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Governor allocates millions in funding for parks programs in challenged areas

By REBECCA GRAPEVINE Capitol Beat

FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS/PROVIDED

Forsyth County Schools staff and officials present leaders at Alliance Academy and Daves Creek Elementary School with checks Aug. 26 as part of the school system’s Education Foundation Grant giveaway. Alliance Academy and Daves Creek Elementary were two of 25 schools awarded grants by the foundation.

Foundation awards funds to schools

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Three teams of school officials traveled Forsyth County Aug. 26 to participate in a

yearly tradition — the Forsyth County Education Foundation Grant giveaway.

School leaders visited 25 schools in the afternoon, awarding 30 grants worth $126,567 to fund educational programs and initiatives.

“The Forsyth County Education Foundation is, yet, another great example of the tremendous support our students and staff receive in FCS,” Schools

Cumming Farmers Market to move to City Center

County buys property for possible parkland

North Georgia has ties to days of moonshine

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ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp announced Aug. 30 he is allocating around $250 million to help low-income Georgia communities improve parks, sidewalks, recreation facilities and healthy food access.

A statement from the governor’s office said investment in infrastructure like parks and sidewalks has been connected to better health and decreased mortality from COVID and other illnesses.

“Though we have long since turned the corner on the pandemic, we know there are still some lingering public health impacts of COVID-19 that are broader than the disease itself,” Kemp said. “They include mental health challenges and unhealthy physical conditions caused by isolation.”

Kemp said keeping parks and recreation facilities open during the

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Woman convicted in Milton homicide paroled

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — An Atlanta woman sentenced to life in prison in connection to the 2007 shooting death of 40-yearold Keith Alan Brown, of Milton, was released on parole Aug. 22.

The incident was Milton’s first homicide since its incorporation in December 2006. When it occurred, then 26-yearold Michelle Morrison told police she thought she was just driving a friend to collect a debt and never even stepped inside the victim’s apartment.

Now, after spending 13 years behind bars, she is free. That’s in part thanks to the Conviction Integrity Unit at the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office, which was formed under District Attorney Fani Willis to review the integrity of past convictions. The unit gave the case another look and agreed that Morrison’s sentence had been unjust.

Morrison and another defendant, Jeff Dulcio, of Sandy Springs, were convicted

in 2009 of felony murder, aggravated assault, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery and conspiracy for the June 12, 2007, incident at the Preserve at Deerfield apartments.

They were immediately sentenced to life in prison plus five years.

A third defendant, Stephen Woods, also of Sandy Springs, pleaded guilty to criminal attempt to commit armed robbery and a weapons charge. He received the lesser sentence of 15 years in prison for his plea.

Kisha “Key” Rutledge, of Alpharetta, once a most-wanted fugitive, was later convicted in 2011 of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, criminal attempt to commit armed robbery and conspiracy. At 29 years old, the prostitution madame is said to have masterminded the crime.

Appen Media reported in 2009 that Brown was killed because he had a lot of cash on hand and made the mistake of crossing Rutledge, who ran an alleged escort service named “Atlanta’s Keys.”

According to information presented in court, Brown began making private arrangements with Rutledge’s girls directly, bypassing the madame. Brown also reportedly had the girls doing clerical work for his pressure-washing business after separating from his wife, who usually took care of the paperwork side of the business.

Lt. Travis Parker of the Milton Police Department said in 2009 that Dulcio and Woods were “gang bangers” who apparently knew Rutledge from several nightclubs in Atlanta. Rutledge ordered the hit on Brown, he said, first handing the murder weapon to Woods.

When Brown called Morrison, an adult entertainer, for a “date,” he instead was met by the two men at his apartment. Morrison and Rutledge stayed in the car.

An avid gun collector, Brown was armed, which Dulcio and Woods had not accounted for. Dulcio and Brown got

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Roswell man sentenced for illicit affair with minor

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ATLANTA — A Roswell man has been sentenced for recording his sexual encounters with a 13-year-old girl he hid at his apartment for three weeks in the summer of 2012.

Derrick Hunt, 39, was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison, followed by supervised release for life.

Hunt was convicted on May 16 after pleading HUNT guilty to the production of child pornography.

According to federal officials, on June 18, 2012, Hunt saw a Facebook post

from a teen girl from Gwinnett County stating she wanted to run away from her family’s home. Hunt knew the girl was 13 years old, but still agreed to pick her up and take her to his apartment, where he gave her alcohol, marijuana and opioids.

Over the next several weeks, Hunt engaged in numerous sex acts with the girl while she was impaired from alcohol or drugs. Federal officials state he recorded the sex acts with a camera in his living room. Then, on July 7, 2012, Hunt arranged for the girl’s father to pick her up at a fast-food restaurant in Roswell.

Court records show that at around midnight on July 7, 2012, two Roswell police officers were dispatched to the restaurant in response to a call to Gwinnett County police about a missing, endangered juvenile. But, after waiting

for about 90 minutes, the officers left to respond to other calls.

Federal officials state Hunt was unaware that the child’s father had arranged for the police to be at their meeting location, so when he finally dropped her off at approximately 2:30 a.m., officers headed back and conducted a traffic stop on a white Chevy Camaro.

The driver was later identified as Hunt.

While being questioned, Hunt was purportedly “slightly uncooperative,” giving officers an incorrect home address.

Police stated he and the 13-year-old girl also gave different accounts of how they had met. Because of those inconsistencies and the fact that the girl had been reported missing, Hunt was arrested in

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Cumming Farmers Market will move to new location

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com CUMMING, Ga. — After decades of selling produce and locally made goods, the Cumming Farmers Market will find a permanent, year-round home this fall at the Cumming City Center.

“We’re so excited to be partnering with the City of Cumming to move the market to our new home at the City Center where we can now provide a year-round market to our community,” said Cumming Farmers Market Manager Randy Gazaway.

The Cumming Farmers Market was first established in 1978 and has offered summer fare in the parking lot of the Cumming Fairgrounds in downtown for many years.

Currently the farmers market runs from June to the end of September, but the new City Center location will be open year-round.

“Our farmers market has been a part of the Cumming and Forsyth County community for more than four decades, and we have a very loyal cus-

Parks: Continued from Page 1 pandemic allowed Georgians to continue to exercise and get fresh air.

“We were met with resistance at times on this approach, but we prevailed in giving both Georgians and numerous out-of-state visitors safe options,” Kemp said. “By carefully investing these funds, we’re helping communities further move past the effects of the pandemic and become healthier.”

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tomer base, but our vendors are happy to hopefully reach even more people through the new year-round market at the City Center,” Gazaway said. “So, we couldn’t be happier to now be able to provide those high-quality items all year long.”

The City Center Farmers Market will start the fall season on Oct. 1 and will be open from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturdays through May. From June to September the market will be open Wednesdays and Saturdays from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., city officials said.

Vendors at the Cumming Farmers Market sell products and produce grown and made in Forsyth County or nearby counties, including produce, eggs, breads, meats, plants, honey, mushrooms and crafts.

“Our vendors can’t wait to bring their foods and other products to the City Center Farmers Market this fall,” Gazaway said. “We are overjoyed to see all our loyal customers, as well as lots of new faces, at the Cumming City Center.”

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Each approved project will be eligible to receive up to $2 million. Applications will be accepted up to Nov. 18. More information about applying can be found at opb.georgia.gov.

The money comes from federal COVID relief funds provided to the state under the American Rescue Plan Act. This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.

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The Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation Foundation announced approval of a grant that will be donated to local charities and teacher projects on Aug. 26.

Sawnee Electric Foundation approves grant to local charities CUMMING, Ga. — The Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) Foundation announced Aug. 26 that its board of directors approved granting over $38,000 to 10 local charities and 12 teacher projects.

The funds were generated in part from cooperative members who participate in Sawnee EMC’s Operation Round Up program each month.

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The Forsyth County Education Foundation Grant is funded by the Duck Dive for Education, which “adopts” out hundreds of rubber duckies drawn from the pool at the Cumming Aquatic Center for a chance to win $10,000.

Among the grants awarded was: $5,000 to North Forsyth High School’s Science Ambassador program to help with science nights at local elementary schools; $4,945 awarded to Shiloh

communities since its inception in 2003. At its third quarter meeting, the foundation’s board approved grants to Dawson County Wee Books Program, Georgia Stopping Pet Overpopulation Together Society, There’s Hope for the Hungry, among others. The board also approved grants to teachers at eight local schools.

To learn more about Sawnee EMC Foundation’s Operation Round Up program and the foundation, visit sawnee.com/oru. For 501 (c)(3) or 501 (c)(4) organizations or local teachers interested in applying for grants, visit sawnee.com/foundation-round-up.

Questions can be directed to Cindy Badgett, director of external affairs, at 678-455-1399 or via email at cindy. badgett@sawnee.com.

Point Elementary for a book vending machine; $5,000 awarded to South Forsyth Middle School for new adaptive swings for students in specialized instruction classes.

Program leaders estimate all 30 grants awarded in 2022 will impact over 33,500 students.

Bearden said the 2023 Duck Dive for Education will kick off in the spring, and the foundation’s other major fundraiser, the Dr. Jim and Peggie Morrow iChallenge takes place in October.

“Thank you to our entire community for supporting the two primary fundraisers for the Education Foundation,” he said.

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Kemp allocates $62 million to relieve housing insecurity

By REBECCA GRAPEVINE Capitol Beat ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp announced Aug. 29 that his office will provide $62 million to help Georgia communities address homelessness and housing insecurity.

The governor’s office will award the funds to 20 organizations who applied via a competitive process. The funds will be used to build affordable housing, improve existing housing, and provide mental health services to people who are homeless.

“As Georgians faced the unprecedented challenges and economic downturn of the pandemic, COVID-19 robbed some of their financial stability, expanding the homeless population in vulnerable communities,” said Kemp. “Those who were already homeless faced even greater difficulties, with many already struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues.”

“By investing these funds in those who are already making a difference around our state on these fronts, we will provide those most in need with resources that will aid them on the road to personal and financial recovery,” Kemp said.

Bambie Hayes-Brown, president and CEO of Georgia ACT, a statewide coalition of affordable housing groups, said the funding will help organizations assist the disadvantaged.

“We know the work that our mission-based developers do is very important to providing housing opportunities for the lowest income of Georgians,” said HayesBrown.

Hayes-Brown said Georgia ACT members awarded

funding include Mercy Housing Southeast, Quest Community Development, and SUMMECH Community Development. These groups all work to provide affordable housing, mostly in the Atlanta area.

“We would like to see more outreach to those small mission-based developers outside of metro Atlanta and [those groups] also given technical assistance to apply,” Hayes-Brown said.

Some of the other groups awarded funding include Habitat for Humanity organizations in Athens, Troup County and Houston County.

The funds come from federal COVID relief funds provided to the state under the American Rescue Plan Act. Additional grants will be awarded this fall to groups working to help homeless Georgians, said Andrew Isenhour, a spokesman for the governor.

A spokesman for Democrat Stacey Abrams – who is challenging Kemp for the governorship in November – criticized Kemp’s announcement.

“Kemp has repeatedly railed against spending that he’s now trying to claim credit for – even as housing costs continue to skyrocket on his watch with no response from him but election year gimmicks,” said Alex Floyd for the campaign.

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Nine tenants at Grove Way apartments remain without options

By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — There are still nine tenants at 199 Grove Way who have not found suitable housing to relocate.

Last spring, all 33 tenants, many of whom had been living at the public housing development for more than 20 years, were notified they would need to relocate by the end of August, because the City of Roswell had deemed the property structurally unsound.

However, because relocation challenges have mounted over the past couple of months, tenants are no longer being given a definitive date to vacate the property. Several areas around the building are currently being held up by metal supports, and in August, the ceiling of one of the units collapsed.

Karen Parrish, chairwoman of the Housing Authority of Roswell, said in an email to Appen Media Aug. 29 that the Roswell agency continues to move forward with the tenants’ relocation.

“The remaining have either moved out or are in the process of finalizing paperwork, inspections, etc.,” Parrish stated. “There are 20 occupied units as of today; however, we have 10 move-outs scheduled over the next 10 days.”

The property is owned by the Housing Authority of Roswell but managed by the Gainesville Housing Authority through a mutual agreement. Tenants are required to earn below 80 percent of the area median income. They are all elderly and/or disabled.

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County approves purchase of Baldridge Marina property

By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Forsyth County Commissioners have approved a $6 million purchase of nearly 49 acres off Lake Lanier that may one day become a county park.

Commissioners unanimously approved the purchase Sept. 1, agreeing to buy the property off Bald Ridge Marina Road in east Forsyth County just southeast of the Cumming Costco store and Ga. 400.

County Attorney Ken Jarrard said the agreement with Stevenson Asset Management was finalized just hours before the meeting on Thursday and includes a tentative purchase price of $6,097,500, with some unusual stipulations for a county land purchase agreement.

The most notable of the stipulations, Jarrard said, was a special condition allowing the current property owners to buy the property back, at the current sale price, if Forsyth County elects not to use the property as a park in the next five years.

“In other words, the only way this right of first refusal gets triggered is if you from the dais vote, ‘we’re not using it for a park or recreation purpose,’” Jarrard said. “And I think that likelihood is extraordinarily low.”

District 3 Commissioner Todd Levent said the provision worried him, because the current board of commissioners can’t bind future board members to a decision and a future board might be put in a position where the land is sold for much less than it’s worth.

“But if it happens at four years and a half, most of us probably won’t be here,” Levent said. “While possibly the

value goes up and we sell it back to them for the same price we paid?”

But Jarrard said that both he and County Manager Kevin Tanner are confident that’s very unlikely to happen.

“And my recommendation, would be let the clock run, in that situation,” Jarrard said. “Five years in the life of a government is a snap of the fingers.”

Jarrard said they expect to close on the property before the end of the year after a 90-day due diligence process.

The sale was approved 5-0.

LOST mediator approved

Also at the Sept. 1 meeting, commissioners appointed a mediator for negotiations between the county and City of Cumming over the upcoming 2022 Local Option Sales Tax distribution formula.

The county has been negotiating with the Cumming over LOST since June and must have a final agreement in place and filed with the state by Dec. 30.

County Attorney Jarrard said that both parties have approved using former-Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Randy Rich as the LOST negotiation mediator. Rich retired from the Superior Court of Gwinnett County in 2020 and currently serves as a mediator for Henning Mediation in Atlanta.

Commissioners approved the appointment 5-0.

Now that Rich’s appointment has been approved, Jarrard said the two parties will work together to start picking dates for their first negotiation sessions.

Constitution anniversary noted

District 5 Commissioner Laura Semanson honored the 235th anniver-

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Forsyth County District 5 Commissioner Laura Semanson honors local Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution group members on Sept. 1, while reading a proclamation for the U.S. Constitution’s 235th anniversary. sary of the United States Constitution’s signing at the meeting on Sept. 1 with a formal proclamation reading.

Semanson said the Constitution’s 235th anniversary is on Sept. 17 and

thanked local Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution group members for their efforts to protect the Founding Fathers’ legacy and promote patriotism.

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Evimero Marketplace dedicates itself to fair trade

By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com MILTON, Ga. — Evimero Marketplace isn’t the average gift shop. At Evimero, which is Greek for “to thrive, to prosper,” gifts are ethically sourced.

After years of working in retail and gaining an awareness for the conditions of “fast fashion” manufacturing, Natalia Beley started Evimero Marketplace in 2020. Originally located in Roswell, she moved the store to Milton’s Crabapple district in April.

“There’s a reason why you can buy a shirt for $10,” she said.

Personal stories and social causes sit beside most of Evimero’s carefully curated and handmade goods. Beley curates goods based on their unique qualities.

There are around 50 vendors in the store, she said.

Beley prefers the term “maker” to describe those who provide the store’s products, different from artisans. While Evimero’s products are artful, Beley said they have a practical purpose.

While local makers provide some of Evimero’s stock, Beley also scours sites like Etsy, Facebook and Instagram to find makers at wholesale.

To set up shop in Evimero, local makers must meet a few requirements.

They should be based in the United States, preferably Georgia, produce small batches and make their products by hand.

Visitors might see candles from Cherokee Rose Candle Company. Owners Amanda and Brian Roberts started the company in 2019 and received its LLC on their third wedding anniversary.

They have been working with Beley

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Starfish Project, a women-centric social enterprise that helps fight human trafficking and exploitation, sells jewelry out of Evimero Marketplace. for two years.

“What I love about working with Natalia is she’s like the biggest cheerleader for small businesses,” Amanda said.

Amanda was a full-time child life specialist, but she switched lanes to Cherokee Rose after having her first child. She said she started on Etsy and

would reach out to different stores to sell her products. She made it into a couple of stores her first year. While on maternity leave, she made it into more and became swamped with sales, with candle materials covering her house.

“It was a good problem,” Amanda said.

Cherokee Rose is now in 10 stores, one in Alabama, and Amanda is working to market in Tennessee. With a parttime employee, Amanda makes candles out of Made Mercantile, a small business

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Natalia Beley sells bracelets from the Little Words Project, a campaign that encourages people to be kind to themselves and others. Words like “strength” and “fearless” are used to create the bracelets.

Natalia Beley, owner of Evimero Marketplace, presents a recycled fish feed bag from Malia Designs, a fair trade brand that works with Cambodia-based makers who use recycled, native materials.

To accompany Evimero Marketplace’s mission on sustainability, owner Natalia Beley has a refill station for dish soap, hand soap, all-purpose soap and laundry detergent. Customers can either buy a reusable bottle in-store or use their own.

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the Cherokee Rose Candle Company and Evimero Marketplace websites.

Other workshops, like floweringmaking and cooking, have been held in the past. More are in the works. Evimero and local photographer Starr Petronella will host a workshop Sept. 14 for small business owners interested in using photography to promote their products.

Outside of local makers, Beley receives goods from fair trade companies

that work with small artist groups that often use native materials. While holding a hand-weaved agave and sweet grass basket made in Rwanda, Beley talked about price points.

“It’s a $60 basket, but it’s extremely labor intensive.”

Makers sit down for hours weaving and then dye the basket.

Some fair trade groups create and sell products to benefit specific social causes.

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In September, Evimero will launch a candle bar, which Amanda will use to host candle-making workshops in the evening. Reservations can be made on

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Malia Designs is one out of many fair trade brands housed in Evimero. The eco-friendly brand works with a Cambodia-based group that makes accessories, like reusable bags made from fish feed carriers. Purchases at Malia Designs help fight human trafficking.

“They give someone the opportunity to have work, and they’re recycling resources that are already in their area,” Beley said.

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Approximately one-third of jobs gained, 47,000, are in hospitality and retail.

“Combined, the two sectors represent 20 percent of the economy by employment share, but they produced 35 percent of new job growth,” Dhawan said. “The biggest stumbling block for growth in hospitality and retail will not be rising interest rates, but a shortage of workers to meet the two sectors’

blistering growth rate.”

The information sector, which spans jobs in fintech, technology, software and film, “has punched above its weight” in job gains, Dhawan said.

Although the sector comprises just 3 percent of the economy, it has created more than 10,000 jobs this year and over 35,000 since the recovery began in mid-2020.

As the stock market has hit the skids and consumer confidence has plunged, tech companies have said they will not hire as aggressively nationally. Some Georgia tech firms have even recently announced layoffs.

However, a positive for this sector is technical jobs in the state’s booming film production business.

“We had a banner year in the number of productions, which will continue in 2023 and offset technical job losses in other areas,” Dhawan said.

Another star performer has been manufacturing, gaining 44,000 jobs in

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Moonshine in North Georgia is part of our shared heritage

Moonshine occupies a special place in the history of North Georgia and North Fulton County.

Production of illegal whiskey led to sometimes violent clashes between moonshinBOB ers and government revenuers. It also MEYERS supported poor farmers and led to the development of super-fast cars which gave birth to a new sport, NASCAR racing. Here is the story.

In the late 1700s, Scotch-Irish immigrants started to arrive in Georgia.

With them came their knowledge of distilling grains and fruits into alcoholic beverages. Since the government did not tax production of alcohol, distilling was totally legal. Mountain people and farmers turned excess crops into corn whiskey or peach and apple brandy for their families and friends, and all was good.

During the Civil War, Congress created the Internal Revenue Service to collect taxes on luxury goods such as liquor and tobacco. This did not sit well with moonshiners or customers and after the war many producers refused to pay the tax. That made whiskey production illegal, and all was not good. Distillation went underground.

Producers worked at night to avoid detection, hence the name moonshine.

Gradually, public opinion shifted. Opposition to the illegal practices grew, thanks to efforts by the temperance movement, evangelicals and women who portrayed moonshiners as gangsters. This led to Prohibition in 1920 when Congress made alcohol production and sale illegal. Prohibition was great for moonshiners because suddenly they became the only source of alcoholic spirits. Prices in the South for bootleg whiskey quadrupled. Fun stories abound about speakeasies and the Roaring ’20s as prohibition became increasingly unpopular.

When the Great Depression hit following the stock market crash of 1929, the government realized that by not taxing alcohol it was losing a great source of revenue. In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt made a campaign promise to legalize alcohol, and in 1933 Congress ended Prohibition.

Moonshiners continued to thrive because nobody wanted to pay liquor taxes. The Atlanta Constitution reported in November 1934 that the Atlanta district was no. 1 in the U.S. in moonshining. More than 500 stills were de-

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A replica of a portable still is mounted on a 1929 Model A Ford truck. It will be on display at the Milton Historical Society’s annual Shindig September 17 at the Wildberry Creek Farm in Milton.

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Police stand alongside a wrecked car and cases of moonshine in 1922.

A man inspects moonshine confiscated by the Internal Revenue Service at the Treasury Department between 1921 and 1932. stroyed that year. Prices for cotton, the foundation of Georgia’s rural economy, went so low thanks to the Depression and the boll weevil that many farmers went bankrupt. Prices for corn, another staple of the economy, declined so much that some farmers burned corn rather than coal in their stoves.

For them, making moonshine became a matter of survival for their families.

Deep animosity developed between producers and law enforcers, both local and federal, as raids and shootouts were not uncommon.

A cottage industry developed in North Georgia during the Depression and continued through the 1930s

and 1940s “running” white lightning from moonshiners to eager buyers in Atlanta. To avoid being caught by local police, the moonshine was carried in souped up cars – often 1940 Ford Coupes – that could be modified to go up to 180 MPH. High-speed chases took place down Route 9 which became known as Thunder Road. Route 9 passed through Alpharetta, Roswell (Roswell Road) and Sandy Springs on its way to Atlanta. After their mad dashes to Atlanta, runners held races to see whose car was the fastest and a new sport, NASCAR stock car racing, was born.

Local historian Connie Mashburn

tells stories about Alpharetta police who would park their cars on Highway 9 and turn their flashing lights on to divert a speeding runner from the highway to a side street where he would be stopped, boxed in and captured. The police would confiscate the car in front of the courthouse and dump the whiskey into the street. It was not uncommon to see people bring cups to scoop up some of the whiskey. One downtown resident allowed runners to hide cars behind his house until the police gave up the chase. The only way he knew if a runner had been there would be if a gallon of moonshine was on his back porch in the morning.

Local farmer J W Shirley leased his farm in the 1950s and happened to discover a still in his corn crib. He called federal agents and the still was destroyed and the lease was canceled.

The Milton Historical Society will hold its annual Shindig on September 17 at the Wildberry Creek Farm in Milton. Owner Byron Foster will describe the large still that his uncles operated on the farm in the 1930s. Attendees will also see a portable still mounted on a 1929 Model A truck beautifully restored by auto collector David Garmin. For information and tickets go to: home (miltonhistoricalsociety-georgia. org).

Moonshining is one of the most fascinating stories of our local history. It pitted government against its citizens.

It was hot, dirty work and very dangerous. Yet it made a lot of people rich and helped dirt poor farmers survive in extraordinary times. It taught us a lot about human nature.

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

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It became real to me when I was perusing our website, appenmedia.com, and saw the link which said in big bold letters, “SANDY SPRINGS CRIER COMING FALL 2022.”

Appen Media already publishes five weekly newspapers. So, a Sandy Springs Crier would be our sixth and the sister newspaper to the Dunwoody Crier. That would jump our circulation from 93,000 a week to 105,000. Great news for just about any business that considers the booming northside as a key target market.

And what a market it is: Alpharetta, Roswell, Milton, Johns Creek, South Forsyth, Dunwoody, and now Sandy

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“Why would you do this?” I asked him. “Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? Don’t we work hard enough already, and don’t we need to sleep sometime? Shouldn’t we just stay the course and not take risks like this?”

He responded.

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The current against the media today is strong. So many are skeptical and do not trust it. Too many lump all the media into one big basket and discount it all. In fact, many of those who have read this far in my column are saying something snarky to themselves right now about this idea that Appen Media is any different than all the rest, that local media can be important or credible.

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Hunt was released on bond and fled the state. The U.S. Attorney’s Office then obtained an arrest warrant for the federal offense of production of child pornography via a criminal complaint. Hunt was arrested under an alias in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Aug. 30, 2019.

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