SUNDAY, JULY 26, 2026 · Issue No. 35 · 3 min read
Nominations close tomorrow night, and Milton is No. 1
Last chance to name Milton's best. Also: no metro Atlanta city has pricier homes than ours, per Zillow.
Best of Milton
Last call: nominations close tomorrow night
This is it. Best of Milton 2026 nominations close tomorrow night, Monday, at 11:59 PM. More than 275 nominations are in. If yours is not one of them, the ballot takes about two minutes: 29 categories, answer as many or as few as you like, one ballot per verified neighbor.
The week ahead: we sort your write-ins into finalists Tuesday, final voting opens Wednesday and runs through August 10, and winners are revealed Sunday, August 16. The finalists in every category are decided by what happens before tomorrow night. Ballot updates run all week on Instagram: @roundabout30004.
Nominated earlier but never clicked the confirmation email? Your ballot does not count until you do. Send yourself a fresh link here.
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Top of Mind
If a survey postcard shows up this week, it is not junk mail
The City has kicked off its every-two-years National Community Survey. Polco, the independent firm running it, began mailing postcards to 4,000 Milton households this week: a random, representative cross-section, each card carrying a link specific to that household.
Responses get weighted by age, gender, location, and other demographics. That makes this the statistically meaningful read on how Milton feels about parks, police, and quality of life, plus Milton-specific questions on sidewalks, trails, and economic development.
It is also how the City tracks opinion over time and against other cities. This year's mailing is bigger than any past round, and selected households get a paper follow-up this summer.
If you get one, take it. Not selected? An open version for everyone (unscientific, but welcome) arrives around the end of August; you can sign up to be notified. All responses are due September 16, results shared in the fall. Trouble with your link: survey@polco.us.
Source: City of Milton
On the Market
Milton tops the metro price list, and it is not close
Zillow's June numbers are out, and Milton has the most expensive homes of the 147 cities and towns tracked across the Atlanta metro: a typical home value of $958,053, up 2.5% in a year and 44.8% over five. Second-place Berkeley Lake sits about $171,000 back. Alpharetta lands fifth at $730,793, with Johns Creek sixth and Roswell ninth.
One number to sit with: five years ago, the typical Milton home ran about $660,000. That is the run-up your assessment notice has been chasing.
Zillow home-value data, June 2026, compiled by Stacker
This Week in Milton
- →Mon, Jul 27: Best of Milton 2026, last day to nominate (online, free)
- →Wed, Jul 29: Junior Ranger Academy, City of Milton (registration required)
- →Wed, Jul 29 · 4:00 PM: Learn to Fish, ages 8–13, City of Milton (registration required)
- →Wed, Jul 29: Best of Milton final voting opens (online, free)
- →Fri, Jul 31: Parks & Rec Scavenger Hunt, last day, Milton parks (free)
See the full Milton calendar → · Got an event? Submit it
One More Thing
11,126,597 minutes
Fulton County Schools set a district-wide goal this past school year: 10 million logged minutes of student reading, tracked in the Beanstack app, with badges and prizes along the way. By the time the year wrapped, students had blown past it with 11,126,597 minutes.
The incentives were world class. At one elementary school, the principal and two assistant principals dressed as leprechauns and danced at morning drop-off. And at Cambridge High School, media specialist Laura Morgan stocked an arcade claw machine with prizes for students who joined the challenge.
The district says the goal behind the goal was helping students “find joy in reading.” Eleven million minutes says it landed.
per FCS News
