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Tax levy hearings draw mixed input
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The City of Johns Creek is proposing a property tax rate for 2025 that maintains the current assessment of 3.646 mills.
The City Council held the first two of three public hearings on the millage rate at 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. July 14. Council members will take a final vote to set the rate at a regularly scheduled meeting July 28 following a final public hearing that night.
The levy of 3.646 mills has been maintained since 2023.
By law, the rate represents a tax increase because the city will be receiving more revenue from new construction and the growth in value of existing properties.
To keep revenues flat, the city would have to adopt a “rollback rate” of 3.492 mills.
One mill generates $1 for every $1,000 of a property’s taxable value, which by state law is 40 percent of a property’s real — or fair market — value. A home that is worth $100,000 on the market would have a taxable value of $40,000, and a levy of 1 mill would cost the homeowner $40 in taxes.
See LEVY, Page 21
Cities join Milton in bid to reverse law suit decision
By SARAH COYNE sarah@appenmedia.com
MILTON, Ga. — More than 61 cities have signed onto a friend of the court brief supporting the City of Milton in a $35 million wrongful death lawsuit.
The joint amicus brief, or letter of support, comes as the Georgia Supreme Court is poised to review the case sometime in late October.
The case is Chang v. City of Milton.
On Nov. 18, 2016, Josh Chang, a Yale University student, was killed in a
single-car accident after his car struck a concrete planter on the shoulder of Batesville Road in Milton.
Chang’s parents sued the city for wrongful death and won after a Fulton County State Court jury ruled in their favor, ordering the city to pay more
than $32.5 million in damages. According to the ruling, the court found enough evidence of negligence and cited inconsistent testimony on the part of Milton.
See DECISION, Page 21
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The Johns Creek City Council convenes at a July 28 meeting after two public hearings on the proposed property tax rate for 2025.
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Multiple car burglaries reported in neighborhood
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Police responded to multiple reports of car burglaries on Amberleigh Way in Johns Creek July 8.
At approximately 7 a.m., police responded to a found property call. Officers discovered a brown wallet, five credit cards, an Apple AirTag and a driver’s license in the road. Police went to the address on the license and found a Nissan Pathfinder with the rear door opened. Police found the resident and returned the wallet.
Thirty minutes later, officers observed a blue Volvo with the driver’s side door open on Amberleigh Way. The glovebox and center console were both open, but nothing was missing.
The last report came in at approximately 8:20 a.m. A man told police that when he entered his car, he noticed the contents of his glove box and center console in his driver’s seat. He stated that the only thing taken was a bag containing $5 in quarters.
— Sarah Coyne
Man reports damage to truck parked on curb
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — A man reported his car damaged and burglarized on Sweet Creek Road in Johns Creek July 8.
The man said he’d parked his truck on the curb in front of the home at 6 p.m. and returned to it the next morning at 7:30 a.m. to find the left driver side window shattered. Someone had rummaged through the glove compartment.
Surveillance footage showed two black sedans pull in front of the house. In the footage, police could hear the win-
dow shatter and the car’s alarm go off.
The scene was handed over to crime scene investigators.
— Sarah Coyne
Copper wiring stolen from vacant retail site
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Police received a report June 30 of about $20,000 in copper wiring stolen from a vacant North Point area retail space.
The property manager said he noticed on June 26 the building, which was being renovated, had been burglarized.
A lock on a side door was broken. Copper wires from fuse boxes and conduits were cut and taken. Investigators searched for fingerprints.
The incident was classified as a felony burglary of a business.
— Jon Wilcox
Home improvement store thwarts attempted theft
ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell police are investigating an attempted theft of around $4,000 in merchandise from a home improvement store off Holcomb Bridge Road July 9 after loss prevention stopped a patron at checkout.
The caller told an officer that the suspect attempted to conceal merchandise totaling $3,958 from a cashier. The employee said the cashier saw the customer attempt to conceal items in her cart by arranging the merchandise to hide more expensive goods.
When the cashier attempted to scan the items, the woman told him that she no longer wanted to purchase them.
The suspect is described as Romanian female with blonde hair, wearing a blue and white sundress. The employee said she left the store on foot toward Holcomb Bridge Road.
The officer said store employees reported the incident because of an ongoing shoplifting issue at several
Metro Atlanta locations.
One employee said the same female suspect attempted to shoplift from a store in Greenville, South Carolina, using the same method.
— Hayden Sumlin
Money left at poolside reported stolen from bag
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A 45-year-old Cartersville woman reported $2,000 stolen while staying at a hotel on Haynes Bridge Road July 4.
Alpharetta police said officers were dispatched to the scene about 6 p.m.
After spending a day at the pool, the woman returned to her room to take a nap. After waking, she realized she had left two envelopes of the money in a bag at the pool.
She found the bag but failed to locate the envelopes after going to the pool to retrieve the money.
The hotel had no cameras in the pool area and declined to provide recordings in the building without a subpoena.
The incident was classified as a felony theft by taking, greater than $1,500.
— Jon Wilcox
Visitor reports fraud totaling close to $4,000
ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell police met with a 26-year-old man from Clarksville, Tennessee, July 8 after he reported falling victim to a deceptive and fraudulent scheme.
The victim told officers at Roswell Police Headquarters that he was visiting a friend from out of town and staying at an Airbnb within the city. He said he was deceived into transferring $3,469.55 into a fraudulent account, given to him by an unidentified suspect.
The police report said the incident remains under investigation, and a supplemental report from the Criminal Investigations Division that might have provided more detail was omitted.
— Sarah Coyne
Republic Service union members vote to strike
Alpharetta: Residents will not be impacted
By SARAH COYNE sarah@appenmedia.com
ALPHARETTA, Ga. — A threatened strike by Teamsters Union Local 728 could leave thousands of Alpharetta residents without trash and recycling service.
City officials say there is no cause for concern and that, “no changes to service are expected.”
Since July 8, dozens of sanitation workers who do waste collection for Republic Services went on strike in front of the Cumming Republic Services facility complaining of unfair labor practices.
The picketers are responsible for resi-
dential waste collection in Alpharetta and commercial and industrial waste collection for Forsyth, Fulton and Cherokee counties. Teamsters Local 728 Business Agent Eric Massaro said 22,000 Alpharetta residents could be affected.
The 32 Cumming workers join 500 union members on strike, including in Boston and Illinois, who are fighting for improvements in compensation and working conditions.
“The company made unilateral changes, and they did not bargain with the union,” Massaro said.
While the local picketers cite unfair labor practice for the strike, many others across the country are on strike for contract expiration.
Massaro said that they are currently negotiating for a new contract, which
expired April 1. Negotiations are set for the end of July.
“I guess they’re just not serious right now,” he said.
The union members plan to remain on strike for at least two more weeks. Massaro said that they will be on the picket line for as long as it takes.
“The garbage really won’t be overflowing until probably next week,” he said.
The City of Alpharetta posted in a statement on Facebook that officials are aware of the issue and are actively working with Republic Services to understand the situation. The post states that residents should continue to place bins on the curb on their collection day and leave them until they are collected.
Teamsters
work as waste collectors for Republic Services strike in front of the Cumming Republic Services facility July 10 citing unfair labor practices. See STRIKE, Page 21
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Sandy Springs used cameras to assist ICE, data shows
By CARL APPEN carl@appenmedia.com
SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs Police have used the city’s contracts with a data collection firm to assist the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration investigations, according to public records and interviews with agency officials.
The practice of local agencies using Flock on behalf of federal partners in this fashion was first reported by 404 Media in May.
Data obtained through public records requests, “shows more than 4,000 nation and statewide lookups by local and state police done either at the behest of the federal government or as an ‘informal’ favor to federal law enforcement, or with a potential immigration focus,” the outlet reported.
Included in that group of assisting agencies was the Sandy Springs Police Department, according to a review of the data by Appen Media.
As with most neighboring cities, Sandy Springs uses products from Flock Safety, an automated license-plate reader (ALPR) and security software company based in Atlanta. Police departments use ALPRs to identify and log vehicles moving through town, framing the tools as a way to investigate criminal activity.
For example, agencies can maintain a
“hotlist” of reportedly stolen vehicles and receive alerts if cameras spot them.
Law enforcement can also perform searches of identifying information – such as license plate numbers or descriptions – to help locate vehicles they suspect are connected to criminal activity. When departments make these queries, they can search certain databases of other agencies as well, tapping into a nationwide network of sources.
The Flock system, “is trusted by more than 5,000 communities across the country,” according to the company. That number includes all 10 of the cities and counties Appen Media covers in north Metro Atlanta.
The surveillance technology is big business.
The City of Sandy Springs alone spent more than $400,000 with Flock in 2024, according to public records obtained by Appen Media.
According to 404 Media, DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not have its own contract with Flock. If ICE wants to investigate something using the national network of data, they must get another agency that pays for the service to do it on their behalf.
Data at the source of the reporting came from a police department in Danville, Illinois.
The agency had given researchers a
copy of their Flock “Network Audit,” which is a record of each time another department searched Danville’s data.
When law enforcement performs searches in Flock they must record a reason for the query.
Appen Media identified 10 searches Sandy Springs police made of Danville’s network for “ero,” or ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, in March.
When asked about the queries, Sandy Springs officials told Appen Media they were not aware of any recent assistance the department had given for ERO efforts.
Police representatives said the officer recorded as making the searches is a detective assigned to the department’s FBI task force. They added that Flock inquiries, “are conducted within policy during various criminal investigations, drug investigations and locating wanted individuals.”
As with other local departments, Sandy Springs assigns officers to standing groups that partner with federal law enforcement agencies. SSPD says they have personnel on task forces with the FBI, DHS’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Appen Media asked why it would be the FBI attachment, and not the HSI detective, assisting with removal operations considering ICE falls under Homeland Security.
Police representatives said they were unsure but suggested it could be part of a joint operation.
FBI officials told Appen Media that the Atlanta office has been working with DHS on immigration operations since the end of January, “which includes assigning a number of our special agents to work with them daily.”
“That assistance requires providing investigative and technical support to HSI with the resources that we and our partners have access to,” they said.
FBI officials said they could not speak to the specifics of the Sandy Springs officer’s use of Flock other than the general nature of collaborative work.
“We approach public safety as a collaborative effort, using all available law enforcement tools and resources to achieve the common goal of removing violent offenders from our streets,” they offered.
Following 404 Media’s reporting, Flock began to dampen the system’s data-sharing functions. The company stopped agencies from searching the camera networks of departments inside Illinois, California and Virginia.
In a June statement CEO Garret Langley wrote that the burden is on law enforcement to use the software responsibly: “The point is: it is a local decision. Not my decision, and not Flock’s decision.”
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Sandy Springs outpaces area cities in police pursuits
By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
NORTH METRO ATLANTA — The Sandy Springs Police Department has a more aggressive vehicle pursuit policy than surrounding jurisdictions, leading to more high-speed chases and risky maneuvers to stop suspects.
In 2024, Sandy Springs officers engaged in more than twice the number of car chases than police in Alpharetta, Dunwoody and Roswell combined, according to interviews and an analysis by Appen Media.
Law enforcement officials agree that the decision to pursue fleeing motorists is a balancing act; departments must weigh the risk for officers, suspects and bystanders against the danger of not apprehending the suspect at that time.
How Sandy Springs police make that calculation is what sets them apart from neighboring cities.
Guidance from the Department of Justice in 2023 recommends that pursuits should take place when two conditions are met, “(1) A violent crime has been committed and (2) the suspect poses an imminent threat to commit another violent crime.”
The DOJ report also recommends law enforcement officials set policies for their departments that detail the requirements to initiate a pursuit, how to evaluate whether it should continue and instructions on documenting incidents.
Sandy Springs’ policy says the goal of a pursuit is to reduce the danger to the public by stopping a fleeing vehicle as soon as possible. Neighboring police departments have different philosophies.
Alpharetta, Roswell and Dunwoody policies prohibit officers from pursuing vehicles based on traffic charges alone. Following the DOJ’s direction, Alpharetta and Roswell also say pursuits should be avoided if it’s evident the suspect could be apprehended at a later time.
Sandy Springs relies on a more situational approach, allowing pursuits based on the “totality of circumstances.”
In 2024, Alpharetta reported five police pursuits, Roswell documented 10 and Dunwoody logged two.
Sandy Springs officers engaged in at least 41 car chases in 2024, according to an Appen Media analysis.
That’s up from 2023, when Sandy Springs reported 17 pursuits.
Major policy change
Department officials attributed the rise to a “major policy change” in 2024.
The new, amended policy allows for more discretion or freedom for officers, allowing them to pursue a fleeing vehicle if they have reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed or is about to occur.
Available data on the pursuits are scant.
Of the 41 chases identified by Appen Media, the city provided Vehicle Pursuit Reports on 13.
It withheld the remaining documents, saying the underlying cases were pending investigation.
In the 13 provided reports, there were a range of suspected crimes at the pursuits’ inception, from speeding and improper license plates to outstanding warrants and armed robbery.
Officers caught and arrested suspects in about half the cases. The others got away.
Sandy Springs officers conducted PIT, box-in or other forced termination techniques in at least 12 of those pursuits.
A PIT, or precision immobilization technique, is a method used by law enforcement to make contact with a vehicle, forcing it to abruptly turn 180 degrees and stall.
Alpharetta, Roswell and Dunwoody officials told Appen Media they conducted zero forced termination maneuvers in 2024.
“I can’t remember the last time we did a PIT,” Alpharetta Police Captain J. Braithwaite said.
Appen Media asked Sandy Springs Police spokesman Sgt. Leon Millholland why the department has a more aggressive pursuit policy than surrounding cities.
“We’re not going to tolerate crime in the city. We have the support from our city officials, and the chief wants crime delt with,” Millholland said.
balance the need to pursue against all known or apparent risks posed to the general public.”
In July 2024, two Sandy Springs officers pursued a vehicle into the City of Roswell. One officer drove off the road, disabling his vehicle, attempting to make a turn at 80 mph. A second officer negotiated the turn, but the police supervisor canceled the pursuit.
Meanwhile, another officer, just off duty, had turned around on his way home to join the pursuit, at one point reaching speeds of 87 mph on Riverside Drive, 88 mph on Dunwoody Place and 93 mph on Roswell Road.
He continued on the chase for another 30 seconds after the pursuit was canceled, according to the department’s analysis of the incident.
“That’s where it comes from, its leadership. The citizens of Sandy Springs … we continually hear that’s what they want.”
Appen Media published two stories in December 2024 and January 2025 about the Sandy Springs Police Department conducting high-speed chases on state highways and interstates and executing PIT maneuvers.
The Sandy Springs Police Department has posted footage of some its pursuits, ending in box-ins or PIT maneuvers on its Facebook page.
Most comments show support for the officers’ actions and the department’s policies.
Others bring up the danger posed to bystanders and the public.
Risks of injuries
The DOJ’s report cited, “there were two serious injuries and 10 minor injuries for every 100 pursuits,” from 2009 to 2013.
Hugh Clements, director of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, said high-speed chases should not be a routine part of law enforcement work.
“The safety of fleeing suspects, their passengers, pursuing officers and uninvolved bystanders are too important to risk on a regular basis,” Clements wrote. “But there are times when the importance of apprehending the suspect in a timely manner means that pursuit is necessary despite these dangers.”
The Sandy Springs Police Department’s policy states “officers who engage in vehicle pursuits must continually
In that report, the department critiqued two additional officers who responded to the scene despite being “not within the vicinity of the pursuit.” One of those officers were clocked at 124 mph on Ga. 400. The other officer, a detective, reached a speed of 90 mph and continued with emergency equipment on for 21 seconds after the supervisor’s cancelation announcement.
The vehicle escaped.
Another pursuit in December over a broken tag light ended in two PIT maneuvers conducted in an apartment complex parking lot off Cimarron Parkway. Police Chief DeSimone ruled the officer’s actions were “unnecessary PIT attempt and not within policy.”
Pursuit training delayed
Sandy Springs schedules pursuit trainings for its officers every two years to keep up with legal updates and changes in techniques or vehicles, Police Sgt. Millholland said.
“It’s not a recertification; it’s a refamiliarization because we’re not required by law to be certified in PIT maneuvers,” Milholland told Appen Media. “The training that we do every two years is a brief familiarization [with] any legal updates, any change in techniques or that have been discovered, or any change in vehicles, you know, anything that needs to be addressed.
Because of an increase in mandated training hours from 400 to 800, Millholland said Sandy Springs is still attempting to schedule its “refamiliarization” at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) in the city of Forsyth.
“Right now, our training division is reaching out, and they’ve got a couple of possibilities going right now,” Millholland said. “We will get this scheduled second half of this year to do this refamiliarization … it’s in the process of being scheduled.”
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Sandy Springs performed a PIT intervention technique on a Dodge Challenger on the Glenridge Connector January 2.
‘A total screwup’
Forsyth County officials decry process for new administrative center
By JON WILCOX jon@appenmedia.com
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — Two Forsyth County officials involved with buying land for a new administrative building say the county overlooked more appropriate sites for the project.
The county instead chose a site outside the city limits of Cumming, the county seat, where state law requires county commissioners to take official votes.
County officials were unaware of the requirement when they approved the purchase.
Former County Commissioner Cindy Jones Mills, who was involved with the purchase, described it as a planning failure on the part of county officials.
“What a total screwup,” Mills said. “Instead of just being open and honest, (they) try to convince people it’s not that big of a deal.”
The new administration building is now under construction on Freedom Parkway near Ga. 400. State law will require commissioners to ratify their votes in the current County Administration Building in downtown Cumming following meetings at the Freedom Parkway facility.
County Manager David McKee said officials learned of the law sometime after the $5.4 million purchase of the property in 2021 and approval of construction contracts in 2024.
He said the commission’s ability to vote in the new building is insignificant when considering its purpose.
“This is an administration building. It’s not a Board of Commissioners building,” McKee said, adding, “It’s such a small portion of this building.”
Its purpose is primarily to serve as a unified center for the county’s administration and departments as they continue to grow to meet residents’ demand for services.
Before purchasing the land on Freedom Parkway, a selection process reviewed a half dozen semifinalist contenders before narrowing those down to several. County officials were looking for property with ample size and proximity to Georgia 400 for ease of access, among other criteria, McKee said.
Commissioner Todd Levent and Mills said they recommended sites within the City of Cumming.
Levent said he suggested a roughly 30acre property already owned by the county. Mills said she also brought forward suitable locations within the city that would have promoted walkability. In total,
she said the county considered at least five tracts within Cumming.
She also said the county could have negotiated use of Cumming City Hall right across the street from the current administration building.
“I had brought all these different properties, and they had all been shot down,” Mills said. “They were never seriously looked at.”
In April 2021, the County Commission, which then included Mills and Levent, unanimously approved purchase of the Freedom Parkway land.
“I didn’t understand when we were buying that that was an issue,” Levent said. “And I already knew they had their votes, that they were going to buy it no matter what.”
At a January 2024 meeting, commissioners said they recently learned of the law forbidding official action at the site.
“I don’t know why we are taking votes on a building to spend $114 million, and we have already bought the property at another astronomical price,” Mills said at the January 2024 meeting. “We never had permission to move and take votes on that property.”
At the same meeting, Levent pointed out the county had passed on a 33-acre tract within city limits.
“We still own that land,” he said. “It’s still sitting there if we want to put it there and not worry about what the state law does or does not do.”
In December 2024, Cumming officials approved a resolution opposing the county’s attempts to change state law so commissioners could operate and vote at the Freedom Parkway site. Since then, attempts to change state law have stalled.
“Our local legislators have made it pretty clear that they need some agreement between the city and county before they’ll consider local legislation that affects both,” McKee said.
Forsyth County is currently in discussions with the City of Cumming to find a solution, he said.
In the meantime, McKee said he thinks the building will offer enormous benefits to county operations, providing opportunities for interdepartmental collaboration and efficiency.
It also will feature advanced meeting rooms and a state-of-the-art energy management system that could reduce costs.
He touted the funding of the project, accomplished without borrowing money, as an enormous success.
“I think of what I do as a business… We’re building our corporation a new corporate headquarters,” he said. “We’re not charging another dollar for our widget. We’re not borrowing. We’re not indebting our company, and we’ve delivered a new corporate headquarters to sustain us for the next 50 to 75 years.”
The site of Forsyth County’s new administrative campus is outside the Cumming city limits. Because state law requires county governments to make votes inside the county seat, county commissioners must travel back to Cumming in order to ratify their actions.
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Empty nester creates her own community boutique
By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com
DUNWOODY, Ga — Nida Mudd has slowed down enough now to talk about her new retail business.
“In May of 2024, I was very deep into trying to get everything set up … it couldn’t have been a busier time in my life,” Mudd said. “I do feel like someone above was definitely helping me get to where I am today because I couldn’t have done it without my friends and, you know, some outside force helping me.”
Judy & Grace Boutique is a new women’s fashion destination within the Shops of Dunwoody in the Village on the west side of Chamblee Dunwoody Road.
Nida Mudd and her husband Todd met as college students at Mizzou, the University of Missouri. They have lived on the Dunwoody-Sandy Springs border for more than three decades, sending their four children to Saint Jude the Apostle Catholic Church and then the Marist School.
“When my oldest child was going into his senior year, I had decided, ‘you know what, I think I’m going to stop working altogether and just pursue the mommy track,’” she said. “But what I found is that I was just busier than ever working on things for the school, you know, doing various things on various boards.”
The idea for a boutique came a couple of years ago when her youngest child and only daughter, Mattie Grace, was a junior in high school.
“I was just reflecting and thinking to myself, ‘what am I going to do next?’ I’m kind of a worker person,” she said. “I’m not a sit around at home, cleaning … you know, just domestic. That just wasn’t in my blood.”
Preserving family names
Nida said the name of the boutique honors the two most important women in her life: her mother, Judy, and Mattie Grace. After giving her a little seed
money for the business, Nida said she decided to put her mother’s name in the store.
“She’s in her mid-80s, and I know that there’s going to be a day that she’s not going to be with me,” Nida said. “I wanted her name in my store name in order to for me to remember her always.”
Nida said Judy & Grace Boutique is geared toward women with a “stylish, timeless and fabulous” vibe.
Mudd approached her husband,
Todd, with the idea of opening a boutique, and he suggested she first get some experience working in a store. So, she approached the owner of Nancy’s Boutique, which she frequently patronized, with an offer of working as a substitute employee without pay.
“I started subbing at Nancy’s for a little bit,” Nida said. “After working there for three or four months, I decided ‘you know what, this is something I would like to pursue.’”
Nancy’s Boutique closed its doors
when the owner retired amid health concerns in January 2024, leaving Nida without someone experienced to bounce ideas off of.
“I don’t know how I did it, now that I’m talking to you about it, I honestly am not sure how it all happened,” she said. “I hired a couple of consultants, [and] they became my friends… and I couldn’t have done all that because I had really had no idea.”
See BOUTIQUE, Page 9
JANE KONG PHOTOGRAPHY/PROVIDED
The team at Judy & Grace Boutique gathers behind the checkout counter Feb. 26 during the grand opening of the women’s fashion destination. From left, Judy & Grace Boutique owner Nida Mudd is all smiles with her six employees Angie Houghton, Sue Benedikt, Karen Oates, Susan DiChiara, Patricia Seimetz, Mary Peterka and Jennifer Morris.
Boutique:
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While she didn’t have retail experience, her career background is in sales and marketing. Nida said she was extremely busy buying fixtures, hiring people and selecting inventory in the first half of 2024.
“I had inventory, but having to steam [out wrinkles in] the inventory, unbox it, count it, put it into a system, find a pointof-sale system, purchase one, print the prices and stick them on all the clothing,” she said. “I mean, if you can just think of that process, I knew none of it.”
Finding the right spot
Nida said she was eyeing a lease of Nancy’s former space for her own shop, but the popular chain Summit Coffee was a more attractive tenant to the shopping center’s leasing team.
The popular coffee spot has been a boon for surrounding businesses at the Shops of Dunwoody with increased foot traffic, Nida said.
Last April, she signed a lease of 1,250 square feet between Palm Beach Tan and the Dunwoody Tavern.
“I don’t like to take no for an answer, and I’m willing to take on a challenge,” Nida said. “If I don’t know something, I’m going to do what I can to try to learn about it. A lot of it is just my girlfriends just being there and saying, ‘you can do this and let’s do it.’”
After a soft opening in November
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2024, the boutique had its official grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony with Dunwoody officials and community leaders in late February.
When Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch asked her if she was a city resident, Nida said they had a laugh because technically her home is in Sandy Springs. However, Nida identifies as a Dunwoodian.
“What’s so funny is that Dunwoody incorporated after I moved here,” she said. “So, when I moved here, I was technically in Dunwoody … it’s just where they drew the line.”
Monsignor Joe Corbett from Saint Jude the Apostle Catholic Church and Rabbi Brian Glusman from the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta gave blessings at the ribbon-cutting at Nida’s invitation.
She said there’s no other place she would have raised her children than Central Perimeter. Her identity is intertwined with her church community, friends throughout Dunwoody and work with a local Jewish educational nonprofit.
Judy & Grace Boutique invites Metro Atlanta women to visit and enjoy a warm, welcoming atmosphere with a “girlfriend vibe” that sets the tone for shopping.
The boutique is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., or by appointment.
For more information, contact the store at 770-680-5213 or visit judyandgraceboutique.com/home.
For the latest updates, visit @judyandgraceboutique on Instagram.
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Pep rallies scheduled to ring in fall classes
FULTON CO. — Fulton County Schools is kicking of the new school year with its annual pep rally July 26.
Going on its ninth year, First Day Fulton, plans to get students and families ready for the school year through a fun and free pep rally. The resource fair will provide students with school and district information, onsite student registration, meal information, bus transportation schedules, health screenings, community services, free school supplies including backpacks, DJ entertainment and giveaways.
"We are excited about the upcoming school year and can't wait to welcome our students," Fulton County Schools Superintendent Mike Looney said. "This is our gift to the community to help kids, and their families start the year strong."
The pep rally will take place from noon to 4 p.m. at Riverwood International Charter School and Georgia International Convention Center.
To learn more and book an appointment for onsite student registration, visit fultonschools.org.
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Water conservation method pays homeowner dividends
By SARAH COYNE sarah@appenmedia.com
ROSWELL, Ga. — Community members along with 25 rain barrels rolled into the Bill Johnson Community Active Building at Roswell Area Park for a workshop July 12.
The free workshop coordinated by the City of Roswell, Keep Roswell Beautiful, Fulton County and the City of Alpharetta invited community members to come out and learn about the benefits of rain barrels.
City of Roswell Environmental Education Coordinator Liberti Gates helped host the event to educate the attendees about the conservation method.
Gates said that the goal of the workshops is to teach attendees how to install the barrels and why they’re so important.
“Water is a very important resource, but it is finite,” Gates said.
The Environmental and Public Works department staff chose to collaborate on the workshop to promote environmental stewardship and the importance of conservation.
Rain barrels collect rainwater from rooftops via gutters or downspouts. While the water is not potable, the collection can be used for watering
yards, plants and gardens.
“This water is coming from the sky anyways, so why not use it,” Gates said.
Twenty-five people attended the class.
Keep Roswell Beautiful board member Rip Campbell said he was happy to find out that there was a waitlist.
“I think it's because we partnered with Fulton County, and we're grateful for that relationship, too,” he said.
The group, actively looking for new members, cultivates environmental stewardship within the community.
The rain barrel workshop is just one of the many ways the group educates the community.
The attendees were given barrels, an installation kit and a presentation on the water conservation method.
Keep Roswell Beautiful board member Nancy Womack helped round up the barrels through her employer, Greif. In between orders for customers, the company creates swirl barrels, which are the incorrect colors. The imperfect barrels are donated to Keep Roswell Beautiful and the city.
Those who were unable to attend the workshop can purchase a rain barrel and kit for $65 at keeproswellbeautiful.org.
SARAH COYNE/APPEN MEDIA City of Roswell Environmental Education Coordinator Liberti Gates teaches community members about rain barrels at a workshop in the Bill Johnson Community Active Building at Roswell Area Park July 12.
Northern Ridge District welcomes June Eagle Scouts
ALPHARETTA, Ga.— The Northern Ridge Boy Scout District (cities of Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton) is proud to announce a new round of Eagle Scouts who completed their Eagle Board of Review June 26 at Alpharetta Presbyterian Church.
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Ronak Nambiar, of Troop 69, sponsored by Alpharetta First United Methodist Church. His project was the renovation of the outdoor space at Alpharetta Presbyterian Church by cleaning, pressure washing, and repainting the gazebo and three wooden benches, refurbishing the outdoor
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plastic furniture, designed, constructed and installed a Little Free Library, adding mulch and flowers to garden beds, pathways, and dry patches and installed a raised and bordered pathway stones with mulch to improve accessibility and safety.
Samuel Haydock, of Troop 1134, sponsored by St. Peter Chanel Catholic Church. His project was the design and construction of a large rolling bin for collecting used and worn US Flags for a retirement ceremony, the collection of 23 worn flags, and then holding a retirement ceremony for these flags, on behalf of Saint Ann’s Catholic Church in Marietta.
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Wait, so you’re saying I have slug bacteria on my face from kissing my new boyfriend
Nemaslug® is a snail and slug pest-control product sold in England and Canada but not available in the United States. I first learned about this product while investigating a skin infection of a patient, and what I learned emphasizes that our connections with our creepy crawly garden neighbors are a little too close for comfort.
ella osloensis (M. osloensis). We were prepared to prescribe an oral antibiotic, but she was asymptomatic with the lesion having resolved with topical therapy.
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A female in her early 20s presented to clinic with a sore on her face that had been present a few days. It was solitary, several millimeters in size and did not seem like a lesion typical of acne. She was prescribed hydrocortisone 2.5% cream and mupirocin 2% ointment (an antibiotic), and a culture was performed to identify the type of bacteria present. Three days later, the results returned positive for Morax -
Moraxella is a genus of gram negative bacteria that normally colonize the human respiratory tract. In medical school, we typically learn about Moraxella catarrhalis, which is a frequent cause of ear infection and pneumonia. Its cousin M. osloensis is almost never discussed due to its rarity. However, there are over fifty case reports in the medical literature of M. osloensis causing infections in both children and adults. Infections range from pneumonia to blood infections, genital sores and even brain infection. Sometimes, this bacteria has been found in the area of a cancer. One case report of a brain tumor found to
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contain M. osloensis pointed out that it is not known whether the bacteria caused the tumor or whether the tumor provided a hospitable environment for the infection.
Most interestingly, M. osloensis does not just piggyback on cancers. Rather, this type of Moraxella likes to piggyback on worms – nematodes to be precise.
Nematodes, also called “eelworms” or “threadworms” are small round slender worms that infect a wide variety of animals and humans. The type of worm that infects salmon meat is in fact a nematode and is the reason one should only eat raw fish if it has been sufficiently frozen beforehand.
The same bacteria that infected our patient is actually sold commercially in certain countries outside the United States. Nemaslug® 2.0 contains the nematode P. californica and the bacteria M. osloensis. This nematode infects snails or slugs, but it can only complete its lifecycle and kill the snail if the bacteria M. osloensis is also present. Scientists believe that M. osloensis helps the nematode kill the snail by releasing a bacterial toxin that causes blood poisoning and death. The nematode and its side-kick M. osloen -
sis both replicate and proliferate. The nematode needs the bacteria to kill the snail. The bacteria needs the nematode because the nematode is mobile and can wriggle its way to its next snail or slug. Nemaslug® 2.0 is not sold in the United States out of concern that it could harm our native and sometimes helpful snail and slug species with specific concern for species in the Pacific Northwest.
Our patient did not use Nemaslug® 2.0 on her face. She did mention having a new boyfriend. Because M. osloensis is a normal colonizer of the human respiratory tract, it is possible that our patient already had this bacteria in her own respiratory tract and happened to infect her own skin. However, since she had not experienced a similar lesion in the past, it is more likely that that she accidentally came into contact with this bacteria during contact with another human such as her new boyfriend.
From case reports in the medical literature, we know that M. osloensis can very rarely cause blood poisoning in humans. Perhaps we are more closely related to snails than we would like, or perhaps M. osloensis just makes a toxin that is highly effective across vastly different species. Regardless, I know I am not kissing snails anytime soon, especially if they look under the weather.
Haynes Bridge Road, a vital artery not well known
Many roads in Georgia are named after early pioneers. Dirt roads connected farms with small communities. Sometimes we know a lot about the roads, especially when they are long and important. The histories of less significant roads are not often told.
Haynes Bridge Road is just 5 miles long, too short to generate much historic interest. The starting point is Academy Street in downtown Alpharetta. It runs behind the Alpharetta City Hall and library, crosses Old Milton Parkway and terminates at Old Alabama Road in Johns Creek. While it is a vital connector road today, its story is not well known. Today’s column will put a little meat on the bare bone.
Richard London Haynes (1773-1844) and Abigail Ragan Haynes (1781-1853) were early pioneer settlers who moved from Virginia to Cobb County in the early 1800s and later moved to what is Alpharetta today. Both are buried in Old Big Creek Cemetery in Alpharetta.
Their son Richard Luther Haynes, Jr. (1818-1894), the youngest of 11 children, was born in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. He married twice, first to Martha Mayfield Tate (1816-1862) in 1838. That marriage started a long relationship between the Haynes and Mayfield families. Richard Luther’s second wife was Sara Hooks (1814-1892). Both wives are buried in the Haynes family cemetery in Alpharetta, while Richard Luther is buried in Old Big Creek Cemetery with his parents.
Like most pioneer settlers, both Haynes’ generations were farmers. Richard Luther owned a farm of 240 acres probably inherited from his father. The Haynes home place was where North Point Mall in Alpharetta is today.
In 1894 Richard Luther Haynes, Jr. died, and his land was divided and sold. The 30 acres that Haynes Bridge Middle School occupies today was a part of Haynes’ farm. Haynes Bridge Middle School was opened in 1983 for six through eighth grade students. In 2000, a chimney
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hearing that “Mr. Haynes had three boys who one night rode their horses into the local church during a service. They got into a lot of trouble,” she says. “My sister Edna and her husband Leroy Strickland built a house across the street from Mr. Haynes. I was born in an old farmhouse on the same hill.” She notes that the county rebuilt the original bridge prior to World War ll when she was a little girl.
Elsie’s parents were Talmage and Lunette Burgess. Talmage owned a sawmill and cotton gin. He worked for many years in the gin which was located across the street from Resthaven Cemetery in downtown Alpharetta. In the mid-1900s he owned the Talmage Burgess Grocery at 1 South Main St. Prior to that, the building housed the Jones Grocery, Lively Grocery and the John A. Oliver Store. John was Elsie’s great grandfather. Lunette taught school at the Newtown School which no longer exists. She had to quit teaching when she married Talmage because married women were not allowed to teach at that time.
from Richard and Abigale’s farm dating back to the late 1700s or early 1800s was relocated and installed near the garden area of the Haynes Bridge Middle School. The move, restoration and relocation of that historic marker were made possible by a $10,000 grant from the Atlanta JournalConstitution’s Honor Teacher Grant Award to Christie Pratt, a teacher at the school.
In December 2012, the relocation of a section of Haynes Bridge Road in downtown Alpharetta between Old Milton Parkway and Academy Street was completed to make room for the new city hall and library as part of the City Center project. A new library was built on a 3-acre site donated by the city adjacent to the new city hall which was completed in
September 2014. The new library broke ground in March 2014 and opened July 30, 2015. The relocation of Haynes Bridge Road made it possible to create a unified city center rather than a collection of isolated structures.
Unlike some other local bridges that began near ferry boat operations, the original Haynes Bridge was a rather modest affair, possibly made of wood and primarily built to serve the Haynes farm and other nearby farms. It crossed Big Creek or a tributary and was built in the second half of the 1800s.
Elsie Knight, a longtime Alpharetta resident, grew up on Haynes Bridge Road, which was a dirt road until circa the 1950s, according to Elsie. She recalls
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To the editor, I thoroughly enjoyed Bob Meyers's article on Celestine Sibley.
I loved her articles in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. I shared her concerned
that Crabapple was losing its charm and Southern roots with "unchecked growth.”
I was honored to meet her when my leadership North Fulton toured the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and met
many of the writers including the very talented editorial cartoonist, Mike Lukovich. Thank you, Bob for a wonderful article.
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Elsie remembers some of her neighbors from the early days. “Daisy and Nick Bailey lived beside us on Haynes Bridge Road. Daisy cooked for Alpharetta schools and was the best cook ever. Bob and Elsie Shaw lived three houses up the hill. Bob was my uncle and was overseas in World War ll. After the war Bob and Elsie delivered morning newspapers for the rest of their lives. Cliff and Florence Thomas lived four houses up the road. They had a huge flower garden. Uncle Bud Isiac Shaw lived across the street. He kept foxes in his barn and turned one loose every Sunday and set his dogs after them. The dogs would tree the fox but never killed it. Uncle Bud thought that was fun.”
Thanks to Connie Mashburn; Donna Alexander, assistant principal, Haynes Bridge Middle School for their help with this column and the unknown reader who suggested this week’s topic.
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.
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Big Creek, an important historic waterway, taken from a bridge on Haynes Bridge Road. Settlers built bridges across Big Creek in the early 1800s. None of the original bridges still exist.
Tips for engaging children in gardening activities
Gardening is more than just a fun outdoor activity. It’s an excellent way to engage children in hands-on learning and teach them valuable life skills. From sowing seeds to watching plants grow, gardening provides an immersive experience that fosters a love for nature, curiosity and responsibility. Here's how you can engage children in gardening and make it an exciting, educational journey.
Start simple with easy-to-grow plants
For beginners, it’s important to choose plants that are easy for children to handle. Flowers like sunflowers, marigolds, or zinnias are vibrant and grow quickly, offering instant gratification. Vegetables like tomatoes, beans, radishes, carrots or lettuce are also rewarding, as children can harvest their crops in a few weeks. Let children participate in every step of the gardening process: digging, planting, watering and caring for the plants. Children are more likely to eat vegetables they grow themselves. A 4-year-old may surprise you and eat a radish or lettuce when you never thought she would.
Incorporate fun, creativity in projects
Gardening doesn’t have to be all about the plants themselves. Children love creativity, so incorporate fun projects like designing a themed garden. Create a Fairy Garden with miniature decorations, or build a vegetable garden in the shape of a star or plant. Plant a Pizza Garden in the shape of a pizza. You could plant tomatoes, basil and peppers in the garden that you can use making a pizza.
Let kids use colorful plant markers to label their plants or design their own garden signs. You can even create a seed bomb by mixing clay, compost and wildflower seeds into small balls, which children can leave in various areas of the garden for the rain to wash the clay away and germinate wildflowers.
Teach valuable lessons about nature
Gardening offers a unique opportunity to teach children about the environment and the science of plant growth. You can explain how plants need sunlight, water and soil to thrive, and show how these elements work together. In addition, you can introduce basic concepts like photosynthesis, pollination and composting. Your child may already know these words if they are in elementary school.
Teaching children about beneficial insects such as bees, butterflies and ladybugs can also spark their interest in the ecosystem and biodiversity. By introducing them to the plant growth cycle, you help them understand the interconnectedness of all living things. Consider participating in the Great Southeast Pollinator Census on August 22-23. You can do this at home or attend one of the many public events in your area, such as the one on Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Sandy Springs Farmers Market, 1 Galambos Way, Sandy Springs, GA 30328. Children can help us count and do fun activities. Visit https://gsepc.org/ for details about doing the Pollinator Census at home.
Foster responsibility and patience
Gardening instills a sense of responsibility as children take on the task of caring for their plants. Wa-
up and ready to count pollinators at Lost
tering them regularly, checking for pests and ensuring the soil remains healthy all require consistent attention. Additionally, gardening teaches patience. Unlike many instant gratification activities, gardening takes time. Watching a plant grow slowly from a tiny seed into a blooming flower or a ripening tomato can teach children the value of persistence and the rewards of waiting.
Incorporate learning opportunities
Use gardening as an educational tool beyond science. Introduce or enhance math skills by measuring plant growth or counting seeds and plants. Gardening can also help with reading and language skills, particularly if you have children label plants or read gardening books together. Check out books at your local library, and read them together. Fun books include “The Great Pollinator Census” by Susan Edwards Richmond and “The Saved Seed” by Brenda Moore.
Create a sense of accomplishment
One of the most rewarding aspects of gardening is the sense of accomplishment that children feel when they see their plants flourish. Whether it's picking ripe fruit, seeing flowers bloom or simply admiring the beauty of a well-tended garden, these moments can boost a child's self-esteem and provide a sense of pride.
Gardening is a powerful tool for engaging children in meaningful outdoor activities while also fostering a deeper connection with the environment. By combining
creativity, learning and responsibility, gardening provides a wonderful opportunity for kids to explore the natural world and develop essential life skills. Through gardening, children not only learn how to care for plants but also gain a greater appreciation for the world around them.
Happy Gardening!
North Fulton Master Gardeners, Inc. is a Georgia nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization whose purpose is to educate its members and the public in the areas of horticulture and ecology in order to promote and foster community enrichment. Master Gardener Volunteers are trained and certified by The University of Georgia Cooperative Extension. Learn more at nfmg.net. Previous Garden Buzz columns are featured at https://appenmedia.com/ opinion/columnists/garden_buzz/.
Save the Date: The 2025 Great Southeast Pollinator Census is August 22-23.
About the author
This week’s “Garden Buzz” guest columnist is Chris Adams, a Master Gardener for almost 20 years and a Sandy Springs resident. She loves to teach gardening classes, especially to children. She can be found once a month April-October at the Sandy Springs Farmers Market helping the children with a fun nature-based activity.
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Residents have remained loyal to Dunwoody North
VALERIE BIGGERSTAFF Columnist
After I wrote about the Dunwoody North subdivision, readers reached out to share reasons why they love their neighborhood and have remained there for many years.
Lisa DierksUnkefer’s parents bought a house on Huntington Circle in 1964. She remembers that Stonington Road was a gravel road at the time.
“There were countless families that had children for me and my siblings to play with and hang out with all the time,” Lisa said.
In 2000, Lisa and her husband bought the house. She has an o riginal Dunwoody North brochure and an original Dunwoody North Driving Club membership book, given to her by Frank Walton. She shared it with City Councilman John Heneghan, who also
lives in Dunwoody North.
Heneghan has posted about the neighborhood many times on his blog, dunwoodynorthblogspot.com, including in 2014 with the headline, “Dunwoody North-a close knit community where residents welcome you with brownies.”
When Lisa Dierks-Unkefer shared her original neighborhood brochure, Heneghan posted it on his blog.
The 1964 brochure shows home models available including the Imperial, “a sumptuous split-level”; Citation, a two story with a Williamsburg motif; Summit, a charming tri-level home; the two-story Premier; and Revere, distinctive Early American tri-level.
Heneghan has lived in Dunwoody North since 1996, moving to a different home within the community in 2010. He says there are several families who have moved from one Dunwoody North home to another.
One reader has been in the neighborhood for 49 years. The family
purchased a home in the section of Dunwoody North to the east of Tilly Mill Road. Her children attended Hightower Elementary School. She taught at nearby Kingsley Elementary School for over 30 years.
The family became members of the Dunwoody North Driving Club and still maintain and enjoy that membership today. She also continues to work out at Marcus Jewish Community Center.
Geraldine Penn has been in the subdivision for 44 years. Her Dunwoody North home was constructed in 1968, ready for occupancy in 1969. The Penn family bought the home in 1981 and were the third owners of the property. That house became the first in the neighborhood to have air conditioning in 1971.
There was an A&P grocery store in the triangle at Mt. Vernon Road, Dunwoody Club Drive and Jett Ferry Road, where Geraldine Penn remembers shopping. The A&P was in the same space where LIDL (also Harris Teeter, Ace Hardware,
Sprouts) were previously located and Big Play is coming soon. She recalls cow pastures along Ashford Dunwoody Road near I-285 where Best Buy and hotels are today.
The Penn home was also on the east side of Tilly Mill Road, so their children went to Hightower Elementary. By 1981, elementary age children in all parts of Dunwoody North attended Chesnut Elementary School.
Geraldine recalls when the family first moved into their Dunwoody North home, there was a farm along Tilly Mill Road between Laurelwood Road and Binghamton Drive. In the 1990s, this land was sold to Warren Jolly where he built homes along Madison Place Lane.
Award-winning author Valerie Biggerstaff is a longtime columnist for Appen Media and the Dunwoody Crier. She lives in Atlanta. You can email Valerie at pasttensega@gmail.com or visit her website at pasttensega.com.
Focusing on local solutions for affordable housing
By KATHY SWAHN, NANCY DIAMOND, JACK MURPHY North Fulton Improvement Network Executive Team
Lately, there’s been a lot of national attention on the role of institutional investors in the housing market. Stories of large companies purchasing homes and pricing out local families are understandably concerning, and Georgia’s elected officials have taken notice. But when it comes to the challenges we’re facing in North Fulton, the picture is more nuanced.
A recent article by the Georgia Public Policy Foundation, “Wall Street Remains Easy Target, but Tackling Housing Affordability Begins in Georgia,” reminds us that while institutional investors may play a role in some markets, they account for a relatively small share of the housing stock statewide. In North Fulton, where data shows only a modest presence of such investors, the more pressing issues lie closer to home.
Our community is experiencing the
strain of limited housing options — especially for middle-income workers, young families and retirees looking to downsize. Yet the barriers to meeting this demand are largely local. Zoning rules that limit housing types, minimum lot sizes that restrict density and lengthy approval processes all contribute to the high cost of developing new homes.
Studies show that up to 27% of the cost of a new home in Georgia can be tied to regulatory and permitting expenses. For builders and developers, navigating these rules takes time and adds uncertainty, especially when projects require rezoning or special approvals. The result is fewer housing starts, slower construction and higher costs passed on to homebuyers and renters.
The North Fulton Improvement Network (NFIN) believes that meeting the housing needs of this region starts with intentional planning. That includes a willingness to rethink our land-use policies, modernize zoning and welcome a wider range of housing types — like duplexes, triplexes,
Affordable housing continues to be a serious issue across North Metro Atlanta. Groups like the North Fulton Improvement Network are trying to help, and Appen Media is dedicated to covering the process. Send ideas, questions and feedback to newsroom@appenmedia.com.
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quads, cottage courts and accessory dwelling units (ADUs). These “missing middle” options are essential for the teachers, healthcare workers, hospitality staff and public safety professionals who keep our communities running.
We also need more predictable timelines and streamlined approval processes so that housing projects — especially those designed with affordability in mind — can move forward without years of delay.
As North Fulton continues to grow,
it’s important to focus on practical solutions that reflect both our values and our long-term needs. Ensuring that essential workers and our own adult children can afford to live in the same community they serve is not just a housing issue — it’s a community issue.
By working together to modernize our policies and remove obstacles to thoughtful development, we can ensure that North Fulton remains a place where families of all kinds can thrive.
Share your housing experience in our North Fulton Residential Community Survey:
Kathy Swahn, Nancy Diamond and Jack Murphy are members of North Fulton Improvement Network. Learn more at www. improvenorthfulton.org.
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Notes about summers connecting at the beach
Our three grandchildren stayed with us this week for “Papa-Tina” camp at the beach. They are 10, 8, and 5.
They do not selfentertain all that much, but we knew that. Actually, I’m not sure that any kids do at those ages.
Food is a big deal. So is going to bed, taking baths and brushing teeth. And by “big deal” I don’t necessarily mean “problem.” I mean those things are mission-critical and, well, sometimes are embraced and at other times, not so much.
“Why I remember when” (fill in the blank) and compare it to today’s kids – their behavior, their awareness, their attitudes and such. If you dare.
Christina (“Tina”) checks on 5-yearold Annie who is in the shower:
“OK Annie, it’s time to get out. It’s bedtime.”
“I only shampooed so I haven’t finished bathing the rest of me.”
“That’s OK, the shampoo ran down the rest of you so you’re clean now.”
Annie just looks at Christina and shakes her head, “I don’t think it works that way, Tina.”
Huh? How old are you?
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But that made me remember the story from years ago about the youngest child of one of our friends –5-year-old Sammie – that took place outside the Louvre in Paris. There had been an “issue” and Sammie was in timeout – with her mother sitting next to her – on the bench outside of the museum, while dad and the other kids were inside taking in all the art. After a considerable amount of time, Sammie turns to mom: “I bet you’re sorry you gave me this punishment now.”
Huh? Yeah, no words. Sure.
I remember the times when I had to order four copies of each new Harry Potter book – all seven of them – in order to avoid World War III from my kids fighting over who got to read it first. And as I recall, the book releases seemed to frequently fall during the summer, so we would take delivery at the beach – where we spent most summers – and each kid would retreat to their own particular space and not move for days while they devoured each book. And, of course, we would then have the issue of the fastest reader sharing what happened to Harry in the book and, of course, World War III would break out anyway.
You know you really can’t win, right?
I think eldest son Hans recently finished (re)reading all seven Harry Potter books to daughter Phoebe. How cool is that? Makes me want to revisit them. And, well, maybe World War III isn’t so bad after all if that is the type of collateral “damage” that results down the road?
Beach time is always special. Memories made at the beach often last forever. And usually what makes it special are not big things; it is the little ones – top bunk or bottom; Frisbee or football; only one sand-flea net and three kids wanting to catch sand fleas; badminton versus volleyball. Summer beach romances. Freedom. New friends. No schoolwork. Bloody games of Risk, puzzles, book reading, sleeping in, cards, no TV, kite-flying, bare feet the whole time, late night snacks, uncombed hair, of course, fishing.
We have an old not fancy “cracker” Florida beach house we’ve owned now going on 26 years. It’s on a barrier island about 5 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. You get there by boat or plane. There are no stores, no restaurants, no paved roads, no stop lights, no traffic, no hotels or condos, no law enforcement or medical facilities – just sand, shells, arrowheads, pine trees with scars from sap harvesting early in the 20th century, occasionally wrecks of old Spanish sailing vessels, sand fleas, moccasins, gators, raccoons, dunes and about 80 houses – of which maybe 6 are permanent residents. Everyone knows each other. You know each other’s boats, dogs and favorite beverages. My kids have friends they only ever see at the beach – beach friends only. Most of those kids are now adults now. But they still come back. For years we successfully avoided having a TV so everyone did “analog” stuff, like read
books and play games. I think our kids learned how to connect there – how to be just kids. That hasn’t changed, somehow miraculously on the island. It almost seems to stand still – time.
People meet and catch up at the mail kiosk – three times a week when the mail boat delivers the mail. We pop a squat on the dock in the harbor and just visit. We invite each other to dinner all the time. We’re almost never in a hurry; no one is out there. We watch weather. We watch tides, and it’s a big deal to know wind direction and speed. The weather can change hourly and it’s like going to the movies sometimes – only you and your surroundings are the script.
I think today, loneliness is epidemic, and a hollowness to be connected to something real, something meaningful is pervasive. We know we’re missing something. The loneliness is not just for each other but also for connection to a natural world.
Beach-time reminds us. It is, albeit temporary, an antidote. It is a salve, a tonic, an elixir. It heals. It nurtures. It makes memories we don’t forget. It connects.
“Time passes slowly up here in the mountain
We sit beside the bridges and walk beside the fountains
Catch the wild fishes that float through the stream
Time passes slowly when you’re lost in a dream.”
“Time Passes Slowly”— Bob Dylan
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Residents who spoke at the July 14 public hearings came down on both sides of the proposal.
Victoria Lemberg said she supports a lower millage rate.
Lemberg, who is retired, said she and her husband are wary of increased costs of living, and a reduced rate would help her family make ends meet.
“If it’s possible to avoid increasing our taxes, that would be beneficial for people who are on every kind of income,” she said.
She said she moved to Johns Creek to provide her children with a quality education.
“It’s hard to pay for everything,” she said. “It’s hard to pay for services like changing the roof or painting the house, repairing our driveway.”
Her remarks did not fall on deaf ears. Councilman Chris Coughlin said he planned to introduce a resolution calling for a rollback rate at the July 28 meeting.
Johns Creek resident Bob Stevens said he understands the need for maintaining the current tax rate. Stevens, who also is retired, said he recognizes the need to preserve the city’s quality of life.
“I very much appreciate the services that are delivered, the quality and extent of services,” he said. “I understand they cost more money all the time.”
He praised the wisdom of city officials and staff, saying he thinks their vision for the future ensures the city is one of the best communities in the country to live in.
The city has numerous projects in the works to promote the economy and recreational offerings.
The city is working to develop the Town Center area.
Construction is underway for The Boardwalk recreational and community center and mixed-use Medley development for its Town Center vision on Medlock Bridge Road.
In late June, the council approved a November referendum asking voters to consider a $40 million bond to pay for a Performing Arts Center within Town Center.
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Alpharetta officials also provided the below statement to Appen Media; All residential waste collection including trash, recycling, yard waste, and bulk item pickup remains on schedule.
Over the past week, some media coverage of a work stoppage by members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters against Republic Services has suggested the strike is causing trash to pile up and creating unsanitary conditions.
Those claims are not true in Alpharetta.
More than a week before the potential strike began, Republic Services leadership worked with City officials to develop a contingency plan. That plan was immediately activated once the strike began. The only impact in Alpharetta was a brief, one- to twoday delay in yard waste and bulk item pickup early last week. That issue has since been resolved.
At no time were trash or recycling services disrupted.
Republic Services continues to operate at full fleet and staffing levels in Alpharetta, and no changes to service are expected.
City staff remain in close communication with Republic Services leadership and will continue monitoring operations to ensure Alpharetta stays
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the clean and beautiful community we all enjoy.
Additionally, the city says no code enforcement action will be taken for trash cans left outside beyond the timeframes listed in the city ordinance. If delays occur, residents are asked to submit a request using the “Report Trash Related Issues” form on alpharet-
The City of Milton appealed the decision but was unsuccessful after the Georgia Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s ruling last September. An attorney for the Chang family said at the time he estimated the interest accrued on the award was around $3.5 million and would continue to grow around $10,000 a day.
After the decision, more than 58 cities joined an amicus brief to have the Georgia Supreme Court review and overturn the verdict. In late June, the court agreed to hear the case and has assigned it to the October 2025 oral argument calendar. The trial could be held on either Oct. 21, 22 or 23.
The cities of Sandy Springs, Roswell, Tucker, Johns Creek and Dunwoody are among those who have approved participation in the brief.
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