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Milton City Council considering process for public comment

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.

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. 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,

Residents of Milton are awaiting word on how the City Council will fashion meetings to allow them to comment publicly on pending issues. 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

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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

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PUBLIC SAFETY suspect to get the tag number but lost him as he sped off on Strickland Road at the Forsyth County line, the report says.

Using a government database, police found a motorcycle and driver matching the suspect description, but no tag information was available because the license plate was bent.

Shoplifting suspect steals $2,700 in goods

Patron reports gun threat while dining at restaurant

MILTON, Ga. — A man stole thousands of dollars worth of merchandise – including numerous packages of Nicorette – Feb. 5 from the Target store on Ga. 9.

A loss prevention officer provided police with surveillance footage showing the suspect, an older, 5-foot-10 Black male wearing a black jacket and gray sweatpants, stealing more than $2,700 in items which included over-the-counter meds and a $400 standing mixer, according to the incident report.

The footage showed the suspect leaving in a silver SUV that traveled northbound on Ga. 9, the report says.

MILTON, Ga. — A Canton man reported to police Feb. 9 that while with his family at a restaurant on Windward Parkway, he was threatened by someone who claimed he had a gun.

The Canton man told police another man advised his family and restaurant employees to call the police because someone in the rear of the location had threatened to shoot him.

The Canton man said that when he went toward the back of the restaurant to get his daughter, who was using the restroom, the suspect confronted him and said he had “hollow points” and that he would shoot him and his family, according to the incident report.

The man said he did not see a gun, but described the suspect as a light-skin, Black male around 6-foot-2 with a slim build in his late to early 30s wearing a dark colored jacket and hat.

The man who had initially warned patrons about the suspect said he drove from work to the restaurant and that the suspect parked next to him in a white pickup truck, asking him if he was “trying to roll up on him” and that he had “hot lead.”

He told police he left the location to hide after warning restaurant employees.

The restaurant’s landlord said he had security footage of the victim and suspect vehicle entering the location, according to the report. Police were unable to locate the suspect or his vehicle.

Motorcyclist points gun at driver on Morris Road MILTON, Ga. — A Decatur woman reported to police Feb. 7 that while traveling on Morris Road, a motorcyclist pulled up beside her, punched her driver side mirror and pointed a gun in her face.

The woman told police she was turning right on Morris Road from Bethany Bend when the suspect, a White male wearing a lime green hoodie with black lettering operating a lime green motorcycle, punched the mirror with his gloved fist, cracking it and bending it backwards.

The woman said when she told the suspect that he broke the glass, the suspect pointed the gun in her face, possibly a 9mm handgun, according to the incident report. The woman told police the cost to replace the mirror was up to $480.

The woman attempted to follow the

Rome man reports assault following heated exchange MILTON, Ga. — A Rome man reported to police Feb. 11 that he was assaulted after

he had insulted another man’s daughter who had special needs.

The man told police as he was temporarily staying at a home on Galecrest Drive, and had invited a Marietta man over to stay the night.

The Rome man told police the two were lying in bed when his guest called him “retarded” for something. He told police he responded by saying, “I am not retarded, your daughter is,” according to the incident report. The man told police the suspect has a daughter with special needs.

A fight ensued, and the Marietta man was picked up by his sister and taken to the hospital.

The Rome man told police he did not want to press charges but was using formal documentation toward a temporary protective order.

Man files assault claim after lending out vehicle ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A Marietta man reported Feb. 1 his friend swung a machete at him after he asked him to return his vehicle.

The victim reported he lent his vehicle to the suspect Dec. 1 on the condition it would be returned when the owner needed it back.

When he asked the suspect to return the vehicle Feb. 1, he reported the suspect “became agitated” and allegedly swung a machete at him four times.

Officers reported taking the victim to the location where the attack allegedly happened, but his vehicle was no longer there. The victim said the attack happened at one of the buildings near 341 Brady Place.

The suspect and the vehicle were reportedly a match in a December hit-andrun on Ga. 9.

Officers reported returning to the location the victim had provided around 5 p.m., and an employee at a neighboring business confirmed she had seen the vehicle there.

The victim told officers he would like to press charges and report his vehicle as stolen, the report states.

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Teachers of the year honored across Metro Atlanta schools

By SHELBY ISRAEL shelby@appenmedia.com 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 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 semifinalists Nov. 15.

“Those teachers submit a classroom observation video that is scored by a separate committee, and the top five combined scores of both essay and video give the five finalists,” Forsyth County Schools Communications Facilitator Hannah Samples said.

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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.

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.

DeKalb County DeKalb County School District named Kristen Jones its 202324 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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New Mimosa Hall driveway could threaten stately trees

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Gus Hadorn, board member of Friends of Mimosa Hall and Gardens, pointed out several large specimen trees along the historic property’s driveway, trees threatened by an oncoming city project.

Their root systems lay in the path of a new, wider driveway at Mimosa Hall, intended to accommodate firetrucks.

Hadorn said the Friends group hired an independent arborist who said if the root system of any tree is damaged by at least 30 percent, it will be lost.

Friends of Mimosa Hall and Gardens was formed in 2017, the same year the city purchased the 9-acre property, with the mission to champion the sustainable preservation of the grounds.

“Those firetrucks are pretty big, and I think the width and the weight of the vehicle is their issue,” Hadorn said. “We understand that. We’re just wanting it to be done in a way that’s as least destructive as possible.

I mean, some things are going to be lost for sure.”

Some say that one tree embellishing the drive is likely the biggest of its kind in the country.

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The root systems of several large specimen trees, lining the driveway at Mimosa Hall, may likely be impacted due to an oncoming city project to install a new driveway. The project is intended to allow fire trucks onto the property, widening the driveway from 8 to 16 feet with concrete. its fragrant pink and white flowers that blossom in the early spring, sits close to Mimosa Hall, leaning over and twisted, reaching toward the sky. Its figure the result of a lightning strike.

It has been named a “Georgia Champion Tree” by the Georgia Forestry Commission, meeting several criteria, including having a stem or trunk at least 9.5 inches in circumference. Qualifying trees must also be native or naturalized in the continental United States.

The historic Mimosa Hall and Gardens boasts over 200 trees, both native and exotic. Around 20 were valued at more than $25,000 in the city’s 2018 tree survey.

Another remarkable tree, and the fifth most expensive, is the property’s lone dawn redwood, also situated close to the gravel drive.

Steven Malone, Roswell’s director of Recreation, Parks, Historic and Cultural Affairs, said once a contractor is selected, the project will begin as soon as the contract is signed, and the vendor can mobilize. The city’s invitation to bid will close March 1.

The project includes realigning the driveway, widening it from 8 to 16 feet, and resurfacing with permeable pavers, sidewalk additions, concrete and brick stair installation.

But, Hadorn suggested the city use

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City plans also call for a tree root barrier, used to redirect and guide tree roots down and away from hardscape surfaces. Malone said the city plans to hire a third-party arborist to provide specific protection plans for trees that may be at risk.

Hadorn has other concerns for the property, part of the “bigger picture.”

According to the city’s 2018 tree survey, some of the trees need structural assistance, lightning protection and pruning.

“The city has been guilty in the past of having consultants create reports, and then shelving them and not using them,” Hadorn said.

There are also a lot of invasive plants in the area, like English ivy, privet and bamboo, that need to be removed to allow natives to grow.

“If this area was cleared … We’ve got a lot of really, really magnificent trees in here that right now nobody has access to,” Hadorn said, while walking on the newly acquired Holly Hill property, adjacent to Mimosa Hall.

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This year, the festival is set for an expanded 24-day lineup, including 14 days of in-theater screenings and 10 days of online streaming.

The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, a nonprofit arts organization founded by the American Jewish Committee, brings the world’s most outstanding Jewish films to five metro-area venues.

Films will be screened, Feb. 13-26, in the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center at City Springs; the Tara Theatre on Cheshire Bridge Road; the historic Plaza Theatre in Midtown; the Georgia Theatre Company’s Merchants Walk Cinemas in East Cobb; and The Springs Cinema & Taphouse off Roswell Road.

The streaming encore runs from Feb. 27-March 7.

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Johns Creek Chamber operates as hub for small businesses City’s business licenses exceed Roswell, Alpharetta

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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Thorne that took place Feb. 15. These gatherings provide officials an opportunity to update business leaders on what they’re currently working on and what’s in the pipeline.

“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.

“One of the things about Johns Creek is that the residents have a lot of

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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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Session: Continued from Page 1 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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Georgia Assistant Attorney General Kristen Settlemire encouraged City Attorney Jarrard to continue counseling the City Council on its obligations under the Open Meetings Act. The residents who drew the Attorney General’s Office into the matter provided Appen Media with three letters of correspondence between Settlemire and Jarrard.

“The City Council and its members failed in their responsibilities to the public through their inability to adhere to those statutory requirements,” Settlemire wrote. “We strongly encourage you to continue counseling the city council on its obligations under the Open Meetings Act, even after your training is conducted, so that all City Council members stay current on the obligations of both the city council and its members under the Open Meetings Act.” The training during the first 45 minutes of the special-called meeting included an overview of the Open Meetings Act and Milton’s

Code of Ethics. Jarrard discussed recommendations for streamlining meetings for the remaining 15 minutes.

“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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Appen also announced that the company is in the process of digitizing all its archived newspapers for online consumption.

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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.

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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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“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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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

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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-cum-mystery 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/.

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