.
While they formally approved the Hutchinson Place annexation, commissioners wrote to Brumbalow encouraging the city to deny it.
“We’re asking the city not to entertain this,” she said.
purpose other than to make others feel worse. A bitter man is usually miserable and foists that misery and others. Throw in some dishonesty and questionable ethics and it makes me happy to never be a bitter man or have to deal with one.”
Thanks to Slats and Father Rey, I’m hoping to be a better man, never a bitter man.
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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Deacon Kevin Tracy, 70, of Roswell, passed away on March 5, 2025. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.
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