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Alpharetta council advances strategy to aid North Point Officials also present 2025 spending plan By JAKE DRUKMAN newsroom@appenmedia.com ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The Alpharetta City Council approved a $200,000 design contract that will prepare the city to redevelop the area surrounding North Point Mall. Under the contract, approved unanimously May 20, New Yorkbased Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects will develop a framework of “public streets, public space, trails and green infrastructure” by which the city can guide future development. The company maintains an office in Atlanta and has worked on local projects including Roswell’s Riverside Park. Alpharetta Community Development Director Kathi Cook said the framework will ensure the city can take full advantage of its investments in the Big Creek Greenway by building connecting streets and creating a walkable community at North Point. Cook said city staff interviewed three landscape architecture firms and that Starr’s bid was the lowest. She said the city applied for grants beginning in 2018 to help fund the redevelopment endeavors but was unsuccessful in securing outside
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Ret. Col. Rick White speaks before Roswell’s City Hall on the importance of Memorial Day.
Roswell honors the fallen at Memorial Day service By BEECHER TUTTLE newsroom@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Rain gave way to sunshine just long enough Monday morning as thousands gathered for Roswell’s annual Memorial Day tribute at City Hall. The 25th annual event, held before the city’s Faces of War memorial, is the state’s largest to honor U.S. service members who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Crowds traditionally some 7,000 people. “It’s a difficult and somber day, but one that is critically important,” said former U.S. Rep. Dr. Tom Price, the former Roswell Rotary Club president
known as the architect of the “Roswell Remembers” Memorial Day ceremony. Price spoke on the importance of memorializing our fallen soldiers not only for the families in attendance, but for the children who may be getting their first exposure to the true meaning of Memorial Day. “There are young people who now recognize the sacrifice necessary to defend freedom in this country,” Price said. For others, the day is more personal. Retired Navy veteran Skip Green, who was a missile fire control technician aboard the USS Wainwright during the Vietnam War, said that this year’s ceremony was the 23rd he has
attended. He came to honor the Navy friends that he lost during the war, yet acknowledged that his brother — a deceased Army vet who also fought in Vietnam — is always especially close to mind during Memorial Day. Green’s brother survived the war but was never the same after coming home. “Twenty-two of his men were lost [in Vietnam]” Green said of his brother. “The war was the reason that I lost him.” He declined to go into detail about what happened to his brother after leaving Vietnam. Keynote speaker Ret. Col. Rick
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