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The bee’s knees
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Analysis shows Roswell overstates inquiry figures
Michael Buchanan and Deborah Eves farm, package and sell honey out of their homes on Pebble Trail in Alpharetta. The couple started Alpharetta Bee Company in 2021 as The Sunny Honey Company. Read story, Page 8.
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Alpharetta still undecided on 2023 polling By SHELBY ISRAEL shelby@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Alpharetta remains undecided on managing its own municipal elections this fall after a March 20 City Council work session yielded no
consensus. The City Council hosted the work session to discuss the 2024 fiscal year budget, as well as the 2023 elections. The 5:30 p.m. meeting was held in the Community Room on the first floor while the council chambers undergo renovations.
Councilmen John Hipes and Jason Binder and Mayor Pro Tem Dan Merkel said they would prefer a Fulton Countyled election. “I would hope that we would follow
See POLLING, Page 4
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