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She noted the district has opened 40 new schools over the past 22 years, with the majority in North Fulton, to address the capacity needs of the growing district. That trend is now reversing as enrollment declines, leaving some schools still crowded
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Joel Floyd started English for a Lifetime Language Institute with $500 and two students. The school’s second location just opened in Roswell, and Floyd’s goal remains the same – to address the language barrier that exists between adults families who struggle with English.
“I do not feel elected officials should decide if our taxes go up, so that’s why I’m so glad this body decided that they would decide to not raise taxes,” Palermo said. “I really feel it should be voters that decide if our taxes go up.”
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ATLANTA — The redistricting process impacting the entire North Fulton re gion is underway with Fulton County School officials advising parents to be involved and aware of changes to their student’s assigned schools next August.“This is a community process,” said Yngrid Huff, executive director of operational planning for Fulton County Schools. “Rest assured this process is transparent and there is access to all the information and data that we have available.”
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ROSWELL, Ga. — Following a rise in property values over the past year, the Roswell City Council voted unanimously Sept. 12 to adopt a rollback tax rate of 4.463 mills to ease the burden on local taxpayers.Elected officials voted on second reading to reduce the property tax rate for fiscal year 2023 by 5.4 percent from the previous year. It is the lowest the rate has been in 35 years.
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In July, the Roswell City Council voted in favor of placing a bond referen dum on the November ballot, which will
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Strap on your dancing and beer drinking shoes and get ready to head down to Main Street Alpharetta because Brew Moon Fest is returning this fall, y’all.
“We are thrilled to bring back Brew Moon Fest this fall as a key event to showcase why Alpharetta is the place to live, work and operate a small business,” Alpharetta Business Association Board Member Tracie Morton said. “It’s a great opportunity for those new and not-sonew to the area to experience the charm of our amazing community. We look for ward to bringing downtown Alpharetta to life with great music, great food and the bestBrewpeople.”Moon Fest 2022 will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. and will go on rain or shine. Festivalgoers are encouraged to buy individual tickets for $20 apiece and bring their own lawn chairs, but six-person group tables with a front row view of the stage can be purchased for $180.
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“We love seeing the downtown streets filled with happy locals and visitors,” said Janet Rodgers, President and CEO of the Alpharetta Convention and Visi tors Bureau. “Brew Moon Fest is the perfect excuse to plan a fun getaway or staycation in Alpharetta. Fill the week end with shopping and dining, then enjoy your night dancing under the moonlight before heading to stay in any one of our lovely 30 hotels.”
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The bi-annual, award-winning Brew Moon Fest will be held Sept. 24, 2022, on Milton Avenue in downtown Alpharetta, featuring music by Artist BJ Wilbanks, brews from Jekyll Brewing Company and food multiple local eateries.
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Four candidates have qualified for Roswell’s special municipal election in November, vying to fill the seat formerly held by Marcelo Zapata. The Alpharet ta-Roswell Herald will hold interviews with candidates over the next several weeks and publish their responses here. What do you want to know going into the ballot box? Send your questions to vote@appenmedia.com.
Town hall: Local option sales tax
The next City Council meeting is Sept. 26 at City Hall.
Fulton County estimates the over all value of property in Johns Creek has increased 9.5 percent from $4.9 billion last year to $5.4 billion in 2022. In comparison, the assessed value of all property in Ro swell has increased 12 percent from $6.6 billion last year to $7.4 billion in 2022.
In August, Johns Creek voted to hold its millage rate steady at 3.986 mills. But, even with the city’s millage rate re maining unchanged from FY 2022, some Johns Creek residents will still see their
“By adopting the rollback millage rate, the city will actually be collecting about $600,000 less in the general fund than anticipated in the FY 2023 bud get,” Luckett said. “However, mayor and council planned for this by setting aside funds in the fund balance to make up
Luckett said that over the last five years, the tax digest in Roswell has grown an average of 9 percent annu ally. But, while the city is expected to collect approximately $675,000 more than the prior fiscal year because of new construction across the city, it will not realize any additional revenue from inflationary growth in the digest.
The rate of 4.463 mills currently repre sents the second lowest rate in the area.
Much of the change is attributed to reassessment of real existing property.
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thatThedifference.”property tax rate comprises two components.Themaintenance and operations por tion funds basic city services like public safety and parks. For FY 2023, the M&O portion of Roswell’s millage rate will be 4.363, which represents a 5.5 percent decrease from last year. The debt service portion funds the repayment of voterapproved, bonded debt. It will remain the same as last year at .100 mills.
include three separate questions. They include a $107.6 million bond for recreation and parks, bike/pedestrian im provements and sidewalks; a $52 million bond for a new police and fire headquar ters and new fire stations throughout the city; and a $20 million bond for a new parking deck in historic downtown Roswell.Thecity will host the first of five public meetings about the bond referendum on Sept. 20 at East Roswell Park. The other meetings are Oct. 4 at Hembree Park, Oct. 18 at Roswell Area Park, Oct. 25 at the Roswell Adult Recreation Center and Oct. 26 at St. Andrew Catholic Church. All of the meetings will be from 7 to 9 p.m.
Roswell Finance Director Ryan Luck ett told Appen Media the assessed value of residential property has grown by $741 million, or 15.5 percent, and commercial property by $75 million, or 4.6 percent, which will be added to the tax digest.
taxes increase because of rising property value assessments. The Johns Creek City Council did, however, vote to use part of its 2022 budget surplus to defray some of that increase.
in Fulton County. Luckett said the mill age rate has dropped by nearly 1 mill, or 18 percent, since FY 2018, representing $180 in annual savings for the average home.Additionally, because voters in Ro swell approved the adoption of a “float ing” homestead exemption in November 2018, the annual increase to a property tax bill was capped, starting in 2019. Citywide, Roswell residents have seen more than $5.1 million in tax savings annually because of homestead exemp tions, including for those 65 years of age and older and disabled residents.
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The City of Roswell represents about 15 percent of residents’ total tax bill. Fulton County Schools account for 55 percent, and Fulton County government represents 30 percent. Historically, the city says it has had one of the lowest millage rates in North Fulton County.
In 2018, the Roswell City Council lowered the millage rate from 5.455 to 4.955 for FY 2019, a level it had been kept at since 2008, to help offset the im pact of increased property assessments
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Top officials from six North Fulton County communities will meet with mem bers of the public later this month at a multi-city town hall on proposed changes to the county’s Local Option Sales Tax (LOST). At the town hall meet ing, scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 21 at Roswell City Hall, citizens and officials can share their concerns about the proposed allocation changes.
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Along the way, experienced residents have given suggestions. The commit tee also hosted election overseers from Peachtree Corners, which has conducted its own municipal elections since its 2012Peachtreeincorporation.Corners, with half the land area but about the same population as Milton, spent $50,687 for its November 2021 municipal general election.
The committee consists of two Milton City Council members, Mohrig and Paul Moore, Deputy City Manager Stacey Inglis, City Clerk Tammy Lowit and resi dents Mark Amick and Lisa Cauley.
At the committee’s Aug. 22 meeting, several residents came forward during public comment alleging partisanship among panel members.
run a city election.
Origin, makeup of Milton elections committee draws public scrutiny
The panel was intended to represent three groups: the City Council, city staff and Milton residents. But, in remarks to the committee a number of residents have recently raised concerns with the panel makeup.
The committee, formalized in April 2022, has been tasked with studying the feasibility of Milton running its own lo cal elections. Milton paid Fulton County $84,671 to run its 2021 municipal general election and another $70,368 to conduct a runoff election in late Novem ber, according to the contract agreement.
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An Open Records request revealed that there were about half a dozen meetings held before the committee was formalized. No announcement or advertisement of the informal meetings could be located.
MILTON, Ga. — Formed to wrest control of local elections from Fulton County and ensure integrity at the ballot box, Milton’s Municipal Election Feasibil ity Committee has itself come under scrutiny.Residents have raised questions about possible ulterior motives and political leanings among the panel’s six members.
Milton City Manager Steve Krokoff said interest in local control over the municipal election dates back to July 2021, when residents disputed the con tract with Fulton County for that year’s municipal election. Residents cited concerns of integrity in the 2020 Gen
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Milton City Councilman and com mittee member Rick Mohrig countered that Milton’s municipal elections are a nonpartisan issue.
Over the past few months, panel members have researched costs, proto cols, equipment and staffing required to
The Shindig is from 4 to 7 p.m. and will combine the new with the old, fun social activities and information reflec tive of Milton’s past. There will be door prizes and more than 50 displays includ ing antique vehicles — one truck has a moonshine still mounted in the back. Books by local authors will be for sale.
Since 2018 the Milton Historical Society has been sharing a love of history with the local community. It sponsors a variety of programs to interest and involve individuals, families and businesses.
Cream on Wheels will sell a wide range of favorites.Ticketsare $20 for adults and free for children 12 and under with all proceeds going to support activities of the Historical Society. Tickets will be sold at the event. Free parking will be available on site.
MILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY/PROVIDED Jeff Dufresne, president and founder of the Milton Historical Society, sets up an informa tional poster about the group at last year’s fall Shindig.
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MILTON, Ga. — The Milton Histori cal Society will host its second annual Shindig on Sept. 17 at Wildberry Creek Farm, one of the few remaining working cattle operations in Milton.
A barbecue dinner provided by Dreamland Bar-B-Que will be included in the price of admission. Complimen tary beer will be provided by Six Bridges Brewing Company of Milton and Johns Creek. An ice cream truck from Best Ice
For more information on the Shindig or on the Historical Society view their Facebook page or their website at miltonhistoricalsociety-georgia.org.www.
The Historical Society plays an im portant role in the local community, and the event is the group’s way of saying thank you to the community for its sup port over the past year.
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About 60 students are enrolled at the Roswell location. Floyd said there are other English schools in the area, but what sets English for a Lifetime apart is that it uses critical pedagogy to establish agency so students are prepared for any situation in American society. It focuses on the student as a whole.
Despiteagent.theadditional resources and unique approach to teaching, Floyd said what the school tries to offer is com
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Joel Floyd, founder and president of English for a Lifetime Language Institute, hopes to grow his Roswell location after having nearly 100 students enroll at his first location in Peachtree Corners. Floyd opened the English school in 2012 and expanded to Roswell in May.
Floyd, an educator from a young age, said that after moving to Atlanta to study medieval church history in gradu ate school, he began teaching secular studies at a Jewish high school and then English as a second language. However, he said he remembers feeling limited, because there was a set curriculum he had to follow. So, he said, he took a leap
“I want people to know that they are all welcome and it doesn’t matter where they come from,” Floyd said. “We will meet them where they are and want to help them achieve their goals. This is a school for the community, for the people, and that’s what we’re all about.”
That’s important, Floyd said, because his students come from all walks of life.
making it an easy process for them as they learn the language in this country.”
Floyd would later relocate to Peachtree Corners. This May, he opened a second location in Roswell. Whereas most of his students at the Peachtree Corners location are Hispanic or Latino, the new location serves a diverse group of students from countries such as Ko rea, Russia, Ukraine and Turkey.
Some just want to be able to com municate at the supermarket, others
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“I want people to know that they are all welcome and it doesn’t matter where they come from.”
need to pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language, or TOEFL, for gradu ate school, and others need to master the language to continue to work in their chosen fields like engineering and medi cine after moving to the United States.
of faith and started his own school.
JOEL FLOYD, founder, English for a Lifetime Language Institute
“I felt like I’d be able to reach more people because my vision was so big,” Floyd said. “It connected back my child hood vision of one day having a school, but I didn’t know that years later it would be English as a Second Language. So, that’s why that passion has always been there. I just really love connecting with people from different cultures and different worlds.”
In August, the school was awarded $10,000 from NAV Technologies to establish a computer lab in its new location, purchase classroom furniture, and hire a lead teacher and community marketing
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ROSWELL, Ga. — English for a Lifetime Language Institute takes a holistic ap proach to teaching English as a second language, regardless of educational background or social status.
Founder Joel Floyd started the school in 2012 in Doraville with just $500 and two students – one from Ethio pia and the other from Mexico. At the time, he said his goal was to address the language barrier that exists between im migrant adults and families who struggle with learning English.
“We don’t deny any students and strive to provide them with a sense of com munity, because I know they need that connection, especially if they’re here by themselves,” Floyd said. “… It’s all about
When Floyd isn’t at English for a Life time, he serves as second vice president at Georgia Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages, or GATESOL, which advocates for professional development, participation and leadership. He is also a member of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
The school offers six levels. Each is 16 weeks long and goes over both academic and vocational English like grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking. Prices range from $460 a month to $1,500 for private classes. Online classes are also available.
English school builds community for immigrants
“We really believe in community,” Floyd said. “We have small class sizes. Our student ratio is about 1 to 8, be cause we really want to give students that individualized, small group in struction. We want students to feel like they’re more than a number.”
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Christian Brothers Automotive and other award finalists were honored for their entrepreneurial spirit, dedication, hard work and sound business practices at the WellStar Chamber Small Business of Excellence Awards Luncheon in August.
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Troop 51 Paint Recycling Fundraiser
WHERE: American Legion Post 201 201 Wills Road Alpharetta, GA
Help support Boy Scout Troop 51 by bringing your leftover cans of latex and oil-based paints to be properly disposed of or re-used. This paint will be filtered and turned into quality, re-usable paint product and then donated back to non-profit groups in our community like Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Armies, and Boys & Girls Clubs
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FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce has honored Christian Brothers Automotive as its 2022 Small Business of Excellence.
Christian Brothers Automotive was first opened by Tom Burgess in 2015 after 23 years of service in the Air Force, Burgess opened his most recent location in 2021.
Ffinalists for the award included Casa Nuova Italian Restaurant, Milton’s Cuisine and Cocktails, Rocket IT and Trinity Life at Home.
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“The guiding principles in their work are to ‘Love Your Neighbor as Yourself’ for all customers to experience the ‘Nice Difference,’ and for Christian Brothers Automotive be their auto service partner for life,” Chamber officials said.
PROVIDED/GREATER NORTH FULTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The winner and finalists for the 2022 North Fulton Small Business of Excellence Award were honored by the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce in August.
MILTON, Ga. — Kathyrn LaBorie’s friends remember Kathryn as fun, loving and energetic, with a ready smile and a robust laugh.
“Kathryn’s parents hope everyone remembers what sacrifices many Ameri cans made on this somber September and that 9/11 is something we never need to forget,” Czarnecki said.
Milton Fire Chief Gabriel Benmoussa speaks about his tradition of going back to New York City every five years to honor the victims of 9/11.
LaBorie was among the 2,977 who died in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Milton High students carry on 9/11 legacy
Behind the assembled crowd at the high school ceremony was a lawn cov ered with nearly 3,000 American flags, each representing a victim of the Sept. 11 attacks. A name is tied around each. Some 60 students, first responders and community members helped with setup Sept. 6.
“Passion and love are two traits that Kathryn is remembered for,” said Scar lett Czarnecki, a senior at Milton High School, who shared LaBorie’s story. The personal tribute was one of six at Milton High School’s 9/11 memorial service, Friday, Sept. 9. The other five tributes were for Lt. Kevin Pfeifer, Lt. Glenn Perry, Joseph Keller, Todd Reuben and KeithJustinMcHeffey.Mikels, who led the tributes with a poem by Scott MacDonald, said that each person has a connection with the Milton LaBoriecommunity.wasthelead flight attendant in the first-class section on Flight 175, the plane that crashed into the World Trade Center’s south tower. She was two steps away from the terrorist who hijacked the plane.
Milton High School students stand by the flags of victims recognized in previous years at a 9/11 memorial service Sept. 9. After tributes of victims were read, students walked to the victim’s respective flag. Each student held a picture of the victim.
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Her friends said she had boundless energy and a great sense of adventure. Her mother, Laura, said you could speak to her and think you’ve known her forever. LaBorie’s husband, Eric, said she taught him kindness, that there’s a kinder way to go throughout life.
“Her father said she tried to stop
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them,” Czarnecki said. “The family knows this is a fact.”
Czarnecki said there was a flight at tendant in the rear of the plane, who was on the phone with his mother, giving her a step-by-step account of what was going on.
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ROSWELL HISTORICAL SOCIETY/PROVIDED The Roswell Historical Society is hosting “Beyond My Stone” at Pleasant Hill His torical Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 5 p.m.
a benefit show on Aug. 20 at Roswell Performing Arts, where the resident dance company Roswell Dance Starz performed “Choreography for a Cause.” The dance company’s pre-professional program gives young dancers training in technique and experience in public performance.Thefashion show kicks off with a cocktail hour featuring light bites and cocktails from Avalon restaurants.
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Tickets for the 2022 Noon to Night Fall Fashion Benefit are now on sale.
Avalon teams with charity for Noon to Night Fall Fashion Benefit
Bert’s Big Adventure also hosted
Need” fundraiser, where guests can make contributions toward specific Walt Disney World experiences.
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ROSWELL, Ga. — The Roswell His torical Society is selling tickets to its “Beyond My Stone” event in October to help purchase markers for unmarked burials.Theevent will be held at Pleasant Hill Historical Cemetery on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 5 p.m. In the case of in clement weather, it will be postponed to Saturday, Nov. 5. Tickets are lim ited to 100 and are $10 each.
Georgia’s top benefit auctioneer Dean Crownover will then lead a “Fund the
own family members. According to the Roswell Historical Society, there are currently 87 unmarked burials that have been identified by research and located by ground penetrating radar.
Avalon Blvd. Tickets are available for general admission or VIP.
Since teaming up, the organiza tions have raised over $350,000 to send BBA kids and their families on an allexpenses-paid, five-day journey to Walt Disney World. Following the annual trip, BBA provides year-round support through initiatives such as the Family Reunion Adventures, the Fairy God Par ent volunteer program and additional charitable services.
Performers will tell the story of their life and times in Roswell. Many cast members will also share stories of their
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Models will hit the catwalk at 8 p.m. with local media personalities Mara Davis and Monica Kaufman-Pearson serving as co-hosts. Afterward, VIP ticket holders are invited to The Hotel at Avalon for a silent disco with a live DJ, complimentary beverages and pizza from Antico.For additional information and to pur chase tickets, visit experienceavalon.com.
To purchase tickets online, tickets.ableid=3C3L8PKGDCJFJpaypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_visitorbycheckpaytoRHSCemeteryFund,memoBMSP.O.Box1636Roswell,GA.
Gates will open at 4:45 p.m. for check in.
Fundraiser to help restore grave markers
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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Donations of school supplies and snacks collected by North Point Community Church in Alpharetta will go toward helping more than 1,000 local students this school year.
their lives and the financial needs of theirSchoolfamilies.”supplies were also donated to the Fulton County Division of Family and Children Services.
North Point Church supply drive supports disadvantaged students
NORTH POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH/PROVIDED Elkins Pointe Middle School staff ware all smiles helping distribute donated school supply kits to students.
Over 1,000 students at Amana Acad emy, Brandywine Elementary, Centennial High School, Children’s Development Acad emy, Elkins Pointe Middle School, Mimosa Elementary and Hembree Springs Elemen tary benefited from the supply drive.
Church officials said North Point’s Back-to-School Drive, held Aug. 14-28, raised donations from thousands of people in the church community and members of the public. The money was used to purchase school supplies and snacks for students who lack access to necessary
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“Elkins Pointe Middle School is ap preciative for the partnership in edu cation with North Point Community Church,” said Erika Edwards, a school counselor. “By students receiving need ed, adequate school supplies, it changes
“Thankssupplies.tothegenerosity of thou sands of individuals, numerous students in our area now have the tools they need to help them succeed this school year,” said Ameera Joe, who led the program for the church. “We are so thankful to everyone who helped make this happen.”
North Point Community Church is at 4350 North Point Parkway in Alpharetta. For more information visit www.north point.org.
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But Van Hentenryck said MARTA
“In my opinion, the pilot should have been expanded so we could have seen how far it could have gone,” said Pascal
made the decision to not extend or expand the pilot in July, when ridership was half what it was in August. Every month, MARTA Reach ridership had steadilyGreenwoodincreased.said the MARTA Reach pilot could resurface – especially as the transit agency looks to redesign its bus service. In the meantime, the MARTA Reach shuttles will be redeployed.
“We are going to have an unpacking of the performance and metrics in the next couple of months,” Greenwood said. “I have been watching with great joy as MARTA Reach had good response in some areas, and not so good response in otherVanareas.”Hentenryck, who spoke in a phone interview on Aug. 30 – one day shy of the end of the program, shared some of the basic results. During the six-month pilot, more than 8,000 riders used the systems with 3,000 riders in August.“The response from the riders was unanimously positive,” Van Hentenryck said. “About 27 percent of the riders had been using either Uber or Lyft before MARTAMARTAReach.”Reach charged riders $2.50 a ride — the same price of other MARTA
ATLANTA — MARTA Reach, a six-month pilot program of on-demand transit, ended Aug. 31 — after ridership in the program increased by 50 percent in the lastMARTAmonth.
Anthony Thomas, MARTA’s program manager for customer experience inno vation, explained that the main reason MARTA Reach was not extended was due to a shortage of bus drivers.
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Reach was a joint effort between MARTA and Georgia Tech to ex plore ways that on-demand transit could complement an existing mass transit network. The pilot program targeted several communities in MARTA’s service area beginning with West Atlanta, Belve dere and the Gillem Logistics Center.
A MARTA Reach bus idles in downtown Alpharetta this summer. While ridership increased over the course of the pilot program, MARTA says it was discontinued primarily because of a shortage of bus drivers. PHOTO
MARTA’s on-demand Reach pilot program ends despite rise in ridership
The program expanded to include an 8.5-square mile area in North Fulton to test out connections from the Mansell Park & Ride to North Point Mall, Avalon District, and Georgia State’s Alpharetta campus.“Right from the beginning, we knew we couldn’t do a pilot across the whole system,” said Collie Greenwood, MAR TA’s interim general manager. “The pur pose of this pilot was to really to study on-demand transit. We knew there was a start, and we knew there was a finish.”
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Van Hentenryck, who heads up Georgia Tech’s AI Institute for Advances in Opti mization, which put together the soft ware app to run the on-demand transit system. “I find it unfortunate because the ridership was growing – 50 percent in the last month. We will never know how far it could have gone.”
About three months ago, MARTA approached Georgia Tech about the pos sibility of expanding the MARTA Reach program, but the transit agency eventu
ally decided to discontinue it altogether.
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will discontinue its daily print edition and go to a week end print edition, but it will continue its digital news operation seven days a week, according to interviews with a half dozen people close to the newspa per.The timeframe to implement the discontinuation of the daily print edition has not yet been decided, but it likely would happen sometime in 2023, most likely within a year from now.Senior editors were told of the deci sion during a zoom meeting Sept. 1. The meeting was led by Kevin Riley, editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Shawn McIntosh, the newspaper’s man agingDuringeditor.the meeting, the editors were told there were no immediate plans to lay off newsroom employees, according to people familiar with the meeting.Allnewsroom employees also have been sent an email inviting them to an “in-person” staff meeting on Sept. 8 at 11 a.m.The invite to the staff meeting from Kevin Riley stated: “It’s been a while since we’ve had an in-person newsroom staff meeting – but don’t worry, I promise there won’t be any shoes dropping at this meeting. Instead, I would like to get together and share exciting information as we plan for our future. The leadership team hopes you leave the meeting feeling as optimistic as we do about our path forward – a path that allows us to continue to produce our meaningful work for a long time to
come.”Ina brief telephone interview on Sept. 1, Riley did not confirm the deci sion. When asked if the AJC had decided to discontinue the print edition six days a week and only have a Sunday print edition within the next year, Riley answered: “No such decision has been made.”Friday morning, Riley was asked to clarify whether his quote referred to the decision to go all-digital except for a weekend paper or whether it referred to timing of when it would be implemented. As of the time of publication of this story, Riley had not responded to the text. This story will be updated if and when he does respond.
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Sources: Atlanta newspaper to end all but Sunday print editions
In a host of background conversa tions with people close to the AJC, the decision to discontinue the daily delivery and printing of the newspaper did not come as a Newsroomsurprise.employees have been witnessing the shift to a “digital-first policy.” The AJC sold its printing press and contracted with another newspaper company to print its paper, but that meant daily deadlines were pushed to 4 to 6 p.m., which meant the morning newspaper did not include any breaking news from the night before, including sports scores. Readers began to rely on the digital news product to get the latest news.The decline in daily print subscrip tion and sales has been in play for the last couple of decades.
In an AJC story in 2009, the news paper announced a steep drop in its daily and Sunday circulation because of a decision to reduce its distribution area from 74 counties to 20 counties. At the time, the Sunday circulation was 405,549, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. And daily circulation had dropped to 214,303. Those num bers meant that the AJC “fell out of the top 25 newspapers for daily circula tion.”The circulation of the print news paper has continued to decline. A June 2022 story in the PressGazette showed that the AJC was not among the top 25 newspapers in the coun try. The 25th largest paper was the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, with an
hood the print product was on its way out, with the possible exception of a weekend paper.
This article was originally published on SaportaReport.com.
CARL APPEN/APPEN MEDIA The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is the flagship newspaper of Cox Enterprises.
By MARIA SAPORTA and JOHN RUCH SaportaReport
average print circulation of 47,832. That would mean the AJC’s print circulation had dropped to even below thatStill,number.theAJC has continued to be the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the TheSoutheast.AJC’sadvertising website claims the paper has 1.2 million print readers, without explaining how that number — which is many times higher than the amount of papers printed — is calculat ed or audited. The same website reports the AJC has 9.2 million digital readers. An AJC spokesperson did not respond to questions about the current circulation numbers.TheAJC is owned by Cox Enterpris es, a privately-owned company based in Dunwoody. The AJC was bought by the Cox family more than 70 years ago, originally as two separate publications before a 2001 merger.
However, in the telephone interview, Riley essentially confirmed the likeli
“I can tell you that everyone knows that the future of our business is digi tal,” Riley said.
In 2010, the AJC moved from Downtown Atlanta to Dunwoody as a cost-savings move. Cox has made major changes in its media portfolio in recent years. In 2018, it considered merging the AJC and WSB TV and radio opera tions. But in 2019, it made a big change in course by selling WSB and several other national broadcasting outlets, while keeping the AJC and several Ohio newspapers.OnAug.8, Cox Enterprises an nounced that it had an agreement to buy Axios, the national news website, for $525 million. According to people close to the AJC, Cox’s decision to acquire Axios was not related to the decision to discontinue the daily print product of the AJC.
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DUNWOODY, Ga. — The Spruill Center for the Arts will begin Arts for Alzheim er’s, a pilot art education program aimed at increasing the well-being of those living with memory loss and their care partners through engagement in the arts, on Sept. 14.
“We wanted our new brand and the forthcoming concert series to reflect that understanding in a new and timeless fashion,” Brill
Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. – A Night of Symphonic Jazz – Duke Ellington, Cole Porter and Glenn Miller will perform a free concert at Johns Creek’s Newtown Park at 3150 Old Alabama Road. Gates open at 6 p.m.
Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Linda Brill said its diverse audiences are cultured patrons of the arts who understand the inspira tional power of the human spirit.
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra’s 2022-23 concert series, “Resilient Spirit, Resounding Season,” will feature a variety of sounds ranging from jazz to Broadway. While emerging from the challenges of the pandemic, the Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra was moved by the diverse ages of concertgoers, generous investments from new area donors and unwavering musical appreciation from audiences near and far.
Subscriptionssaid.for the new season range from $55-$120, and single tickets will range from $7.50 to $47. To buy individual concert tickets, purchase season passes or explore sponsorship opportunities, visit johnscreeksympho ny.org or call 678-748-5802. Tickets can also be purchased at the door.
SPRUILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS/PROVIDED
Johns Creek Chorale will perform at Johns Creek United Methodist Church at 11180 Medlock Bridge Road.
Spruill Center will offer free Arts for Alzheimer’s program
May 6 at 7:30 p.m. – With One Accord – Seasoned professionals and promising young musicians will perform side-by-side with students from North view High School at Johns Creek United Methodist Church at 11180 Medlock Bridge
NowRoad.inits 16th concert season, Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra has become an advocate and integral part of the musical and performing arts scene in North Georgia. The 2022-23 season is expected to break attendance records.
The program is being offered this fall at no charge and is now open for registration via Spruill’s website. Arts for Alzheimer’s will be held every second Wednesday through Dec. 14.
As a result, it has rebranded to better represent and amplify North Georgia’s enduring culture of tenacity, unity and strength. Johns Creek Symphony Or chestra’s 2022-23 season includes:
Dec. 17 at 7:30 p.m. – Christmas Pops – Johns Creek’s favorite holiday tradition with Banks & Shane and the
Each month, teaching artist Amanda Williams will guide participants through an examination of a prominent artist and their works. Individuals and their care partners will explore a variety of mediums designed to engage and con nect them to the monthly class theme, and they will create a work of art in spired by that month’s featured artist. In this pilot program, the artists include Henry Ossawa Tanner, Henri Mattise, Hanna Hoch and Claes Oldenburg.
Dec. 17 at 2:30 p.m. – A Kids’ Christmas – A sensory-friendly concert that the whole family can enjoy will be held at Johns Creek United Methodist Church at 11180 Medlock Bridge Road.
The Spruill Center for the Arts will begin a fall art education program for individuals living with memory loss and their care partners on Sept. 14.
Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. – A Veterans Day Salute – Alto soloist Stacey Holliday of the United States Air Force Band’s Singing Sergeants will pay homage to veterans with a concert at Johns Creek United Methodist Church at 11180 Med lock Bridge Road.
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An estimated 6.5 million Americans age 65 and older have some form of dementia. According to the World Health Organization, more than 3,000 stud ies show that the arts play a significant role in promoting health and wellness. The Alzheimer’s Association endorses the arts to enrich the lives of people with Alzheimer’s disease by allowing for self-expression and engagement, which elevates mood, self-esteem and social interaction.Williams will oversee an explora tion of art history and artistic media in this four-part course offered monthly. Williams has spent more than 15 years working with individuals who have memory loss and their care partners, most recently helping to establish a program at the High Museum of Art in partnership with the Georgia Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Johns Creek Symphony to kick off 2022-23 season
March 25 at 7:30 p.m. – On Broadway – A tribute to the renowned songs of musical theatre will feature soprano Jessamyn Anderson. The concert will be held at Johns Creek United Methodist Church at 11180 Medlock Bridge Road.
Registration is available at spruil larts.org/classes.
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ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp an nounced Aug. 29 that his office will provide $62 million to help Georgia communities address homelessness and housing insecurity.
By REBECCA GRAPEVINE Capitol Beat
saidHayes-BrownHayes-Brown.said Georgia ACT mem bers awarded funding include Mercy Housing Southeast, Quest Community Development, and SUMMECH Commu nity Development. These groups all work to provide affordable housing, mostly in the Atlanta area.
“We would like to see more out reach to those small mission-based developers outside of metro Atlanta and [those groups] also given technical assistance to apply,” Hayes-Brown said.Some of the other groups awarded funding include Habitat for Hu manity organizations in Athens, Troup County and Houston County.
“Byissues.”investing these funds in those who are already making a difference around our state on these fronts, we will provide those most in need with resources that will aid them on the road to personal and financial recovery,” Kemp
Bambiesaid. Hayes-Brown, president and CEO of Georgia ACT, a statewide coalition of affordable housing groups, said the funding will help organizations assist the disadvantaged.
“Kemp has repeatedly railed against spending that he’s now trying to claim credit for – even as housing costs con tinue to skyrocket on his watch with no response from him but election year gimmicks,” said Alex Floyd for the cam paign.
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The funds come from federal COVID relief funds provided to the state under the American Rescue Plan Act. Additional grants will be awarded this fall to groups working to help homeless Georgians, said Andrew Isenhour, a spokesman for the governor.Aspokesman for Democrat Stacey Abrams – who is challenging Kemp for the governorship in November – criti cized Kemp’s announcement.
The governor’s office will award the funds to 20 organizations who applied via a competitive process. The funds will be used to build affordable housing, improve existing housing, and provide mental health services to people who are “Ashomeless.Georgians faced the unprecedented challenges and economic downturn of the pandemic, COVID-19 robbed some of their finan cial stability, expanding the homeless population in vulnerable communities,” said Kemp. “Those who were already homeless faced even greater difficulties, with many already struggling with mental health or substance abuse
“We know the work that our mis sion-based developers do is very impor tant to providing housing opportunities for the lowest income of Georgians,”
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Vikram Anand, of Troop 69, sponsored by Al pharetta First United Methodist Church, whose project was the design and construction of five shoe racks for
Kenny Tsao, of Troop 69, sponsored by Alpharetta First United Methodist Church, whose project was the design and construction of four raised garden beds for St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Giving Garden.
Bottom row, from left: Loveday Weimer-Johnson, of Troop 432, spon sored by Roswell United Methodist Church, whose project was the design and construction of two shelving units for the PAWS Atlanta Animal Shelter.
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Joshua Charlesworth, of Troop 51, sponsored by American Legion Post 201, whose project was the design, clearing and creation of a new trail at the Dunwoody Na ture Center. William lined the trail with railroad ties.
Top row, from left:
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Ethan Phillips, of Troop 1459, sponsored by St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, whose project was the de sign and construction of three benches and a retaining wall, for North Park in Alpharetta.
Leonardo Hernandez, of Troop 10, sponsored by St. Benedict’s Catholic Church, whose project was the design and construction of six new benches for the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center.
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Evan Hite, of Troop 7153, sponsored by St. Brigid Catholic Church, whose project was the design and construction, of two picnic tables for Autry Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center.
Andrew Totenson, of Troop 629, sponsored by Mt. Pisgah United Methodist Church, whose project was the design and construction of two sections of a board walk with a ramp for the nature trails at Autrey Mill Nature Preserve and Heritage Center.
Robert Kidd, of Troop 51, sponsored by American Legion Post 201, whose project was the design and con struction of two trail bridges for the Big Creek Mountain Biking Park.
Matthew Armao, of Troop 143, sponsored by John’s Creek United Methodist Church, whose project was the design and construction of five benches for the Southeastern Railway Museum.
Matthew Lawman, of Troop 1134, sponsored by St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church, whose project was the design and construction of three shelving units for the Southeastern Railway Museum.
City Council members
By the end of the meeting, it was decid ed that Krokoff would convene the group of six to start the process to draft objectives.
In an email dated April 18, Deputy City Manager Inglis said the meetings go ing forward would be subject to the Open Meetings Act, which would require a pub lic notice at least 24 hours in advance. In the same email, she also said that the committee would be “blind-copied” as to avoid “reply all” per guidelines of the Act.
The Open Records request sought emails relating to the elections commit tee dating back to Oct. 1, 2021, through April 2022. None mention any formal process by which Amick was nominated. In fact, all six current committee mem bers appear in a Nov. 15 email and a response the following day.
Frommeetings.theoutset, there wasn’t always clarity on whether the committee meet ings would be open to the public.
Cost has repeatedly been cited as a key issue, but when asked about other benefits to self-operated elections, Mohrig did not respond. However, he did expound on the issue of cost through an email.
Both Krokoff and Jamison could not recall who nominated resident Mark Amick, who served as a statewide poll watcher and testified at a Georgia Gov ernment Affairs hearing on the 2020 election. Amick has stated on numerous occasions he witnessed irregularities at different polling sites during the 2020 electionAmick,process.whoalso could not be reached for comment, was subpoenaed in June as part of a Fulton County in vestigation into Republican attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
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the ethics panel findings and Moore’s ability to continue to function as a mem ber of the City Council and the Elec tion Feasibility Committee are “entirely unrelated.”
At the Nov. 15 City Council meeting, former Mayor Joe Lockwood brought up concern about opening the study to the public.Current Mayor Peyton Jamison, then a council member, asked, “I’m assum ing all these meetings will be open to the public,Krokoffcorrect?”saidhe didn’t think that was the case, based on how the City Council was approaching the issue.
(only) the incremental costs it would incur by administering our election (as has been provided in all previous Milton Elections), the Council wisely decided to take a hard look to see if administering its own municipal elections would be: 1. Feasible from a procedural perspective; and, 2. Cost effective,” Mohrig wrote.
“We’re talking about elections. It should probably be an open meeting. That’s just my two cents,” Jamison said.
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Georgia’s Open Meetings Act requires that meetings of every “department, agen cy, board, bureau, office, commission, authority, or similar body of each such county, city, or other political subdivision of the state” be open to the public.
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An Open Records request filed with the city Aug. 31 turned up emails indicating that there were about half a dozen meet ings held before the committee was formal ized at the April 18 City Council meeting. No announcement or advertisement of the informal meetings could be located.
Council members were included, Krokoff said, to ensure that efforts re main in line with what the City Council’s expectations were of the assessment.
Both issues were restated in a draft of the committee’s final report presented at the Aug. 22 meeting.
Milton Executive Aide Susan Wilmath said that there were no emails contain ing the search criteria up to the first emailMayorlisted.Jamison said the city’s legal team has assessed the situation regarding the Fulton County investigation of 2020 election irregularities and has determined that Amick’s current status does not le
Krokoff said. “And, to emphasize the informality of that first step, no council vote was taken. It is the case, however, that the council clearly envisioned the eventual transition of the informal as sembly to a more formal committee that would move forward publicly.”
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Mohrig was asked about any experi ence related to election work, but he did not answer the question.
OpenguidelinesshouldheldinformalColangeloJennifersaidthemeetingsbeforeAprilhavefollowedpertheMeetingsAct.
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“Paul Frickey, a partner with the law firm that represents Milton (Jarrard & Davis), noted that what was contemplat ed at the Nov. 15 meeting was not a ‘for mal committee,’ though the City Coun cil could make it one at a later time,”
The first official committee meeting was in WhileJune.not a “formal committee,” Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Colangelo said the informal meetings held before April should have followed guidelines per the Open Meetings Act.
The names of all six committee mem bers were announced at the Nov. 15 City CouncilKrokoffmeeting.saidCouncilman Mohrig and Councilman Moore volunteered.
Moore has called Milton home for 23 years and was “a regular voice at the podium, speaking in front of the Fulton County Commissioners to advocate for a thoughtful, conservative plan for devel opment and community growth,” accord ing to his profile.
According to Mohrig’s profile on the Milton government website, his service pre-dates the city’s incorporation, having served on the Milton Organizing Com mittee. Mohrig was elected to his first term on the City Council in 2006 and returned in 2013.
“All committee proceedings have been open and transparent and will continue to be,” he wrote. “Moreover, munici pal elections are nonpartisan, and the process of conducting an election is and should be completely neutral as to politi cal Krokoffaffiliation.”said members of the City Council suggested resident names. Moh rig appointed resident Lisa Cauley to the committee, he said.
Moore faced recent controversy when an ethics panel determined Aug. 30 that he violated ethics policy when he voted to defer a decision to provide city fund ing for traffic calming devices within his neighborhood.Moorecould not be reached for com ment.Jamison wrote in a Sept. 2 email that
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Cauley, the president of Fulton County Republican Women, did not re spond to requests for comment.
Moore was elected to the City Council in 2019. He previously served for 13 years as former Mayor Lockwood’s appointee to the Milton Planning Commission.
eral Election and additional costs in the intergovernmental agreement.
In his emailed response, Mohrig rein forced sentiments he stated at the Aug. 22 committee meeting.
Krokoff said he could not find who nominated Amick to the Milton Munici pal Election Feasibility Committee.
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“It must have been a phone call,” he said.Krokoff also said that the nomination could have come from a former council member no longer serving.
Krokoff said he clearly stated at the Nov. 15, 2021, meeting that the “group of six” would be an “informal feasibility study group” that would “start the process.”
Lockwood responded by expressing the need for a plan that would prompt public feedback.
Members of Milton’s Municipal Election Feasibility Committee gather on the second floor of City Hall for a meeting June 15. From left are: Paul Moore, Rick Mohrig, Lisa Cauley, Stacey Inglis, Tammy Lowit and Mark Amick.
Mohrig was also asked whether he thinks he can maintain impartiality on the panel to guarantee a free and open election to all residents, regardless of their political affiliations and beliefs.
“With the large increase in cost associated with Fulton County’s ad ministration of the City’s 2021 Milton Municipal Election, and no apparent willingness by Fulton to charge Milton
For Krokoff, the rationale to include city staff on the committee was so they could reach out to co-workers if more expertise was needed for the analysis.
Community members on the panel serve to add transparency and potential expertise. Krokoff noted that many came and spoke about the issue at several council
Jamison urged that every meeting should be open to the public.
Mohrig did not respond to questions relating to Cauley’s appointment.
The residents named to the commit tee were known to have election experi ence, Krokoff said.
community members helped with setup Sept. 6.
Committee members have two meet ings left before they must present their findings to the Milton City Council Oct. 16. Members discussed asking for an extension, pending whatever progress is made before the next meeting on Sept. 15.
Before tributes were read, Mikels invited students to stand by the flags of those who have been recognized in past years. They held a picture of the victim, looking solemnly onto the service. And, after each tribute, students went to the victim’s respective flag.
gally affect his ability to participate on the election feasibility committee.
“It’s not just whether we can,” he said. “We already know legally we can. It comes down to whether it’s practically and financially in our best interest to do so.”The resolution, which was adopted to formalize the committee, states the com mittee will have six months or 180 days from the date of its approval to meet and solidify their findings into a prod uct that they can then bring back to the City Council. The resolution also states that the committee will automatically be terminated come that date.
Benmoussa left the podium with
a quote from Fr. Mychal Judge, who served as the FDNY chaplain. Judge was also the first recorded victim of 9/11.
It’s important to look at the study’s objectives, Krokoff said.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change and the wisdom to know the difference.”
heroism of the firefighters, police officers and others that day. We’ll never forget the tragedy of so many people whose lives were lost too quickly. And we’ll never forget how America rallied together as one in the aftermath.”
Determining feasibility
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At the Friday morning service, Andrew Cummings led the Milton High School Orchestra to close with “America the StudentBeautiful.”Justin Brand followed suit with “TAPS.”
As city clerk, Lowit is the de facto election superintendent. Lowit said she has had some election experience assist ing in the 2021 municipal election.
“It helped me to understand what qualifying a member is like, the collec tion of the data, the accuracy of keeping our deadlines adhered to,” Lowit said.
Once the deadline rolls around, Mayor Jamison said the committee will relay its report to staff who will forward it to the full council.
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Milton High School senior Scarlett Czarnecki reads a tribute for Kathryn LaBorie, a flight attendant on Flight 175, the plane that crashed into the World Trade Center’s south tower. Czarnecki’s was one of six tributes presented for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack in a ceremony held at Milton High School Sept. 9
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Jamison introduced Milton Fire Chief Gabriel Benmoussa, who described the profound impact 9/11 has had on him and other first responders. Every five years, Benmoussa said he goes back to New York City and takes along a few firefighters.
Krokoff selected Inglis for her ability to pull city resources, like expert city personnel, as his executive right-hand.
Inglis said she’s been working in lo cal government since 2001 and that her project management experience helps move the study along in an orderly fash ion. Inglis has taken the lead on com piling information for the study. At the Aug. 22 meeting, she presented a draft of the committee’s final report and cost spreadsheet.
City staff panelists
There were several guest speakers at the memorial service, including Sal Puglisi. Puglisi and Jamie MacDonald, who are part of a survivor’s club, flew in to present a plaque to Milton High School Principal Brian Jones thanking the school for their efforts.
Krokoff spoke to the qualifications of the two city staff panel members.
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“I’ve seen many times where deci sions are changed as a result of the things they hear from members of the community,” Krokoff said. “They’re certainly, without a doubt, influenced by those public comments.”
Andrew Cumming leads the Milton High School Orchestra.
When asked if residents’ concerns would be considered in the decisionmaking process, Jamison said, “Abso lutely.”Krokoff said public comments are “very important” to the City Council.
On the way back from the airport, Puglisi said he stopped by the school to see the flags in place.
Milton:
“It was a nice moment to see your hard work and the fact that you guys are over 700 miles away from New York City, and you still keep those memories alive,” he said.Milton Mayor Peyton Jamison also spoke.“When it comes to 9/11, these stu dents and the rest of our city will never forget,” he said. “We’ll never forget the
I usually have their sliders which, for such a simple item, are amazing.
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Butcher, we discovered the just-opened Six Bridges craft beer, and soon, craft spirits destination. We were there on Fri day night and they were packed. It was impressive considering that two days prior was their first day open.
Six Bridges bills itself as a “dog and family-friendly tap room” and describes its beer selection as “lagers, NEIPAs, pastry stouts, saisons, and fruited sours and more. I am fairly ig norant of the craft beer world though, but I can say that the two drafts that we ordered were great. They opened their first location in Johns Creek in 2018, so they have already worked out most of the startup details, and it showed.Aswith N.Y. Butcher, my main take away from Six Bridges was simply how well run, upbeat, friendly, casual the overall environment was and how ex cited the staff was and how welcomed we felt. They are doing something very right, and we will be back I am sure.
1850 Heritage Walk, Crabapple, Milton. Web: SixBridgesBrewing.com
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Best of all though, I enjoy the friendly, comfortable atmosphere and dining in a place that genuinely appreci ates
12635 Crabapple Rd, in Crabapple (Milton).Web: local.nybutcher.com/crabapple
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Premium cuts of fresh steaks are offered as well as selections of chicken, pork, veal and lamb. You can swing by and pick up a steak for home or you can select your steak and have them cook it there for dine-in. They have a large enough wine and beer selection and offer a variety of other tempting deli options, including specialty cheeses, gourmet ravioli and other pastas, exotic sausages, international grocery items and more.
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Servingyou. lunch and dinner. Reason able prices. Great food.
New York Butcher Shoppe & Wine Bar: This new restaurant located in Crabapple is worth a visit if you don’t know it. Christina and I live close and walk there sometimes. It is a locally (family) owned franchise and reminds me of Cheers – that place where every one knows your name. I always fall for any business that I walk into – or call –that seems to genuinely appreciate your business and is happy to see you, and New York Butcher is exactly that. And it doesn’t hurt when the food is great, and the prices are reasonable.
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Six Bridges: So, after we ate at N.Y. Butcher last week, we decided to walk around Crabapple and just enjoy the night air and catch up on what stores have gone into this rapidly growing downtown. Just a few blocks from N.Y.
ThereYet.is a lot going on in our region, and Crabapple just happens to be one of the many areas worth get ting to know.
Crabapple : A lot of you already are familiar with Crabapple in Milton and how rapidly it is growing. Chris tina and I moved about a year ago from a couple blocks from downtown Alpharetta to a couple blocks from the Crabapple area - just a few blocks from Milton’s Restaurant and the Milton Library. We can walk to just about any place we need to get to ex cept a Publix which we actually could walk to but that would be a bit more of a hike than a walk.
For those of you not so familiar, Crabapple feels like a smaller version of downtown Alpharetta or a scaled down version of Avalon. It’s quieter. The appeal is that it is less crowded – at least for now – and it just feels more “neighborly,” but with most of the amenities of those other two destinations. They are building lots of new retail, a restaurant “pod,” offices, and a combination of townhomes and loft-type residential. It is fun to live close enough to be able to watch the progress and feel like you are part of something special that is happening. Real estate values have appreciated but perhaps lag behind the white-hot Alpharetta market at this point. That is, not everyone has “discovered” Cra bapple.
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Following Marjorie’s death, Janet, her sister Denise Huntley, and friends the McEntegart family, Renea Winchester and Abbe Laboda, devoted many hours helping Billy maintain his garden. I know they feel that they gained the most from their time spent with Billy. According to Abbe, Billy represented a lost generation who made do with what they had and shared it with others.
When Billy Vernon Albertson (1932–2021) passed away last August our community lost an extraordinary trea sure. Born the son of sharecroppers, Billy lived a unique life and became a local celebrity. He was the subject of two books and numerous video and newspaper interviews about his life. He was a link from the present to the past in North Fulton County.
brother’s mobile sawmill business earning
Ola Bel and Egbert Albertson with the four youngest of their 11 children: Bobby, born 1934; Billy, born 1932; Betty Lou, born 1930; and Garnett, born 1926. The photo is from circa late 1930s.
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PERSERVING THE PAST
Billy Albertson in his garden with Roma tomatoes, left, and on his 1954 Farmall tractor, right. Circa 2017.
PHOTOS BY ALBERTSON FAMILY/PROVIDED Billy Albertson with his parents, Ola Bell and Egbert Albertson, in front of Billy’s 1953 Chevrolet. Circa 1950s.
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Renea Winchester is the author of the book “In the Garden with Billy: Les sons Learned about Life Love and Toma toes.” When she first met Billy in 2008, she wrote “Billy’s pale blue eyes sparkled with life. He smiled, providing me with a glimpse of a soul pure and without guile.” A makeshift sign in front of Billy’s house that said “Goats for Sale” led Re nea to stop at the urging of her daughter that fateful day. Their fortuitous meeting began a friendship that lasted for the rest of Billy’s life.
People who met Billy felt blessed. He was just that sort of person. He was loved and cherished and widely respect ed.
later built a brick home on Hardscrabble Road. His 1 ½ acre backyard garden was home to Billy’s vegetables, several milk cows and later to his chickens and herd of goats. As Roswell urbanized, Billy held firm, and he and his garden became quite famous. Billy’s daughter, Janet Bobeng, and her husband Greg, recently moved into the Janethouse.loved to garden with her dad.
Billy was born in Roswell on Etris Road in a house owned by his mother’s uncle Bill Etris, for whom Etris Road was named. The house had no electric ity or plumbing. Billy’s parents Egbert Albertson (1892-1975) and Ola Bell Alb ertson (1891-1969) were sharecroppers on the property. This system of farming was common in Georgia where a tenant paid rent to a landowner farmer in the form of a percentage of the tenant’s an nual crop. Billy, the 10th of 11 children, and his parents and siblings, moved every few years, always seeking a better home or better soil. They did not occupy a house with electricity and plumbing untilBilly’s1945.father raised cotton for 30 years as a sharecropper before he saved enough to buy a small farm in Birming ham in 1945 near the Liberty Grove Church on the Cherokee County line. He grew cotton, which in the early 1940s remained Georgia’s premier cash crop de spite the boll weevil and declining cotton prices. Egbert struggled to earn a living under those conditions, and in 1950 sold his farm and purchased a small farm
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What followed were many years of helping in Billy’s garden with Billy’s daughters, learning how this wonderful man with a limited education tilled his garden and inspired people who visited from all over the world to soak up his simple outlook on life.
Company. He worked as a butcher for half
BOB MEYERS/APPEN MEDIA The last house occupied by Billy Albertson’s parents on Birmingham Highway. The family lived there from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s.
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“Every spring we had a garden to gether,” Janet says. “He was my garden buddy and I was his garden girl.“
Billy Albertson, from sharecropper to gardening inspiration
Billy often reminisced about Roswell as it once was. In a 1987 Atlanta Con stitution article he said “When I was a boy, you might call it a one-man town. The mayor and maybe the police chief ranBillyit.” was a Mason for 65 years and was Worshipful Master of the Alpharetta Lodge twice. He was a deacon of the Mount Oliver Baptist Church in Roswell for many years.
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And that’s where it can get interesting, notes Adam Hammond, state bear biolo gist for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division.
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Making a living
Hot wings
Health portals
hard pressed to save up for a down pay ment on a house.
Not only have home prices skyrock eted, interest rates are climbing, too. Add in the increased cost of childcare, sticker shock on new and used cars, and it’s a wonder young people can make it at all.Maybe it’s time to redefine the Ameri canMydream.pitch would be for someone smarter than me to impress on our youth the importance of an educa tion. While we’re arguing about books in libraries, we should also be helping educators engage students and impress on them the value of learning.
maybe on a grassy patch in a cozy little parkYousomewhere.know.The outdoor dining I’m thinking about is the kind that involves a picnicTroublebasket.is,I don’t have a picnic bas ket. So I’ve been shopping.
multi-strata lining material, whatever that is. It sounds intriguing, but it cost more than my car. However, since I found it on the interweb, I knew it must be good.Iconsidered it for a moment, I must admit.That’s not what I want, though. The kind of picnic basket I want, being the old-fashioned sort that I am, is one steeped in tradition and woven from wicker. I want one with little compart ments for all the essentials – you know, plates, glasses, utensils, and that sort of thing – as well as a place to take along a few cans of Mountain Dew or, for special occasions, maybe a bottle of wine.
antics of Yogi to this day. He was, after all, “smarter than the average bear.”
swallows everything you put near it, never to be seen again.
Countless times, I’ve filled out paperwork on a health portal ahead of an appointment, only to be handed a clipboard at the office with the same documents that must be completed before I’m ushered back. Not only that, but each subsequent visit I’m forced to fill out the same paperwork, answering the same questions I answered a few weeks
The deck is stacked against young people pursuing the American dream of home ownership. Even those with the best prospects for landing a good job are
Picnic baskets have played a long and storied role in American culture. You already know if you, like me, grew up watching Saturday morning car toons. Every week, I saw no less than Yogi Bear himself working diligently to steal “pic-a-nic” baskets from the visitors in Jellystone Park. Yogi made his TV de but in 1958 on the Huckleberry Hound Show, another great American classic, and in 1961 he got his own TV show. I was like in first grade, an impression able age, I guess, for I remember the
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Yogi aside, picnicking with bears can spell trouble
Thereearlier.isone place I go to get MRIs. In addition to the reams of paperwork I fill out, I also must answer questions from the person behind the reception desk.
Things have changed a lot over my life time. If my parents were “The computers.tabletsfromofhaveeration,”“MetamorphicinGeneration,”GreatestI’mthenot-so-greatGenthosewhoriddenthetidemajorchanges,BigChieftodesktopSpeakingof
Lately, with that first little subtle hint of fall drifting into the air, my thoughts have turned toward outdoor dining. I don’t mean the kind that you on the deck after grilling some burgers or brats. Instead, I mean the kind you do beside a sparkling stream or
It wasn’t until I moved to Atlanta some 35 years ago that I stumbled across the barroom craze that requires gnaw ing your way down to a morsel on the skimpiest portion of poultry. Hot wings sure look appetizing, and they smell savory, but they’ve always seemed a lot more trouble than they’re worth. It’s gratifying that most places serve them with celery, so you can keep up your strength mining for that sliver of meat.
It seems only yesterday that Presi dent Obama hailed innovations in healthcare that would reduce medical costs throughout the industry.
Amid the other personal inquiries, she always asks: “Are you afraid of fall ing?”Inever know how to answer that. “Who isn’t?”
This is a new problem. I don’t ever remember facing the threat of melted ice cream before.
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I’ve learned that picnic baskets come in all shapes and sizes and prices and degrees of high-tech complexity. I ran across one that proclaimed it was made using ergonomically engineered handles and the latest in temperature-regulating
Like all great programming, it held within each episode some kernals of truth – not the least of which was that bears will go to great lengths to find something to eat, whether it’s a pic-a-nic basket or that trash can next to your screened-in porch. That’s just what bears do, especially this time of year when they’re making one last run at fattening up for the relatively lean months of winter.
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Random thoughts as summer draws to a close
That’s the picnic basket I hope to find.
The problem is that bears quickly get
Another food staple
It was great TV. We could probably use more of that today.
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generations, what do they call “yup pies” today? That pejorative term first surfaced in the mid-’80s referring to young urban professionals, people about my age, maybe a bit younger. Locally, it carried images of backward ballcaps, Beamers and Buckhead. Today, I’m not sure what you do to show you’re a yuppie or if you even want to.
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Supermarkets – especially those poorly staffed – should set up special lanes for customers who buy ice cream. These lanes should be limited to those with maybe a dozen items, and they should have chip card testing devices behind the conveyor belt so customers can ensure their purchase goes smooth ly when it matters. If room allows, they should also have a price check appara tus to avoid confrontations at the end of the Someline. grocery stores now sell insu lated bags to stow your frozen goods while you wait at checkout. If you want to bring home a rotisserie chicken, you’ll need two bags.
Not long after, hospitals and doctor’s offices introduced the health portal, a terrestrial black hole that captures and
“It’s not uncommon for human-bear conflicts to intensify in late summer,” Hammond says, “as bears have been ‘trained’ and ‘educated’ all summer long about finding food around homes and neighborhoods where unsecured bear attractants often abound.”
“Bear attractants,” eh? “Picnic bas ket” sounds so much more cozy! But you get the idea.
Science Foundation to implement the MARTA Reach pilot program, and he embraced the idea of strengthening a partnership with MARTA.
“If we can make it work in Atlanta, it’s going to be a demonstration for every major city in the United States,” said Van Hentenrywck, who has been work ing on this type of software technology for the past 10 years.
“In an ideal world, they will involve us in this bus network redesign and include components of on-demand tran sit,” Van Hentenryck said. “Everything is built out – the app is ready.”
At the time, an upbeat Van Hen tenryck hoped for Atlanta to become a national model for a multimodal transit system by incorporating on-demand transit options. As he saw it, the shuttle service was a cost-effective way to pro vide greater access to people living or
The MARTA Reach program was an nounced in late February on the Georgia Tech campus with much fanfare. It began on March 1.
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That’s not hard to do, either, and there’s actually a good bit of info out there on dealing with bears in this and other situations. I like bearwise.org, where you’ll find insights and sugges tions aplenty. Check it out.
But the bottom line is straightfor ward.“Denying bears a free meal and forcing them to look elsewhere in their search for food is still the best course of action,” Hammond says, “for people and for the Nowbears.”backto my search. The perfect picnic basket surely awaits me out there somewhere. All I’ve got to do is find it, fill it up, and go.
“It would be great to meet with MARTA’s planning team,” Van Henten ryck said.
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said that 58 percent of the riders ended up connecting to the MARTA network.“Itbrought a significant number of new riders to MARTA,” said Van Henten ryck, who added that the service was es pecially successful on the Westside, where the Reach program connected with three MARTA rail stations. “On the Westside, 75 percent of the rides connected to rail.”
working in less dense areas by connect ing them to high-frequency transit.
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Fortunately for us lovers of the pic nic, the problem in these parts is not so much the occasional picnic outing. In stead, it’s things like your pet’s outdoor food bowl, your trash cans, or even your bird feeder. Bears quickly learn to appre
used to human-provided food, whether said food is provided intentionally or not, and the bears are very good at taking advantage of any and every opportunity.
ciate such free lunch opportunities, and the result can be human-bear encoun ters, property damage or worse.
Greenwood said MARTA and Geor gia Tech would study the data from the Reach pilot program, and then figure out how on-demand transit could be part of the new bus network redesign.
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It was Van Hentenryck who secured a $600,000 grant from the National
Reach:
Although his team is sad to see the MARTA Reach service come to an end, Van Hentenryck hopes the partnership between MARTA and Georgia Tech will continue as the transit agency designs the next generation of its bus network.
Once a bear learns to forage in this way, it rarely changes its habits. So the best way to deal with the problem is to keep it from happening in the first place. How? By making your yard and home unattractive to bears.
Huff noted there has only been one instance in the past 22 years that the final recommended map was not one of the previous versions reviewed by the public.“So we really are taking into consid eration the feedback that we receive to make any possible adjustments that we can to accommodate the public,” Huff said.At this point, district planners step back, and the board of education be
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Huff said school board members are not directly involved in redistricting until the recommended plan is submitted to the Afterboard.a month of public review, the Fulton County Board is expected to vote on the final attendance zone map during its Dec. 15 meeting. The new boundar ies will be in place for the August 2023 opening of school.
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to decisions even without information on future K-8 academies.
and others with many more seats than students.While periodic redistricting was a familiar process for parents during the enrollment boom, most current parents have never been involved. The last sig nificant redistricting in the North Fulton region was in 2011 with the opening of Cambridge High School in 2012.
District officials will spend the next two months gathering information from the community as they develop the new enrollment zones. The Fulton County Board of Education will vote on the maps in December, with the new zones in place next August.
Huff noted that while geographic proximity is the first consideration, it does not mean a student will be attend ing the school closest to their home. Planners start at the border of the school district or county boundary and move inward towards a school site as it fills the “Forschool.example, if I am starting at the Forsyth County line and have to assign all the students to their nearest high
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Information sessions for the 2023 redistricting have been underway for the past few months, however community input in the final stretch of the process is still needed as the district moves to ward a final Upcomingplan.community meetings
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• Oct. 18 – Alpharetta High School (6 p.m.). Draft maps for elementary, middle and high school zones will be presented for community comment in small group settings. Typically only one draft map will be presented. Online comments also accepted.Following
the Oct. 18 meeting, dis trict staff will develop a final recommen dation to present to the Fulton School Board at its Nov. 8 meeting.
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In those instances, some students may be assigned to their second or third closest school site based on available space.While primary criteria leads to a decision nearly 80 percent of the time, Huff said the district may turn to secondary criteria for a final decision. These include traffic patterns, frequen cy of previous rezonings, school feeder alignment and balancing enrollment in special programs such as talented and gifted (TAG), and special needs popula tions.“We also look at not just where the students are today, but where we anticipate growth in the future,” Huff said.
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Last year Fulton County Schools floated the possibility of converting Haynes Bridge and Holcomb Bridge middle schools into kindergarten through 8th grade academies. Both schools are well under capacity and not expected to increase enrollment in the nearHowever,future. this discussion will likely not be part of the current redistrict ing, said Huff since there are no concrete plans in place for the school conversions. She noted the planning for K-8 academies will likely stretch well beyond the current redistricting process.“Ifthose [K-8] schools are not coming online within the next three years, then they may not be a part of this [redistrict ing] program,” Huff said. “We do want to ensure students aren’t moving multiple times.”She added the district will be able to review attendance boundaries and come
school…oftentimes, the school is close to capacity by the time we get to the school site,” Huff explained.
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In North Fulton, the current redis tricting will focus primarily on enroll ment imbalances in elementary schools. However, any adjustments to elementary zones will likely require tweaks to cur rent feeder patterns at middle and high schools.Thedistrict will also revise the at tendance zone for the replacement Crabapple Middle School which opened last year off Woodstock Road in Roswell. Despite the relocation of the school from its original site a few miles away, atten dance lines were not adjusted.
Huff said Fulton County Schools has used a process for redistricting since the year 2000 with established criteria for decision-making. Prior to that time, new school zones were created by parent groups.“So[our current process] is tried and true and it has worked,” Huff said dur ing a recent virtual community meeting on redistricting. “It has become a na tional example for revising [zones] based on data and logistics.”
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