Republican Jason Dickerson secured more than 61 percent of the vote Sept. 23 to win the District 21 State Senate race.
Republican wins State Senate seat in special election
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
NORTH METRO ATLANTA, Ga. — A Cherokee County Republican won a crowded special election to replace longtime state Sen. Brandon Beach after his appointment to the office of U.S. treasurer.
Jason Dickerson garnered about 61.5 percent of the vote Sept. 23, beating Democrat Debra Shigley, who received about 38.5 percent. Beach had served as state senator representing District 21 since 2013.
District 21 includes portions of northern Fulton County and much of Cherokee County. The district includes Alpharetta and Milton.
Dickerson, the cofounder of a long-haul transportation company, describes himself as a “political outsider.” His conservative platform
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Three people killed after truck leaves roadway
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene of a single-vehicle wreck Sept. 27 on Matt Highway near Rose Creek Drive.
Three people died in the accident.
The initial investigation reveals a 2014 Ram 5500 was eastbound on Matt Highway and failed to negotiate the left-
hand curve in the roadway. The truck left the roadway and struck a tree and fence.
The driver, 36-year-old Jose Alvarado Macario, was pronounced dead at the scene. Two rear passengers, 24-year-old Abraham Vargas Vargas, 24, and Alberto Rios-Pintoja, 18, both from Cornelia, Ga., also died at the scene.
The sheriff’s report does not include
an address for the driver.
The front passenger sustained injures and was transported to a local hospital.
Dispatchers were alerted to the accident at 5:28 p.m.
This case remains under investigation by the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Traffic Specialist Unit.
A Georgia Tech researcher’s app marks an area where signage could warn drivers
AI app could make curves safer
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Commission is exploring use of a smartphone app that could save lives on county roadways.
In a Sept. 23 presentation about a pilot
study completed in Forsyth County, James Tsai, a Georgia Tech researcher, said his process uses an artificial intelligence app on phones to analyze road signage on bending roadways. Video captured by the app is compared with the phone’s GPS and acceleration and positioning data.
The result identifies stretches of road-
ways that lack proper signage and determines a safe speed of travel.
“We can fix the problem before the next crashes happen,” Tsai said. “Ideally, it will change the whole U.S. and save lives, and I’m glad to work with Forsyth County.”
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Dawsonville man charged with kidnapping, threats
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A 30-yearold Dawsonville man was charged with interfering with a witness after his arrest on a kidnapping charge.
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were dispatched to a Windy Oaks Drive home about 9:30 p.m. Sept. 16 after a woman said her daughter was taken away in a vehicle.
Deputies spoke with the daughter, a 23-year-old Gainesville woman, who said her ex-boyfriend prevented her from leaving his vehicle and drove her more than a mile from the home. The daughter said she had broken up with him Sept. 15 and was talking with him about their relationship before he sped away.
The Gainesville woman said when she tried to open the door to leave, her exboyfriend grabbed her hand and clothing, yelling at her to stay. She also yelled for her mother, who was outside the home.
The Sheriff’s Office said the man drove away with the daughter inside and traveled down Dawsonville Highway before returning her to the home. She said she thought the man was going to kill her because of his aggressive driving.
Deputies arrested the man on felony kidnapping of an adult and misdemeanor simple battery charges.
On Sept. 18, a Forsyth County victim’s advocate told deputies the Gainesville woman had reported receiving threatening phone messages from the man while he was in the county jail.
Deputies listened to recorded jail phone calls in which he threatened to tell a judge about illegal activity the Gainesville woman had been involved with unless his charges were dropped, the Sheriff’s Office said.
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Suwanee man arrested on multiple drug charges
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — A 46-yearold Suwanee driver was arrested on drug charges Sept. 21.
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said deputies stopped the man near Parks Road and Burruss Mill Road after he failed to stop at a stop sign. Deputies noted he was maintaining an inconsistent speed and trying to hide from their view by reclining in his seat.
During the stop, deputies asked the man whether he had taken any drugs. He said he had consumed several energy drinks and had a marijuana pipe in the vehicle.
Deputies searched the man and discovered suspected methamphetamine, which the man said he had found on the ground near a store. Inside the vehicle, they found a small amount of marijuana and a pipe.
The man was charged with felony possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor possession of drug-related objects.
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Douglas County deputy finds Roswell man’s car
ROSWELL, Ga. —The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office discovered an abandoned Ford Fusion Sept. 18 just a couple of days after a Roswell man reported it stolen.
A Roswell police officer said he met with the 46-year-old victim at his residence off Briarstone Ridge Drive Sept. 16 in reference to a prior theft.
The victim said he initially rented one of his vehicles out to a Canton woman in late May but had to replace it with his red 2017 Ford Fusion because of problems with the original car.
The man also said the renter had been making weekly payments but had
missed one Sept. 13. After failing to contact her after a couple of days, he said contacted law enforcement.
Officers said the renter last communicated with the vehicle’s owner Sept. 10 concerning the weekly rental payment. At that time, the renter allegedly told the Roswell man that she would pay a portion of the fee and get the rest to him later.
Officers said they listed the Ford sedan, valued at $15,000, as stolen in a regional crime database and unsuccessfully tried to contact the Canton woman.
According to the report, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office located the vehicle along Twin Oak Drive in Douglasville.
A deputy said the vehicle was in good condition with no keys or suspects found in the vicinity.
The owner met the deputy at the scene and took possession of the vehicle.
The Roswell report does not say whether the Canton woman remains a suspect or if they were able to eventually contact her.
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Tires reportedly stolen at Alpharetta dealership
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Officers investigated a reported theft of vehicle parts at a Mansell Road automobile dealership Sept. 13.
Alpharetta police said officers spoke with an employee, a 59-year-old Gainesville man, who reported four tires were stolen from a pickup truck.
The vehicle was dropped off Sept. 10 for repairs.
The business is protected by gates at night, but a vehicle could have gained access to the property by driving over a curb, the employee said.
The business has no security cameras.
The tires were valued at a total of $12,000.
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Suspect arrested in death of Gwinnett County deputy
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — An off-duty Gwinnett County sheriff’s deputy was found fatally shot at a Forsyth County home Sept. 27.
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office said a resident of the Villages at Shakerag subdivision called 911 about 7:50 p.m. The caller said a juvenile neighbor showed up at her front door, bleeding.
The teenager, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds, said their mother’s boyfriend had shot a gun during an argument with their mother, the sheriff’s office said.
The caller applied pressure to the juvenile’s wounds until emergency personnel arrived. The teen was taken to a local hospital where they were in stable condition as of Sept. 28.
Deputies discovered the mother, a Gwinnett County sheriff’s deputy, dead in an upstairs bedroom.
The sheriff’s office said the suspect, Eric Sumner, a 43-year-old Suwanee man, had left the home before their arrival. Monroe County sheriff’s deputies found the man traveling on I-75, and he was apprehended after a brief chase.
Sumner was charged with murder and two counts of aggravated assault with intent to murder.
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit is leading the investigation.
Sheriff Ron Freeman extended his office’s “deepest condolences” to the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office and thanked Monroe County deputies for their quick response.
“The loss of life to violence is senseless, but the loss of a law enforcement officer should hit home to every one of us in a community,” he said.
Deadline approaches for voters to register for general election
By ZOE SEILER zoe@appenmedia.com
NORTH METRO ATLANTA — Heads up, voters. The deadline to register to vote or change an address is Oct. 6 for the upcoming municipal elections.
Cities across the state will elect their leaders. One statewide race for the Public Service Commission is also on the ballot. Election Day is Nov. 4.
Individuals who are at least 17 1/2 years old, United States citizens, and residents of Georgia and the county in which they live are eligible to register.
Persons cannot register to vote if they are currently serving a sentence for a felony or have been ruled mentally incompetent by a judge.
Voters may fill out a voter registration application and mail the completed and signed application to their county voter registration office.
The application requires a copy of an ID to be included. To view the application, visit https://sos.ga.gov/ sites/default/files/forms/GA_VR_ APP_2019.pdf
Here are the addresses for some local registration offices:
• Forsyth County: Forsyth County Voter Registrations & Elections, 1201 Sawnee Drive, Cumming, GA 30040
• Fulton County: Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, 5600 Campbellton Fairburn Road, Union City, GA 30213
• DeKalb County: Voter Registration & Election, 4380 Memorial Dr., Suite 300, Decatur, GA 30032-1239
Individuals can register online if they have a valid driver’s license or Georgia identification card. To register online, visit https://mvp. sos.ga.gov/s/olvr-home.
According to Fulton County Elections, individuals should receive their precinct card in the mail within three to four weeks after registering to vote.
College students can update their voter registration to their college address. They can also vote absentee and should visit their home county’s voter registration office website for more information.
To check your voter registration status or update your address, visit https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/.
Naturalist details ways to help wildlife in winter
By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Metro Atlantan naturalist and environmental educator Roseanne Guerra kept the Friends of Lost Corner on the edge of their seats Sept. 23 for her seminar, “Falling for Georgia Wildlife.”
A few dozen members of the local nonprofit and a couple of interested residents stopped by Lost Corner Preserve, a 24-acre city park at Brandon Mill and Dalrymple roads, to learn how they can help birds, insects and all wildlife survive winter months.
There’s a lot to explore at the park, including walking trails, champion oak trees, a community garden, native plants and wildlife, Falling Branches Creek and some historical artifacts surrounding the 1850s homestead.
The Friends of Lost Corner brings a variety of nature-focused speakers to the public for free.
“Today, we’re talking about Georgia wildlife in the fall … it’s a time of travel, migration and bodily changes,” Guerra said. “Fall is a time of plenty. Here in the Piedmont region, our main trees are oak, hickory and pine, and they’re making their fruit right now.”
While animals that hibernate are
collecting their food stores for the winter months during the fall, she said it’s best to be patient.
Guerra, who got her college degree in computer programming, said her life changed after taking a master birder class in 2012 with the Atlanta Audubon Society, now called Birds Georgia.
“One of the beautiful things about Atlanta is that we have such great seasons,” she said. “I’m from New Orleans. It’s nice in April and October, and the rest is
horrible weather-wise. I love living here for the reason, and our wildlife reflects that, especially our birds.”
Contrary to a commonly held belief, the naturalist said many birds do not migrate because of colder weather, instead they seek habitats where food remains plentiful.
“If you’re an insect eater, there’s not a lot of bugs to be had in Atlanta in February,” Guerra said. “You’ve got to go to the tropics, if you’re going to eat year-round … same thing with fruit eaters.”
Some of the state’s “resident birds,” which do not migrate, include barred owls, great blue herons, cardinals and bluejays. While hummingbirds and catbirds will head south soon, Georgians can expect to see more sparrow and duck species.
If any Georgians see a hummingbird in their backyard after November 1, Guerra encourages them to report it to the state Ornithological Society. While it’s rare, some Western species make their way to the Southeast.
There are a few migratory animals found in Georgia because of harsh northern winters, including the official state marine mammal of Georgia, the North Atlantic right whale.
“They live in the Arctic [Ocean], but the water is too cold for babies,” Guerra said. “The pregnant females migrate down the east coast of the United States and give birth to their calves off the Georgia coast.”
Because the species is endangered, the state uses helicopters off the coast of Savannah to track their numbers each winter.
In the realm of flying insects, most have seasonal life cycles. Those that migrate include the Monarch butterfly and the Green Darner dragonfly.
Guerra said Georgia wildlife thrives when it has access to native plants,
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Raffensperger returns to roots in campaign stop for governor
By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger stopped by the Rotary Club of Johns Creek-North Fulton Sept. 24 to speak with the community that first elected him to public office.
Raffensperger has announced his run for governor, setting up a competition next fall between high-ranking Republicans Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and Attorney General Chris Carr. Other candidates have announced but that’s the Big Three.
Raffensperger touted his efforts to make Georgia’s election process more secure, reforms to professional licensing services and initiatives to attract advanced manufacturing.
The secretary of state registers voters, tracks annual corporate filings, grants professional licenses, and oversees the state’s securities’ market.
He cited his efforts to build bipartisan trust in Georgia elections, reduce backlogs in professional licensing and hold bad actors accountable for financial misconduct.
“Number one, my focus is going to be creating great paying jobs for Georgians because affordability is something that’s really been a pain point for so many people,” he said.
His other priority is public safety. Raffensperger cited his experience setting a budget for the Johns Creek Police Department during his time on City Council.
“We made sure that we had a fully funded police force and great training and great salaries,” Raffensperger said. “That’s what we need to do up and down the line, so local, state and federal are working together to make sure we can really take a bite out of crime.”
Raffensperger is the state’s 29th secretary of state, winning elections in 2018 and 2022. He entered the national spotlight in 2020 when he resisted pressure from President Donald Trump to find enough votes to swing the outcome of the election.
His pitch to voters is that he is a lifelong conservative Republican who they can trust will tell them the truth.
Raffensperger fielded questions from the media before and after he spoke to the Rotary Club.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Greg Bluestein asked him what his message is to conservative primary voters who view him as not loyal enough to the president or “MAGA enough.”
Raffensperger said he believes the United States should have a secure border, explaining his support of the Trump administration’s shutdown of crossings
without changing any law. He also mentioned the murder of Laken Riley, human and sex trafficking and the death of his son from fentanyl in 2018 as reasons to support a secure national border.
“President Trump wants to bring manufacturing back to America, [and] I just want it to stop here in Georgia,” he said. “That’s what my job will be. How can we reshore industry and bring it back to Georgia? That will create great paying jobs for Georgians.”
When asked what separates him from other Republican candidates, Raffensperger said there are many differences, citing his experience as an entrepreneur and public official.
“I understand what it is to be a small business owner when you have nothing,” Raffensperger said. “The Governor’s Office requires someone who has the executive level of skill to build a big team.”
While his actions during the 2020 election drew the ire of Trump’s base, Raffensperger won by a larger margin in 2022 and without a general runoff election.
Trump endorsed Jones in early August, setting up the lieutenant governor to be a frontrunner for the Republican Party’s nomination.
When asked if Trump’s endorsement makes him concerned about his path to the Governor’s Office, Raffensperger pointed to his track record of expanding his businesses, the need to support local economies and efforts to attract high-paying jobs in manufacturing and technology.
He also discussed some ways to
the federal government under the Biden administration was pumping all those dollars, we had the highest inflation that we’ve ever had in the last 40 years,” he said.
Because many homeowners have seen their property assessments climb significantly in the last five years, Raffensperger said the state needs to cap tax bills.
Last November, voters approved a referendum on House Bill 581 that caps annual property assessments at the inflation rate, which is based on the consumer price index.
Raffensperger said Georgians have not seen their incomes increase with the price of goods and services, which has hurt seniors on fixed incomes the most.
“We need to cap property taxes for seniors,” he said. “Then, we’re going to take a look at some other issues related to that. Stay tuned.”
provide relief for Georgians struggling to afford necessities and bills.
“Coming off that sugar high, when
Fulton County voters will decide Nov. 4 whether to approve new property tax breaks, providing exemptions for some senior homeowners. The proposed reductions in assessed values, each with their own ballot question, are 25 percent for residents age 65 or older and 50 percent for residents over the age of 70.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger listens to comments from members of the Rotary Club of Johns Creek-North Fulton Sept. 24 before discussing ways he has worked to improve the lives of Georgians.
Residents rally against zoning for coffee shop
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Johns Creek residents rallied behind a locally owned emissions testing center after plans were announced to replace it with a chain coffee shop.
At a Sept. 22 Johns Creek City Council meeting, numerous residents spoke out against a proposal to build a Dutch Bros location. The drive-thru shop was proposed for the Rivermont Station shopping mall at Holcomb Bridge Road and Nesbit Ferry Road in the Newtown area.
Residents said they opposed bringing the Dutch Bros to the area because it would threaten Buffalo Emissions, which opened in 2009. Council members unanimously denied a zoning request brought forward by property owner Rivermont Station.
The 950-square-foot Dutch Bros was proposed to feature a covered outdoor patio, pickup window and two drive-through lanes. Rivermont Station planned to demolish the emissions station and an ATM to make way for the coffee shop.
Residents who spoke during the meeting said they had no desire to see the longtime, locally owned business replaced by a national chain. Others said they had concerns about how the shop might increase traffic and affect the community’s character.
John Stroop, an admitted coffee lover, said he worried the Dutch Bros would bring too much traffic to the area,
which he said already is inundated with vehicles.
“That’s going to cause a tremendous traffic congestion around that shopping center,” he said. “I feel like it’s going to endanger motor vehicles. It’s going to endanger the human life of people who are walking.”
The Dutch Bros was expected to generate 358 daily trips on nearby roadways, including 80 during peak morning hours.
Alex Brock, an attorney for Rivermont Station, said the traffic would have been “negligible” considering the number of vehicles already on Holcomb Bridge Road.
The Georgia Department of Transportation estimates about 46,000 daily trips
on Holcomb Bridge Road. Additionally, most customers would have been stopping by on their way to another location, he said.
“Our 358 trips are less than 0.8 percent of the daily trips there,” he said.
Resident Anjali Singh said she decided to speak out against the Dutch Bros because she thought it was important to defend a locally owned business.
“This is about a Johns Creek family,” she said. “I’m here to voice my concern for that locally owned business and that family that will lose their livelihood.”
The area already is host to numerous corporately owned coffee shops and has no need of another, she said.
Another Dutch Bros location is about 5 miles from the proposed site on Holcomb Bridge Road.
Joseph Gudeisky agreed, saying he has appreciated Buffalo Emissions' low prices and friendly service. He said facilitating the closure of a locally owned business sends the wrong message to small businesses in Johns Creek.
“You sit there and wait to get your emissions done and he offers you a bottle of water,” Gudeisky said, adding, “I hope this doesn’t mean trading a business run by one individual for (16) years for a business with (more than a thousand) locations.”
In 2023, residents voiced similar concerns about a plan to construct a Tim Hortons coffee shop at the corner of State Bridge Road and Abberley Lane.
Residents said they were worried the business could contribute to traffic and endanger pedestrians. Others said they were concerned the Tim Hortons could impact already established coffee shops.
During his rebuttal, Brock said the zoning request before the City Council was unrelated to whether Buffalo Emissions will continue to do business at its current location. He also urged the council to consider only the facts as related to the zoning request in making their decision.
“Whether this zoning goes forward or not, one thing is certain, the (Buffalo Emissions) will not be at Rivermont Station shopping center,” he said, adding, “I appreciate he has a loyal customer base, but that should be a nonissue.”
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Buffalo Emissions is located in the Rivermont Station shopping center near Holcomb Bridge at Nesbit Ferry roads.
Area lacrosse talent draws national interest
By ANNABELLE REITER annabelle@appenmedia.com
ALPHARETTA, Ga — With so much elite talent in North Fulton girls lacrosse, it’s no wonder phones were ringing off the hook when midnight struck Sept. 1, opening recruitment for the class of 2027.
Milton High School head coach Tim Godby, who founded the Eagle Stix club lacrosse program which has sent dozens to top 25 Division I colleges, said the club’s growth has helped girls get more opportunities.
“We’ve had players from our program going to top schools for over a decade, and that just helps the younger girls each year,” Godby said. “Once coaches realize that our program produces great talent, then they continue to watch our kids and recruit them.”
Draw specialist and midfielder Caroline Marshall became the third girls lacrosse player from Milton High School to commit to Clemson in the past three years. Marshall is a two-sport athlete in flag football and was runner-up for the Score ATL Player of the Year.
Clemson can’t get enough of the Eagle Stix club program, already having recruited midfielder Ella Pauley (Milton ’25), midfield/attacker Ella Upchurch (Fellowship Christian ’26) and attacker Kylie Waters
(Milton ’26).
Team captain Kayla MacLeod, a 2023 Roswell High School graduate, leads Clemson’s program with 77 goals and pioneered Metro Atlanta’s prominence in the sport. She was on last season’s Tewaaraton Watch List before tearing her ACL ahead of the postseason.
MacLeod’s younger sister Claire, a midfield/attacker at Roswell, committed to Ohio State this month alongside two other Eagle Stix players.
Several pillars of Milton’s defense are set to accompany Claire at Ohio State.
Goalie Alyssa Brackley and defender Jessie DeGroot will also suit up as Buckeyes. Brackley won Goalie of the Year for Georgia’s 5A Division last season.
Attacker Lyla Hale will join them in the Big 10 at the University of Oregon. Hale and the Eagles won their 13th straight state title last year. Milton has played in every championship game since lacrosse became a non-club GHSA sport in 2005.
Five-star defender Braelyn Swanick committed to lacrosse powerhouse Notre Dame as one of the first area players recruited in September.
Both of Milton’s draw specialists in the class of 2027 are off to high-level programs with Lillian Katula committing to the University of Pennsylvania.
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ted to Rutgers University. Modi is the only player on Milton who doesn’t play for Eagle Stix, instead competing with the Long Island Yellow Jackets.
Milton High School has the most Division I girls lacrosse commits in the country with seven.
Adding boys commits, faceoff specialist Andreas Roux (Boston University), goalie Hayden Rogers (Mercer University) and midfielder Jordan Carrasquillo (a third Eagle-turned-Buckeye) pushes the class of 2027 total to double digits.
More than half of the Eagle Stix Blue team for the class of 2027 has already committed to play Division I lacrosse within less than a month of recruitment opening. The Eagle Stix program draws talent from all over the South.
Cambridge defender Abby Johnson is off to the lacrosse hotbed of New England to play for Syracuse University. Johnson and the Bears were the first Georgia team to beat Milton in three years, finishing the season with a 19-2 record.
West Forsyth defender Braylen Schmeelk committed to Arizona State University. West Forsyth, Cambridge and Milton all took home championship trophies last season. Schmeelk and the Wolverines dropped just two games last year, beating Cambridge but losing to Milton.
Johns Creek attacker Sydnee Cane
also heads west to Stanford University. US Club Lacrosse rated Cane a 4.81/5 overall with a perfect 5/5 in athleticism. Cane is a two-sport athlete competing in flag football and lacrosse.
Chattahoochee attacker Sarah Tanner will play for Army at West Point. The military academies are among the most prestigious lacrosse universities.
Another exceptional athlete, Tanner was rated a 4.69/5 by US Club Lacrosse. Tanner also is a two-sport athlete in flag football.
Eagle Stix has 15 players committed to Division I programs, including those outside of Appen Media’s coverage area. North Gwinnett midfielder Marisa Giesler is set to suit up for Coastal Carolina, Wesleyan midfielder Savannah Higgins committed to the University of Michigan and Lassiter draw specialist/attacker Hayden Plomaritis will play for the University of Colorado.
Plomaritis is the most recent Eagle Stix commit as of Sept. 25, but more may follow in the coming weeks.
Eagle Stix White, the program’s secondary 2027 team, already has one commit. Emri Brown of Harrison High School committed to Wofford College. With almost all of the Blue team off the board, Eagle Stix White should be seeing more commits in the coming months.
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The history of peaches and Peachtree streets
Can you guess which city in the United States has more streets with some form of “Peachtree” in its name? If you said Atlanta, you would be correct. The most common count is 71 streets, although that can vary depending on definitions, for example whether authors meant metro Atlanta, the city limits or how they counted slightly different names, for instance Peachtree Road vs. Peachtree Rd NE.
The 71 figure goes back to various publications beginning in a 2009 Estately real-estate blog which told readers they could sort through “the 71 streets, drives, and avenues with the name ‘Peachtree’.” Various searches on my part confirmed that the number is still considered valid. If you wish, add 10 “Peachtree” name variants across Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Roswell and Sandy Springs. Regardless of the number, giving instructions involving Peachtree Street can be a challenge.
Peachtree is also used for various place names: Peachtree Center, Peachtree City, Peachtree Corners, Peachtree Battle, Peachtree Park, Peachtree Hills and more. If one includes subdivisions, apartment complexes, office parks, and shopping centers, the number across Metro Atlanta would number in the hundreds. And, of course, there is the annual Peachtree Road Race.
The reason why Georgia is called the “Peach State” is even more complicated than coming up with a number. After all, Georgia is not the leading producer of peaches. That honor goes to California by far, with South Carolina second. Georgia is generally ranked 3rd or lower, depending on the year used for comparison. Georgians have to be satisfied with the knowledge that our peaches are the sweetest and best tasting, no matter what others might say. Also, “The Peach State” is the only state with “Peach” as part of its slogan. In the early 1900s through the 1950s, Georgia was the leading producer of peaches, but for a number of reasons it has lost first place.
To make matters even more confusing, the word Peachtree, according to some sources, may not refer to a fruit tree at all. That interpretation says the name comes from a Muscogee (also called Creek) settlement called Pakanahuili, which has been trans -
lated to mean Standing Peachtree, the name of a major Creek village in today’s Atlanta, but it has also been translated as “standing pitch tree,” referring to pine trees.
People have been enjoying peaches for a long time. They originated in China about 7,500 years ago. Peaches traveled west on trade routes to Persia, then Europe and eventually to the Americas. China is the world’s leading producer of peaches today. The first peaches in the U.S. were introduced to St. Simons and Cumberland islands in the late 1500s by Franciscan monks. The fruit did well in the rich Georgia soil, but it was the Civil War that launched peaches as a serious crop when soldiers picked the fruit wherever they could find it. Georgia produced a particularly sweet peach, and its reputation as the best peach spread quickly. In 1995, the Georgia Legislature designated the peach as the official state fruit even though “The Peach State” was never formally adopted as the state motto. Fresh Georgia peaches are available from mid-May to August.
The most celebrated street in Atlanta is Peachtree Street which began as a country road in the early 1800s. In her 1936 Civil War romance “Gone with the Wind,” Margaret Mitchell paid tribute to the street. Scarlett O’Hara lived on Peachtree Street after the fall of Atlanta during reconstruction. In real life, Mitchell lived in a modest apartment on Peachtree Street when she wrote the novel and used the street as a symbol of the transformation of the city from antebellum prosperity to postwar reality. Her book was published in 1936 and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. The film debuted in Atlanta on Dec. 15, 1939, an event that drew huge crowds and national attention. In 1940, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Vivien Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel). Clark Gable was nominated for best actor, but he did not win.
The treasured journalist and author Celestine Sibley’s book “Peachtree Street, U.S.A.” was published in 1963. It is her ode to the iconic thoroughfare
and an affectionate portrait of Atlanta. She included personal anecdotes, the city’s history, landmarks, people, Sherman’s march, why people love Atlanta, and many other topics. See my July 2, 2025 column on Celestine Sibley by searching my name on appenmedia.com.
Frank Sinatra co-wrote a song called “Peachtree Street” in 1950 and recorded it as a duet with Rosemary Clooney. Elton John had a home on Peachtree Street in Buckhead from 1991 to 2023 and in 2004 named an album “Peachtree Street.”
There is no doubt that the Peachtree and its luscious fruit are everywhere around us. Names of streets and roads, neighborhoods, events, businesses, brands and more number in the thousands. I believe that is something we can all be proud of.
Bob is director emeritus of the Milton Historical Society and a Member of the City of Alpharetta Historic Preservation Commission. You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net. Bob welcomes suggestions for future columns about local history.
BOB MEYERS
Columnist
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
Postcard of Peachtree Street, Atlanta, issued circa 1930-1945
with each number containing 3 clues for the 3 answers on the line. But here’s the catch! The clues are not in order - so the first clue in Line 1 may (or may not) actually be for the second or third answer in that line. Got it? Good luck!
CRAYOLA COLORS
1. Bullfight bull. Orange yellow. High point.
2. Tall story. Foe. Purple shade.
3. Light shade of blue. Pond organism. Wear away.
4. Way to go. Arab bigwig. Yellowish-green color.
5. Blue-violet color. Persian spirit. Mishmash.
6. Stumble. Deep pink. Religious song.
7. Church part. Squirrel’s stash. Brown with a tinge of red.
1 Bullfight bull. Orange yellow. High point
2. Tall story. Foe. Purple shade.
How to Solve: Each line in the puzzle above has three clues and three answers. The last letter in the first answer on each line is the first letter of the second answer, and so on. The connecting letter is outlined, giving you the correct number of letters for each answer (the answers in line 1 are 4, 5 and 5 letters). The clues are numbered 1 through 7, which each number containing 3 clues for the 3 answers on the line. But here’s the catch! The clues are not in order - so the first clue in Line 1 may (or may not) actually be for the second or third answer in that line. Got it? Good luck!
3. Light shade of blue. Pond organism. Wear away
4. Way to go. Arab bigwig. Yellowish-green color
5. Blue-violet color. Persian spirit. Mishmash.
6. Stumble. Deep pink. Religious song
7. Church part. Squirrel’s stash Brown with a tinge of red.
Appreciating the benefits of seeing clearly
Sometimes a thing has to fall to pieces to set the stage for…well, for what comes next.
It was the fall of a year a long, long time ago. School had started. A young me, ever the good student, had taken a test a couple of days before. The teacher had given the test back to everyone, but she had not given mine back to me.
Instead, I was sitting there, after school, with my mom and the teacher, and they were talking. About me.
“The thing is,” my teacher was saying, “is that even though they’re all wrong, they’re all right too.”
She had written the problems on the board, and I had copied them onto my paper, and I had solved them. I had solved them correctly. But I had copied them wrong. I didn’t know that – I thought I’d faithfully ciphered everything from the communal blackboard to my personal paper.
But I hadn’t. I’d copied everything wrong. A cold stone of fear began to coalesce in my gut. Was I somehow seeing wrong? Oh no.
I wasn’t hearing wrong, though. I was hearing just fine. And I remember what I heard next:
“I think he wrote them down wrong,” the teacher was saying, “because he can’t see the board. I think he needs…”
Oh no…here it comes... “…glasses.”
I remember it like it was an hour ago. Some things you just remember that way.
Why am I thinking about that now? I don’t know. Anyway, I’ve just spent 20 minutes on top of the Temple Mound at Etowah Indian Mounds, a state historic site (and designated National Historic Landmark) located near Carterville, Ga. This elaborate cultural site is home to several earthen mounds built by Native Americans over a period of 500 years or more, starting around 1000 AD.
Who built the mounds? Prevailing wisdom seems to be that this complex was constructed in several phases over several centuries by people “ancestral” to the Muscogee (Creek) tribe. The Creek tribe considers Etowah (Italwa) to be an important part of their heritage. That’s the short version; you’ll learn much more about the site’s history when you visit.
I’ve been exploring slowly at the top of the temple mound, letting my feet go where they will. But it’s hot in the sun. I’m sweating, and sweat had messed up my glasses. I pull ’em off my face and wipe them dry on my shirt and put them back upon my nose, reveling (as I always do when it happens) in how much clearer things look when not seen through a haze of obfuscation.
Done with the top of the mound, I begin the descent down the long, straight flight of steps which had taken me to the top. It’s near closing time, and I know I have to keep it moving. Still, at the bottom, I don’t turn left toward the visitor center but instead turn right toward the Etowah River.
That’s right. I want to see the fish weir that the original residents had built in the river. You know how I am. If it’s “fishing,” I’ve got to check it out.
Ranger Lucy
I walk on, vaguely thankful that I can see clearly through my now-relatively-clean spectacles, and that’s
when I spot Ranger Lucy, a naturalist at the site. She is standing near her truck and looking out toward the river. Maybe toward the fish weir? I hope so, because I don’t really know where it is, and time really is running short.
“If you move slowly,” she says as I approach, “you can see them!”
See what? Fish? No –
“Hummers!” she says.
Ahhh. Hummingbirds!
I walk closer and look. There’s an opening in the undergrowth, a green window of sorts bespeckled in white and yellow-orange flowers. The orange ones, Ranger Lucy adds, are jewelweed – and hummingbirds love jewelweed.
“Are there many?” I ask. “Many hummers?”
There are. Some buzz among the flowers. Others divebomb one another or fight with their beaks in mid-air. Sometimes, when they get tired I guess, they take a break and have a rest on a twig in the nearby tree.
“And if you’re quiet,” Lucy says, “you can hear them twitter.”
I am, and I do, hearing and seeing all with crystalline clarity.
And then, for the briefest of instants, I flash back to those blurry days decades before…blurry days when I wouldn’t have been able to see the birds save as blobs of out-of-focus fuzz…blurry like before the Day of the Glasses, before that day when the lady at the optical shop placed tortoise-shell spectacles onto my elementary school ears and told me how handsome I looked. She was just trying to make me feel better about it all, but I knew that the horrible reality was that I’d be one they called Four Eyes the next day at school. Childhood can occasionally be horrible when you’re a child.
And yet even as I’d sat there waiting for my fate to fall on me, I had glanced through my new glasses and gazed through the nearest window and (HOLY COW!) discovered that trees had individual leaves.
Who would have thought it? Certain not me. Think about that – individual leaves!
And so I’d sat there, mesmerized, seeing trees like I’d never seen them before, reveling in the exquisiteness of it all, seeing clearly at last after all those years.
The residual benefits
As quick as it came, the flashback starts to fade. I shake myself back to the present and just stand there, again as then, watching (sharply and crisply) as dozens upon dozens of little flying jewels go about their business of the day.
“They are neat,” I say to Ranger Lucy. “They are cool.”
But that, she adds, is just the beginning of the show.
“The monarch butterflies will be here soon too,” Lucy says.
Those butterflies will bring even more color to the airspace.
Maybe I’ll have to come back and see that, for those butterflies will bring even more color to this little part of the world.
Yeah! That sounds like fun, and I know who would enjoy seeing them with me. She called a minute ago. She’s fixing supper for us as we speak. I’ll bet she would fix us a picnic to bring, a masterpiece of a meal to share among the hummers and the butterflies.
It will be grand.
And I think: It sure is nice when you can see things clearly. That really can turn life around.
STEVE HUDSON Columnist
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The Temple Mound at Etowah Indian Mounds near Cartersville is designated a National Historic Landmark.
Curves:
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The data collected should also make it easier for the county to secure transportation grant funding, he said.
Forsyth County has identified 10 roadways with a need for safety improvements, which were then analyzed by the app. Researchers traveled the roadways, gathering data.
Tsai said he focused on curves because they are especially dangerous for motorists, and current methods for adding safety features are outdated.
In the U.S., about 25 percent of crashes occur on curves, which account for about 5 percent of highway miles. Current methods for assessing curves rely on manual tools like a device that measures the grade of a curve with a ball inside a tube filled with liquid. Using those mechanical devices is labor-intensive and costly, Tsai said.
About 75 percent of curve-related
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supports eliminating state income taxes, securing state elections, defending the Second Amendment and deporting immigrants who have entered the country illegally.
Dickerson declared victory on his Facebook page, thanking those who supported him and saying his win signals voters are “ready for politics without politicians.”
“I’m honored and deeply humbled
Wildlife:
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which they have evolved alongside. While homeowners typically try to avoid them, dead trees, brush piles and leaf litters are crucial for native wildlife during the colder seasons.
Volunteer programs coordinator Ellen Fenoglio regularly invites naturalists, Master Gardeners and educators to share their depth of knowledge during seasonal offerings.
A variety of nature-focused subjects are brought to the public for free in the historic cottage restored by the City of Sandy Springs.
The next lecture, “Leave the Leaves,” is Oct. 11 at 7 p.m. and focuses on why leaf litter in our yards is important to our wildlife.
Neighborhood residents Cheryl Barlow and Trisha Thompson Fox created Friends
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James Tsai, Georgia Tech researcher, explains to the Forsyth County Commission how artificial intelligence could make roads safer for motorists during a Sept. 23 work session.
fatal crashes involve single vehicles leaving the roadway and striking trees, utility poles, rocks or other fixed objects, the Federal Highway Administration said.
by the trust voters have placed in me to represent their values in the state Senate,” Dickerson said. “This campaign was never about titles or political games — it was about bringing our conservative common sense to the Gold Dome. Georgians want real-world solutions rooted in faith, family and freedom — and that’s exactly what I’ll deliver.”
Dickerson beat five other Republicans in an August primary that included former Alpharetta City Councilman Brian Will. Will garnered about 10.3 percent of the vote.
Dickerson’s win over Shigley was by a margin narrower than Beach’s 2024
of Lost Corner as a grassroots nonprofit in 2011, after becoming friends with the property’s previous owner, Peggy Miles.
The pair worked to fulfill Miles’ desire to preserve her family’s land for community use after she passed in 2008. The Trust for Public Land and the city then partnered to purchase the site, fulfilling her wish that everyone would be able to
Tsai categorized his analysis as a pilot program and said it could be expanded county use.
Assistant Director of Engineering Tim Allen said the artificial intelligence app could help county transportation staff identify dangerous areas on roadways where signage has been knocked down or not present.
“All of our sign guys will be able to run this app going down the road, so they can see real-time if there is an issue and go ahead and fix it,” Allen said.
The app could be provided to other county employees, such as sheriff’s deputies, while conducting other business on the roadway. The app could allow for passive data collection, building a database for later use.
Tsai said he is working on similar projects looking at other safety features, such as rumble strips and guardrails. Videos collected by the app for curve analysis could potentially be used for those and other applications, he said.
victory over Democrat Lillia Lionel, who received about 29.7 percent.
Senate Minority Leader Harold Jones said he was proud of Shigley’s campaign, noting the traction she had with voters.
“Her message and vision for a better future for working Georgians was clear, and the energy behind her campaign showed how much that vision resonated with v oters,” Jones said. “This was a busy field with many well-funded candidates, and while today did not turn out how we hoped, the effort from the Shigley campaign cannot be overlooked.”
experience her slice of paradise at Lost Corner.
The Sandy Springs Recreation and Parks Department installed trails, implemented security measures and built the parking lot. The park officially opened on March 17, 2016.
To view upcoming programs, visit friendsoflostcorner.org.
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