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Man arrested for alleged child sex trafficking

By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A 31-yearold Cumming man was arrested May 19 after deputies realized he was involved in a child sex trafficking case.

Matthew Humphries was charged with trafficking in sexual servitude, interference with child custody and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

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He remains in custody at the Forsyth County Jail.

Deputies responded to a call concerning a juvenile at an address in northeast Forsyth County. Once deputies arrived, the 16-year-old girl was interviewed and deputies began to suspect child sex trafficking. The Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit was asked to assist on the investigation. During that time, it became apparent that the girl was

involved in prostitution and sex crimes and was being victimized, according to a report by the Sheriff’s Office.

The girl was found to be a runaway child from DeKalb County. She was turned over to the Department of Family and Children Services.

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Milton man pleads guilty to illegally distributing opioids ATLANTA — Dr. Joseph Lawson Burton, 73, of Milton, pleaded guilty May 22 in federal court to conspiring to illegally distribute opioid painkillers in exchange for sexual favors according to a statement from the Department of Justice.

He will be sentenced Aug. 29.

A former medical examiner for multiple metro Atlanta counties, Burton prescribed over 108,000 individual doses of opioids over a two-year period from 2015-17 without operating a medical clinic or regularly seeing patients, authorities said.

Burton prescribed opioids such as

Oxycodone, hydrocodone and methadone, irrespective of any legitimate medical purpose and outside the normal course of professional practice, in exchange for sexual favors and romantic affection, the statement said.

BURTON Authorities said Burton had sexual relationships with multiple women and wrote prescriptions for opioids for them or under the names of others.

He also provided them with blank prescriptions and instructed them on how to fill them out, the statement said.

The women then sold the pills.

“This defendant traded prescriptions for sex and is responsible for distributing thousands of doses of dangerous opioids within our community,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak in the statement. “We are grateful for the dedicated work of our local and federal law enforcement partners who are equally committed to the arrest and prosecution of those who seek to profit from unlawfully distributing these drugs.”

Roswell woman sentenced for distributing fake pills ATLANTA — Cathine Lavina Sellers, 39, of Roswell was sentenced May 24 to three years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and two synthetic opioids.

“This drug dealer deliberately disguised pills to make them look like oxycodone tablets, laced them with deadly fentanyl and two synthetic opioids, and then sold the fake pills out of her residence in Roswell,” said U.S. Attorney Byung J. “BJay” Pak. “These counterfeit

pills posed a particular danger to our communities, as they are comparably 50 times more potent than prescription oxycodone and present a substantially higher risk of overdose.”

Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin, said “Robert J. Murphy, the Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Atlanta Field Division.

On June 13, 2017, Sellers sold over 100 pills for $1,400 cash from her Ro-

swell townhouse to a confidential source working with the Drug Enforcement Administration. Agents later searching the house found 100 more counterfeit pills and a loaded Glock handgun.

The counterfeit pills were similar in appearance to legitimate Roxicodone tablets.

Sellers was convicted on all charges on Jan. 30, after she pleaded guilty.

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Gilvin wins close race for Alpharetta mayor Richard, Hipes secure seats on City Council

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Jim Gilvin scored a solid victory over Chris Owens in a special election May 22 to lay claim as Alpharetta’s new mayor.

The two former City Council members locked horns in the campaign over issues related to the surge in development the city has seen over the past six years.

“We had two experienced council members in this race,” Gilvin said late Tuesday as the final votes trickled in. “I think the people spoke decisively about their vision for the future.”

With all precincts reporting, Gilvin posted a 460-vote advantage over Owens, a winning margin of 54 percent to 46 percent in the votes cast.

Owens and Gilvin resigned their City Council seats in February to run for mayor after David Belle Isle gave up the gavel to run for Georgia Secretary of State.

Belle Isle’s decision paid off election night when he won a spot in a runoff against state Rep. Brad Raffensperger for the GOP nomination.

Two former Alpharetta Planning Commission members will fill the other City Council seats that were on the May

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Alpharetta Mayor-elect Jim Gilvin speaks with constituents at his election night reception at Loyal Q And Brew, May 22. Gilvin defeated Chris Owens in a tightly contested race.

22 ballot.

Karen Richard outpaced Greater North Fulton Chamber executive Katie Harding for the Post 3 Council seat.

Richard garnered 58 percent of the vote.

In the Post 4 Council race, attorney John Hipes defeated retired business executive Clifford Martin with 55 percent

of the vote.

Tuesday’s turnout was low. The 7,200 votes cast in the mayoral election represents 17 percent of the city’s 42,223 registered voters, according to the latest figures compiled by the Fulton County Elections Office.

That’s still higher than the 10 percent turnout for the last municipal election in November which featured one contested City Council seat. Two other council members ran unopposed in that election.

Full election results came in around midnight, nearly five hours after polls closed. Late returns gave Gilvin a wider margin in the race which had been neckand-neck earlier in the evening.

Alpharetta Mayor Pro Tem Donald Mitchell said Tuesday night he thinks the close race for mayor indicates a middle ground approach to the city’s future development.

“I think people want measured growth – measured growth with an emphasis on community,” he said.

Councilman Ben Burnett, who joined the City Council in January but made no secret of his alliance with Gilvin, said the mayoral election showed public sentiment for the direction the City Council should take.

“I’m glad Alpharetta has a mayor who puts homeowners first,” he said.

Gilvin, Richard and Hipes were to be sworn in at the May 29 City Council meeting.

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By JULIA GROCHOWSKI julia@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. — A bitter rivalry over Georgia House District 48 seat ended May 22 when incumbent Rep. Betty Price withstood a challenge from former Roswell Mayor Jere Wood in the Republican primary.

Price cinched the win with 63.36 percent of the tally, garnering 2,551 voters, almost two-to-one margin over Wood’s 1,475 votes.

Price will face Democrat Mary Robichaux in the Nov. 6 General Election.

Price, a doctor, was first elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in

a special election in July 2015. She has more than 20 years of experience in the medical field and practiced anesthesiology in both Roswell and Marietta. Price locked horns with the longtime mayor numerous times during their time together on the Roswell City Council from 2009-2015.

She is married to Tom Price, the former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services who resigned amid controversy over his use of charter flights and military aircraft for private travel.

Robichaux, a graduate of Louisiana State University Medical Center and the University of New Orleans, is a health care consultant.

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Police rescued a dog they said they found emaciated and locked in a plastic container.

Man allegedly kept dog in plastic crate ROSWELL, Ga. — A man was arrested May 20 by Roswell Police for aggravated animal cruelty, a felony, after officers found an emaciated dog locked in a plastic container.

The man, 38-year-old Alton Coates, of Macon, was arrested two days after police COATES began searching for him.

Police said he turned himself in.

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ATLANTA — Forsyth County Sheriff’s investigators tracked a spike in local heroin arrests to its source in Atlanta, seizing thousands of dollars-worth of narcotics in the process.

Forsyth County detectives teamed with investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation West Metro Regional Drug Task Force to map out a supply trail of heroin into the county.

The shared intelligence turned up information on the location of a dealer or multiple dealers in Atlanta selling heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana and various pills.

The information was turned over to the Atlanta Police Narcotics Unit which then spent weeks conducting surveillance on an address provided by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office.

On May 10, the Atlanta Police Narcotics Unit secured a search

warrant and arrested two people at the scene.

The following items were seized from the location: • 172.4 grams of heroin • 574 grams of cocaine • 140 grams of methamphetamine • Marijuana • 7.6 grams of MDMA/ecstasy • Rossi .357 revolver • Smith and Wesson .40 caliber pistol • $15, 509 Forsyth Sheriff Ron Freeman said they, “will go after anyone who endangers the lives and safety of our citizens, regardless of where they may be.”

That mantra led to creation of the Johns Creek-Alpharetta-Forsyth Drug Task Force earlier this year.

The unit was created to focus on dealer level narcotics while having the ability to move freely across jurisdictions to conduct investigations.

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Every day when I drive through downtown I am amazed by what I see — new high schools, multimillion-dollar private clubs, town homes under construction from the $700,000s everywhere you RAY APPEN turn. Frequently, Publisher ray@appenmediagroup.com I read through the newspaper, and low and behold, there it goes again — “$38 million luxury fitness facility planned for Alpharetta.”

As I write this column, Alpharetta has not one but six new restaurants waiting to open in City Center.

Our schools are all ranked extremely high, and our SAT scores rival or surpass those in the Northeast. There are more new cars on our roads than old.

Our prep sports teams are winning, and business is good.

By almost any measure, Alpharetta is a city that has arrived.

But, now what?

We know the economy runs in cycles, so we cannot solely rely on continuous breakneck growth to carry our city forward. Our city, like any organization, needs a mission and a shared set of values to be able to capitalize on our good fortune. We need an identity. We need a culture. We need collectively to stand for something, and everyone needs to feel like they are part of something bigger than they are. What good is all the success and affluence if we don’t do something with it other than aspire to more affluence and growth?

Former Mayor Belle Isle wanted to brand Alpharetta as the “Technology City of the South.” Is that really who we are or want to be? Everyone knows that tomorrow, today’s technology is old hat and the world has moved on.

And who wants to be part of group or can personally identify with something called “technology city” anyway?

What about living in a city known for building Habitat homes, or building miles of bike lanes or fostering local food production and consumption or providing for the homeless or disenfranchised, or encouraging alternative uses to plastic or fossil fuels?

How about being a city with a reputation for being a place where seniors can affordably retire and stay fully engaged in the community through city-sponsored or aided initiatives, facilities, and networking opportunities and outreaches?

How about being part of a city whose mission is to figure out how to help its

Former Mayor Belle Isle wanted to brand Alpharetta as the “Technology City of the South.”

Is that really who we are or want to be? Everyone knows that tomorrow, today’s technology is old hat and the world has moved on. citizens personally reconnect to each other, reengage with each other, and reground their lives with meaningful work — work that fosters a sense of value and community.

Right now our world — including Alpharetta / North Fulton — needs a lot of fixing. The trend line is dark, very dark. Our kids are killing themselves.

Our schools are being shot up. Opiate addiction is rampant. Homelessness is accelerating. The sense family, of neighborhoods and social connections are disintegrating, and as a society we are becoming more and more isolated and fragmented.

The high rate of technology growth has far surpassed the rate of social and personal growth needed to maintain balance in our lives and in our environment. Cities and counties budget for and invest in traditional municipal assets such as transportation, recreation and parks, safety and education while investment in soft assets like “connections” among citizens, stewardship of our natural resources, community building and the arts in general have lagged far behind – almost off the radar in many instances. Investment in “social capital” by municipalities has slowly begun to

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Alpharetta: Continued from Page 8 pick up speed in some cities across the country, yet not so much here in ubersuccessful and affluent North Fulton.

We are at a point — a paradigm-shifting point — where cities must reconsider what they plan, budget for and invest in.

The technology tsunami that is driving most of the growth, and all the collateral damage that comes with it, is not slowing down; it is accelerating.

Cities need to lead, not follow in helping reinvent the world. Connecting people to each other in meaningful ways and providing a mission and a culture that allows citizens to belong to something — something good and bigger than they are — can’t be viewed any longer as a discretionary goal or budget line item. Investment in social capital needs to become a fundamental priority, and we need to view it as much of a hard asset as the bricks in the new city hall or 10-foot-wide sidewalks.

We need to be careful about allowing ourselves to paint ourselves into a narrow corner with our thinking. Growth, density, traffic and everything that we frequently associate with “progress” does not have to be something we automatically see as negative — something we must fear, fight or oppose, as long as we are smart enough to convert that energy and the resources that are generated into initiatives that balance the impact of growth and leverage it into creating things we value. We need to focus on using that growth to foster, support, and enable community, relationships, connectivity, and in general make our worlds better, healthier, safer, and more meaningful.

What we do with the growth is the key — not whether or not we allow the growth to occur.

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CITY OF ALPHARETTA PUBLIC NOTICE Fiscal Year 2019 Budget Notice is hereby given that public hearings shall be held before the Mayor and Council of the City of Alpharetta, Georgia on June 11, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. and June 18, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. regarding the adoption of the budget for fiscal year 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019). The public hearings will take place at City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, in City Council chambers.

The proposed budget is available on the City’s website, www.alpharetta.ga.us, as well as in the Department of Finance (City Hall, 2 Park Plaza) from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Monday through Thursday) and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Friday).

These public hearings are in accordance with O.C.G.A. 36-81-5. All citizens of Alpharetta are invited to attend and comment will be heard.

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Alpharetta Mayor Pro Tem Donald Mitchell, right, receives formal recognition May 21 by fellow members of the City Council for his three months’ service as acting mayor. Mitchell stepped into the top spot in late February after Mayor David Belle Isle resigned to file for Georgia Secretary of State.

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NORTH FULTON, Ga. — Plans to bring high-density residential housing to a 12-acre site at North Point Parkway and Kimball Bridge Road fell through May 21 after Alpharetta officials tacked on conditions that backers found untenable.

The applicant, 1699 Land Company, pulled their request after more than 90 minutes of deliberation with the four members of the City Council. The developer had sought approval to change the site’s land use from “corporate-office” to “high-density residential” in order to build 56 single-family homes on the property.

The City Council action – or inaction – was the last major zoning case the four-member council will consider before a new mayor and two more council members join their ranks following the May 22 municipal election.

It also represents a growing attitude among city leaders to question recent growth in high-density residential developments – one of the key campaign topics in this year’s local election.

Plans to develop the site have been in the works for close to three years, and, at varying times, have included town homes and as many as 90-some dwellings. The latest proposal represented months of negotiations between 1699 Land Company and city staff to work out details of a development that could meet recommendations to revive the North Point area.

Just this year, the city adopted a new blueprint for future development of North Point which calls for some highdensity residential. That document was drawn up through a Livable Centers Initiative, a grant program through the Atlanta Regional Commission that in-

centivizes local jurisdictions to reshape communities into vibrant, walkable places that provide increased mobility and access to work and amenities.

The new North Point LCI plan differs from the citywide Comprehensive Land Use Plan which designates North Point primarily for commercial and office use.

Attorney Don Rolader, representing the developer, argued that the LCI plan should take precedence. He said the proposed development could accommodate a nearby workforce, providing housing at reasonable costs.

Moreover, he said the project would help alleviate future traffic problems by reducing the number of daily car trips by more than 80 percent compared to a major commercial-office project which could occupy the site in the future.

About a dozen residents were at the meeting to monitor the outcome.

A handful of them addressed the City Council, all expressing misgivings about high-density residential in the area.

Al Modglin, representing the nearby Kimball Farms homeowners association, asked that the application be deferred because residents hadn’t had time enough to study its ramifications for the area. He said he hadn’t learned of the latest rezoning request until mid-April, and some residents were still in the dark as to the details.

When it came time for a decision, City Council members began introducing conditions on the development, changing the width of buffers, calling for pavers along an alleyway, restricting satellite dishes behind homes along Kimball Bridge Road.

In the end, none of the conditions were adopted or even debated.

Rolader ended the discussion by announcing that the developer was withdrawing the request.

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Renovated Wills Park pool opens to the public

By CONNER EVANS interns@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Wills Park opened its newly restored swimming pool to guests May 26.

The $5.47 million project includes a yellow water slide, competition pool, leisure pool, new water filters and upgraded indoor facilities.

The renovations mark the first update Wills Park pool, 11925 Wills Road, has seen since it was constructed in 1987.

As a tribute to the initial opening, Brock Johnson, the first man to wet his toes in the pool 31 years ago, recreated an image taken in 1987 when he and his son were on hand.

Funding for the project came through part of a $52 million bond passed by Alpharetta voters in 2016.

“The public wanted it,” Wills Park’s Recreation Coordinator Cara Prell said.

“Pools have a life where they need major repairs.”

Prell has led this project since planning began in 2015 and wanted Alpharetta to have a city pool of high quality.

“I’m most excited about watching the kids grow up here,” she said. “I didn’t

have a country club or neighborhood pools in Wyoming where I grew up.”

One goal for reconstruction was to make the pool more kid-friendly, Prell said, which led to a leisure pool with zero-depth entry and several water park features. Two large disconnected pools replaced the previous Olympic-sized pool to give kids ages 0-4 a better environment, Prell said.

To provide greater safety, the pool now has double the lifeguard staff with 31 guards, new lifeguard lockers and a first aid room. The pool deck also has more shaded areas and does not allow any alcohol or glass.

The yellow water slide on the other end of the leisure pool is easily visible from the street and curves all the way down to the deep-end.

The competition pool features several diving boards, including a high dive, and lanes for swim team practices.

The new pool provides different amenities from past years, including four sunscreen dispensers, food trucks on Tuesdays and Saturdays and a larger concession stand. A new variety of swim lessons will be offered, including Fin Fun Merkids, where kids learn to swim with a mermaid tail on, and Key Log Rolling where kids learn how to balance

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Roswell Library acquires major resource for grant funding Database will also help track student scholarships

By JULIA GROCHOWSKI julia@appenmediagroup.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Finding scholarships and grants in North Fulton just got a little easier thanks to a new database located in the Roswell Library.

Roswell Library has brought the Funding Information Network from the Foundation Center to North Fulton with the help of Mary Lyons, grants coordinator for the City of Roswell, Danny Blitch, grants manager for the City of Roswell, and the Friends of the Roswell Library.

The network brings together libraries, community foundations and other nonprofit resource centers across the world all into one searchable location.

And while it is mainly geared toward nonprofit use, everyone can benefit.

It can be an invaluable tool for local nonprofits searching for grants as well as for students and parents looking for scholarship opportunities or research grants, Lyons said.

The database houses information about nonprofit resources and community foundations across the nation.

Searches can customize in a variety of ways, including by demographics, types of grants, who is being funded and how organizations are being funded.

“Our hope is to serve or even overserve our local community,” Blitch said.

“We all are serving the same group of people: Roswell residents. The idea is that the more services that we provide as a group to all of the nonprofits and the city together, we’re elevating everyone. It makes it better for everyone.”

There are over 400 Funding Information Network locations in the world, but the closest one to North Fulton had previously been in downtown Atlanta.

The distance, combined with traffic and parking costs, made the network difficult to access for many North Fulton nonprofits.

And without the ability to find grants, a local nonprofit may stagnate or disappear altogether.

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Continued from Page 14 “When people heard that it was coming to this area and that we were bringing training, it was a very big deal,” Lyons said. “This is probably one of the most significant things we have ever done.”

Not everyone can apply to bring the Funding Information Network to their location. The Foundation Center first wants to ensure that the area has a need as well as the capacity to house the network and training. The Roswell Library fits that bill.

The actual computer network is just one small part of the Funding Information Network, Lyons said.

“It’s a comprehensive partnership with the Foundation Center,” Lyons said. “They’re going to try to run continuous training. Previously, we held training through the city with the Nonprofit Partnership Program.”

But this new partnership with the Foundation Center brings the information and training to everyone, Blitch added.

The network will be available to anyone for free during regular library hours. There will be trained library staff that can assist, and the library plans to hold regular informational workshops on

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Tech start-up launches app to engage all Alpharettans

By PATRICK FOX pat@appenmediagroup.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. – A local tech startup has landed a key contract with the city that has already led to big plans ahead.

ITsimple has signed an agreement with the City of Alpharetta for a customized app called “ItsMyTown Alpharetta City App,” the brainchild of company founder Ron Freeman.

ItsMyTown contains current, detailed information about everything in Alpharetta: traffic alerts, free events, restaurants, parks with playgrounds, events for kids, parking, where the nearest store is that you can buy a tie – all with the push of a button. It even responds to voice commands.

The city will pay a whopping $4 for the product over the first two years.

After that, if the contract is renewed, the city will pay up to $3,600 a month for the following two years. After four years, the company would offer the city a 25 percent discount off the price set for cities of similar size.

Freeman said the deal allows him to help his home town and cull a customer base that can be marketed to other cities and counties.

Even before the launch May 17, he already had other clients lining up.

“I’m getting calls now from different states, and this is before we launch,” he said. “People see the benefits, so I’m excited.”

Freeman, a tech wizard in his own right, came to Alpharetta five years ago from Israel with job offers in Silicon Valley.

He says he preferred Alpharetta over the West Coast because of the quality of life and the talent pool.

He got the idea for the app when he encountered some confusion over pursuing his passion: running. He said he had to track down which local parks could accommodate his past-time. He was also amazed, he said, at the low attendance he saw at free, city-sponsored offerings, like children’s events, workshops and movies.

People ought to know about these things, he said.

“There’s really nothing there that consolidates things in our community,” he said.

And, he added, websites that try to catalog services and happenings in a city are often outdated or difficult to navigate.

Freeman said his app will change all that. He’s adamant about engaging users, otherwise the app will be of no use.

What sets this platform apart from, say, a website, he said, is its ease of use and its connectivity.

Everything in the app is geared toward the user, he said.

“When you’re browsing these [traditional] websites, it’s not actionable,” he said. “OK, so you find a website that gives you the name of the place you want. You copy the address, then go to Google Maps to get directions.”

It can take several steps to find the information you want, then find out how to get there, Freeman said.

“It’s a hassle – time, energy – even if you copy and paste, it will just throw in the coordinates,” he said.

The items are updated by providing authorized city staff with secure access.

The Fire Department can alert motorists of a fire with trucks blocking a street.

City staff can remind users of a free yoga class or where parking is still available

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ItsMyTown Alpharetta City App gives users dozens of categories to choose from for current information about the city. during a major downtown event.

Not only that, Freeman said, the app responds to searches by listing the closest matches to the user’s location.

“Our mission statement is ‘Connecting City and Community,’” Freeman said. “We have some people who rely on Facebook. It’s not the same. They’re not focused on my town.”

ItsMyTown not only maps out locations for searches, it can instantly link

users with Uber or Lyft.

People can set the app to provide traffic alerts, notifications of new events and countless other functions simply and understandably, Freeman said.

It takes the hassle out of navigating life in a city and helps engage residents, he said.

“We solved everything,” Freeman said.

City officials were on board with the idea and wasted no time approving the contract.

“I think it’s a great idea, not for the city to get into the tech business, but for us supporting tech companies and supporting Tech Alpharetta,” Councilman Jason Binder said. “I’m supportive of Tech Alpharetta bringing ideas like this and for us to help where we can.”

Mayor Pro Tem Donald Mitchell asked to have charitable organizations and charity events added as part of the app. He also said the app would prove useful in the hospitality industry.

“I see people sitting in their hotel room wondering where am I going to eat tonight?” he said. “You can literally go through that app and it will list every restaurant within the city limits.”

Councilman Ben Burnett, a veteran of the tech industry, was more pragmatic.

“It’s two years with less than $5 worth of risk to the city,” he said. “They could build it, and we could help them gain a following as they go out and try to expand this business into something where they make millions of dollars and locate somewhere where office space is really expensive and they pay those business property taxes.”

You can learn more about ITsimple and its Alpharetta app at ITsimple.io.

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Reading toward a better workforce at Mimosa Elementary Creating interest with prospects At Mimosa, In North Fulton, there is plenty of evidence to show that we are among the best in the state at taking care of our best and brightest.

In US News’ annual Best High Schools list, 7 of the top 10 GEOFF SMITH public high schools Assurance Financial, gsmith@lendtheway.com in Georgia are in North Futon. What is less talked about are the efforts to help those on the other end of the spectrum.

There are plenty of great efforts in North Fulton, including North Fulton Community Charities, The United Way, the YMCA, The Drake House, Star House, all the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs, and many, many others. I am fortunate to be part of another group trying to make a difference called the Mimosa Collective Impact Project.

The idea of the group is to bring together all of the groups already helping Mimosa Elementary School and affect positive changes in the community, with the idea of improving the students’ success in that school. Each initiative has to be aimed to improve a certain metric. The group has been forming for three years and we have just launched our first initiative: to raise third grade reading levels by thwarting the effects of summer learning-loss.

Some of you may not know that more than 90 percent of students at Mimosa Elementary School in Roswell come from families whose income qualifies those students for free-and-reduced lunches.

There are unique challenges at Mimosa that make it hard for the students to perform at levels seen in other North Fulton schools. That’s why we decided to start this project there.

The school has a dedicated and outstanding principal in Ariane Holcomb and a staff of teachers who take the challenges at that school head on.

Through their leadership and hard work, the school saw a 9.2 percent increase

90 percent of graduating second graders were at a second grade reading level last year. When they returned the next fall, only 67 percent were.

in the College and Career Ready Performance Index last year. That’s a dramatic increase, especially for a school where more than 90 percent of the students use English as a second language.

In working with our group, Holcomb suggested our first initiative be to improve the reading levels of the school’s third graders. This was news to me, but third grade reading levels are the biggest predictor of a student’s chances of graduating high school.

The Governor’s Office of Student Achievement posted data that shows that those third grade students who exceed a third grade reading level have greater than a 10 percent chance of graduating than those who only meet that level. And they have more than a 28 percent chance at graduation over those who fall below that level.

That is compelling data. So the next question was, what can we do?

The answer was to start a summer reading program for all rising second graders. I was enlightened to another issue called summer learning loss, where students come back from summer having forgotten some of what they learned the prior school year.

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At Mimosa, 90 percent of graduating second graders were at a second grade reading level last year. When they returned the next fall, only 67 percent were.

Summer learning loss happens in every school. But at Mimosa, there is very little structure over the summer because most of the students’ parents are not home and cannot afford daycare. So the loss is much greater there.

So we put in place a month-long summer reading program that will be administered by certified teachers. It will go from breakfast to lunch, to ensure those students get two good meals a day. The program also is aiming for 100 percent participation. To do this, we decided to pay for Fulton County School buses to run their normal routes. This was about half of our $42,500 budget, but we found it necessary.

We are excited about the program and will be excited to see the data afterwards. We are still funding the project, but were fortunate to earn second place in the United Way’s Spark Award, which is a Shark-Tank like competition between start-up nonprofits. They gave us $10,000. Others have stepped up, but we could still use more. If you can, go to our Facebook page at MimosaCollectiveImpact and click the ‘Donate’ button.

While $355 will pay for one student to go through the program, we are seeking donations of any size.

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Forsyth County’s Halcyon set to open March 2019

By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — By next spring, Forsyth County will be home to one of the most anticipated mixed-use villages in its history.

Halcyon, a $370 million development, sits on 135 acres along McFarland Parkway off exit 12 on Ga. 400 and is planned to open March 23, 2019.

RocaPoint Partners is one of the companies developing Halcyon. Principal Phil Mays spoke May 22 at the Alpharetta Chamber of Commerce’s Coffee and Commerce meeting at the Atlanta Marriott Alpharetta.

Halcyon is focused heavily on dining, he said.

There is a growing list of restaurants and retailers that will be at Halcyon,

including three distinct eateries from renowned chef Marc Taft: CO-OP Community Table + Bar, FEED Fried Chicken + Such and a burger restaurant. In addition, Hog Island, MidiCi Neapolitan Pizza, Cocina & Taqueria, Butcher & Brew, Never Enough Thyme and Cherry Street Brewpub have all announced they will be part of the development.

A Market Hall concept similar to Ponce City and Krog Street markets, will feature Kilwins ice cream, TOCAYO, Sweet Tuna, Gu’s Dumplings, Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee and Pita Mediterranean Street Food. All tenants have been secured.

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The development will also include 690 residential units.

Halcyon is also developing an extension to the Big Creek Greenway with a paved and lit parking lot, restrooms and a trailhead.

“While there is a trailhead on McFarland today, we envisioned something with quite a bit more to it,” Mays said.

“We took a look at it and started thinking about the Beltline and thought to move the trailhead over and integrate it into the mixed-use. Is that a development we want to be part of? The answer is definitely ‘yes.’ It’s a service to folks in Alpharetta and definitely people in Forsyth County.”

Halcyon is often compared to Avalon in Alpharetta, the 86-acre development with more than 500,000 square feet of retail, a 12-screen premium theater, a full-service hotel, Class A office, singlefamily residences and luxury rental homes.

“Avalon is a lot more centric to sell goods, like stores and clothing shops that really play upon the development of a retail space,” he said. “We have more of an opportunity to be active in the whole situation. We saw this area really needed entertainment like a high-end movie theater, quality restaurants and a variety of places to be entertained.”

We tried to be really careful on the soft goods we bring in like the clothing and boutiques so they have an interest across age groups.”

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“We tried to be really careful on the soft goods we bring in like the clothing and boutiques so they have an interest across age groups,” he said. “We aren’t really anchored to that. Since we are on the Greenway, we have a bike store, we are pet friendly with a large dog park.

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U.S. Judge: Elected officials may not block on social media

By KATHLEEN STURGEON kathleen@appenmediagroup.com GEORGIA — Constituents who have been blocked from interacting on social media sites by their elected officials may have a bit of relief coming.

Last week, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled against the Trump Administration in a suit filed by Columbia University over the president’s practice of blocking Twitter users. The university argued that American citizens have the right to be free to express their views to elected officials. Blocking users on a social media website simply because their views run counter to the president’s is undemocratic, the suit argued.

And now, the citizens have their answer.

“This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, ‘block’ a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States,” Buchwald wrote. “The answer to both questions is no.”

The judge told Trump attorney Michael Baer that “once it is a public forum, you can’t shut somebody up because you don’t like what they’re saying.”

Baer had argued that blocking on social media amounts to the same thing as the president walking away from a hostile crowd at a town hall meeting.

Buchwald’s ruling said that the blocking of the plaintiffs, which includes the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, based on their political speech constitutes viewpoint discrimination, a violation of the First Amendment.

“In so holding, we reject the defendants’ contentions that the First Amendment does not apply in this case and that the President’s personal First Amendment interests supersede those of plaintiffs,” Buchwald wrote.

Case has local ramifications The conflict between politicians and constituents on social media extends to North Georgia.

Locally, multiple elected officials have said they block people from their social media sites for various reasons, from considering the commenter an annoyance to reportedly disagreeing with what they’re posting.

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Sean J. Young, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia, he said the court ruling backs up what his organization has been saying over the past year when they have approached those elected officials blocking.

“When a government has a social media site, that is a public forum,” Young said. “When you have a public forum, you cannot discriminate against people whose viewpoints you don’t like.”

Those officials in question argue that often the reason they have to block someone is due to pestering.

State Rep. for District 22 Wes Cantrell said he has blocked few people over the years for profane language or name calling.

Alpharetta City Councilman Donald Mitchell said he has only blocked one person because they were “constantly being negative to the point of neurosis.”

Forsyth County Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills said she blocked several people after she found some want to make everything about themselves and they will use a person like her to get attention.

“I am not big on being used to feed their own agendas that have no benefit to my job as commissioner in receiving good input or advice on making things better at the county, but it’s only about tearing me down personally,” Mills said.

“I have little time to deal with all the drama some people live to create. My plate is more than full, and I am on many crusades to improve the lives of others, but people who live to only be negative and their main objectives is to harm others need to self-examine.”

Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker uses his public and political Facebook and Twitter accounts to interact with the public.

“I generally communicate with my constituents by telephone or email,” Bodker said. “Occasionally, I will get a message via Facebook and will respond in kind. I have blocked fake troll accounts from my personal Facebook page.

I do not tolerate being harassed on my personal Facebook page.”

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To his recollection, he said he has never blocked someone from his political or public accounts.

“I have only blocked accounts that were fictitious in nature,” Bodker said.

“Should the real person behind that account wish to complain, I would certainly ensure that their First Amendment rights were protected. Likewise, if they revealed themselves they would be subjected to the same level of libel or slander liabilities the rest of us have while operating in the open light of day.”

Who decides what is ‘suitable?’

But for the ACLU’s Young, it’s too dangerous to go down the murky road of allowing officials to determine who is suitable to post.

“As we enter this ‘brave, new world’ of social media, we have to continue to apply those basic First Amendment principles to that world,” Young said.

“What are the criteria of being labeled a ‘troll?’ What if someone is just annoying?

The problem is when you have vague criteria governing when someone should be blocked or banned from speaking, it is often applied in a discriminatory and undemocratic way.”

He said an official may find a commenter incredibly annoying because they keep expressing an unpopular viewpoint.

“That person has the First Amendment right to speak, no matter how many people find his viewpoints obnoxious,” Young said. “The First Amendment gives broad cover for people of all segments of society to speak freely. It wasn’t put in place to protect the government’s feelings. By and large, viewpoints are protected under the First Amendment no matter how unpopular they are.”

The court ruling does allow for some exceptions, the same ones that have existed with First Amendment cases for decades.

“The government can ban speech that incites someone to imminent lawless action such as ‘go commit this violent act’ or ‘go do this thing that’s illegal,’” Young said. “The First Amendment does not protect real threats like

violence against someone else.”

The ACLU of Georgia isn’t going to wait for officials to comply with the law, Young said. The organization has already been sending out warnings and letters to those in violation. By and large, they have been complying with the letters without the ACLU of Georgia having to bring legal action.

State Sen. John Albers, who represents portions of North Fulton and Cherokee County, says he does not believe he is violating his constituents’ First Amendment rights by blocking them when he deems it appropriate.

The case for ‘personal’ accounts In an emailed statement, Albers said his official information and press releases can be found on the Georgia General Assembly website or on his campaign website at senatoralbers.com.

Social media, however, is personal, Albers said. He said he updated his Facebook and Twitter pages last month to reflect that his pages are “personal and occasionally (have) campaign messages.”

Albers, along with other officials who admit to blocking some people, said he thinks the ruling will be appealed.

“The judgement was made regarding the president’s account which is managed using government resources in the White House,” Albers said. “My social media accounts do not fall under the same category since mine are personal and always have been. I do not use any state resources to manage them, so this ruling doesn’t apply, whether it stands or is appealed.”

Young said he’s skeptical about the claims of “harassment.”

“I want to know exactly what they consider harassment,” he said. “Is it harassment if a constituent writes letters to them or posts online once a week saying they should be kicked out office?

I really hope our politicians have thicker skin than that.”

A large part of the issue is that many officials see their social media accounts as personal, Young said, so they think they can do what they want with it.

“If they’re using it for government purposes, the First Amendment applies,” Young said. “They need to put on their big boy pants and let people criticize and say whatever they want in these government forums. They were elected into office to represent their constituents.

How are they going to do that if they can’t even hear what their constituents are saying?”

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Magnolia Ball celebrates timeless romance June 9

The bid opening will be held on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at 10:00 AM at Alpharetta City Hall, 2 Park Plaza, Alpharetta, Georgia 30009.

ROSWELL, Ga. — The 33rd annual Magnolia Ball will return June 9 at the Cherokee Town Club. This year, the theme is “Timeless Romance.”

The ball, hosted by Friends of Bulloch Inc. and presenting sponsor Malon D. Mimms, will celebrate the wedding of President Theodore Roosevelt’s parents Mittie Bulloch and Theodore Roosevelt, which occurred at Bulloch Hall on Dec. 22, 1853.

One of Roswell’s first settlers, Maj. James Stephens Bulloch, built Bulloch Hall in 1839. President Theodore Roosevelt visited Bulloch Hall in 1905 and his niece, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, visited when her husband, Franklin, was in office.

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Titan girls lacrosse wins third straight state title

By JOE PARKER joe@appenmediagroup.com KENNESAW, Ga. — Blessed Trinity girls lacrosse scored early and often and kept Starr’s Mill scoreless in the final 15 minutes to earn the Titans their thirdstraight state championship May 19 at Kennesaw State University.

For head coach Liz McFarland, earning the state championship three-peat was “unbelievable.”

“They have worked so hard to get here, and I couldn’t be more proud,” she said. “All five of our seniors were a part of our first state championship, and they are going out on top.”

Blessed Trinity’s attack was led by senior Elise Hammelwrath who scored four goals. Kelly Scott, Kaley Attaway

and Abbey Sokol all earned hat tricks with Lizzy Murphy netting two goals.

Murphy started the scoring for the Titans in the first minute of the game.

Starr’s Mill tied the contest and the score remained 1-1 until BT’s offense exploded for eight-straight goals.

Hammelwrath netted two goals in 21 seconds, the first of five BT scores over the next four minutes. With the onslaught, the Titans carried a 9-2 advantage into the half.

The Titans continued their offensive showcase early in the second period with two quick goals from Murphy and Hammelwrath, but after Milton dominated draws and possession in the first half, Starr’s Mill began to chip away in the second frame.

The Panthers scored six of the next

seven goals to cut BT’s lead to 13-7, but McFarland said her team kept their composure.

“We had practiced all week playing in different scenarios, playing well under pressure and not letting our minds get the best of us,” McFarland said. “They really showed patience and composure today.”

After allowing Starr’s Mill to significantly cut the Titan lead, BT’s defense held the Panthers scoreless in the final 15 minutes of the game. The Panthers had the man-advantage with seven minutes remaining, but with crisp passing, the Titans were able to run clock and

control possession while leading by six goals.

To add some insurance, Sokol and Attaway completed their hat tricks in the final minute of play.

McFarland credited her team’s state title to their incredible dedication.

“It’s like the old adage, it’s all about what you do when no one is looking,” she said. “They put in the hard work, even after practice, and their dedication and character was unbelievable.”

The Titans compiled a 20-2 record this season. The Titans have won all three of their state championship in consecutive years.

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