Freemanville closes today — and so does Mid-Broadwell

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Freemanville closes today — and so does Mid-Broadwell. Both routes, same morning.

Starting today, Freemanville Road closes at the Cooper Sandy Creek crossing while GDOT replaces the bridge. The State agency says 150 days, weather permitting — basically the entire school summer plus most of the fall semester. Bring a podcast.

Detours. Birmingham Highway, Providence Road, and Mayfield Road will pick up the through-traffic. Plan for noticeably heavier loads on all three, especially during morning drop-off and the 5–6 PM crunch. Signage will mark the closure point and detour routes; the GDOT map (PDF) shows the closure in red and detour in orange.

The catch. Mid-Broadwell Road also shuts today — separate City of Alpharetta project, same Tuesday. If your usual commute hits both, give yourself an extra 10–15 minutes this morning while you figure out the new normal. The two closures don't share a planning conversation; they just share a calendar.

Source: Georgia Department of Transportation, via City of Milton.

Heads Up

Flood Warning active for Big Creek through Wednesday morning

The NWS has a Flood Warning in effect for Big Creek near Alpharetta through 8 AM Wednesday. As of late Monday the creek was at 7.7 feet — flood stage is 7 — and is expected to crest at 8.5 feet just after midnight tonight, matching the March 2020 high. Water should fall back below flood stage by early Wednesday morning.

Already flooded: portions of the Big Creek Greenway, especially upstream and downstream of the Kimball Bridge Road gauge and near Rock Mill Park, are sitting under 1–2 feet of water and closed. Sections of the YMCA Campground off Preston Ridge Road are flooding too, plus woodlands and fields along the creek from south Forsyth through Roswell.

One Milton-specific reminder while the ground stays saturated: many Milton homes — especially in AG-1 and rural-residential areas — are on septic. When the drain field is already wet, it can't absorb efficiently, and slow drains or yard pooling are the first signs it's struggling. Worth easing off heavy water use for a day or two if you see either.

Source: National Weather Service Peachtree City office.

This Weekend Recap

Memorial Day, in brief. As we previewed Sunday, Monday's Milton Memorial Day ceremony moved indoors to City Hall as the storm cell rolled through. Smaller room than usual, but the wreaths were laid and the names were read.

City Pool's open — and now there's a permanent pavilion

Splash 'N Bash kicked off the season Saturday (we previewed it last Thursday), and the City Pool at Milton City Park & Preserve is in regular-season mode. Two notes for families planning to make this their summer base.

First, the season-pass math: day passes run $5 per Milton resident (plus a transaction fee). If you'll be there more than ten times this summer, the season pass is the better number. Rates, hours, senior and family discounts, and the season-pass purchase link are all on the city's Milton City Pool page.

Second, an off-season upgrade: a new permanent pavilion now connects to the Community Center, giving you a covered spot to cool off — or get out of the rain — without packing up the whole day.

Source: City of Milton.

A new Wacky World, just over the line

Wills Park's Wacky World playground reopened Saturday after months of construction — refreshed, and now designed for children of all abilities from the ground up. The park sits just past the Alpharetta line at 11925 Wills Rd, but for most Milton families with kids under 10 it's effectively the neighborhood playground. If you missed Saturday's ribbon-cutting, it's open daily and free.

Source: City of Alpharetta.

Council Watch

Milton PD's first Purple Heart — and a regional brotherhood moment

Milton Police held its annual awards ceremony last week. Headline: Sgt. David Little received the department's first-ever Purple Heart and Medal of Valor, both tied to a North Fulton SWAT response in Roswell. It's a first for the department, and not the kind of first anyone hopes for — but the way the city framed it (an officer hurt protecting his neighbors, recovering, honored) hit the right note.

Ten Milton officers also received the Officer Jeremy Labonte Award from Roswell Police for their support in the aftermath of Officer Labonte's line-of-duty death last year. Quiet acknowledgement that Milton and Roswell PDs back each other up on the days nobody plans for.

The annual awards: Officer of the Year — Officer Shi-Peng Ma; Supervisor of the Year — Sgt. Luke Hayduk. Four new officers — Karina Contreras, Carl Cooper, Stefan Moncrief, and Noah Stowers — were sworn in at the event. Mayor Peyton Jamison and Councilmembers Brian Dolan and Juliette Johnson attended. Home Depot off Windward Parkway took the Citizen Service Medal for ongoing department support.

Source: Ma, Hayduk, Little among winners at Milton Police's annual awards event

School Beat

Milton High just landed the country's top-ranked kicker

Ryan Jung — the Class of 2028's No. 1 ranked place kicker per Kohl's Kicking — announced last week he's transferring from IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida to Milton High for the 2026 season. That's a real coup for the Eagles' program.

His 2025 line at IMG was the kind of stat sheet that gets a kid on national lists: 4-of-5 field goals with a long of 46, 50-of-52 extra points, and 36 touchbacks on 66 kickoffs through nine games — meaning more than half of his kickoffs went unreturned. Special teams as a real weapon, not just a phase to survive.

The Eagles finished 2025 at 8–4 and ranked No. 18 in the final Massey Georgia high school football rankings. Adding the best kicker in his class doesn't fix everything, but special teams flip close games — and Milton plays in a region where close games happen a lot. Season opens late August.

Source: On3 high school football transfer reporting.

From the Newsroom

Our restaurant directory — and an open invitation for one Milton restaurant

Quiet plug, with no apology: readroundabout.com/restaurants is now the most complete independent index of Milton restaurants anywhere on the web. 149 establishments in ZIP 30004, refreshed nightly from Georgia DPH health-inspection data, enriched with Google Places hours + ratings + photos, filterable by cuisine and neighborhood. The tool we wanted to exist: which places are open right now, what their latest grade looked like, who's actually in Milton versus just claiming Milton in their marketing copy.

One Milton restaurant operator can be our category-exclusive founding restaurant partner — featured placement across the directory and a few newsletter touches at our founding rate (50% off Year 1, locked for 12 months). One restaurant only; first-mover wins. Email ads@readroundabout.com if that's you, or if you know who it should be.

Calendar

→Sunday, June 29 · 6–8 PM — 2026 Comprehensive Plan Update Open House, Milton City Hall. The once-every-five-years rewrite that quietly shapes everything from where the next subdivision can go to what stays AG-1. Worth showing up.

One More Thing

Milton woke up Sunday to two championship trophies in the Peach State. Georgia took its first-ever SEC Tournament title with an 11–1 win over Arkansas; Georgia Tech claimed the ACC crown 13–6 over UNC the same afternoon. For Milton households split between the two — and there are a lot of those — Sunday was one of those rare days where everybody got to celebrate.