What do you think of this list of proposed names for the new Bethany Bend High School site? Do you see anything you like or do they all stink? You can email your suggestion here . Tonight the naming committee will narrow the list down to three and release those for further input: Bethany Bend…

I attended the Milton City Council meeting last night where residents had a chance to hear some opening comments from Lew Oliver with Whole Town Solutions. Whole Town Solutions was hired by Milton to come up with a few designs for the Crabapple Crossroads area, or really the “greater Crabapple area” to help the city…

A Tree Grows in Milton Actually three trees….and they are made of steel. Many of you may be aware of T-Mobile’s plans to locate three new cell towers in the city of Milton. The locations and towers proposed are: 149′ Tower on 10 acres at 2880 Mountain Rd 154′ Tower on 26 acres at 14495…

If you didn’t have a chance to attend the community meeting last week to review the proposed site plans for a new high school in Milton, you will want to review the information below. This is a first draft, not a final proposal, that was shown to the community by the architects, CGLS Architects, and…

“We shape our buildings…thereafter, they shape us”. It may seem odd to open this post with a quote from Winston Churchill but it has a lot to do with what local developer J.T. Adams is trying to achieve with his proposed plans for a City of Milton Town Center and gives us some insight into…

They say that you can measure a town by the quality of its restaurants – and there are some decent places to eat in Alpharetta and Roswell.  For instance, I enjoy Pure Tacqueria in downtown Alpharetta and think they have the best quacamole around.  Plus they give you a ton of it.  However, if you…

 I had a fourth grade teach who used to say to all us pre-pubescent know-it-alls in the class:  “The only way to coast is downhill.”  As much as I hated that teacher’s proddings, I think she would be gratified to know that I still remember that singular lesson over thirty years later. The same is…

As we all get ready to celebrate the start of 2007, Alpharetta has its eyes on a bigger prize: two-thousand and EIGHT! 2008 will not only be the sesquicentennial for Alpharetta but it will also be the year that three major new developments are planned to be completed. These three developments will shape the next…

The Cities of Johns Creek and Milton finally have elected officials. Mike Bodker is Mayor of Johns Creek and Joe Lockwood is Mayor of Milton. Most people are just relieve that it is over. It is not exactly news that Bodker is mayor since he was unopposed. However, in Milton, there was a heated race…

Just for the record, because I haven’t been able to find it posted officially anywhere else, here is the list of candidates for elected office in Milton.  The election is November 7.  Here is a map of the council districts for reference.    MAYOR George Ragsdale 540 Treyburn View Alpharetta, GA 30004 404.652.6608 Joe Lockwood 369 Dorris Rd…