Shave and a haircut
Barber puts down scissors after 50 years ►►page 8
Get your motor runnin’
Are you ready for some football?
Monthly car show draws thousands ►►page 30
Special pull-out section previewing Fulton HS teams ►►page 15
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Alpharetta-Roswell
Revue News
August 15, 2013 | northfulton.com | 73,500 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 28, No. 33
Judge Hilliard steps down Says, ‘It’s time,’ wants position to stay elective, not appointive By HATCHER HURD hatcher@northfulton.com
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Ben Leipprandt, 1, laughs at the SWAT team’s shield during National Night Out.
Police, fire depts. host night out K-9s, SWAT show off for residents By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@northfulton.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The cities of Milton and Alpharetta gave residents a chance to come out and have fun with their public safety departments – police, fire and EMS crews – Aug. 6 at Wills Park for National Night Out. Fire trucks opened their doors for people to sit in, police officers gave K-9 and SWAT demonstrations and emergency crews showed off their safety gear. SWAT trucks and fire safety vehicles were open to tours. The National Night Out campaign started in 1984 as an effort to promote involvement in crime prevention activities, establish community-police partnerships and to instill neighborhood camaraderie.
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Courtney Yapp and Luke Sizemore get “arrested” in a Roswell police car during National Night Out. The goal is to heighten crime-prevention awareness, build support and participation in local anti-crime programs, and most importantly, send a message that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
ROSWELL, Ga. – Roswell Municipal Court Judge Maurice Hilliard is calling it quits after 32 years on the bench dispensing his unique brand of justice. He has been called by both detractors and friends as acerbic and irascible outside the courtroom. Sitting on the bench, he was fair and dispassionate, and attorneys said they knew the case would be tried on the law. But Hilliard said the time had come to step down. “It was just time to go,” he said. After practicing law for 19 years, Hilliard served one year as Roswell’s solicitor and then ran for Municipal Court judge in 1980. He won that handily and never looked back. “At the time, I had been the first full-time lawyer in Roswell. I guess I knew a lot of people. I beat the incumbent, and he didn’t come back to finish out his term,” Hilliard recalled. Hilliard has a little more than two years left on his current term, but there should be time to get the seat on this year’s ballot in November. “It was not a sudden decision. It was something that had been building for quite a while. I guess I just burned out, and was at a point where I was under a lot of stress,” he
I felt like an ex officio tax collector.” Maurice Hilliard Roswell Municipal Court Judge
said. “For 30 years it was a wonderful place to work, and I was blessed to have three of the best prosecuting attorneys you HILLIARD could ever wish for.” Hilliard said Roswell had a model court that was admired across the state of Georgia. But that had changed in the last three years. “For 30 years, I felt like we were making difference, helping some young people, we’re doing something for the community. For the last three years, I felt like an ex officio tax collector,” he said. Asked what changed, Hilliard declined to go into details. “The city decided to take a different approach. The city hired a city solicitor from Cobb
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