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Forsyth County Schools raises nearly $80,000 in annual Duck Dive Proceeds benefit programs designed to foster education

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Forsyth County leaders cut the ribbon at the new Halcyon Trailhead of the Big Creek Greenway March 22.

Greenway trailhead reopens at Halcyon FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A 2-mile portion of Forsyth’s County’s Big Creek Greenway reopened March 22 after more than a year of repairs.

The reopening also launched the greenway’s new Halcyon Trailhead on Cortland Walk.

The portion of the trail from McFarland Parkway to Union Hill Road closed in late 2020 as the county replaced wooden boardwalks and raised the trail profile in some areas. The trailhead includes parking access and new restroom facilities.

County leaders gathered at the trail-

head March 22 for a ribbon cutting on the reopened portion. Parks & Recreation Director Jim Pryor said the county had faced difficulties with the renovation, but that the new trail infrastructure would last far longer than the old one. He said the 2-mile stretch had previously been made mostly of all-wood boardwalks, but the new trail has steel truss supports under the wooden deck that will last longer and make future maintenance easier.

Pryor said the county is currently working on another portion of the greenway near Fowler Park.

“As Forsyth County continues to

grow, being able to provide an easy path to connect with nature is something that not all communities have access to,” Forsyth County Commission Chairman Alfred John said at the ribbon cutting. “It is something that we value and want to protect.”

RocaPoint Partners Principal Phil Mays emphasized the trailhead would be instrumental in bringing residents and visitors to the Halcyon shopping center.

He said the connection to the greenway is one of the main factors that convinced RocaPoint to invest in Halcyon.

— Jake Drukman

School Board plans new Midway building

Food bank donations span Metro Atlanta

Governor signs bill aiding mental health

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Education Foundation wrapped up its annual Duck Dive For Education fundraiser April 1, netting nearly $80,000 for the county’s schools through rubber duck sales.

Proceeds from the Duck Dive go to grants for county schools. Funds from the 2022 raffle will go to causes such as STEM programs in elementary schools, literacy resources in middle schools and animal therapeutic services in high schools.

The annual fundraiser allows community members to purchase ducks at $10 apiece. Each duck grants the buyer a chance to win $10,000. The foundation sold 7,876 ducks this year and held the drawing at the Cumming Aquatic Center.

The center’s lazy river was filled with the nearly 8,000 ducks. Forsyth County Schools Superintendent Jeff Bearden pulled one lucky duck out of

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Police fire officer linked to news leak

By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — A Dunwoody Police Department officer was fired March 23 after leaking news of a former sergeant’s January arrest for DUI to the media.

Ofc. Brian Bolden was placed on administrative leave for “public criticism” of the department Feb. 2 after he told media reporters that former Dunwoody Sgt. Robert Parsons was arrested for DUI Jan. 26. Parsons resigned the day after the arrest.

Dunwoody Police Chief Billy Grogan asked the Sandy Springs Police Department to handle the investigation into Bolden’s conduct.

The process culminated in a formal hearing between Bolden and Grogan on March 22. Bolden said during the hearing that he had not done anything wrong. He was fired the next day.

Bolden’s termination letter alleges that he misused his position to obtain Parsons’ booking photo from the DeKalb County Jail without going through proper channels.

But Bolden disputed that claim when questioned by the Sandy Springs Police Department. The Dunwoody Police administration used that denial to

cite Bolden for violating the Dunwoody department’s policy on truthfulness.

The termination letter states Bolden did not violate the department’s policies on public criticism or confidentiality of department business. It also states Bolden did not violate city policy on breach of security or a Georgia law regarding making false statements to a government agency.

Another former Dunwoody officer, Austin Handle, posted audio from Bolden’s hearing on his TikTok page.

Handle was fired from the department two years ago and now serves as vice chair of the Lamplighter Project, a national organization that encourages law enforcement officers to speak out against police corruption or injustice.

During the hearing with Grogan, Bolden asks in the recording how he misused his position. Another voice, which Handle identifies as Grogan, tells Bolden “this is not a question and answer session.”

Bolden issued a statement through Handle.

“If you listen to the audio, as it makes its rounds online, you will hear a scared police chief belittle me for doing nothing more than asking for clarification on how I broke the departmental policies,” Bolden said in a statement.

“With the current policy, there remains no chance for anyone to contest the findings of such an investigation, which clearly shows a ‘witch hunt’ orchestrated by Dunwoody’s Top Cop.” Dunwoody spokeswoman Jennifer Boettcher declined to comment on the firing, citing it as a personnel matter.

Bolden was one of several officers who spoke out against high-level police officials during a 2020 investigation that involved close to 50 allegations of sexual harassment and unprofessional conduct. Bolden spoke specifically against former Lt. Fidel Espinoza, who Bolden accused of sexual harassment.

Espinoza resigned before the 2020 probe concluded.

Espinoza and the city have since faced lawsuits from two former officers accusing Espinoza of harassing them and accusing the city of ignoring the behavior. The city of Dunwoody has paid more than $400,000 for legal services to address personnel matters within the police department since 2020.

Bolden’s attorney, Howard Evans, attributed the department’s issues to a failure in leadership. He said he and Bolden, who is Black, plan to file a charge of discrimination with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

State hits Anthem with whopping fine

By REBECCA GRAPEVINE and ANDY MILLER Georgia Health News ATLANTA — The state insurance department has levied a $5 million fine against health insurer Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, the largest penalty in the agency’s history, for violations of state law involving medical providers

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Insurance Commissioner John King, at a March 29 news conference at the State Capitol, cited numerous complaints in taking the agency action.

The Georgia Office of Insurance was “inundated with complaints about Anthem from individuals, from doctors, hospitals and others, from all corners and across Georgia,” King said.

Among the problems cited was that Anthem’s directories listed some health care providers as being part of the insurer’s network when in fact they were not participating in those health plans.

Such erroneous listings can mislead patients who pick a health plan based on whether a certain doctor or hospital is in that network.

Philip Mattera, director of the Corporate Research Project at Good Jobs First, a corporate and government accountability organization, said that the $5 million fine is among the top 1 percent of state government penalties against insurance companies that his organization has tracked.

In February 2020, the state insur-

ance department issued warning letters to five insurers, including Anthem, stating that the agency found providers listed as being in-network although they were not actually participating in those networks. The letters were obtained by GHN through an Open Records Request.

In the Anthem case, providers said the insurer failed to pay them promptly, state officials said Tuesday. The company also negotiated contracts with medical practices and then failed to load those providers into its system, leaving patients and doctors out in the cold, King said.

“There have been instances when doctors and hospitals had to lay off staff” due to Anthem payment delays, King said.

An Anthem spokeswoman, Denise Ward, said that the company “¬strives to process and pay claims as quickly and efficiently as possible in accordance with provider agreements and applicable state laws and regulations.”

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New Midway Elementary building to nearly double capacity

By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — One of Forsyth County’s oldest schools, Midway Elementary, is set to receive a new, larger building in the next few years.

The Board of Education presented plans for the new building at a March 17 meeting of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners. The school’s current location at Ga. 9 and Mullinax Road was built in 1961. The new structure will be built on an empty lot farther south on

Mullinax, close to Denmark High School.

Board of Education Director of Communications Jennifer Caracciolo said the current school site is too small to accommodate the capacity it will need to growing enrollment. The building’s age also presented challenges with expansion plans. Moving the school away from the state highway will give the district the option to grow as the need arises.

The new building will follow the county’s one-story elementary school prototype, similar to Poole’s Mill Elementary, which opened in August 2020.

While the current Midway Elementary has a capacity for 625 students, the new building will be able to accommodate up to 1,175, an increase of nearly 90 percent.

The Board of Education expects the new building to open in August 2024.

The existing school will continue to operate until then. Caracciolo said the board hasn’t made a decision on whether it will need to redistrict, and that the process is typically done the fall before a new school’s opening.

The new school will continue to be called Midway Elementary. The Board of

Education has not yet decided what will become of the current building when it is closed.

Forsyth County Schools is also set to open New Hope Elementary this August.

New Hope and the Midway replacement are the last two school developments on the district’s drawing board.

Enrollment within the Forsyth County School District has grown by about 40 percent over the past decade. Forsyth County is one of the few school systems that has seen enrollment grow over the course of the pandemic.

Atlanta Community Food Bank gives $455,000 to nonprofits

Roswell sells K9 officer

ATLANTA — Atlanta Community Food Bank announced March 28 that it has given a total of $455,000 across more than 90 individual grants to Metro Atlanta food banks and pantries.

Each grant is worth $5,000, and recipients span 21 Metro Atlanta and North Georgia counties including Fulton, DeKalb and Forsyth. Some recipients include St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Dunwoody, The Place of Forsyth County and YMCA of Metro Atlanta.

The funds are intended to go toward crucial equipment needs to support food storage and distribution, such as fridges and freezers. Atlanta Community Food Bank has seen an increased need for food assistance as rent and the cost of living have increased on the heels of the pandemic.

“We couldn’t fulfill our mission without our nonprofit partner agencies,” Atlanta Community Food Bank CEO Kyle Waide said. “Our partners are invaluable in our work to get desperately needed food to the roughly 715,000 Georgia neighbors who need assistance, and these grants will help increase their capacity to help.”

The food bank estimates that nearly one in eight Georgians and one in seven children is food insecure in its service area.

Recipients of the $5,000 grant include faith-based organizations, community and mobile food pantries, homeless shelters, veteran support organizations and community kitchens.

Urban Recipe, a food co-op based in Fulton County, was another recipient.

“This grant provides our organiza-

ROSWELL, Ga. — K-9 Alf is leaving the Roswell Police Department and joining the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

After approximately three years with the department, the Roswell City Council voted unanimously March 28 to sell K-9 Alf, an explosive ordinance detection canine, and all his associated equipment to the sheriff’s office for $8,000.

Roswell Police Chief James Conroy said at a March 15 Public Safety and Public Works Committee Meeting that after K-9 Alf’s handler, John Hix, announced he was leaving the Roswell Police Department, the sheriff’s office approached them about purchasing the 5-year-old German Shepard.

“This is an opportunity for both departments,” Conroy said. “They’ll get a fully trained canine, and we will get funding that will go towards the purchase of a new [explosive ordinance detection] canine [that] … is also used for our Community Relations Unit.”

Hix joined the Roswell Police Department in 2014 and worked various assignments, including uniform patrol and the traffic enforcement unit as a hit-and-run investigator. He also worked as a field training officer and a SWAT negotiator.

In 2019, Hix was partnered with K-9 Alf to sniff out explosives. He was 18 months old at the time. K-9 Alf is certified through the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.

Conroy said once the police department hires a new handler and the sale of K-9 Alf is complete, they will purchase a new canine using the city’s Confiscated Assets Fund.

Roswell police spokesman Tim Lupo said in a March 25 email the department currently has two canines who are

URBAN RECIPE/PROVIDED

Fulton County-based food co-op Urban Recipe works to distribute food. It is one of 90 organizations to receive a $5,000 grant from Atlanta Community Food Bank to purchase crucial equipment.

tion with the tools necessary to build resilient and responsive co-ops and create more opportunities for our co-ops to sustain, grow and empower the communities they support,” Urban Recipe Executive Director Jeremy Lewis said.

— Jake Drukman

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com

ROSWELL POLICE DEPARTMENT/PROVIDED

After approximately three years with the Roswell Police Department, K-9 Alf, an explosive ordinance detection canine, and all his associated equipment is being sold to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office. assigned to the Special Investigations Section within the Criminal Investigations Division.

In other business at the March 28 meeting, the City Council approved a resolution to allow the Roswell Police Department to apply for a Community Policing Microgrant of up to $15,000. The grant is from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council and the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of Georgia.

Conroy said if the department is awarded the grant, the funds will be used to develop an event that enhances the trust and legitimacy between youth and law enforcement. A match is not required for the microgrant.

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Georgia State Sen. John Albers hugs Jennifer Leeds Ruff during a ceremony March 28 at City Hall to honor her late husband, Roswell Police Lt. Joel Ruff.

Roswell officials honor Lt. Joel Ruff

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Mayor Kurt Wilson presented Roswell police Lt. Joel Ruff’s family with a proclamation at the March 28 City Council meeting honoring him and his 20 years of service to the city.

Ruff, 43, died of a medical emergency while on duty Feb. 3. His most recent assignment had been serving as a watch commander for one of the Roswell Police Department’s nightshift patrol squads. State Rep. Mary Robichaux and State Sen. John Albers also presented Ruff’s family with resolutions

from both the Georgia House of Representative and Georgia Senate. Albers said he personally knew Ruff and thanked his family for sharing him with the community.

“This is a very difficult time, but I want each one of you to know that Joel is still with us,” Albers said. “… He’s inside everyone who serves in the Roswell Police Department, every constituent who he helped over his many, many years. … And I want you to know that we use the phrase ‘the finest’ when it comes to those who serve as a police officer, and nobody demonstrated the word finest better than Joel did.”

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She said the Georgia Office of Insurance focused on a provider database system implemented nearly seven years ago that is no longer in use.

“As the department is aware, we worked diligently to address these challenges,” Ward said. “We have since migrated to a new platform with the goal of improving accuracy and transparency.”

The investigation found around 78,000 separate violations, state officials said. They involve Medicare, employer health plans, and state insurance exchange plans. Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is the state’s largest health insurer, with more than 2.5 million policyholders.

“A clear pattern has emerged,” King said. “As I traveled across Georgia, this became a running theme.”

The consent decree also requires Anthem to take corrective actions to prevent future violations and respond to complaints in a timely manner.

“We will hold insurers accountable when their actions are unfairly impacting Georgians,” King said.

The $5 million will go to the state’s general fund, said King, a Republican.

King has held the state insurance post as an appointee since 2019, due to the previously elected commissioner’s arrest and subsequent conviction on fraud charges. King is running for election to the post.

Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University, said that many problems identified in the Georgia investigation “result in the consumer holding the bag financially – there’s nothing in there to make them

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In 2021, the Forsyth County Education Foundation gave out 27 grants

whole.”

“This is the insurance department doing its job,” said Corlette of the state fines. “It looks like [Anthem] has some work to do in terms of cleaning up its act.”

Earlier this month, Anthem announced that it is changing its name to Elevance Health.

Some state legislators stood behind King and said that they had heard similar complaints from their constituents.

Laura Colbert, executive director of advocacy group Georgians for a Healthy Future, praised the state action.

“For our health care system to work as intended, patients, providers, and insurance companies each have to hold up their respective ends of the bargain,” Colbert said. “When Georgians paid their health insurance premiums each month, they did their part. Blue Cross Blue Shield failed to do the same when they were slow to address members’ complaints and made it difficult for members to access health care by sharing inaccurate information about which doctors were in-network.”

Meanwhile, Anthem is still locked in a contract dispute with the Atlantabased Northside Hospital system.

A Fulton County judge has extended a reprieve in the dispute between Northside Hospital and Anthem until April 15, delaying for a second time the need for thousands of patients to switch doctors.

Northside patients who have Anthem insurance have been caught in the middle of the battle between the insurer and the hospital system for months.

King said that as a Georgia consumer, he is concerned about the contract standoff, but added that his department does not have the authority to force a resolution.

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totaling $115,000. Since 2016, it has given more than $355,000 to benefit the county’s 53,000 students.

The fundraiser was helped along by 39 corporate and organizational sponsors including Automation Direct, Bryan Properties, Andean Chevrolet, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Forte Data Systems.

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Governor signs mental health, substance abuse bill

By JEFFREY ALBERTSON newsroom@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — A bipartisan supported mental health and substance abuse bill became official with the signature of Gov. Brian Kemp at a State Capitol ceremony April 4.

HB 1013, known as “The Mental Health Parity Act,” cleared the Legislature on March 30, passing 54-0 in the Senate and 166-0 in the House.

In remarks delivered at the ceremony, Kemp said the bill ensures Georgians do not fight alone and applauded the full bipartisan support from the General Assembly.

“Today has been a long time coming, this outcome is exactly what we hoped for,” Kemp said. “Everyone in the General Assembly made history today.”

The legislation was sponsored by Speaker of the House David Ralston (RBlue Ridge), who had marked it as a top priority.

The 76-page bill brings sweeping changes to the treatment of mental health and substance abuse, including a state loan cancellation program and revised complaint filing and tracking procedures for private and state managed insurance plans. Also included is a provision permitting law enforcement to seek involuntary commitment under certain criteria.

The law goes into effect on July 1.

Ralston called the bipartisan efforts the model of effective lawmaking and acknowledged the work of Rep. Todd Jones (R-South Forsyth) and Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver (D-Decatur).

“This will lift Georgia from the basin of mental health care,” Ralston said.

The bill faced vocal right-wing opposition in a Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing. Opponents said it would lead to guns being removed from people diagnosed with mental illness.

The version signed by Gov. Kemp removed an earlier provision that required insurance companies to provide mental health benefits if they did not offer them.

“This bill is many things (and) a result of years of study and work,” State Sen. Michelle Au (D-Johns Creek) said.

“It’s a framework for continued work that needs to be done. But above all, it is a moral document.”

The bill creates a litany of studies and reports that will be delivered to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house or the entirety of the Legislature in the coming years.

“H.B. 1013 is a bill for 11 million hardworking Georgians,” Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said. It is not a Republican or Democratic bill Duncan said.

Loan cancellation by the Georgia Student Finance Authority (GSFA) is a key

component to address the state’s fledgling mental health care staffing storages. Data from Mental Health America indicates the Peach State ranks 48th in access to mental health care.

For students in paramedical or other fields related to aging or primary care, up to $10,000 per year may be cancelled. A person on track to become a doctor of medicine would be ineligible unless specializing in psychiatry or primary care. A person enrolled in a program to become a licensed practical nurse or registered nurse is also eligible for loan cancellation.

Georgia National Guard members are eligible for loan cancellation, but must exhaust all federal funds, including those from the Departments of Defense or Veterans Affairs. A National Guard member would no longer qualify once active duty ends, fails to maintain sufficient academic standing or graduates.

There is no requirement to study in a medical-related field.

A student enrolled in a program related to mental health or substance abuse — including psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers or behavioral health — are eligible for loan cancellation.

GSFA has the ability to identify areas with personnel shortage for future loan cancellation.

Another provision in the bill changes how law enforcement may respond to a person experiencing a mental health or substance abuse emergency.

If someone commits an offense and the officer has probable cause that the person is mentally ill requiring involuntary treatment, they can be taken for emergency examination by a physician.

The officer does not need to file charges prior to the person going to a physician or emergency receiving facility.

The officer is required to consult with a physician either in-person or by telephone and write a report that will become part of the clinical record. The physician in turn must authorize the person to be transported for examination.

Police can transport the person to a facility.

If county transport is required, vehicles normally used to transport criminals must be avoided.

In some circumstances the person may be transported by family members to a facility. In nonemergency situations, a female may not be transported without another female who is not needing care.

A female may be transported by a husband, father, adult brother or adult son.

If transportation is not provided by a law enforcement agency, the cost cannot be billed to the respective government. It may be billed to the person needing care directly, but the cost is not an obligation of the health care facility.

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs The Mental Health Parity Act bill at a ceremony April 4 at the Capitol in Atlanta. The legislation, which passed unanimously in the House and Senate, broadens mental health access to residents.

It’s been a great transition. There haven’t been any problems whatsoever. He’s a great guy. I wish I had done it 10 years sooner.

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New owner hopes to continue Roswell staple

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — If anyone knows barbecue, it’s Bob White.

So, when local businessowner Angel Martinez learned of the opportunity to take over Slope’s BBQ in Roswell, he took it.

“When he came over to my deli (My Friend’s Place in Alpharetta) and sat down, I could tell he had a good grasp of what he was looking for in terms of what he wanted to hand over,” Martinez said.

“I just felt honored that me and my wife have a chance to build on his brand and, really, his legacy.”

White said they cut a deal approximately five weeks after they met, and Martinez became the new owner of Slope’s BBQ when he signed over the paperwork on Jan. 10 – one day after White’s 80th birthday.

“It’s been a great transition,” White said. “There haven’t been any problems whatsoever. He’s a great guy. I wish I had done it 10 years sooner.”

His only two conditions, White said, was that he be allowed to eat all the chili dogs he wants and that his two cooks continue to work at the restaurant. White said one has been working at Slope’s BBQ for 21 years and the other for 16 years.

White moved to Roswell with his wife Marlene in 1964, which is when she began teaching at Roswell North Elementary School. Then, in 1991, White founded Slope’s BBQ. While he never dreamed of owning a barbecue business, White said he enjoyed cooking for neighborhood parties and church events. Soon after opening, the

Slope’s BBQ was founded by Bob White in 1991. It is located at 34 E. Crossville Rd. in Roswell. business grew from just serving barbecue and sandwiches to a variety of items ranging from deserts to vegetables and now even catfish on Saturday nights.

White has only ever owned one restaurant, but there are Slope’s BBQ franchises in Sandy Springs and Alpharetta. There were also stores in Cumming and Cartersville, but both locations have closed.

Martinez said he hopes to grow Slope’s BBQ so there are stores spread across the country.

At 52 years old, Martinez said he grew up in the restaurant business, first working as a dishwasher, then as a bartender, manager, director of operations and so on.

He also worked in the technology industry for several years, but during the COVID-19 pandemic Martinez said he decided he needed to branch out and bought My Friend’s Place on McFarland Parkway in Alpharetta, launching his return to the

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New Slope’s BBQ owner Angel Martinez, left, and founder Bob White stand inside the restaurant on East Crossville Road in Roswell. White said he sold the restaurant to Martinez on Jan. 10 – one day after his 80th birthday. restaurant business.

His philosophy, Martinez said, is to not break what isn’t broken, and at Slope’s BBQ that’s especially important because he intends to preserve the traditions and customer appeal that White built over the trajectory of his career.

“I may not be able to fill Bob’s shoes, but I can be Bob 2.0,” Martinez said.

These days, White said he still visits

Slope’s BBQ, which serves as his social club, and Marlene continues to work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings to catch up with old friends and longtime customers.

White said they hope to travel out west this summer to see the Grand Canyon and Yosemite and Yellowstone National Park.

“It’s been a hoot,” White said.

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Local officials received an update on MARTA’s Alpharetta bus service expansion at the City Council’s March 28 meeting. MARTA executives talked through plans to build four new bus transit stations along new express lanes of Ga. 400.

The stations will be located along Ga. 400 near Holcomb Bridge Road, North Point Mall, Old Milton Parkway and Windward Parkway.

The Georgia Department of Transportation is heading the express lane project, but there have been delays. The department is not expected to choose a contractor for the new express lanes until August of 2023.

MARTA Project Manager Marcus Arnold said despite the delays, MARTA staff is conducting analyses of the areas surrounding the proposed stations and tweaking designs.

The state committed $100 million in funds toward the express lanes on Ga. 400, but the new bus stations are expected to cost anywhere from $200 million to $325 million to construct, and MARTA has not identified specific funding sources for the project.

MARTA Senior Director for Government and Community Affairs Colleen Kiernan suggested a variety of funding sources, from federal and state grants to funding from the Atlanta Regional Commission.

While she didn’t completely dismiss a sales tax as one avenue for funding, Kiernan said MARTA was looking to avoid it.

City Council members were overall welcoming to the transit expansion.

Some brought up concerns of extra noise in residential areas or how stations would affect the city’s look, but Arnold said MARTA would work with the city the whole way through.

Mayor Jim Gilvin said that as MARTA service in the city stands, Alpharettans pay about $16 million per year in taxes to the service, but they aren’t getting $16 million worth of transit in return.

In other business at the March 28 meeting, the City Council unanimously approved a $67,500 contract with Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects to study the city’s downtown district and develop a framework plan for future development of the Alpha Loop multiuse trail. The plan aims to connect the downtown area with Wills Park and the Alpha Loop along Devore Road.

The council also authorized the condemnation of six more parcels for the $60 million McGinnis Ferry Road expansion project, which is being jointly funded by the cities of Alpharetta and Johns Creek, Forsyth County and the Georgia Department of Transportation.

City Attorney Mike Stacy said the city is working to avoid condemnation and make friendly acquisitions of the properties, and that the authorizations were a safeguard to keep the project on track.

He said Monday’s resolutions should be the last the city needs to pass. In recent months, the city has moved to acquire dozens of properties for the project.

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Buice Road Blooms in Johns Creek JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Just seven months since his sunflower field raised spirits and money for the Autrey Mill Nature Preserve, Wills LaCrosse is at it again — this time with tulips.

LaCrosse’s field, just off Buice Road, is in full bloom with over 20,000 tulip bulbs in every color.

On weekends, until the spring blooms sell out, passersby can buy a bouquet and wander the field.

LaCrosse and volunteers from Autrey Mill will be on hand to help visitors from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

Visitors can pay for their flowers using cash or Venmo, LaCrosse said, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the preserve.

In contrast to his sunflower endeavor, planting the tulips was a huge, messy ordeal.

He and his sweetheart, Annette Winchester, planted the bulbs in the winter to

bloom by spring.

“The nasty part was that when we planted them in between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and unfortunately, it rained like crazy,” LaCrosse said. “We were planting in really swampy conditions, and it was miserable. … We ended up hand-planting 21,000 bulbs ourselves.”

But months later, his and his sweetheart’s labor of love has come to full bloom.

“Oh my goodness, they’re just gorgeous,” LaCrosse said. “It’s just beautiful, I go out there and take pictures of them every morning.”

The pink bulbs have mostly bloomed for the season, LaCrosse said, but the deep purple tulips, “Color of Night,” are expected to be in full bloom this weekend, joining the red, yellow, white and exotic tulips already bringing color to the field.

“Everyone’s favorites seem to be the purple,” LaCrosse said. “The real bright red and the yellow ones are really good, but it’s just a wonderful thing. I mean, they just make you feel good.”

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Wills LaCrosse and his partner of nearly 20 years Annette Winchester stand among their tulips March 26. The pair planted more than 20,000 bulbs between Christmas and New Years.

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embrace the outdoors are definitely ontrend for this year, there is also a definite move to incorporate more nature-inspired colors like greens and browns. In addition, we gravitate toward different colors for different reasons, and as a way of counterbalancing the turbulence of the last few years, some are reaching for a more calming pastel palette while others are going for a more vivid approach to emphasize optimism. Whatever route appeals to you, don’t be afraid to play with color, using it to emphasize elements of well-being in your home.

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Using sustainable practices in decorating is a universal theme for 2022. From reusing/recycling pre-owned furniture to trading in plastic for sustainable materials like wood, porcelain and glass, there is a desire to treat the planet and ourselves more gently. For those desiring a minimalist look, consider warming it up using rounder shapes, natural materials and going for colors like off-white, cream, beige and ochre. If you’d rather opt for a maximalist approach, be sure that your pieces, while bold, are carefully curated and well-balanced, as opposed to noisy and

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Amid quiet of Florida airport, shockwaves jar the world I am two hours early to pick up my sister Allyson, and her daughter, Stella.

They are flying into Tallahassee and I am waiting in the airport.

If you have never been in the Tallahassee airport, it is a difRAY APPEN ferent world, a small, Publisher Emeritus quiet, stress-free, ray@appenmediagroup.com no-line-insight airport. I see two people working at the TSA security checkpoint.

Maybe three. There were no cars dropping off or picking up out front. No cops with whistles. No people walking fast.

When Hartsfield-Jackson is one’s frame of reference, I guess many airports feel like – well, small, pretend. I mean, there is not even any noise here, just me sitting in the middle of the main floor, alone.

I see more pilots walk by than passengers. I didn’t even have to worry about finding a seat with an open plug for my MacBook. I am the only person in the lobby. Did I mention that it is 2:30 in the afternoon – a Saturday – in Florida’s capital Tallahassee’s International Airport?

I guess frames of reference are everything, no?

I worked on a column about Ukraine last week about an article I read by three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Freidman, the New York Times’ former foreign bureau chief and probably the smartest guy out there in terms of

understanding what is going on. His headline was “We Have Never Been Here Before.” He was referencing the breadth, intensity and scope of the media coverage of the Russian invasion: “Our world is not going to be the same again because this war has no historical parallel. It is a raw, 18th centurystyle land grab by a superpower – but in a 21st century globalized world. This is the first war that will be covered on Tik-Tok by super-empowered individuals armed only with smart phones, so acts of brutality will be documented and broadcast worldwide without any editors or filters.

“On the first day of the war, we saw invading Russian tank units unexpectedly being exposed by Google Maps, because Google wanted to alert drivers that the Russian armor was causing traffic jams.”

Later in the column, he made the comment that we will be witnessing a “large-scale war (that) will be livestreamed, minute by minute, battle by battle, death by death, to the world.”

He comments that in large part, the outcome of the war will be determined by the will of the rest of the world to stop Putin. And that “will,” he observes, is heavily influenced by public opinion.

In making his point, he observes that musician, actress, Selena Gomez, for example, is but one of thousands of opinion “influencers” from all walks of life in today’s digital world, and that she has more followers on Instagram – over 298 million – than Russia has citizens.

In today’s world, public opinion

matters – a lot. It topples governments sometimes.

His second point was that today, Putin has more unchecked power than any other Russian leader since Stalin and that China’s Xi Jinping has more unchecked power than any other Chinese leader since Mao. But, Friedman observes, in the time of Stalin and Mao, much of the geopolitical turmoil was generally confined to their respective countries and also, that China was totally isolated back then.

But it’s not that way today, he says, and that “from one end of the world to the other (we are) wired together with fewer and fewer buffers. So, any decisions made by Putin and Xi will directly or indirectly impact us all today.” This, Friedman states, is “our first real taste of how crazy and unstable this kind of wired world can get. It will not be our last.”

“Frames of reference” was my original idea for this column. I got the idea as I was sitting in my comfortable home in Alpharetta while I listened to news about all the missiles raining down on apartment buildings, hospitals, and the civilian population in general in Ukraine and how naive I was to have thought that now in the 21st century that we would be living in a world that had left the barbarism we are now watching on our smart phones behind.

If you Google “Friedman We Have Never Been Here Before” you can probably pull up his column. It covers a ton of ground and is well worth a read.

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