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Citizen advisers resign en masse from their posts on Roswell panel By DELANEY TARR delaney@appenmedia.com
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Crowds fill downtown Alpharetta Thursday, May 11 for the 31st annual Taste of Alpharetta food festival. David Medlock ran the ferry at the Medlock Bridge location.
Taste of Alpharetta fills downtown By ALEXANDER POPP alex@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — More than 40,000 people flooded downtown May 11 for the 31st annual Taste of Alpharetta festival. From 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. streets from Main Street to Milton Avenue were closed to traffic and filled to the brim with crowds of happy families, stages for music and scores of food and drink vendors.
During his welcome speech, Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin called Taste of Alpharetta the “best day of the year” and a true celebration of the things that make Alpharetta great. “It’s an integral part of how we come together as a community to celebrate the great things that we have to enjoy in Alpharetta, including all these great restaurants, all these great organizations,”
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Alpharetta Mayor Jim Gilvin gives a welcome address to crowds of festivalgoers on Milton Avenue during the 31st annual Taste of Alpharetta Thursday, May 11.
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ROSWELL, Ga. — Following a May 15 public information meeting on the Grimes Bridge Road corridor improvement project, members of the Roswell Transportation Advisory Commission resigned en masse. Members cited frustration with the city’s ongoing transportation projects, and elected officials turning a deaf ear to recommendations. Members Richard Arena, George Vail, Jason Hudson and Marisa Pereira resigned from the commission. Member Perry Dragon’s term ended in May. The sole remaining member is Jason Yowell, who said he’s staying on to “run his mouth.” In a letter to the City Council on May 11, Commissioner Pereira wrote that in more than a year on the panel, member recommendations and motions have never been acknowledged. Pereira, who lives on Grimes Bridge Road, said she was told she could not speak about the improvement project because of a “conflict of interest.” She brought that frustration to the May 15 public information meeting where the Roswell Trans-
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