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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Four years after Republican Bridget Thorne won the Fulton County Commission District 1 seat by fewer than 400 votes, she and Democrat Maggie Goldman are on the ballot again. Their rematch has become a race marked by attack ads, a public insult from the county’s top elected official and a combative debate.

Early voting began Oct. 13 and runs through Oct. 30. Election Day is Nov. 3. Thorne beat Goldman in 2022 with 50.28% of the vote to Goldman’s 49.72%. District 1 covers the northeastern portion of the county, including all of Johns Creek, major portions of Alpharetta, the eastern and northern portions of Roswell, and some northern sections of Sandy Springs. The seat represents around 183,000 people, according to county officials.

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SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Sandy Springs police arrested four people during an Oct. 7-8 human trafficking operation at Morgan Falls Overlook Park and along Hammond Drive, the department announced Oct. 9. Police said the operation targeted people involved in sexual exploitation and related crimes. It ended with an adult trafficking victim rescued and three children placed in protective custody, according to a news release posted to the department’s social media. Eric Dejuan Lightfoot was charged with trafficking a person for sexual servitude. James Brandon Bell was charged with pimping. Na’kaya Delzora Jones was charged with prostitution, making false statements and three counts of seconddegree cruelty to children. Tamera La’Shay Brasby was charged with solicitation for an illicit sexual act. Records said Lightfoot, who has a

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Jail records for her were not available as of Oct. 11. The department’s release did not say how the three children were connected to the case or which agency now has custody of them. “The charges resulting from this operation highlight the serious nature of human trafficking and crimes involving children,” the release said. The department said it “remains committed to thoroughly investigating these offenses, protecting vulnerable individuals, and ensuring those responsible are held accountable through the criminal justice system.” The department confirmed Oct. 10 the operation was the active investigation that Sandy Springs resident Marrón Bridges walked onto Oct. 7 at Morgan Falls Overlook Park. Bridges, who posted videos of the encounter to Instagram, says officers racially profiled her. She has filed a complaint with the department, which says it is reviewing the encounter. Police have not accused Bridges of any wrongdoing.

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Halloween Farm Festival, Saturday, Oct. 24, noon to 6 p.m., at Donaldson-Bannister Farm, 4831 Chamblee Dunwoody Road. There will be a candy mystery, games, crafts, a petting zoo, live music and food. Admission is free, and activities cost 75 cents to $4. Truck or Treat, Thursday, Oct. 29, 5-8 p.m., Brook Run Park, 4770 North Peachtree Road. There will be food trucks, live entertainment and trick-ortreating. Haunting at High Street, Saturday, Oct. 31, 5:30-8:30 p.m., on The Green, 101 High St. There will be trick-ortreating, live music, face painting and a costume contest. Goat-pumpkin pie eating contest, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2-3 p.m., Brook Run Park. Bring your pumpkins for the goats and vote for the hungriest one. Roswell Halloween Fun House, Friday, Oct. 23, 4:30-7 p.m., East Roswell Recreation Center, 9000 Fouts Road. There will be magic shows, crafts, inflatables and trickor-treating, and costumes are encouraged. Adaptive Truck or Treat, Saturday, Oct. 24, 10 a.m. to noon, Waller Park, 250 Oak St. Unique Individual Ranch hosts this free, sensory-friendly event for children and teens with special needs. Registration is required. Trunk or Treat, Friday, Oct. 30, 4-7 p.m., Roswell City Hall, 38 Hill St. The Roswell Police Department will have candy, games and a petting zoo. Sandy Springs Spooky Springs, Saturday, Oct. 24, 5-7 p.m., Abernathy Greenway Playable Art Park, 70 Abernathy Road. Admission is free, with trick-or-treat stations, face painting, music and food vendors.

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Fulton early voting tops 106,000; first-day turnout up 26% By HANNAH YAHNE hannah@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Fulton County’s first-day early voting turnout rose 26% from the last midterm, and nearly 107,000 voters have now cast ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 general and special election. As of 9:30 a.m. Oct. 19, 106,647 in-person early votes had been cast countywide, about 12.2% of the county’s registered voters. This information comes from the Georgia secretary of state’s office, which is updating unofficial turnout on its online Election Data Hub on a daily basis. That number does not include absentee ballots. According to county officials, Fulton County has accepted 15,143 absentee voting applications as of Oct. 18, with 3,567 absentee ballots now marked as “received from voter.” Of those, 42 have been rejected, with officials citing missing signatures or driver’s license and Social Security numbers. First-day turnout up 26% from 2022 Nearly 24,000 Fulton County voters — 23,839 in all — cast ballots in person Oct. 13, the first day of early voting. That is up 26% from the first day of early voting in the 2022 midterm election, when 18,923 county voters went to the polls.

The county’s voter rolls have also grown. According to the Election Data Hub, Fulton County has 872,630 registered voters, a 16% increase since 2022. Of those, 765,985 are active voters and 106,645 are inactive. Active voters are those who are registered and have had contact with the election system within the past five years. Across Georgia As of Oct. 19, 838,065 Georgians had voted early in person, about 10% of the state’s 8,234,690 registered voters, according to the Election Data Hub. On the first day of early voting, 190,406 Georgians cast ballots, breaking the state’s record for the first day of early voting in a midterm election, according to the secretary of state’s office. Fulton County voters cast about 12.5% of those ballots. How to vote early Early voting continues through Friday, Oct. 30, at locations across Fulton County. Registered voters can cast a ballot at any early voting site in the county. For more information, visit mvp.sos.ga.gov. Jon Wilcox and Joshua Wilson contributed to this report.

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The demonstrators drew honks of support from many passing cars, along with a few jeers. At a rally in Forsyth County, Karen Stever, a chapter leader with the grassroots political groups 50501 North Georgia and Indivisible Forsyth, said the event was primarily organized to encourage voting. She said some demonstrators who attended made other political statements. “This is not a protest; it’s a visibility action to get people out to vote,” Stever said. “We’ve been supplying voter information, dates … trying to encourage people to register for months.” She said the Forsyth County crowd was not made up only of Democrats. Many participants were Republicans who have become dissatisfied with Trump’s leadership, she said. “We have a lot of disaffected Republicans who have joined just in support of morals and honesty,” Stever said.

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The new Melanoma ‘vaccine’ Brought to you by - Brent Taylor, MD, Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta There is a real reason to be very excited about a recent advance in the treatment of melanoma, but when it comes to the word “vaccine,” it seems the marketing departments at the pharmaceutical companies have been exercising poetic license. In August, headlines exploded with the news that Moderna and Merck announced landmark interim data from their Phase 3 clinical trial for a new melanoma “vaccine.” If you are picturing a quick poke in the arm at your pharmacy that prevents you from ever getting skin cancer, you are not alone. Many of my patients have asked about it. But the truth is, this is not a vaccine in the traditional sense. To a doctor or a historian (or almost any patient), a true vaccine prevents disease. Think of Edward Jenner in 1796, who brilliantly used the mild cowpox virus to immunize a boy against smallpox, effectively saving millions of lives from an infectious disease. But modern pharmaceutical lingo plays by different rules. Today, drug companies label any therapy a “vaccine” if it stimulates your immune system to mount a highly targeted counter-attack or if it offers a personalized immunologic attack against a cancer. Under this definition, existing immunotherapies like Keytruda are not vaccines. Keytruda acts like an immune system booster, globally taking the “brakes” off your body’s T -cells so they fight harder. The new Moderna shot is completely different. It is a highly customized, built-toorder means of training one’s immune system to fight one’s own individual melanoma. How Moderna’s vaccine works shares a lot with its even more famous COVID vaccine. When a patient is diagnosed with high-risk melanoma, surgeons first remove the tumor. Moderna then analyzes the unique proteins of that specific patient’s tumor, identifying how they differ from normal cells. They engineer custom messenger RNA (mRNA) to match those exact cancer targets. When

injected, the mRNA forces your own cells to temporarily replicate these targets—essentially handing your immune system a hyper-specific “wanted poster” of the enemy. This technology has evolved rapidly. As Moderna’s CEO famously noted, the company has transformed from an infectious disease company into a true oncology pioneer. The clinical results back it up. In their landmark trials, adding this personalized mRNA vaccine to standard Keytruda therapy reduced the risk of cancer recurrence or death by a staggering 49%, and cut the risk of the cancer spreading to other organs by 59%, compared to using Keytruda alone. Exact details are expected upon full publication of their results with more data expected soon. However, because this is an adjuvant therapy, it is strictly for patients who have already been diagnosed with advanced melanoma and undergone surgery. It cannot prevent you from getting skin cancer in the first place. I value clarity in language and communication, and I would still call this a treatment – not a vaccine. For the general public, a vaccine does not exist, and the most effective prevention against melanoma remains the same: broad-spectrum sunscreen, sun-protective clothing, and professional skin exams. For patients at a high risk of developing skin cancers, dermatologists can recommend highly effective, truly preventative interventions for some types of skin cancer. At our practice, we frequently utilize topical field treatments like imiquimod cream, 5-fluorouracil, and photodynamic therapy to target and destroy precancerous cells before they ever turn into a threat. Furthermore, when localized skin cancers do arise, timely, expert surgical removal remains the definitive gold standard to eliminate cancer before it has a chance to move to other parts of the body. If you or a loved one has a spot worrisome for skin cancer or any other skin concern, please consider Dr. Brent Taylor and Kathryn Filipek, PA-C of Premier Dermatology and Mohs Surgery of Atlanta for your skin care needs. It is our pleasure to take care of you and your family.

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Why local newspapers still matter more than ever Now that The Atlanta JournalConstitution has ended home delivery throughout metro Atlanta, I think many of us have a new appreciation for just how important our local newspaD.C. AIKEN pers really are. Guest Columnist We are fortunate dcaiken.com to still have publications like Appen Media that understand what local journalism is supposed to be about: covering the stories that directly affect the communities where we live, work, raise our families and do business. Local government. Local schools.

Local sports. Community events. New businesses. Development. Elections. And, yes, sometimes those seemingly small stories that will never make the national news but matter a great deal to the people who actually live here. Perhaps best of all, they still understand there is something special about receiving an actual newspaper delivered to your home each week. No app. No scrolling. No searching through a website trying to figure out what happened down the street. Just a newspaper, a cup of coffee and an opportunity to find out what's happening in your community. For me, this is personal. I have lived in north Fulton for more than 50 years and grew up reading our local newspapers. When I was in high

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mortgage rates, inflation, housing costs and the everyday challenges of our local economy. National news certainly matters. Washington matters. Wall Street matters ... but what's happening at City Hall, in our schools, on Friday nights at the football field, at the business opening down the street or with the development being proposed around the corner often matters a whole lot more ... because this is home. It's fall fundraising time for our local newspapers, so I would encourage you to give what you can to support Appen Media. Local journalism isn't free to produce, and once it disappears, it is awfully difficult to bring back. Let's make sure the next generation can still experience what so many of us grew up with: opening the front door, picking up the local paper, pouring a cup of coffee and discovering what's happening right down the street. Support local journalism. Support our communities. And let's keep that newspaper coming home. Learn more at appenmedia.com/ join.

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A story of three brothers — growing up on a north Fulton farm Brothers Phil, John and Tim Worley grew up on a farm in north Fulton. Although their parents owned only about one acre, they rented and farmed land at various locations. They rented about BOB MEYERS 25 acres on Hembree Columnist Road in Roswell owned by Eula Hembree Maffett (1895-1987). The property was later owned by well-known farmer Earl Mansell and included a barn, corncribs and several sheds used for hay storage and an old chicken house. They also rented 15 to 20 acres on Elkins Road from a Roswell businessman they knew as Mr. Troutman and an additional 20 acres where the Alpharetta city-owned Old Rucker Farm Park is today on Rucker Road. The boys’ grandfather Fred C. Worley (1892-1971) grew corn and raised chickens north of Canton on the Etowah River. He had been a sharecropper but was able to purchase a small farm. His wife, Annie Lou Cline (1894-1991), was from Waleska near Reinhardt College. The boys’ parents were Charles Wesley Worley (1928-2011) and Mary Alice Wright Worley (1928-2014). Each of them had day jobs and came home every evening to work on the farm. Charles worked for the Mullen Box Company in Roswell, maker of corrugated packaging. Mary worked for the Seating Company in Roswell for 50 years. The company made furniture for churches. Son Tim also worked there for eight years as a young man. “In those days we could drive tractors from our house on Hembree Road to Crabapple and see only one or two cars on the road,” Tim says. The three brothers attended Milton High School. Phil and John served as presidents of Milton High School’s Future Farmers of America chapter in the late 1960s. Tim, the youngest of the three, looked forward to joining the FFA; however, the school closed the program in 1970-71 just before Tim started school. “I was very disappointed,” he says. However, Tim was a member of the 4-H Club from fourth through ninth grade. Each member specialized in a subject. Tim’s specialty was entomology. Members competed by making presentations to a panel of county agents and other county officials. Their parents always supported the boys’ farm projects. Tim says, “My brothers grew the farming business and I worked into it. It was a team effort. Our parents were not wealthy, and they sacrificed everything for their boys.” When John and Phil were about 12 or

From left, brothers John, Phil and Tim Worley and their father, Charles, in 1965 on their annual vacation, this time to Ruby Falls and Rock City in Tennessee.

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Phil Worley at the Southeastern Fair at the Lakewood Fairgrounds in 1963, where his pig won the Grand Champion Boar award, the highest honor given to a boar at agricultural competitions. The Southeastern Fair was a major annual event in the lives of the Worley boys. 13, they began working to earn money. John recalls, “Our first job was yard work at 75 cents an hour which we had to divide. We were so small that the property owner said, ‘You look like one person.’” Tim says, “My brothers raised their first crop of corn with a mule which they used to plow, plant and harvest the corn. They borrowed the field, the mule and plow from Clarence Thompson, owner of a small grocery store on Main Street in Alpharetta. The experience was enough for them to know that was not what they wanted to do.” When Phil turned 15, he bought a 1949 John Deere Model M tractor, allowing the boys to raise a large corn crop to make hog feed. The boys did a lot of work for Earl Mansell when they were in high school,

hauling hay and tossing it into a hayloft. They worked for Mansell and others for about 10 years. The brothers grew feed crops and had them milled at Shaws Feed Mill across the street from the Green Lawn Cemetery in Roswell. Around 1962, they started a cattle business. Jake Hughes (1898-1987), a prominent farmer, entrepreneur, transportation pioneer and landowner in Crabapple and Alpharetta, let the boys use some of his extensive land holdings to start their hay business where the entrance to the North Farm community in Crabapple is today. (I wrote a column about Jake Hughes in 2023.) “We grew good-quality Coastal Bermuda hay which was sought after by the area’s growing horse industry. They

preferred Bermuda for its high protein content. Fescue was the most common then for cattle,” Tim says. The boys’ great-uncle Jim Watkins owned a dairy between Ball Ground and Canton on old Highway 5. He sold two calves to John and Phil. Tim says, “Dad offered his car to pick them up. He had to remove the last seat in his Chevy Impala to carry the baby calves. It was pretty messy by the time they got home.” John, who retired in 2018, was a professor of agricultural engineering at the University of Georgia Extension Service for 25 years. County agents depended on him if there were engineering issues involving farm operations. Phil, also retired, was superintendent of the University of Georgia Experiment Station at Calhoun for about 25 years and eventually became superintendent of three farms that were part of the experimental stations in northwest Georgia. Phil administered the 4-H program when he was an assistant county agent in Gwinnett County. He recalls, “I lived in a sheep barn at UGA for three years. I shared the barn with one other student and 100 sheep. We didn’t have far to go when the ewes were lambing.” Tim is retired and a serious student of local history. He attended technical schools and worked for Reynolds and Reynolds, an automotive computer company, for 29 years. The boys are still close. Their stories of life on the farm are total history, because rural life is very different today.

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“Anytime our kids can do something that has a real impact on the world, we love to see that,” Vance said. Avery said it has been “heartwarming” to see the kids realize they have the power to make a difference. “When I came here to Fulton County … I wanted to see how I could make an impact in the community and show students that they can make an impact with their art,” Avery said. Cynthia Bueno, volunteer coordinator with Furkids, said the organization was “very excited” when Avery called about the project. She said community involvement is “incredibly important to our mission.” “Projects like this help our dogs gain visibility, connect with potential adopters and teach children compassion for animals,” Bueno said. Multiple dogs drawn as part of the project have already been adopted. The dogs’ portraits will be scanned and uploaded to their profiles at furkids.org.

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Close to 90 students completed pencil drawings of dogs, capturing their likenesses and personalities. They learned about color emphasis, the difference between positive and negative space, and how to make a drawing look three-dimensional. “These kids don’t realize it, but they are artists already,” Avery said. “I’m just kind of waking up that skill inside of them.” Students’ final pieces were displayed at an Oct. 1 art show at Johns Creek Books so parents and Furkids volunteers could appreciate their work. Students could draw or outline their dogs’ pictures with markers and were able to include accessories like sunglasses. Student Gianmarco Vitulli drew a dog wearing a bandanna and a T -shirt. Built for memories, “The dog project is really cool,” Vitulli said. made for community Built for memories, Students Anna Stoja and Ellie for community. Amideo worked on their portraits made for Built for memories, three weeks. Stoja said they used difBuilt for memories, ferent shading techniques, like using for made forcommunity. community. made a dull pencil to make shading darker or dabbing with an eraser to blend shades. It is Avery’s first year teaching with Fulton County Schools. Her mother held the same teaching position there for 30 years. Avery also attended the We’re proud to introduce our school. new celebration of life center, Principal Matt Vance said Avery unlike anything else in has always been someone to think differently about how she can expand the Atlanta area. lessons outside of her classroom. We’re proud to celebration introduce our new celebration We’re proud to introduce our new of life center,

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The authority has granted $150 million in tax breaks for data center projects since 2020. A Develop Fulton representative said the authority’s board is “independent.” “The Develop Fulton board … thoughtfully considers each project, including not only considerations of the increase in tax revenue to the county but also the variety of stakeholder perspectives,” the representative said.

Continued from Page 1 The attacks have resumed. Goldman’s campaign is running ads telling voters to “take the Thorne out of our side.” In August, outgoing Fulton County Commission Chair Robb Pitts endorsed Thorne at a campaign event on the rooftop of an Alpharetta business. As she looked on, he went after Goldman. “I know that there’s probably at least one spy here who will repeat what I said,” Pitts said. “I want you to hear me clearly. Bridget’s opponent, Maggie Goldman, is a nutcase.” Thorne later told Appen Media she does not “campaign through personal insults,” but she has said Goldman “knows nothing” and has accused her of “manipulating the press.” The tension was on display Oct. 5, when the candidates met for a debate before about 150 residents at Rivermont Golf Club in Johns Creek. Clash over reparations One clash came over reparations, or proposals to compensate Black Americans for slavery and the discrimination that followed. Those proposals range from direct cash payments to housing, education and economic development programs. In May, the county’s Reparations Task Force released a Harm Report of more than 600 pages. The report estimates that Black residents of the county suffered harm worth $908 billion in today’s dollars. “This report demonstrates that Fulton County’s prosperity was built on a racialized economy that first taxed enslaved people as property and later overtaxed their citizen descendants,” the report’s conclusion reads. The report documents that harm but does not say whether or how the county should pay reparations. Commissioners extended the task force for up to two years to develop recommendations and study whether they are feasible. Goldman said Thorne “believes we have already paid reparations in money to Grady Hospital, [historically Black colleges and universities] and MARTA.” Thorne disputed that claim. “I did not say that we already paid reparations,” Thorne said. “I just said, in the report, we should take in account programs that we have developed to help the community. And we should look at ways that maybe we could expand programs.” Thorne questioned what more the county could do. “We spent $250,000 for this Harm Report,” Thorne said. “How much more do we have to spend? Let’s work at helping people … and bringing people together instead of dividing people.”

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Republican Fulton County Commissioner Bridget Thorne, left, answers a question during an Oct. 5 debate in Johns Creek as Democrat Maggie Goldman, her challenger for the District 1 seat, listens.

Democrat Maggie Goldman, right, speaks as Republican Fulton County Commissioner Bridget Thorne listens during an Oct. 5 debate in Johns Creek. Goldman is challenging Thorne for the District 1 seat in a rematch of their 2022 race. She added that “the harms of the past are real.” “But what can we do moving forward except bring up a divisive topic?” she asked. Fight over data center incentives Another clash emerged from claims related to tax breaks for data centers. Thorne said she “passed a resolution so that data centers no longer got tax abatements,” or reductions in the level of taxation, when those businesses locate in the county or expand their existing operations. The Fulton County Board of Commissioners approved the resolution

opposing abatements and other incentives in August. The resolution urges the Development Authority of Fulton County, which does business as Develop Fulton, not to consider those incentives. It does not bar the authority from granting them. “As a commissioner, I urge the Fulton Development Authority to respect the wishes of the cities that I represent,” Thorne said. Goldman called the measure “basically a messaging resolution.” “The development authority is its own entity that we can appoint members to, but we have no authority to tell them what to do,” she said.

Dispute over assessments For Goldman, the bigger issue with data centers is not abatements but assessments. She said the county tax assessor has undervalued commercial properties, including data centers, leaving homeowners with more of the tax burden. She pointed to a Quality Technology Services data center in Atlanta as an example. She said that data center was initially appraised at $100 million despite a $1.4 billion investment. The county, Goldman said, changed that appraisal to $2.5 billion this year. Goldman said she pressed the assessor’s office for the higher value and mobilized 66 residents to email the board of assessors about the matter. Thorne said she also wants properties assessed properly. She said many of the undervalued properties she investigated were in tax abatement areas or were in assessment freezes. She said the QTS value was decided on facts and rules, not residents’ emails. “Don’t be fooled,” Thorne said, adding Goldman wants to lower taxes through assessments rather than by cutting the millage rate or limiting spending. Little talk of Flock cameras Flock Safety license plate reader cameras, a contentious issue throughout metro Atlanta and the rest of the country, barely came up at the debate. Both candidates said Fulton County Police use the cameras only at the airport. “The only area that they use Flock cameras is in our airport,” Thorne said. “That is our most valuable asset that we have, and it’s also subject to very large criminal activity.” Thorne was referring to the Fulton County Executive Airport. HartsfieldJackson Atlanta International Airport is owned by the city of Atlanta and patrolled by Atlanta police. Thorne said she supports using the cameras at the county-owned airport. Asked how long the county should keep the data they collect, she said, “I don’t know the answer to that.” She said the cameras are used only in “that little 2-mile square area.” Goldman said the county should require public disclosure of how long Flock data is stored and which outside agencies can access it.

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