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Early voting opens May 2 for primaries By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com METRO ATLANTA — The deadline to register to vote in the May 24 ended April 25. In-person early voting begins on May 2. The Secretary of State’s office began mailing out absentee ballots April 25. With everything ramping up, campaigns placing dozens of signs on every street corner and political commercials already barraging your TV, navigating the primary elections can be confusing. Here’s a guide that can help you get some clarity in the chaos.
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Three suspects sought in liquor store burglary ALPHARETTA, Ga. –– A group of men broke into Milton Beverage Liquor store on Old Milton Parkway in the early morning hours of April 16, taking merchandise and leaving the place in a shambles. Police were notified of an alarm at the store shortly after 4 a.m. When they arrived at the scene, they found the front door had been shattered and there were broken bottles strewn about the floor. Video footage obtained from the store owner showed three men, each masked and wearing hoodies, exit a white or silver Nissan Sentra around 4 a.m. in the parking lot. One of the men used a rock to shatter the front door. Once inside, the three moved directly to an area of the store where inventory was stacked in boxes. They transported several boxes to the car but made no move to the cash register, but one burglar jumped behind the counter and took several boxes of cigarettes. Police collected evidence from the scene, including additional video, and are continuing the investigation.
Bank cards go missing during store purchase ALPHARETTA, Ga. –– A Marietta woman reported the theft of her checkbook and two credit cards April 13 while she was paying for items at Nordstrom Rack on North Point Parkway. The victim said she noticed the items had been taken after she went next door to Total Wine. She then contacted her husband, who called the bank to freeze her cards. Both cards had been used but declined for charges totaling $1,000 at Target near the Nordstrom Rack.
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Man reports assault by three men at club ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police received a report from a Cumming man April 18 who said he had been assaulted by three men at Roaring Social in downtown Alpharetta on April 16. The man told police he had gotten into an argument with three unidentified men
in their 40s at the club, and one of them “jumped him” and began punching him in the head and back. He said the three men had left the scene before police arrived. Police were unable to find a dispatch report associated with the call. The man said he had declined a report after the assault occurred because he just wanted to go home. The man had no identifying information on the suspects but provided police with a license plate number for an Uber he said the men left in. No further action was taken.
Dunwoody day care owner indicted in death of 4-month-old boy By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — A 46-year-old Dunwoody woman and former day care owner was indicted April 19 on 20 counts in connection to the death of a 4-monthold left in her care and other evidence of child abuse, officials said. According to the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office, Amanda Hickey was indicted on charges of second-degree HICKEY murder, seven counts of first-degree cruelty to children, two counts of second-degree cruelty to children, three counts of simple battery and seven counts of reckless conduct. Officials said the charges stem from the Feb. 2, 2021, death of a 4-month-old boy, who was found unresponsive in his
crib at Hickey’s “Little Lovey” home day care center on Leisure Lane in Dunwoody. Video evidence indicated the baby had been placed on his stomach to sleep and was left unattended for more than two hours before he was found. Officials said further investigation revealed alleged abuses against six other children in the day care center ranging from 6 months to 16 months old. Investigators also noted that the day care center was licensed to care for a maximum of six children, but on the date of the alleged incidents, it was at nearly double capacity. Following the baby’s death, the state ordered an emergency closure of Hickey’s facility. It is not longer in operation. Hickey’s case will now be assigned to a DeKalb County Superior Court Judge and later set for trial. The case is being prosecuted by the District Attorney’s Sexual Exploitation and Crimes Against Children Unit.
Dunwoody police still searching for attempted kidnapping suspect By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com
DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody police are searching for a suspect who allegedly kidnapped a 51-year-old Norcross woman at gunpoint in early March. The incident report states the woman, a lead nurse at Peachford Hospital in Atlanta, was on her way to work March 10, when she stopped at a red light on Cotillion Drive and North Shallowford Road and an unidentified black male jumped into her vehicle. In the report, the woman alleges the suspect pointed a firearm at her and commanded her to drive. She described him as wearing a black shirt, gloves and a backwards hat.
After several hours passed, the report states, the suspect told the woman to park her car in an empty parking lot in Gwinnett County, which is when she grabbed her firearm next to her door, pointed it at the perpetrator and ordered him to leave her vehicle. The suspect allegedly ran away after he saw another car pass by, and the woman called 911. The report states partial fingerprints and DNA evidence was collected from the victim’s passenger side seat, but no arrest has been made as of April 20. Anyone with information can provide information anonymously through the Dunwoody Police Department’s tip line at 678-382-6872.
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County agency OKs tax break for Johns Creek enterprise FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Development Authority of Fulton County approved a revenue bond inducement April 13 for a possible medical device manufacturing site to come to Johns Creek. The company behind the development is not named in Development Authority agendas, and the project is referred to only as “Project Lemon Lime.” The new site would be located at 11650 Johns Creek Parkway just off McGinnis Ferry Road. Plans call for the existing building to be torn down to make way for a new facility that would be between 180,000 and 238,000 square feet. The inducement will grant the com-
pany a 10-year tax abatement, estimated to total between $55 million and $75 million. The project proposes to retain 275- 50 existing jobs and create 225 new permanent jobs. The overall economic impact of the project is estimated to be more than $1.3 billion. The company already has a presence in Fulton County and operates outside of Georgia, according to Development Authority. The project is noted to be “highly competitive,” with the company also currently pursuing other locations across the United States for the new facility. — Jake Drukman
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Milton High School senior Haydn Bendall displays her 13th varsity letter April 13 alongside her dad, Jamie, and mom, Kelly. CHAMIAN CRUZ/APPEN MEDIA
Student-athlete earns 13th letter By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — Senior Haydn Bendall, who played softball, basketball, track and field and flag football throughout her Milton High School career, earned her 13th varsity letter on April 13. Athletic Director Gary Sylvestri said it’s a record for the school. “I don’t think anyone is ever going to beat it, to be honest with you, I really don’t,” Sylvestri said. “I’m so proud of her and her accomplishments, and it goes beyond the fields into the classroom as well, but for 13 varsity letters, that’s amazing.” Haydn’s dad, Jamie, said the accomplishment comes as no surprise, especially because Haydn has been involved in recreational sports since she was 4 years old. In addition to swimming for the Alpharetta Sharks, Jamie said Haydn played for the Alpharetta recreational basketball program and Alpharetta Youth Softball Association. “We have an embarrassing amount of riches in North Fulton when it comes to youth recreational programs,” Jamie said. “We are so, so fortunate to live in a community that believes in investing in our community youth sports, and it’s not something that any of us who live up here should take for granted.” Growing up, Jamie said, Haydn was like any other kid. “It seemed like she always had a ball or a bat or something in her hands,” Jamie said. One major influence on her life was her mom, Kelly, who was among the first female athletes to go to college and play soccer. At the time, Jamie said, soccer had just become a Georgia High School Association sport for girls. “In the span of one generation we went from having some sports being new sports entirely for girls to having it really not be uncommon at all for the girls to be among the most accomplished athletes in
their school,” Jamie said. Throughout her time at Milton High School, Jamie said Haydn must have played more than 200 games both as an offensive and defensive player. He added that she served as a team captain, was named to all-region teams and every year that she was eligible, won the scholarathlete award. “I think sometimes as a parent, it’s easy to get caught up in wins and losses and your child’s statistics,” Jamie said. “The reality is, there’s great value in being a teammate, and she, to her credit, has spent hours and hours at practice and training and doing summer workouts that really are the kinds of lessons that you’d like any kid to learn as they transition from high school into adulthood.” Jamie said he hopes Haydn’s story encourages parents to not get overly fixated on the hyper-specialization within one sport. Playing multiple sports, he said, exposes kids to more teammates, more experiences and more growth opportunities. “And there’s really something special about wearing the name of your school on the front of your jersey,” Jamie said. “… Those games that you played against your friends that you grew up with are really some of the most meaningful when you look back as an adult. I would encourage parents and kids not to forego that.” After receiving her varsity letter, Haydn said she felt like all her hard work had paid off. “Not only by setting a new record but also as a female athlete,” she said. “It felt really special.” While she enjoys competing and working for an end goal, the people around her, like her coaches and teammates, motivated her to keep playing sports at Milton High School, Haydn said. She said she plans to go to college and continue to play club sports like club softball and basketball after graduation.
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MARTA Police to enforce‘Ride with Respect’ rules By JOHN RUCH SaportaReport ATLANTA — The MARTA Police Department is launching a “zero tolerance” crackdown that will continue through June. A new “Train Patrol Detail” will strictly enforce the transit agency’s “Ride with Respect” rules as well as state and local laws, MPD Chief M. Scott Kreher said during an April 7 meeting of the Buckhead Public Safety Task Force. The idea is to make the system more appealing to rule- and law-abiding passengers as ridership picks up after COVID-19 pandemic lows. Kreher said “we’re basically going to have a zero-tolerance [policy] on our system.” MARTA is not advertising the crackdown, but transit agency spokesperson Stephany Fisher said MPD likely will release information about its results afterward. “If the detail is successful and budget allows, MPD will more than likely have another one,” Fisher said. The April-through-June detail will include 12 officers, four sergeants and two wagon drivers.
The crackdown will include removing homeless people who stay on the transit system, which Kreher called MPD’s “biggest challenge.” He said that when ridership plunged during the early stages of the pandemic, the “entire system began to be inundated with unsheltered folks.” Today, he said, MPD removes an average of 40 to 60 homeless people from the system’s trains and buses each night at the end of service. He said 120 homeless people were removed on the night of April 6, when the weather brought thunderstorms. Part of MPD’s challenge, Kreher said, is the lack of mental health or substance abuse facilities for homeless people with such issues, as well as a near-total absence of long-term housing. MARTA does have a “HOPE team” program, piloted in 2020, that pairs social workers with unarmed security officers, called field protective specialists, who address homeless people staying on the system. Kreher said the HOPE teams work with people to find support services or pre-arrest diversion programs. In addition to the crackdown detail, Kreher said, MPD has launched an undercover operation with a minimum of five officers on the system daily.
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issues. He said MPD has lost 63 swornofficer positions since January 2020 — about a 20 percent reduction in the force. This article was originally published on SaportaReport.com.
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Primary: Continued from Page 7 nominee. Democrats run against other Democrats, and the candidate that receives the most votes will move on to the general as the Democrat nominee. Republicans, as well as third-party candidates, do the same. For nonpartisan races, like some school board races, candidates are not divided by party. All of the candidates are on the ballot in the primary, and the top two candidates move on to face each
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Six Bridges Brewing plans to expand into Milton By SYDNEY DANGREMOND sydney@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Six Bridges Brewing, a Johns Creek staple since late 2018, is expanding with plans to open a new brewery location in Crabapple this year. The brewery — named after the six bridges located in Johns Creek: Jones Bridge, Medlock Bridge, McClure Bridge, Abbotts Bridge, Rogers Bridge and Little Bridge — is a family business started by local father and son Charles and Clay Gridley. The two shared a passion for beer and were homebrewers before they decided to take the plunge and turn their hobby into a business which now employs roughly seven full-time and seven part-time employees. Community, Clay said, has been central to Six Bridges since its origins. It was members of the Johns Creek Planning Commission that came up with the business’ name. “We were halfway through our sales pitch, and they said, ‘Stop, we want you. What can we do to help you?’” Charles said. From there, everything happened quickly. Rezoning and permitting were quickly approved by the City Council, and the Gridley’s started building relationships with different groups in the community including the Arts and Culture Board, the Public Safety Foundation and the Historical Society, Clay said. Joan Compton, president of the Johns Creek Historical Society, shared the history of the area with the Gridley’s and painted a mural right inside the front door of the taproom showcasing the local history. Six Bridges Brewing in Johns Creek is made up of three distinct parts: the taproom, an outdoor seating area and the production facility in back. Within the roughly 10,000-square-foot warehouse, Six Bridges is constantly brewing, experimenting, and canning their “endless” concoctions, Clay said. Each brew takes anywhere from two to five weeks from start to finish before making its way into kegs and cans which then travel around the state. “In the market, we normally have about a half
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Inside Six Bridges Brewing a mural showcases local history and the bridges for which the business was named. The mural was painted for Six Bridges by community leader and Johns Creek Historical Society President Joan Compton. dozen different beers,” Clay said. The 1000-gallon tanks are mostly reserved for their year-round beers, like local favorite Medlock, but in the smaller, 60-gallon tanks, the brewers experiment with different flavors and hops and sell the concoctions in the taproom.
“It’s small batch stuff that we keep here in house, and we don’t send it out to market,” Clay said. “But if one of those does well here, it might graduate up to a big batch.”
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Six Bridges Production Manager and Brewmaster Bryan Johnson enjoys a beer in the taproom April 20. PHOTOS BY SYDNEY DANGREMOND/APPEN MEDIA
In the production facility, 1,000-gallon tanks are mostly reserved for their year-round beers, like local favorite Medlock. From start to finish, brews take anywhere from two to five weeks from grain to can.
Brewery: Continued from Page 8 The testing area provides Six Bridges Production Manager and Brewmaster Bryan Johnson the creativity he’s always sought in the brewing process. “I fell in love with it,” Johnson said. “Me and the guys in the back will go through different recipes that we know how to brew and just try to do something different all the time. It’s a fun, creative aspect of it…The pilot brews are all about trying to do something new that people will enjoy.” Six Bridges distributes their beer throughout Georgia in addition to in-house sales and partnerships with local restaurants in the metro area. While Clay said the pair is content with remaining a Georgia-only business, the expansion into Milton is “exciting.” A developer approached the Gridley’s in November 2020 about joining the Crabapple neighborhood and
they jumped at the opportunity. When the new location opens, hopefully in the next couple of months, Charles said, it will include a production facility, indoor and patio areas, a rooftop space and will feature food from Spiced Right Ribhouse in Roswell. “It’s going to be really cool between the food, the patio, the rooftop and being right next to the town center where they’ll have concerts and everything,” Clay said. The original location of Six Bridges in Johns Creek is also near the city’s proposed town center, situated on Lakefield Drive, just a seven-minute walk from City Hall. One of the things Clay said he loves most about the brewery is the relationships it has built among neighbors. Even the layout of the taproom is designed to encourage conversation. “We have those long, communal tables, and everybody gets chatty once they’ve had a beer,” Clay said. “But that’s one of the beautiful things about it. We don’t need TVs or anything too flashy, people just come in and have a drink and converse with their
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I have acne – Do I really need a Dermatologist? Brought to you by - Dr. Brent Taylor, Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta From every brick and mortar mall to mobile marketplaces to magazines in the grocery aisle, advice and solutions for better skin health abound. But for brighter, clearer skin, there is still no substitute for a dermatologist. What the online retailers and magazine articles have in common is a relatively limited supply of ingredients to help your skin. As much as we might wish that an over-the-counter make-up, toner, concealer, or wash could be a skin cure-all, acne is a condition that often extends below the surface where only prescription medications can reach. There has been progress in our ability to treat acne with over the counter ingredients. In 2016, adapalene became the first medication since the 1980s to be approved for over the counter use in fighting acne. Adapalene is a retinoid, which as a class is the mainstay of most acne therapy. The fact that a formerly prescription-only retinoid is on the market has increased the ability of patients with very mild, shallow acne to self-treat effectively and avoid a trip to the doctor. Along with benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, glycolic acid and sulfur, retinoids can remove superficial oil, decrease oil production and inflammation and often lead to unclogged pores and a reduction in shallow acne. Most of these ingredients can lead to problems with dry, peeling skin when overused, so either online research or a visit with a dermatologist is still usually necessary to use these products effectively. For deeper and more severe acne, over the counter topicals are rarely sufficient. As a dermatologist, I get frustrated when commercials show photos of people with severe acne obtaining clear skin with the use of over the counter products. A disclaimer often reads that the results “may not be typical.” What the disclaimer does not mention is that wasting time on these products can cost patients precious months or years when they could have been on appropriate therapy. Patients whose severe acne goes undertreated and uncontrolled often develop scars that are either life-long or cost thousands of dollars to microneedle and laser away. Severe acne may not be a “skin emergency” but it is an issue that needs to be quickly addressed because prescription medication is avail-
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Some people never live to enjoy fairness I got a call from a friend this week to tell me that one of his employees was in the hospital and was not going to survive the next couple of days. He passed away on Thursday. HANS APPEN The employee, Publisher Jesús, was 36 years hans@appenmedia.com old – a couple years older than me – and had been battling cancer for the last 2 months. He didn’t last long. Jesús left behind two children, ages 13 and 7, and had been their sole caretaker for a while now. Jesús does not have family in the United States, and barring some miracle, his children will end up in the foster care system. I met Jesús several times when my friend’s company did some work for me. I got to know him a little bit and see firsthand what a good person he was, how hard he worked, and how much my friend admired and appreci-
ated him. I can still see his sheepish smile and hear his good natured humor. Life, sometimes, is just not fair. I’ve thought a lot in the last few months about fairness and privilege. A few weeks ago, while at home for lunch, a door-to-door salesman came by my house to try and sell me a subscription to his food delivery service. Gregory was middle aged, Black, and frankly, not in great shape. His hair was a mess and he was missing a few teeth. But he was dressed in a suit and tie, had clearly rehearsed and mastered his sales pitch and was invested in the success of his startup company. We talked for a bit about the company, how he got started, and what he was looking to achieve. He explained that his goal was to recruit 12 new customers a day. It was hot outside, and I asked him if he’d like a glass of water. He happily accepted – apparently, none of my neighbors had offered. As he drank the water and we con-
tinued to talk, he looked around at my house, at the car sitting in my driveway, and asked me a question. “Do you have any advice for me? How do I achieve what you have?” I wasn’t sure what to say. I was maybe 10 years his junior and it’s an awkward question anyways, though I didn’t mind him asking. I imagine he’d had a lot of doors shut in his face and probably appreciated someone engaging in conversation with him. I wasn’t about to tell this man, who was working his butt off in the hot Georgia sun and had clearly experienced obstacles in life I could only imagine, that he just needed to work hard. Clearly, he works hard, and so do I, but we have landed in two entirely different positions. I had the benefit of growing up in a safe community, with great schools, in a well off family. My parents could afford to send me to college and support me so that I didn’t graduate with a mountain of student debt. He didn’t have any of that.
How can anyone say that that has not made all the difference? I think part of the conversation today about fairness and privilege is that it is perceived by some to be an accusation that they haven’t earned what they have in life. I have worked hard for and earned most of what I’ve received as a consequence of my education and employment. I believe that. But I also believe that I got a head start before I set foot in a classroom or in a workplace that has nothing to do with what I deserve. And it’s a head start that Jesús or Gregory were not given. Two things can be true at once: Some of us receive a head start and make the most of it. Others do not, and have to play catchup. Defending the merits of our own successes, and who deserves what, is a distraction from what should be the ultimate goal: to figure out how we can pay it forward and give good people like Gregory and Jesús a head start, too.
The lifespan of history and the lessons lost I came across a nice piece of writing the other day. Marc Cenedella, founder and CEO of Ladders website, wrote a piece, “Once in a Lifetime,” in which he proposed that the United PAT FOX States faces a monuManaging Editor pat@appenmedia.com mental crisis every 80 years. He observed that in 1781, 1861, 1941 and again in 2021, this country has had to reshape itself to forge a new social and economic path to the future. It is no coincidence, he wrote, that the average human life is about 80 years. These major upheavals surface as the final eyewitnesses to the last crisis are buried – the limit of personal memory. “We bury wisdom in its grave, only to retrace the path to its errors.” That’s a good line.
It explains much of what’s going on in America today. Most astounding to me are neoNazis parading openly on the same soil where, 80 years earlier, my father, the fathers of nearly all the kids I grew up with, and three of my uncles shipped overseas to fight tyranny in its most evil incarnation. Even a decade after the war, when I was a kid, the extremist displays we see today would never have happened. There was no audience for them. In today’s polarized society, it is remarkable how both ends of the political spectrum siphon blood spilled for this country to nourish their own agendas – less regulation, higher wages, smaller houses, bigger cars. Sometimes, when I see old, scratchy newsreels from the 1920s, I study the people walking down city streets in their suits and porkpie hats. I wonder what they are thinking about. Maybe they’re musing over a Will Rogers column poking fun at Calvin Coolidge,
or how Black Gold won the Kentucky Derby. Maybe they are chatting with a friend about the new Buster Keaton movie (never mentioning that he performed all his own mindboggling stunts without computer generated imagery). Whatever it was they were talking about, most has been lost to history, topics we’ll probably never discuss again. One final note about the lifespan of memory and its blue-collar relationship with history. It’s personal, but it helps illustrate how fickle the relationship can be. During my childhood, my dad would often say, “I like old Joe,” whenever my little brother, Joseph, did something praiseworthy, like bringing home a good report card. It was years later he told me where he got the expression. He picked it up from Harry Truman. During Truman’s 1948 campaign, a reporter asked the president his
thoughts on Soviet Premier Stalin whom he’d met at the Potsdam Conference in 1945. This was a good 12 years after Stalin had organized a mass starvation in Ukraine that led to the deaths of more than 3 million peasants. “I like old Joe,” Truman told the reporter. “He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.” You won’t find that quote in any history book. Before Google, you’d have had to scour library basement archives to unearth it. Yet, my dad remembered it from when it happened. He might have read it in a newspaper or heard it on a radio news broadcast. It stuck with him, and it died with him – except for my remembering it. The quote is all but forgotten now. If no one reads this column – which is pretty likely – then, in a few years, it will be as though Truman’s expression of fondness for one of history’s greatest monsters will never have been uttered.
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Estate Sale Suwanee Multi family. Settles Cove Subdivision; 1115 Deborah Lane. Friday 4/29 and Saturday 4/30, 9AM-5PM
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SERVICE DIRECTORY Concrete/ Asphalt
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