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Forsyth County OKs contract for operations at Polo Fields

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

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Forsyth County Manager Kevin Tanner presents the proposed 2023 budget to county commissioners at a July 26 work session. Tanner said the $186 million spending plan will go to a public hearing on Aug. 18.

County sets hearing on ’23 budget

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — New hires, incentive programs and the new Forsyth County Administrative Campus and Employee Center were the key topics highlighted in the proposed 2023 budget presented to county commissioners at their July 26 work session.

In his presentation, County Manager

Kevin Tanner said that staff have finalized a balanced $186.1 million budget for 2023, highlighting multiple areas of notable spending increases and cuts, compared to the 2022 budget.

Tanner said the budget calls for increased spending by 13.3 percent over the current year. He noted property valuations – the source for much of the county’s revenues – are up by 13.4 percent.

The spending plan includes funding for 25 new full-time employees, including positions in the county Extension Office, Animal Shelter, Accountability Court, court administration, Communications Department, Finance Department and Parks and Recreation Department.

These new employees will allow

City, county agree on sales tax split

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Soccer (or football, depending on where you’re from) is returning to Forsyth County this fall.

Forsyth County officials have approved a lease agreement with the United Futbol Academy (UFA) to resume athletic services at the Polo Fields, after purchasing the 39-acre property off Majors and Post Road in south Forsyth County for $7.9 million in early July.

Forsyth County Parks and Recreation Director Jim Pryor said that, under the new agreement, UFA will have the same access to the fields that they had with the previous landowners but will pay the county for use of the land.

“They have leased this property for a long time, leading up to this

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Cumming man arrested for possession of opium DUNWOODY, Ga. — A Cumming man found sleeping in a car parked in Dunwoody was arrested last week for possession of opium, fentanyl and multiple warrants.

Dunwoody police incident reports said that the man was found at about 1:30 a.m. on July 26, sleeping in a Mercedes Benz parked off Perimeter Center East in Dunwoody.

Officers determined that the vehicle’s owner was wanted out of Forsyth County and found drug paraphernalia and narcotics in the vehicle.

The vehicle’s driver was placed under arrest and transported to the DeKalb County Jail.

Deputies chase suspects wanted on warrants FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A man and woman wanted on arrest warrants in Georgia and Florida led Forsyth County deputies on a high-speed vehicle chase late last month, authorities said.

According to an incident report, a deputy parked on McFarland Parkway on July 22, received word from their patrol vehicle’s radar system that a passing vehicle had been flagged as a wanted suspect for failure to appear in DeKalb County and a nationwide extradition warrant for fraud in Florida.

The deputy began following the vehicle down McFarland Parkway and stopped the vehicle on Union Hill Road.

As the deputy approached the vehicle, driven by a male subject and with a female passenger, the vehicle sped away, “attempting to evade capture.”

The vehicle was found a short way away, hidden in a business’s park-

PUBLIC SAFETY ing lot with its lights deactivated. The driver was placed under arrest and told deputies that his passenger, the vehicle’s registered owner, had fled on foot.

The woman was found a short distance away, attempting to enter a warehouse business and ringing its rear doorbell.

Both the man and woman were arrested and transported to the Forsyth County Jail.

Police recover trailer stolen from Home Depot FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Hall County Sheriff’s Office has recovered a trailer worth $12,000, which was allegedly stolen from a local Home Depot.

Two men have been arrested for theft in the case.

Forsyth authorities originally responded to a call on July 24 that a 2022 Commander Dump Trailer had been stolen from the Home Depot on Peachtree Parkway and had been tracked by GPS to an address in Flowery Branch.

Hall County deputies responded to the Flowery Branch address and met with the trailer’s rightful owner, who provide the trailer’s title and paperwork.

The homeowner was interviewed by deputies and reportedly incriminated himself and his father as the parties responsible for taking the trailer.

Both men were taken into custody and charged with theft by taking.

was first spotted near Westside Parkway, heading north through the wood line between Westside Parkway and Ga. 400.

The bear was later observed eating trash from surrounding businesses, and was spotted roaming through subdivisions near Ga. 9, before it was reportedly struck by a vehicle near Avalon.

The bear may have been injured but was not killed. It fled into nearby woods.

Police said the bear was wearing a tracking collar, and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources had been alerted to the bear’s activities but had elected not to intervene.

Officials say that if the bear is spotted, citizens are encouraged to leave it alone. Locals living in the area where the bear was spotted were also asked to bring pets inside and secure any trash or food items that might attract the bear.

Police probe man’s death at Alpharetta hotel ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police and emergency responders responded to the Double Tree Hotel on Jordan Court in Alpharetta on July 24 to investigate reports that a man had died.

Authorities say the male was found unresponsive from cardiac arrest and transported to North Fulton Hospital.

No updates on the man’s death were available as of press time.

Hacker disrupts systems at local medical office Wrecked vehicle found FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — On July 25, abandoned on Ga. 400 Forsyth County deputies responded to reports that the computer system of a medical office had been hacked.

According to a report, a practice representative told deputies they had been alerted by community partners that suspicious emails were being sent out through the practices email system.

An investigation of the practice’s computer system showed multiple suspicious logins and user IP addresses.

A mass password reset was initiated for all users, but the damage was done, the report said.

“Multiple staff have discovered their email being used with various IP addresses in the U.S. and Canada,” the report said.

Vehicle strikes bear spotted near Avalon ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A black bear was struck by a vehicle near Avalon in Alpharetta on July 24, after being spotted at multiple locations around Alpharetta.

Alpharetta police said the wild bear

ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta police say that a vehicle was found abandoned on Ga. 400 after apparently wrecking near the highway’s northbound Kimball Bridge Road overpass.

Officers were alerted to the wrecked vehicle by an off-duty Sandy Springs Police Officer who discovered the vehicle wrecked on the highway’s second lane on his way home from work at about 5 a.m. on July 24.

The vehicle showed damage to its passenger side bumper, tire and axle, and both airbags had deployed.

No driver or passenger could be found in the area, but officers discovered a trail of dirt crossing the highway, leading from a damaged guardrail near Ga. 400’s northbound Exit 10 sign.

Police determined that the vehicle was registered out of Marietta, had not been reported stolen, and police could not locate the driver by phone.

No local hospitals had admitted anyone matching the driver’s description for possible injuries, so the vehicle was impounded as an abandoned hit and run.

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County, city strike deal for sales tax vote Referendum will decide transportation funding

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Local voters will decide this fall whether to approve a $250 million Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (TSPLOST), that would fund transportation projects throughout Forsyth County and the city of Cumming.

An intergovernmental agreement between the county and city was approved last week, sending the 2022 TSPLOST referendum to the Forsyth County Board of Elections and calling for a vote on Nov. 8.

The agreement, which decides how TSPLOST proceeds will be divided between the city and county, allocates 92.3 percent of the $250 million projected collections to Forsyth County, $230.9 million.

Cumming is projected to receive $19.1 million, or 7.6 percent of the tax proceeds.

At a joint meeting of the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners and Cumming City Council, Cumming City

Agreement: Continued from Page 1 landowner and UFA.” UFA was previously paying the county $114,000 a year. The county spent all but $26,000 of that paying property owners for upkeep, maintenance and use of the land.

Now that the county owns the property outright, Pryor and UFA representatives have negotiated a new rate of $80,000 per year, which will have UFA responsible for all trash pickup at the site, utility services, playing field maintenance, and for providing portable restrooms and lights.

“I think this is a good business deal for the county,” Forsyth County Manager Kevin Tanner said.

After Pryor’s presentation, commissioners approved the agreement 4-0, with District 1 Commissioner Molly Cooper attending virtually and District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent absent.

Pryor said the lease agreement will be good for one year, but has the option to be extended further.

County staff are currently working on the property, but UFA should be able to take over the space at the end of August,

Ga. 20 from Samaritan Drive to Castleberry Road, and $500,000 for roadway resurfacing and maintenance.

In an email to Appen Media, Cumming City Councilman Christopher Light said city officials believe the TSPLOST is a good alternative to funding projects through property tax increases.

“On TSPLOST, for me it’s simple,” Light said. “But at the end of the day we just are putting it up to the voters to decide, which is the best way to determine where their money goes.”

If approved by voters in November, the 2022 TSPLOST will run for a 5-year term, starting on April 1, 2023.

At the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners Work Session on July 26, County Manager Kevin Tanner said the Forsyth County Board of Elections is expected to hear the referendum at a meeting on Aug. 2.

Commissioners later approved the IGA in a 4-0 vote, with District 1 Commissioner Molly Cooper attending virtually and District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent absent.

City council members approved the IGA at a special called meeting on July 25 in a 4-0 vote, with Cumming Mayor Troy Brumbalow absent.

Manager Phill Higgins said city officials were pleased by how the 2022 TSPLOST IGA negotiations had gone, commenting on how vital they believe the tax is to the community.

“We appreciate the opportunity to be part of the process with Forsyth County on this,” Higgins said. “We recognize that TSPLOST is a great way to fund these road projects that are so desperately needed in our community.”

As part of the IGA and TSPLOST referendum, officials have also announced the projects that would be funded with the $250 million tax.

Forsyth County would use $173.2 million for capital projects to offset congestion and “critical” new roadway connection, $27.7 million for multi-use trails and sidewalks, $20.7 million for intersection safety improvements, $4.6 million for existing roadway resurfacing and improvements, and $4.6 million for the Forsyth Quick Response Program, which will approach roadway problems that can implemented quickly.

After the meeting, District 2 Commissioner Alfred John said that proposed county projects would have a tremendous impact on the community for years to come.

“Those projects are vital, and it needs a funding source,” John said.

Cumming has proposed three projects with its share, including $13.6 million for the Cumming Bypass Phase 1 and 2, $5 million to construct an additional lane on

he said.

During the work session, commissioners also unanimously approved a measure to seek proposals for the Polo Field’s 9-acre equestrian area.

“The company that was operating that site has chosen not to come back, they’ve moved to a different property,” Pryor told the board.

Pryor said the county would advertise a letter seeking proposals for the site from businesses and equine service providers, so that they can hopefully fill the space with a similar company.

“I tried to stay very, very general,” he said. “Because when it comes to equestrian there’s a lot of different areas out there. So, I’m not telling someone they have to board horses or they have to do riding lessons, I’m kind of wide open right now.”

Pryor said that they will also get some consulting help from the equestrian operations manager at Wills Park in Alpharetta, after meeting him at a tour of that park facility.

“He’s actually agreed to come and sit on our committee to help analyze proposals as they come in,” Pryor said.

Forsyth County will host a community meeting for proposals and suggestions on the equestrian area at the Polo Fields Stables on Aug. 16 at 9:30 a.m.

Soccer will return to Forsyth County this fall, thanks to a new agreement between local officials and the United Futbol Academy for athletic services at south Forsyth’s Polo Fields.

We appreciate the opportunity to be part of the process with Forsyth County on this.

We recognize that TSPLOST is a great way to fund these road projects that are so desperately needed in our community.”

PHIL HIGGINS Cumming City Manager

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Herschel Walker talks public safety in Alpharetta

By JAKE DRUKMAN jake@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker brought his campaign to Alpharetta July 29 to deliver an address on public safety issues and his support for law enforcement.

Walker was joined by former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, State Sen. Brandon Beach and National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd. Even with some big names, the rally drew a small crowd and lasted less than 20 minutes.

Much of the speakers’ time was spent hailing Walker as a superior candidate to incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock.

“Senator Warnock cares more about criminals than he does about Georgia’s citizens,” Walker said.

“That is going to change when I get to Washington.”

Judd said there was a “crisis” on the country’s southwest border and that Warnock has not taken proper steps to deal with it.

Gingrich said Walker would “change and energize” the Senate and echoed Walker’s criticism of Warnock.

Gingrich said people in Georgia are afraid to go out because of crime.

“It tells you how much things have decayed that people really have to be afraid,” Gingrich said. “I talked to somebody last night, he was afraid to go to Lenox Square. You have to ask yourself, shouldn’t we have policies where people are safe, and the crimi-

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A crowd of about a dozen people, outside of media and campaign staff, gathered at Alpharetta City Hall July 29 for a campaign rally for Senate candidate Herschel Walker. nals are in trouble, rather than policies where the criminals are safe and the innocent are in trouble?”

Walker said he was ready to debate Warnock “anytime he wants, but it has to be a fair and equitable debate.”

The big picture

Walker’s campaign is seeking to reinstate Republicans’ historically strong hold on Georgia’s politics that faltered in 2020 when the state voted for Joe Biden and two Democrat senators.

Despite breezing through the Republican primary with nearly 70 percent of the vote, Walker seemingly faces an uphill battle against Warnock, who won the seat in a special election two years ago. Recent polling has shown Walker slightly behind his Democrat opponent, even as other Georgia Republicans seem to hold an edge against their competitors.

Walker’s campaign has been weighed down by attacks and accusations from the media and political opponents, including fellow Republicans. Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black, who ran against Walker in the primary, spent many of the latter days of his campaign attacking Walker, once stating that “Herschel Walker’s baggage will defeat him.”

That baggage has only increased in recent months as major media outlets have honed in on reports of him making numerous false claims on subjects ranging from his education to his career, including claims that he was once a law enforcement officer himself.

Former Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren also spoke at the Friday rally and said he had made Walker an honorary

GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker delivers a speech outside Alpharetta City Hall July 29. Walker’s visit to the city focused on his support for law enforcement.

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks on behalf of Senate candidate Herschel Walker outside Alpharetta City Hall July 29. Gingrich billed Walker as a superior candidate to incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock. deputy, though he did not specify when, nor did he state what the title meant. Sgt. Jeremy Blake told the Alpharetta-Roswell Herald July 29 that the title is “more like a community liaison” than an actual law enforcement position.

Blake also said that there was no record of who was made an honorary deputy under Warren, who left the sheriff’s office in 2020. He said the title’s meaning may have changed since the new sheriff, Craig Owens, was sworn in.

Asked by the Herald about his claims of being an officer, Walker said the question had already been answered.

“I’m not going to address that,” Walker said.

“Right now, they’re spending money because they don’t want to address the problem that’s going on in the state, which is the economy.”

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Continued from Page 1 county departments to expand hours and services, to keep up with county growth, he said.

Of the department-level spending for 2023, new employee salaries and benefits made up the largest percentage. But Tanner said they cut hiring and spending requests significantly from what was originally requested, to ensure the county isn’t overextended in the coming year.

“We’ve also tried not to recommend anything to the board that’s gonna put us in a bad position if the economy does pull back,” Tanner said. “One of the things we don’t want to have to do, is be in a situation where we have to furlough employees, lay employees off, or freeze positions, and I think we’re in a pretty good place.”

Increases to employee benefits in the proposed budget also included an across-the-board 4 percent cost of living adjustment, increases to 401(K) contributions, a new $150,000 program for employee tuition reimbursement and a $250,000 incentive program to award employees in each department who receive the best evaluations.

The benefit increases are intended to strengthen recruiting and employee retention, but the county is also planning to conduct a full employee salary study across all departments next year, Tanner said.

Other notable pay adjustments include a 14.8 percent increase in pay to the Board of Commissioners, which rose from $476,240 to $546,650. Tanner said the increase was due to legislation approved by the Georgia General Assembly and a market adjustment previously approved by the board.

Funding for the county’s new

administrative campus and employee center is also part of the 2023 budget.

That project will begin in 2023 and will be paid for out of the county’s capital outlay fund.

Notable budget cuts include a 44 percent cut to voter registration, from $2,582,735 in 2022 to $1,440,419.

Tanner said the reduction occurs every other year, when elections aren’t being held.

Tanner said one new element in the 2023 budget considers the volatile state of the national economy.

Finance staff has more than doubled the amount of money in the county’s contingency fund, raising the balance from the current $2.6 million to $6.3 million.

“We know that going into next year, the economy is in a state of flux,” he said. “The feds are continuing to raise interest rates; we know we’re seeing a slowdown in building permits and new starts on homes. So, we want to be very cautious and have some contingency for the unknown.”

That contingency fund considers rising inflation and includes a $525,000 fuel contingency.

Rounding out his presentation, Tanner said they have budgeted $6 million toward reducing the county’s existing bond debt.

He said the aggressive debt payments they are taking will go a long way toward reducing the millage rate in future years and will have an immediate savings of $1.2 million in interest payments.

Commissioners approved a motion to send the proposed 2023 budget to public hearing. The motion passed 4-0 with District 1 Commissioner Molly Cooper attending virtually and District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent absent.

The proposed budget will go to a public hearing and possible adoption at the board’s August 18 meeting.

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Parkland breaks ground on new office building ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Atlanta-based real estate company Parkland Communities has broken ground on its future Alpharetta office building at 363 Main Street.

The building will serve as the company’s headquarters for its residential development and investment business.

The original building on the parcel was Thompson’s Grocery Store, which dated back to the 1950s.

“If only walls could talk, the stories and history this building would tell,” Parkland Communities President Jim

Jacobi said. “The grocery store was the heart of the community in the 1950s, and we admire the provenance of the building and are very excited to move in around Thanksgiving.”

Parkland has developed more than 15 communities across Metro Atlanta, including Northfield at The Polo Fields.

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UGA grad Perry joins Appen Media as Milton reporter ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Appen Media Group announced July 27 that Amber Perry will join its staff as a reporter.

Perry will work with the news team to cover Milton city government and community happenings. She will report to Carl Appen, director of content and development, and will be based in Alpharetta.

“We’re all excited to have Amber join us,” Appen said. “Last summer we set out to assemble a newsroom fit for growth PERRY and strong community journalism. Amber’s experience with longer-form reporting and cultural affection make her the conclusive piece to that puzzle.”

Perry is a recent graduate of the University of Georgia’s journalism

master’s program. During her time at UGA, she freelanced in-depth stories on topics like health and education and continued doing so after metaphorically turning her tassel.

Before becoming a bulldawg [sic], Perry received her bachelor’s degree from the University of South Carolina Aiken in communication. While there, she worked on the newspaper, first as a staff writer, then eventually took on editing positions.

“I was a teenager on my high school’s newspaper staff when I started romanticizing a journalist’s career,” Perry said. “Peak idealization took place when I watched the biopic on Joan Didion that came out in 2017. Why? Because journalism rocks. It’s important. A Fourth Estate is absolutely necessary to a functioning democratic society. And I feel it deep in my soul to be a part of that.”

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Continued from Page 1 point,” Pryor said at the County Commission work session July 26. “The county was the go between — between the landowner and UFA.” UFA was previously paying the county $114,000 a year. The county spent all but $26,000 of that paying property owners for upkeep, maintenance and use of the land.

Now that the county owns the property outright, Pryor and UFA representatives have negotiated a new rate of $80,000 per year, which will have UFA responsible for all trash pickup at the site, utility services, playing field maintenance, and for providing portable restrooms and lights.

“I think this is a good business deal for the county,” Forsyth County Manager Kevin Tanner said.

After Pryor’s presentation, commissioners approved the agreement 4-0, with District 1 Commissioner Molly Cooper attending virtually and District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent absent.

Pryor said the lease agreement will be good for one year, but has the option to be extended further.

County staff are currently working on the property, but UFA should be

able to take over the space at the end of August, he said.

During the work session, commissioners also unanimously approved a measure to seek proposals for the Polo Field’s 9-acre equestrian area.

“The company that was operating that site has chosen not to come back, they’ve moved to a different property,” Pryor told the board.

Pryor said the county would advertise a letter seeking proposals for the site from businesses and equine service providers, so that they can hopefully fill the space with a similar company.

“I tried to stay very, very general,” he said. “Because when it comes to equestrian there’s a lot of different areas out there. So, I’m not telling someone they have to board horses or they have to do riding lessons, I’m kind of wide open right now.”

Pryor said that they will also get some consulting help from the equestrian operations manager at Wills Park in Alpharetta, after meeting him at a tour of that park facility.

“He’s actually agreed to come and sit on our committee to help analyze proposals as they come in,” Pryor said.

Forsyth County will host a community meeting for proposals and suggestions on the equestrian area at the Polo Fields Stables on Aug. 16 at 9:30 a.m.

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By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Southern Post, one of Roswell’s most anticipated developments, is making progress.

Development Manager Aimee Adams with Armada Hoffler Properties said site work began in January.

The 6-acre, mixed-use development is at the old Southern Skillet property on Alpharetta Street.

As of late July, Adams said Armada Hoffler is about 80 percent done with site work and utilities.

They also have nearly all the necessary building permits for the parking deck, apartments and two office buildings. Adams said vertical construction is expected to start the first or second week of August.

“It’s a really cool development for the area,” Adams said. “It’s going to have a lot of walkability and a lot of connectivity with the rest of downtown Roswell.

We have some really great restaurants lined up and some additional ones that we’re negotiating with right now to really add to that ‘foodie haven’ that Roswell is.”

While Belux Coffee, Azotea Cantina, DaVinci Donuts and Silla Del Torro are still on track to open in the development, Ponko Chicken has dropped out.

Adams says that’s OK. “We actually have a different idea for that space now that we’re a little bit more excited about,” Adams said. “We are negotiating with three other tenants at this point, so we do have those [Letters of Intent] signed, but we can’t announce them just yet. We are hoping those leases are signed in the next couple of months.”

The project will consist of 128 luxury apartments, nine townhomes, 95,000 square feet of creative loft office space, 40,000 square feet of retail space and 600 parking spaces with a parking deck. It is expected to open in summer 2023 and cost approximately $110 million.

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“We think we kind of fit a niche that Roswell really needs right now and we’re excited that the community is as excited about the development as we are.”

In November, when Armada Hoffler announced construction was about to resume after sitting idle for four years, it stated the project is intended to honor Roswell’s historical charm and serve as a gathering spot for residents. The architecture will in-

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However, Adams, said, they have had to make some changes to those plans.

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OPINION

Reporter Jake Drukman bids community adieu July 29 was a big day for me. In addition to being my 23rd birthday, it was also my last day with Appen Media.

Although my tenure in the newsroom was shorter than I initially expected, it gave me the opportunity to dive into the amazing Forsyth, North Fulton and Dunwoody communities and tell their stories from the inside out.

I arrived eager to explore local issues and how city councils or county commissions were handling them. Of course, government at every level is a complex patchwork of obscure committees, hundredpage documents and redacted records, often guarded by a communications department eager DRUKMAN to put their spin on it.

When residents came to me with concerns about their local government, I often had to learn the facts — for the first time — right alongside them. Such was the case in my recent piece on Dunwoody’s plans for multiuse paths.

It began with an email from a disconcerted resident, evolving into hours of interviews and scanning documents to conclude that the city was simply putting things on hold.

Amplifying local concerns is where I’ve found so much of my fulfillment as a journalist. In February, I reported on Forsyth County’s plans to sell off a portion of Denmark Park to purchase the Polo Fields. The issue divided the community, some of whom felt the Polo Fields were too important to the county’s identity to give up. Others wanted to honor the family that sold much of Denmark Park’s land to the county, by preserving and developing it into a community space.

County officials swore they just couldn’t find the money to preserve both properties. Until they did. I don’t know whether my reporting on the issue helped kick-start the county into finding a solution, but it was a privilege just to witness the community victory that truly left everyone happy.

Every community victory is worth noting and celebrating. One of my favorite pieces I’ve ever written was on The Sandwich Project, a group of Dunwoody

neighbors who sought to feed the hungry and inadvertently started a grassroots effort that spread across Metro Atlanta, a victory for the thousands of folks who can’t always afford to put food on the table.

Despite not quite living in my coverage area — I live just across the Chattahoochee, in Duluth — becoming a part of the local community has been the highlight of my time here. Interviews I expected to last for 15 minutes turned into hour-long chats about bikes and beer. People I’d never met told me the stories of how they built their businesses. After meeting them just twice, I followed the Alpharetta City Council 130 miles up the road to cover their Greenville retreat and never felt out of place.

Of course, I can’t write this column without mentioning my political reporting. Always a passion of mine, I’ve had the privilege of being one of our premier political reporters here.

In addition to waiting for hours for Forsyth County to report its election results, I’ve had the opportunity to follow the governor around the area for every bill signing, rally and ribbon cutting I could track him to. I was also able to

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make a last-minute run to his Republican rival’s rally in Cumming, featuring the former first family.

To my chagrin, I haven’t seen too many other political candidates come to the area — at least up until my last day, when I was afforded one last hoorah as Herschel Walker brought his Senate campaign to Alpharetta. Thanks for the birthday present, Herschel.

This is as good a segue as any to reveal what the future holds for me: I’m returning to my alma mater, the University of Georgia, to pursue a master’s degree in political science. After that, we’ll just have to see what the future holds.

If you want to keep up with my future endeavors, you can find me on Twitter @ DrukmanJake.

North Metro won’t be left without the news in my absence. Two new stellar reporters, Alex Popp and Amber Perry, have just joined our newsroom and are already producing some amazing work, and Chamian Cruz continues to do just the same.

Thank you to everyone in the community who has made me feel so welcome in this role. It was truly an honor working with you.

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Trout, catfish and the power of the written word

Like that heading? I thought you might.

I always enjoy hearing from folks who read this column each week. It’s great to know that people are getting outside and enjoying Georgia’s STEVE HUDSON great out-of-doors.

Get Outside Georgia, Not long ago, for aa4bw@comcast.net example, I enjoyed a nice exchange of emails about finding a good all-you-caneat catfish restaurant. The only downside of the whole communication, in fact, was that it was all electronic. Throughout the whole thing, not a single word was committed to real paper with real ink. How times change.

I frequently, and publicly, bemoan the loss of old-fashioned letters, the kind you tuck away in shoeboxes to keep pretty much forever. There is nothing like them for sharing the details of the day or, perhaps, for expressing one’s feelings carefully, warmly, and in just the right way.

Okay, so I’m an incurable romantic.

But I don’t mind or apologize. That’s just the way it is.

Anyway, I think it should be a rule that everybody should get an honest-togoodness love letter at least once a year.

Sure, a text message that says “LUV YA” does convey the broad idea, much like flying overhead at 33,000 feet conveys the sense and reality of the landscape far be-

low. But a real letter, one written on paper with deliberate thought and a ballpoint pen, is better. It is. It really is.

But I digress.

Anyway, and whatever you think about technology vs. the Old Ways, it seemed to me that high-tech communication would definitely be the way to go while researching the all-important subject of all-youcan-eat catfish. That’s because the results can be pretty much instantaneous (or at least fast enough to keep the hunger pangs at bay).

So to technology I turned. I did it for you. It worked, too. In fact, I have found just such a restaurant, and I’ll be telling you about it in the next week or two.

Another question I get a lot, in one form or another, has to do with finding fish of another kind – specifically, trout.

It usually goes something like this: “Where,” somebody will ask, “are the trout?”

What they’re usually asking, of course, is where has the state recently stocked trout into Georgia’s public streams? And that’s a good question. If you’re going fishing on stocked water, it’s always nice to know that the particular stocked water in question has recently received some fresh fish. Otherwise, it tends to be “fishing” instead of “catching,” and most will agree with me that, all things being equal, “catching” is usually more fun than “not catching.”

Anyway, the answer to “where are the trout?” is easy to find. The Georgia

Department of Natural Resources (DNR) publishes a weekly stocking report that tells you exactly what streams have been stocked in the previous week. It doesn’t pinpoint the exact stocking locations – finding those is up to you, and exploring with a fishing rod is actually a big part of the fun. But knowing which streams have been stocked can be a big confidence booster if, say, you’re taking the kids out and want to catch a few trout for supper.

“And how,” you ask, “do we find this most valuable information?”

Ahh. Now we’re getting to the good stuff.

To find the weekly stocking report, visit georgiawildlife.com, the Georgia DNR website. Click on the fishing tab in the bar near the top of the screen. Then click on “Trout Fishing.” That will take you to a whole lot of good stuff on trout fishing in Georgia.

To find the stocking info, look at the bottom of the bulleted list for the “Weekly Stocking Report.” Selecting that option brings up a page that identifies the streams (and lakes) which received some stocked trout the previous week. It’s broken down by stocking date, by county and by specific water.

Let’s say I’m considering a trip to Lumpkin County to fish in (for example) Boggs Creek. Boggs Creek, by the way, is where I caught my very first trout many years ago, so it’s always the first one I look for. Just for old time’s sake, you know.

Anyway, the stocking report tells

me exactly when Boggs Creek was last stocked. It also gives me stocking intel on a page or so of other waters too. Wow. That’s enough to get any angler’s pulse rate up a couple of notches.

But (as they say) there’s more! You can also sign up to receive a weekly email with the latest stocking data. Imagine that – up-to-date stocking info delivered right to your in-box. How neat is that?

So many trout…so little time…

I’ve got to warn you about one thing, however. This kind of research can be addictive. There is no cautionary note on the site warning you of that fact, and once you take a step or two down this road you’ll probably find that it can have a negative impact on things like to-do lists – especially if you, like me, had rather be thinking about fishing than about, say, cutting the grass or weeding the front flower bed. You understand that, don’t you? Of course you do.

Besides, the weeds will still be there tomorrow.

Then, when the fishing’s done, it’ll be time to eat. The catfish place will be waiting. Like I said, we’ll talk about that one soon.

And one more thing. After dinner, when you get home and all the fishing gear is put away, sit down for a few minutes more and write someone you love an old-fashioned letter. Really. Just try it and see what happens.

You can thank me later.

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Rural delivery brought the world to our doorstep For a large part of our nation’s history rural residents had to travel to their nearest post office to pick up their mail. This was a serious problem for farmers and smalltown residents who BOB often lived many miles MEYERS from the nearest post office. Yet they constituted the largest part of our population.

In Georgia the rural population in 1890 was almost 1,600,000, while the urban population was less than 260,000.

In the late 19th century, the U.S. Post Office began an experimental program to deliver mail directly to remote farm families by horse and buggy. In 1893 U.S. Rep. Thomas Watson of Georgia sponsored legislation establishing an experimental

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RFD was very successful. By the start of World War 1, rural carriers outnumbered urban carriers and covered more than 1million miles of rural America. Mail carriers became almost like members of the family in rural areas. They sold stamps, money orders and other services, essentially acting as traveling Post Offices.

The benefits of RFD multiplied throughout the country. As automobiles became more popular, RFD helped stimulate construction of better roads. Improved roads reduced the isolation of rural residents. The delivery of daily newspapers helped create a more informed citizenry as families learned of faraway events.

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Becoming a mail carrier was a desirable way to make a living. Locally, a father and son took up the profession and sometimes worked together. Samuel Elbert Dodd – known as Euell (1900-1983), was born in Milton County and lived on State Bridge Road near Buice Road. His wife Eula Jean Johnson (1904-1993) was a schoolteacher at Big Creek Elementary School in Cumming and Alpharetta Elementary School on Mayfield Road in Milton. Euell was a substitute mail carrier for 64 years.

Latrelle Gardner first met Euell when she was a little girl. “I would wait for him at the mailbox. He delivered mail with a certain kind of rhythm. He could come right up to the mailbox, flip the lid down, put mail in, close the lid and keep going without stopping.” Like most male carriers he drove his own car, a 1937 Chevrolet Coupe, which he subsequently traded for 1938 Chevrolet sedan with trunk.

When she grew up, Latrelle became a postal worker in a career that spanned almost 27 years, retiring circa 1992. She worked with both Dodds. “They were a joy to work with,” she says.

Euell’s son Everett Dodd, was a postal worker for 20 years, first on Route 2 which was east of Alpharetta, and later Route 1 in South Forsyth County. While in high school, he worked at Barnett Brothers Grocery and Hardware Store and at Burgess Furniture Store in downtown Alpharetta. Everett was a practical man.

He took a job with the post office “because it paid more money than the job I had as a health inspector for DeKalb County Health Department and was closer to home.”

Everett first worked out of the Alpharetta Post Office on Main Street in downtown Alpharetta and then the post office on Duluth Street, now Old Milton Parkway, where he delivered mail five days a week to 560 mailboxes. His day began at 7 a.m. and finished about 3 p.m.

Like his father, he drove his own vehicle, a 4-cylinder Willys Jeep that he bought from an Atlanta Postal Service auction.

He bought gas from his father who had a pump at home, paying 23 cents a gallon versus about 29 cents at gas stations.

For 16 years after retirement in 1996 he served on the board of the Georgia Rural Letter Carriers Association, the state chapter of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, which negotiates all labor agreements for rural carriers with the U.S. Postal Service. When he began his career, five Alpharetta rural routes existed. When he retired there were 20. Alpharetta was clearly moving forward.

Bob is Director Emeritus of the Milton Historical Society. You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net.

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