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Forsyth County trumpets commercial developments

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Parent group sues board of education

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New Hope Elementary School Principal Laura Webb greets students on their first day of school on Aug. 4. Webb previously served as principal of Forsyth County’s Big Creek Elementary School.

New school — New Hope

Miracle League field name honors patron

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Deputies found the man in possession of 10 cartons of cigarettes, and he was placed under arrest for strong arm robbery, aggravated battery and giving a false name to law enforcement officers.

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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A man allegedly caught stealing from a Forsyth County Publix has been arrested and charged with strong arm robbery and aggravated battery for attacking a store employee during the incident.

The 49-year-old Lithonia resident was allegedly caught stealing cartons of cigarettes from a back loading dock of the Publix on Mathis Airport Parkway on July 27.

When confronted by a employee, the man struck her in the face multiple times and pinned her to the ground with his knee on her throat. The employee sustained multiple injuries from the incident.

The man was chased across the Old Atlanta Road and Sharon Road intersection by witnesses, but he was able to escape.

Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Deputies later found the man hiding behind a

FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County authorities arrested a Roswell man in late July for holding up traffic and driving erratically down Ga. 400, while allegedly under the influence of multiple substances.

Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Deputies were dispatched south on Ga. 400 on July 29, after receiving several reports that a driver was weaving from the highway’s “extreme left lane” to the far-right lane, hitting guard rails, running off the road and allegedly knocking down a speed limit sign.

Responding deputies quickly located a Ford Ranger, “straddling the center and far right lane” with significant damage to its rear bumper and passenger side.

The vehicle struck the guard rail again, accelerated and refused to stop when deputies activated their lights and sirens.

A patrol vehicle was struck from be-

hind by the suspect, who continued driving until he was forced from the roadway by another patrol vehicle.

The driver was removed from his vehicle but was non-responsive and smelled strongly of alcohol, according to an incident report.

During a search of the vehicle, deputies discovered a small bag of cocaine.

The suspect was taken to Northside Hospital Forsyth and was admitted due to his extreme intoxication. The next day, the suspect was arrested for reckless driving, failure to maintain lane, DUI, possession of cocaine and attempting to elude law enforcement officers.

Homeless man arrested for residential burglaries FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A local man was arrested after a bizarre series of burglaries in late July, after allegedly breaking into several homes and stealing a vehicle from a Forsyth County church.

Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrested a 34-year-old Cumming man on July 29 for using a wooden block to break out the window of a home on Goldmine Drive in Forsyth County, according to an incident report.

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Roswell firefighter faces charges after hitting jogger

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell firefighter is accused of fatally hitting a jogger with his truck July 13.

The incident, which was captured on surveillance video, occurred just steps away from Fire Station 4 at Old Alabama Road and Market Boulevard. The victim is 59-year-old Bonnie Lynn Abraham-Mikami, of RoHARPER swell, who her family says

enjoyed daily morning jogs in the city.

Ronnie Harper, 68, of Athens, has been charged with two misdemeanors in connection to the incident, including homicide by vehicle in the second degree and failure to yield right of way at a crosswalk.

He was booked into the Fulton County Jail July 20 but was granted a pre-trial release that same day after posting a $23,000 bond.

Court records show Harper’s arraignment is scheduled for September.

According to his LinkedIn account, Harper has been a firefighter with the Roswell Fire Department for more than 21 years. However, The Macon Telegraph reported July 29 that Harper has since been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

The July 13 incident report states Roswell police received a call at 9:05 a.m. about a person who had been hit by a vehicle in front of Fire Station 4. When the primary officer arrived at the scene, there were already several officers and Roswell fire units there.

The report states Harper had just left work when he got in his truck and tried to make a left-hand turn from Market Boulevard onto Old Alabama Road. At first, it states, Harper said Abraham-Mikami was not in the crosswalk when he hit her.

But, video footage pulled from Fire Station 4 shows Abraham-Mikami was

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Bonnie Abraham-Mikami died after being hit by a truck outside Roswell Fire Station 4 on July 13. Bonnie’s sister, Rose Abraham, has set up a GoFundMe page to help cover medical and other expenses.

crossing Old Alabama Road from east to west in the direction of the fire department at the time she was hit. The report states Abraham-Mikami sustained a lacera-

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Commercial developments heralded as new path for Forsyth economy

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County commissioners approved two new industrial developments in the north and south portions of the county Aug. 4, adding to the rapidly growing number of industrial projects officials predict will have lasting impacts on the local economy.

District 4 Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills said that with the project approvals on Aug. 4 and two more industrial developments on tap for later in August, Forsyth County has nearly 2 million square feet of industrial projects currently under development.

The two projects approved Aug 4 include a 55-acre development with 700,000 square feet of warehouse space on Settingdown Road and Martin Road, tentatively called the Coal Mountain Industrial Park. The other is a 4-acre development with 61,000 square feet of office and warehouse space off Ga. 9 in south Forsyth County.

The projects are expected to bring more jobs and industries into the county, helping to diversify the county’s tax digest, which Jones Mills said has been historically lopsided.

The recent uptick in proposed commercial developments was expected by local officials, given the community’s increasingly friendly views on commercial developments and a large investment in water and sewer infrastructure commissioners committed to across the county.

Slade Gulledge, vice president of economic development at the Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce, spoke in favor of the Coal Mountain Industrial Park project at the commission meeting.

“This is a quality developer, building a quality product and we’re here to support it,” Gulledge said.

Gulledge, who represents Forward Forsyth, a public/private partnership between the chamber, Forsyth County Government, and other community stakeholders, said both projects represent a step forward for the community’s long-term economic mission.

“Through the Forward Forsyth Economic Development partnership, we focus on bringing jobs, opportunity, and capital investment to Forsyth County,” he said. “These projects approved by the Board of Commissioners represent needed new product for our market, which are significant financial investments and will positively impact the local economy and tax base.”

Jones Mills, whose north Forsyth County district

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Forsyth County Administration Building will likely be home to four of the commercial developments, said recent projects were made possible by $47 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding the county received. In all, $17 million of the funding has been set aside to build water and sewer infrastructure for vacant county properties, designated as spaces that could attract large commercial developments.

“Both are coming forward because of that ARPA money,” Jones Mills said. “This is definitely a result of bringing more commercial in the tax base, which is what this board wanted and why we adopted the ordinance to begin with.”

Jones Mills said that sewer and water projects are often the largest stumbling block for developers who are looking to invest in a rural area like Forsyth County. Eliminating that problem, she said, makes it easier to attract businesses to the community.

“It’s almost like an inducement or an incentive to get people to want to invest in our community,” she said. “I think the potential is truly unlimited right now.”

Attorney Christopher Light, who will represent developers of both projects approved on Aug. 4, said at this point, they aren’t sure what industries the developments will attract, but they’ve left the plan flexible for desirable uses identified by the community.

Proposed uses at the Coal Mountain Industrial Park include breweries and distilleries, office uses,

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open storage yards, research laboratories, manufacturing and cold storage. But Light said the use will ultimately be determined by the community’s need.

Light did not immediately respond to a request for a time frame on groundbreaking for the two projects.

Though the developers will have some flexibility on what uses the space will ultimately see, Jones Mills said that they have placed even greater strictures on the architecture and design of these industrial developments.

Plans for the Settingdown Road development have already gone through a third-party architectural review process that will now be standard for this type of project.

Through the third-party review process, they were able to identify ways of making plans for the 700,000-square-foot development to fit in better with surrounding areas.

“Not knowing what the end user would be, I wanted to have a good check and balance in place,” she said.

A town hall meeting will be held on Thursday, Aug. 11 for two additional industrial developments in north Forsyth County. Project representatives will discuss plans for a 74-acre development off Ga. 4000 and a 36-acre development off Settingdown Road.

The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the commissioner’s meeting room at the Forsyth County Administrative Building.

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News company joins suit against Facebook, Google Lawsuit alleges two media giants create monopoly STAFF REPORTS ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Some North Georgia newspaper companies have filed antitrust lawsuits against tech giants Google and Facebook, alleging that their “anticompetitive and monopolistic practices” have caused major harm to news outlets’ ability to survive.

Alpharetta-based Appen Media Group filed suit Aug. 3, citing statistics that newspaper advertising revenue has fallen by more than 50 percent since 2006, and nearly 20 percent of newspapers have closed over the past 15 years.

“Everyone knows that Facebook and Google operate an illegal monopoly over digital advertising,” Appen Media Group Publisher Hans Appen said. “We are proud to join dozens of other newspapers across the country in an effort to correct this injustice and even the playing field.”

Appen Media Group owns the Alpharetta-Roswell Herald, Milton Herald, Johns Creek Herald, Forsyth Herald, Dunwoody Crier and Sandy Springs Crier. The lawsuit alleges that news outlets’ loss of revenue across the country was “directly caused” by Google and Facebook’s practices and that the harm was intentional.

The complaint opens with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

The suit references “Jedi Blue,” the codename of a 2018 agreement between Google and Facebook that the two companies kept under wraps. The deal provided that Google would give Facebook preferential advertising rates.

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In 2020, several states’ attorneys general filed antitrust lawsuits against Google as a response to the deal.

The lawsuit alleges both companies violated the Sherman Anti-trust Act, an 1890 federal law that outlawed monopolistic practices in an effort to promote free trade and competition.

Nearly identical lawsuits were filed in the preceding months by the Marietta-based Times Journal and its subsidiaries Neighbor Newspapers and Rome News Media.

Georgia’s newspapers are not alone in their campaign. Appen’s lawsuit is slated to be transferred to the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, consolidated with pending antitrust cases against Google and Facebook from at least 15 states and U.S. territories, including Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.

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‘Mama Bears’ sue Forsyth County Schools Group says School Board censored public discourse

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A group of moms is suing the Forsyth County Board of Education on grounds that their First Amendment rights have been violated.

The lawsuit was filed in federal court on July 25 by two members of the group Mama Bears of Forsyth County, an unincorporated association whose mission is to organize, educate and empower parents to defend their parental rights.

It states “protecting the innocence of Forsyth County’s children” is central to Mama Bears and its members, primarily by barring the availability of “pornographic materials” in school libraries.

The lawsuit stems from a meeting in March in which Forsyth County Board of Education Chairman Wes McCall called for a recess after repeatedly asking a parent, Alison Hair, to stop reading sexually explicit excerpts from school library books. The board’s policy prohibits profane remarks.

While individuals were allowed to re-enter the room after the break, the lawsuit states Hair left altogether because of “concerns that she might be arrested.”

Court documents show McCall sent Hair a letter, dated March 17, prohibiting her from attending future meetings until she submitted a statement in writing agreeing to follow the board’s public participation rules and his directives as chairman.

Hair received a second letter May 11, signed by McCall, Vice Chairwoman Kristin Morrissey and board members Lindsey Adams, Tom Cleveland and Darla Light, again prohibiting her from attending meetings until she agreed to the stipulation. The lawsuit states Hair had already stopped attending board meetings for fear of retaliation.

Hair, a member of Mama Bears, and group Chairwoman Cindy Martin filed the lawsuit against all five School Board members in federal court on July 25. Hair’s child is no longer a student in the district, but Martin’s is, it states.

In the lawsuit, Hair and Martin accuse the board of seven violations, including to their right to free speech, right to petition, vagueness, overbreadth and prior restraint.

It asks the court to issue an order preventing Forsyth County Schools and

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Allison Hair speaks at a March 15 Forsyth County Board of Education meeting. board officials from enforcing the ban against Hair’s participation in board meetings and “several unconstitutional provisions” of its public participation policy.

These include requirements that speakers refrain from comments deemed by the meeting’s presiding officer to be “personal attacks,” “rude,” “uncivil,” “defamatory” or “profane.”

The lawsuit also seeks an order permanently enjoining the defendants from discriminating on the basis of viewpoint in providing access to School Board meetings.

Hair said the suit is not about any one parent or group but about making sure all resident’s rights are respected at meetings.

“The board’s actions have been shocking and completely unfounded,” Hair said. “We hope and pray the court sets things right.”

Martin said they will not back down.

“The Mama Bears of Forsyth County formed spontaneously when mothers across the district discovered the sexually explicit books in our children’s school libraries,” Martin said.

“When Chairman McCall and the board

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Censorship: Continued from Page 1 censored us from reading the explicit language in these books because children were in the room, they proved our point.”

Hair and Martin are represented in the lawsuit by attorneys from the Institute for Free Speech, a nonpartisan First Amendment advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., that defends political speech rights.

A week before filing the lawsuit in Forsyth County, the Institute for Free Speech successfully defended four residents over their right to comment at Pennsbury School Board meetings in Pennsylvania.

Alan Gura, vice president for litigation at the Institute for Free Speech, called the ruling a “wake-up call for school boards across America” that parents have a First Amendment right to criticize school policies and officials at public meetings, according to the Courier Times.

The settlement in Pennsylvania stipulates that the school district’s insurance carrier pay the $300,000 settlement to cover the plaintiffs’ attorneys’ fees and nominal damages, and the district or its insurer pay another $17.91 to each of the four plaintiffs.

That amount is in recognition of

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School officials cannot censor or ban parents from repeating ‘inappropriate’ language at board meetings, especially when they quote from relevant school materials and library books.”

MARTHA ASTOR attorney at the Institute of Free Speech the year 1791, the same year the First Amendment guaranteeing the right to free speech was ratified. The lawsuit in Forsyth County also seeks $17.91 in nominal damages and attorneys’ fees.

Martha Astor, attorney at the Institute for Free Speech, says that even though the Forsyth County Board of Education may think Hair and Martin’s speech is offensive, it is a constitutional right.

“School officials cannot censor or ban parents from repeating ‘inappropriate’ language at board meetings, especially when they quote from relevant school materials and library books,” Astor said.

Well before the meeting in March, there had already been heated debates over the banning of certain books. In February, the district banned eight books out of more than 500,000 available in its school libraries for their sexually explicit content.

Students and parents had raised concerns at past board meetings that the books were disproportionally about characters or written by authors who are LGBTQ+, women or people of color.

At the March meeting, the Board of Education began discussing possible changes to the district’s book challenge process following the introduction of Senate Bill 226, which makes it easier for parents to dispute books they consider “harmful to minors.”

The bill was signed into law in April, but districts have until Jan. 1, 2023, to develop new policies.

McCall did not respond to Appen Media’s request for comment on July 28, and Jennifer Caracciolo, a spokeswoman for Forsyth County Schools, said the district is unable to comment on pending litigation.

A hearing for the lawsuit has not been set.

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Blotter: Continued from Page 2 Authorities arrived on scene after the burglary occurred but found the suspect at the rear of the residence, agitated and claiming that “there were dead kids in the home.”

The man told deputies that he had gotten to the home with a truck he stole from a nearby church, and previously broke into another home on Honeysuckle Lane in Forsyth County.

The man was charged with burglary and taken to the Forsyth County Jail.

Deputies discover drugs during highway traffic stop FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County Deputies have arrested a man on felony drug charges after he allegedly attempted to throw away a bottle of pills during a traffic stop.

A 23-year-old Lawrenceville man was stopped traveling westbound on Buford Highway in Forsyth County for driving over 60 mph in a 45-mph zone.

“The driver began slow rolling in front of Beaver Toyota, and prior to coming to a complete stop, I observed the driver throw a small object out the front passenger window,” the incident report said.

Once the object was found on the roadside, deputies discovered 72 Oxycodone pills and two Buprenorphine pills in a pill bottle.

The driver told deputies that he threw out the pills because he didn’t want to get in trouble.

Deputies also found 2 ounces of marijuana, allegedly packaged for sale, a BB handgun, and a digital scale in the man’s car.

The driver was charged with possession of Schedule I substances with the intent to sell, speeding, and failure to maintain lane. The report said that more charges will follow based on the outcome of an investigation by the narcotics unit.

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tion to the back of her skull and multiple abrasions. Harper reportedly said he “was only doing about 5 mph” at the time of the incident.

After hitting Abraham-Mikami, the surveillance video allegedly shows Harper exiting his truck to check on her and running into the fire station for help. Abraham-Mikami was transported to North Fulton Hospital.

While the report states she was awake at first, an officer reported that she seemed very confused and was unable to answer his questions. AbrahamMikami later died, leaving behind two sons, ages 32 and 28. Her sister, Rose Abraham, has set up a GoFundMe page to help cover medical and other expenses.

Rose, a teacher at Dunwoody High School, wrote that even though her family is grieving, they find comfort in knowing that Bonnie died doing something that “brought her peace and joy.”

Rose says she will remember her sister as an “amazing woman” and single mother who devoted her life to her two boys.

“She raised them and put them through college by working as a selfemployed translator/re-writer, primarily focused on managing complex litigation cases which utilized her fluency in Japa-

We are grateful for your continued support, thoughts and prayers as we honor Bonnie’s legacy together.”

ROSE ABRAHAM Sister of Bonnie Abraham-Mikami nese,” Rose wrote. “She continued to use these talents until her passing.”

Rose says that because of her employment status, Bonnie didn’t have health insurance.

“Thank you for respecting my request for privacy during this devastating time,” Rose wrote. “Many of you have asked how you can help our family. I have established this GoFundMe effort on behalf of my nephews, Jin and Kei, to help them navigate the challenging road that lies ahead. We are grateful for your continued support, thoughts and prayers as we honor Bonnie’s legacy together.”

To donate to the GoFundMe, visit gofundme.com/f/bonnie-abrahammikami.

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COMMUNITYI truly believe that we fully understand that we’re not really treating addiction, we’re treating the trauma.

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Recovery center rejects cookie-cutter approach to healing

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. – Devin Orrie has been director of admissions at Atlanta Recovery Place since the beginning of 2020.

He coordinates everything from the initial phone call, where either the patient or a family member calls in. During that call, they will discuss what’s going on with the patient to make an informed decision on the best route to take.

But, Orrie has seen the other side of Atlanta Recovery Place (ARP) as a patient himself, having sought help from the Dunwoody facility in 2019. At the time, he also began working at a sober living home. According to ARP’s website, sober living provides a safe living space filled with “like-minded individuals to encourage sobriety during the early stages of independence after substance abuse.”

As an ARP client, Orrie said he got close with one of the owners who knew his job history and thought he would be a good fit. Once the opportunity arose, Orrie said he was eager to hop on board.

“I really admired Atlanta Recovery Place staff, their ability to connect and really felt like they cared,” he said.

The center offers different program options that are assigned based on need – partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and outpatient. Apart from setting up long-term therapy and psychiatry for aftercare, staff can place patients in sober living upon request.

For sober living, staff use corporate leases at a luxury apartment complex

Although we are a for-profit facility, this is the only place I’ve ever heard of, or ever worked at, where people are first and finances are second.”

JEFF TOBISH ARP Program Director

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Atlanta Recovery Place, located on Mt. Vernon Road in Dunwoody, was founded five years ago. Its staff heralds its individualized approach to substance abuse treatment and recognizes the trauma that often underlies addiction. down the road from the facility.

Atlanta Recovery Place is a private, for-profit organization, meaning its funding primarily comes from insurance and self-pay. There is no state funding. ARP Program Director Jeff Tobish, who’s also in recovery, said that ARP owners have a vested interest that lies outside of financial benefit – the owners are in recovery, too.

“Although we are a for-profit facility, this is the only place I’ve ever heard of, or ever worked at, where people are first and finances are second,” Tobish said.

The organization was founded around five years ago when a group of

people with a lot of recovery time saw that Atlanta was in need of more treatment services, Director of Business Development Cody Davis said.

Davis started out as a clinician at ARP about three and a-half years ago.

He left temporarily to start his own recovery program for men coming out of incarceration and was invited back to take on his current role. He said it was an easy sell because he really believes in ARP’s program.

“I truly believe that we fully understand that we’re not really treating addiction, we’re treating the trauma,” Davis said.

Individualized programming is ARP’s touchstone. Patients are expected to participate in one-on-one therapy. The center recently added an LGBTQ+ track for those who identify within that community. Davis said this is an important feature for a diverse city like Atlanta. As of 2021, 4.6 percent of Atlanta’s overall population identifies as LGBTQ+, according to a report from UCLA’s Williams Institute.

Both Orrie and Tobish said that ARP doesn’t take the “cookie-cutter approach” to treatment.

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Old Soldiers Day 2022 marks milestone

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ALPHARETTA, Ga. — After nearly a century of change and conflict, times of peace, war, and everything in-between, American Legion Post 201 in Alpharetta has continued on in its mission to help local veterans.

That mission was on display Saturday, Aug. 8, as crowds gathered at the Legion Post on Wills Road in Alpharetta for the annual Old Soldiers Day celebration and festival. The morning event included barbecue, guest speakers and presentations from the Greater Atlanta Buffalo Soldiers and Johns Creek Veterans Association Honor Guard.

This year marked American Legion Post 201’s 75th anniversary and its 70th year of sponsoring the annual Old Soldiers Day celebration.

For the third year in a row, festivities did not feature the Old Soldiers Day Parade that once drew thousands to downtown Alpharetta.

The parade was cancelled in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021 the parade appeared to be on the brink of return, but plans were ultimately derailed after negotiations between the Legion and City of Alpharetta over costs for police and other services broke down.

But despite the parade’s absence, Legion officials say that their devotion to veterans and active-duty service members hasn’t changed a bit.

“The key is people still come, so it’s still recognized,” Legion spokesman Harry Hollingsworth said during the event. “This is part of history going all the way back to the Revolutionary War. And those days need to be celebrated, and old soldiers … need to be celebrated also.”

Hollingsworth said local veterans want to bring the parade back and post members are working behind the scenes to make that happen. But they say they are not certain when that’s going to happen.

Speaking to the crowd on Saturday, State Rep. Chuck Martin praised the work the Legion does in the community and pledged to do whatever he can to bring the annual parade back in 2023.

“The American Legion has been a rock in our community,” Martin said.

“You have my absolute pledge, to work with you to put this parade back on, to continue more than today and not let some external things get in the way.”

Martin, a former mayor of Alpharetta, also shared several memories of visiting the American Legion and attending the Old Soldiers Day celebration throughout his life.

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Maj. Gen. John King, Georgia’s Insurance and Safety Fire CommisMembers of the Johns Creek Veterans Association Honor sioner, speaks to a crowd at Alpharetta’s American Legion Post Guard present the colors during Alpharetta American Le- 201 for the Legion’s 70th Old Soldiers Day celebration Aug. 6. gion Post 201’s Old Soldiers Day Celebration on Aug. 6. King was honored as the event’s keynote speaker.

He said participating in the annual celebration and being in the parade was one of the best experiences he’s ever had.

“It was something to look forward to,” he said. “As a high school student, as the mayor of the city of Alpharetta, and now as an adult.”

The event’s keynote speaker, Georgia Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner Maj. Gen. John King, also praised the Legion for it’s work with veterans in the community, saying he was humbled and honored to speak at the event.

King told the crowd that veterans groups like the Legion are “key” components of holding a community together.

“We come from so many backgrounds … but we have service as a common denominator,” he said.

Amid the current challenges facing the U.S. military, which include a sizable deficit in recruiting goals, those connections in communities across the nation are now even more important, he said.

“We have to go and tell our story,” King said. “Young men and young women today join the military because they have a family member. Because they have positive relationship with somebody who has served.”

Austin De Rosa plays “taps” to close out Alpharetta’s Old Soldiers Day Festival on Saturday, Aug. 6

Former Alpharetta Mayor Chuck Martin speaks to a crowd of about two dozen at Alpharetta’s 70th Old Soldiers Day celebration, before introducing keynote speaker Maj. Gen. John King.

Former Alpharetta City Councilman John Monson sings the national anthem at American Legion Post 201’s Old Soldiers Day Celebration on Aug. 6.

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Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin presents a proclamation to retiring City Administrator Bob Regus, celebrating his 23 years of service to the city.

Alpharetta city manager steps down after 23 years

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — After serving 23 years as Alpharetta City Administrator, Bob Regus officially retired on Monday night, leaving behind what officials call an unrivaled legacy of professionalism and stewardship during some of the most important moments in Alpharetta’s history.

Regus’s family, friends and colleagues, both past and present, gathered at city hall on Monday, Aug. 1, to celebrate his time in Alpharetta, and heard from all four mayors Regus served under, along with several friends and past council members.

The longtime city administrator was presented with two honors at Monday night’s city council meeting, one honor presented by state Rep. Chuck Martin, and another by current Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin.

Martin, who served as Alpharetta mayor from 1995 to 2002, said that bringing Regus on as city administrator in 1999, was one of the best decisions the city officials ever made.

“For the next 23 years as our city administrator, he led. And his stewardship was accompanied by honor, humility and grace like I’ve never seen before,” Martin said.

Martin said that Regus was pivotal in getting Alpharetta recognized as the Technology City of the South, forming

the Tech Alpharetta Board, establishing the Alpharetta Innovation Center, developing the Alpharetta Greenway, and many other accomplishments.

For those items, Martin presented Regus with a recognition by the Georgia House of Representatives.

Gilvin, who first worked with Regus as a city council member in 2012, called the city administrator a friend and mentor, holding back tears as he commended the Regus’s impact on Alpharetta.

“There’s a handful of mayors and former mayors up here, and the fact is that it is incredibly important to have really dedicated and good elected leadership,” Gilvin said. “What we see around us would not exist without the leadership of past mayors and past council members over the last 25 years. But the fact is we didn’t build it.

Bob did, Bob built this team, he built the culture that made this happen.”

In Regus’s proclamation from the city, Gilvin highlighted his work on the Westside Parkway, the Big Creek Greenway, revitalization of Alpharetta’s downtown and creation of the Avalon Development.

Under Regus’s leadership, Gilvin said the city became Georgia’s 15th most populous municipality, with more than 5,800 businesses and 180,000 jobs, and growing to become one of Georgia’s most prosperous communities.

“This city bears your fingerprints,

not just one but all 10,” Former Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle said.

“And we’re grateful to you for that.”

After hearing from the gathered officials, Regus said his time in Alpharetta has been great and spent a few minutes recounting his favorite memories of many city staff members and officials.

Responding to the praise placed on his impact on the city, Regus pointed toward city staff, saying that nothing would have been possible without a great team.

“I do like to get stuff done, but you can’t get stuff done without really great staff,” Regus said. “They would really make it happen and help us along the way.”

Regus’s replacement, Chris Lagerbloom, will take over as city administrator on Aug. 8.

Lagerbloom has a long history in North Fulton County, having served as a captain in Alpharetta’s police department before becoming the City of Milton’s first police and fire chief. Beginning in 2007, he served as Milton’s interim city manager before being appointed to the position permanently in 2009. Under his management, Milton received numerous accolades for its safety and quality of life.

Lagerbloom left Milton in 2016 and became assistant city manager of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was later promoted to city manager.

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That RV you loved so much is not your friend Christina and I drive our kids crazy, I think. We are very frugal, and we like to buy used things whenever we can instead of new things – like this 32-foot-long class A RV that we bought a few years ago for not RAY APPEN much money. It is Publisher Emeritus ray@appenmediagroup.com giant. It sleeps like five or six fairly comfortably and has three air conditioners, an almost full-size refrigerator, sink, shower, oven and more. And while it is maybe about 22 years old, it only has 36,000 miles on it.

When it was running, we liked to take it out to state parks in Georgia for short trips, although a few years ago we did make the mandatory road trip to California and back. I recall thinking when we had been on that winding Highway 101 in California headed to Big Sur that it was odd that there were no other RVs on the road. It didn’t take me long to figure out why. Some of those bridges along that road are scary – really scary – especially when driving

a giant RV. There is no place to turn around.

After I drove under the overhanging heavy branches of a huge oak tree and discovered that the vehicle was too high for us to fit under it, and after I had picked up as much of the equipment that had been ripped off the top of the RV by the branches as I could, we finally found a place to turn around and head back north in the direction of safety and solid ground.

I am not even going to get into the story about trying to drive through Texas and the Texas sheriff and his deputies who stopped us (for a couple hours) because I looked like a smuggler in an RV, transporting either drugs, currency, weapons, or all of the above.

“Now where you been and why are you driving this RV? Where did you leave from and where did you stay last night? Sure you don’t have currency somewhere in that thing? Now who is that traveling with you, your - wink, wink, wife?”

Never did care for that state.

Anyway, that was another time though, a time when the RV was running. We are now going on about a year trying to get it fixed. The part we

need on our 1999 Fleetwood Bounder – an air-intake manifold – is no longer manufactured by Ford, even though their V-10 engines I believe are still being made. It took us about six months to even locate a mechanic place that would work on the RV during COVID, and now it has taken the next six months to finally realize that there are no used air intake manifolds for our engine in the United States. So, we have gone to plan “C,” which is to repair the manifold, which has at this point, been done.

The repair place in Norcross is going to call me in a day or two to let me know it is running. I will go pick it up and drive it directly back to the other RV repair place where it usually stays to get worked on for more mundane things like water systems, cooking systems, the generator, brake pads and other non-engine repair stuff.

I know the in-dash air conditioning is still broken and, while we have the two overhead air conditioners that cool the RV fairly well, I will probably obsess over the in-dash AC and get it fixed or replaced, too. It is probably just a condenser that needs to be replaced, but they have to take half the engine out

to get to the AC! That is, it will be very labor intensive so, not cheap.

After we had owned the RV for about a year, we figured out that there would always be something that breaks during a trip, so we just started driving back to the repair place automatically after every trip. They are very nice there and always save my spot for me.

I used to think that boats were the biggest money pits out there – we have two – but I was definitely wrong; that title belongs exclusively to big RVs – both used and new – and maybe any vehicle made by Mercedes Benz.

So, at this point, I am beginning to think that I just need to find a small lot somewhere that has electricity so I can just go park the RV and use it as a weekend getaway that doesn’t move much. Either that or take it to the coast and have it transported offshore so it can become an artificial reef. I am probably not smart enough to just cut my losses. Sure Ray, let’s go look for a lot to buy with electricity so that you can park the RV you never use and into which you pour money like an IV dripping a saline solution into an arm somewhere. Smart, good stuff, no?

No.

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PRESERVING THE PAST

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Birmingham Crossroads are committed to the past

In the early days of our history wherever two or more roads – often not much more than trails – crossed, a small village might develop. A general store, perhaps operated by the original settler BOB or landowner, would be built. Then a few MEYERS more buildings would be added: a public house or tavern, then barns, fences, doctor’s office, church, post office and more farms. Some crossroads villages became towns or otherwise retained their identity through the decades, Crabapple in Milton, for example. Others disappeared.

Fields Crossroads, also in Milton, is one example. Birmingham Crossroads at the intersection of Birmingham Highway, Birmingham Road and its extension Hickory Flat Road is our topic for today.

Its name is somewhat a mystery.

There are more than a dozen towns and cities in the U.S. named Birmingham, presumably named after the English city.

One of Birmingham Crossroads’ early residents Wade McCurry (1888-1973) challenged that notion according to a circa 1960s interview in a local newspaper. According to McCurry, the crossroads community got its name shortly after the Civil War from the odor of meat cooking in log homes that smelled like “burnin’ hams” to farmers from the mountains who camped in the community en route to Atlanta to sell their produce. True or not? Sounds possible.

Wade and his wife Mentora Wood McCurry (1890-1984) settled in the community in 1907 on 125 acres near the intersection of today’s Birmingham Highway and Hickory Flats Road. Wade grew cotton which he processed at a cotton gin in Canton. His grandson Doug McCurry who lives with his wife Charna on the 3 acres remaining of the original farm says that his grandfather would leave the house at 3 a.m. with his wagon full of cotton for the 12-mile trip to Canton and return 12 hours later due to the poor roads.

The McCurrys are committed historic preservationists in the midst of dramatic changes over the years in the community.

They have maintained the half dozen 75- to 100-year-old farm buildings on the property and live in a house Doug’s grandfather built. Doug says “it is important to me to keep what was here.”

Another example of preservation during change is the Thomas B. Newton House set behind some office buildings on Hickory Flat Road. It is a City of Milton Historic Site. Built around the close of

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This collection of a half dozen historic barns built between 75 and 100 years ago are being carefully preserved by Doug and Charna McCurry at the center of Birmingham Crossroads.

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A 1960’s newspaper article from claims that the name of the Birmingham community is a derivation of “Burnin’ Hams” and is not named after Birmingham Alabama or Birmingham England. the Civil War, the building has had various uses, including a boarding house for traveling salesmen and teachers and a general store. It has been substantially renovated and today is used as an office for a private company.

The beautiful Scottsdale Farms nurs-

ery is another tribute to the past. The timber framed structure was built in 1998 using the age old, sophisticated mortiseand-tenon technique to join the structural elements together.

Matilda’s popular outdoor music venue is a further sign of the changes in

the community.

Birmingham has no defined boundaries. In a way it is a state of mind with a sense of commitment. Stretching roughly from the Cherokee County line to the

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Continued from Page 10 north and west, to Freemanville Road to the east and the Providence Church settlement to the south, it is a large area.

Elegant housing developments, side by side with beautiful existing horse farms and more traditional homes help define the area.

Go north at the crossroads, then down a winding driveway, that was once a road to cotton fields. Go through the woods past a 19th century farmhouse to the home of Lillian Cole. A retired teacher of home economics, Lillian appreciates the history of the area. She tells many stories of early inhabitants. One of her erstwhile neighbors lived right on the county line, she says, so he could move his moonshine equipment quickly from one county to the other if the revenuers were coming.

“People said he was a good man because no one got sick and no one died from his whiskey,” she says with a laugh.

Lautrell Gardner lived as a child at the corner of Birmingham Road and Freemanville Road. She recalls that back in the 1940s, Birmingham Road was the only paved road and that her family stored cotton seed on the second floor of their house. As a child, her grandmother Mary Magdalene Phillips (1876-1962) picked scrap cotton left over

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Thomas B. Newton House, a City of Milton Historic Site, was built around 1865 and has served a variety of uses including as a convalescent home for wounded Confederate soldiers, a boarding house for traveling salesmen and teachers and a general store. It has been restored and is today an office for a private company. in the field after the cotton was picked to raise enough money to buy herself a sewing machine. Lautrell’s grandfather, Charlie Hillard Phillips (1874-1932), was a carpenter who walked to wherever he was building a house with a saw, hammer, nails and measuring tape. He built several houses on Freemanville Road singlehandedly. Her father-in-law, Sherman Leonidas Gardner (1879-1948), was

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Seasoned residents speak fondly of the Buice’s Country Store – with a post office in the rear – built in 1930 on the main corner of the crossroads by Homer and Laura Buice. It replaced the original store that had burned down. Beginning

in 1947, son Doyle Buice and wife Betty operated the store until the 1990s. For the past three years it has been home to the popular Seven Acre BarNGrill and is a City of Milton Historic Site.

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

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Longtime Miracle League volunteer honored with Lanierland Park naming FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Officials announced last week that the new Miracle League field at Lanierland Park in north Forsyth County will be named in honor of Col. Carrol Edge, a long-time volunteer and advocate for the special needs baseball program.

The new field, now named the Col. Carroll & Judy Edge Field, was unveiled during a ceremony at the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners meeting on Aug. 4.

Edge, a life-long Forsyth County resident, has supported Miracle League since its inception in 2005 and is noted as a pivotal influence on the program’s

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“Col. Edge’s deep love for the league participants and his dedication to ensuring each of them has a wonderful experience brings smiles to many in the community,” District 5 County Commissioner Laura Semanson said at the meeting. “He can be seen opening the gates at 7 a.m. on gamedays and frequently staying until all participants and their families have left the ballpark.”

The Col. Carroll & Judy Edge Field Miracle League Field will be one of many amenities that is expected to be available at Lanierland Park once the project is completed in the late fall.

DEATH NOTICES Linda Gail Barron Chastain Jarvis, 73, of Cumming passed away, July 30.

Arrangements by Ingram Funeral Home and Crematory.

Francisco De La Rosa, 47, of Alpharetta, passed away July 22, 2022. Arrangements

by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Helen Walker, 81, of Johns Creek, passed away July 26, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Wendy Allen, 52, of Johns Creek, passed away July 30, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Euna Lee Shirley, 89, passed away on July 22, 2022. Arrangements by McDonald and Son Funeral Home.

Cynthia Braun, 75, of Alpharetta, passed away July 23, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Leonard Tomaszewski, 88, of Roswell, passed away July 27, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Phillip Kopsky, 76, of Alpharetta, passed away July 30, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Indiana Sweda, 78, of Alpharetta, passed away July 24, 2022. Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Janet Maher, 63, of Roswell, passed away July 29, 2022.

Arrangements by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

Billie Jean Waggoner, 90, of Alpharetta, passed away July 22, 2022. Arrangements

by Northside Chapel Funeral Directors & Crematory.

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