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Roswell lights up, celebrates holidays BY DELANEY TARR delaney@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — Roswell residents gathered on Dec. 2 to watch the city’s 40-foot tree illuminated in Heart of Roswell Park. The city shut down part of Canton Street for the free event with hot chocolate, caroling, s’mores and other activities. The event, previously located in the Town Square, ran from 6-9 p.m. Fire pits lined Canton Street with free s’mores supplies. Local Starbucks employees passed out free hot chocolate and cake pops. For adults, street vendors sold alcoholic beverages within a designated opencontainer area. Restaurants and pubs in the area were bustling with customers. Throughout the evening, local choirs performed on the stage and Mayor Kurt Wilson read “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” to the crowd. Then, the mayor teased a very-special guest appearance. Santa Claus rode into the event on a Roswell Fire Department truck and sat down to meet with the crowd of children.
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Milton City Manager Steve Krokoff joins the Municipal Election Feasibility Committee for its last meeting Dec. 1. The committee was expected to lead a presentation at the Dec. 5 City Council meeting.
Panel wraps up feasibility study for Milton to run its own elections By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
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Crowds form around the 40-foot tree in the Heart of Roswell Park for the Roswell Christmas tree lighting event on Dec. 2.
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MILTON, Ga. — The Milton committee, tasked with studying the feasibility of the city running its own municipal elections, nailed down two remaining issues at its last meeting Dec. 1. The Municipal Election Feasibility Committee could stand as a model for other north metro Atlanta cities following the election study. Considering Fulton County’s recent suggestion to cities to conduct their own municipal elections due to skyrocketing costs, selfsufficiency has become a more important objective. Deputy City Manager and committee member Stacey Inglis did not release the overall cost estimate of a city-run election. But the cost is expected to be far lower than what Fulton County has
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