TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2026 · Issue No. 77 · 10 min read
Trails first, readers say. Tell City Hall today.
Which e-bikes can ride where, and the Eagles' path to a region title
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In this issue Trails first. That was the pick of 22 of 42 readers in Sunday’s poll on Milton’s green space. The city takes comments in person today, 1 to 3 p.m. E-bikes, sorted. The city’s new guide says which ones can ride where, and who’s old enough for the fastest. And. Milton climbs in three football rankings and is two wins from the region title. Also: early voting’s last days, the week’s police calls, a one-tap check on whether you’ve voted, a correction, and Halloween week on the calendar. |
Top of Mind
the one thing to know this morning
Trails first, readers say, as Milton plans its seven green spaces
Trails won Sunday’s poll outright: 22 of the 42 readers who answered picked trails to walk, ride or bike as the first use for Milton’s city-owned green space.
What should Milton’s city-owned green space be for first? | ||||
Trails to walk, ride or bike
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Nature, left as it is
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Horses and farmland
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Still deciding
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Ball fields and play areas
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42 readers, one tap each. We left out 6 taps that hit several answers in the same second, the mark of email security software, not people. It isn’t a scientific poll, just the readers who tapped. |
Now tell the city. The second and last drop-in session on the Greenprint, the city’s plan for the green spaces it owns, runs today from 1 to 3 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall, with city staff and draft ideas for each property. If a Tuesday afternoon doesn’t work, the same drafts are on the city’s Greenprint page, and the city takes comments by email at greenprint@miltonga.gov.
The city heard much the same in early 2024. Its Greenprint survey drew 238 responses by Feb. 13 of that year, about 98 percent of them from Milton residents, and found strong support for natural-surface trails and habitat improvements and a general preference for “limited, rustic improvements over active recreation,” the city says.
What the plan covers. Seven properties: land off Bethany, Hamby, Hopewell, Lackey and Webb roads, the corner of Freemanville and Birmingham roads, and part of Milton City Park and Preserve. For each, the Greenprint will recommend what it should become, from leaving it alone to adding trails or other features. The city says the plan may also weigh whether bathrooms, benches, a dog park or spots for fishing and bird watching belong on “passive” land. It doesn’t add land, and a recommendation isn’t a promise: staff would still have to price each idea, and Council would vote on whether to pay for it.
What’s next. The city’s working schedule aims for a presentation to Council Nov. 16 and a vote to adopt the plan Dec. 7.
What would you put on that land that our poll didn’t list? Reply, and we’ll print a few.
The Scoreboard
every game, both schools, the night it finishes
Monday, Oct. 26 · flag football | ||||||
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Football · Friday, Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m. | ||||||
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Score, rankings (Oct. 25) and standings: MaxPreps. Records from our results. | ||||||
Moving up. Friday’s 49-46 win at Gainesville lifted Milton in three statewide rankings. In the AJC’s Class 6A top 10, out Sunday, the Eagles traded places with Gainesville to reach fourth, and Milton “was the only lower-ranked team to win a Top 10 game,” Todd Holcomb wrote. High School On SI’s Georgia Top 25, which ranks every class in one list, moved Milton from 16th to 13th on Monday. MaxPreps now has the Eagles ninth in Georgia and fourth in Class 6A, one spot higher in each.
What Friday means. Milton, at 4-0, is the only Region 7 team without a region loss; Gainesville and Roswell are 4-1. If the Eagles beat Riverwood (0-8) on Friday and Roswell at home on Nov. 6 in the regular-season finale, they win the region title outright. State playoffs start Nov. 13.
Flag football and cross country. Cambridge’s flag team beat Sprayberry 19-0 in a region game Monday in Marietta and is 4-5. Milton’s flag team (12-1) plays twice on Monday, Nov. 2: Heard County at 6:30 p.m., then McEachern at 7:30 p.m. in Powder Springs. The flag football state tournament opens Nov. 18. In cross country, Saturday brings the sectional meets, the round before the state meet at Carrollton High School on Nov. 6 and 7. Every schedule and score →
Correction: Our Oct. 22 issue said Cambridge’s flag football team would host Sprayberry on Monday. The game was at Sprayberry, in Marietta.
The Blotter
police and fire calls worth knowing, Tuesdays
Oct. 19 to Oct. 25. From police and fire dispatch traffic. A dispatch call is a report, not a finding, and we write it that way. Streets, not house numbers. No names.
- →Meadow King Way, Tue. Oct. 20, afternoon. Police were sent to a reported garage entry.
- →New Providence Road at Birmingham Highway, Fri. Oct. 23, morning. Police were sent to a reported three-car crash in which a 40-year-old man was hurt; a silver Hyundai Kona, driven by a woman, was reported to have left the scene with damage to its rear driver’s side.
- →Near King Lake, Sat. Oct. 24, night. Police were sent after two callers reported hearing gunshots across King Lake.
- →South Vineyard Way, Sun. Oct. 25, afternoon. Police were sent to a report of a man screaming threats, with a woman also at the scene.
Of the dispatch calls we track, 60 were in or near Milton that week, 59 of them police calls and 1 fire call. Most of the calls we didn’t print were alarms, minor crashes and stranded drivers, animal calls (dead deer, a snake), blocked driveways and noise complaints.
Something on your street we should look into? Reply to this email. Every item we have printed is on our map, along with how The Blotter works.
Around Milton
Which e-bikes can go where. The city has posted a guide to e-bikes, the start of a campaign it says will continue “on social media, on our website, as well as along our streets and ideally in our schools.” The surge in e-bikes around Milton has raised “legitimate safety concerns associated largely with adolescents on these vehicles who are typically not licensed and might not always know all the rules of the road,” the guide says. What its charts say:
- →Class 1 and Class 2 (pedal assist and throttle): top speed 20 mph, no age limit and no license needed. They can ride on roads and on multi-use paths, the wide paths shared with walkers.
- →Class 3 (pedal assist up to 28 mph): allowed on roads. Riders must be at least 15 and wear a helmet.
- →Sidewalks: no e-bikes of any class.
- →High-powered electric dirt bikes aren’t e-bikes at all. The city classes them as mopeds or motorcycles, which need a license or permit, insurance and registration, and says they aren’t street legal in Milton or allowed in city parks.
Know a parent of a teen rider? Forward them this.
Your Vote
After the final weekend. Fulton’s in-person early vote had reached 210,314 by the end of Sunday, Oct. 25, according to the county’s unofficial daily count, posted Monday morning. The Milton Library accounted for 9,415 of those ballots, 867 of them over the weekend, and six sites in the county had more. Voters from anywhere in Fulton can vote there, so its total is not a count of Milton residents.
Mail ballots. By Sunday the county had accepted 7,324 mail ballots back from voters, about half of the 14,696 it had mailed. Its seven drop boxes had taken in 1,950 ballots in all, 511 of them at the Alpharetta Library, the closest box to Milton.
Still to come. Early voting ends Friday, Oct. 30 (7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily until then), and Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. Drop boxes and the mail ballot deadline are in Sunday’s issue, and the races and questions on a Milton ballot are in our Oct. 20 issue.
Reader poll · One tap Have you voted yet? About two in three readers who answered our Oct. 13 poll planned to vote early, in person.
Tap once to see the tally so far. Results Thursday. |
The Agenda
public meetings this week and next
Wednesday’s Planning Commission. The agenda for the 6 p.m. meeting at City Hall is unchanged from the one we previewed Sunday: two subdivision plans and a use permit for a preschool in Crabapple. One new detail from the packet: city staff recommends approving The Wilds Early Learning Academy’s permit with conditions, and the staff report points to a City Council vote on Dec. 7.
Also Wednesday. The Greenprint Steering Group is on the city’s calendar for 4 to 6 p.m. at City Hall, and no agenda had been posted on Municode as of Monday night. The city calls it a representative group drawn from members of other boards and committees, not one the Council appointed, and has been working with it on the Greenprint, a guide to the future of seven city-owned greenspaces.
No agendas yet. City Council meets Monday, Nov. 2, the meeting the $691,000-a-year Tri Scapes parks contract was moved to (our Oct. 20 report). The Design Review Board meets Tuesday, Nov. 3, Election Day, and the Council holds a work session Monday, Nov. 9. All three start at 6 p.m. at City Hall, per the city’s calendar, and none had an agenda posted as of Monday night.
This Week in Milton
the calendar, day by day
Back on the calendar. On Sunday we reported that the library’s Tuesday talk on financial fraud and scams had dropped off its online calendar. It’s listed again: 6 to 7 p.m. at the Milton library, with registration open and 15 of 16 seats left as of Monday night.
Tuesday, October 27
- →1:00 PM · Greenprint Public Open House #2 · Council Chambers, City Hall, until 3 p.m.
- →1:00 PM · Friends of the Milton Library Tuesday Afternoon Book Sale · Milton Branch Library, until 5:30 p.m.
- →5:00 PM · YA Film Club (teens 13 and up; register) · Milton Branch Library, until 6:30 p.m. (free)
- →6:00 PM · Financial Literacy: Be Aware of Financial Fraud and Scammers (register) · Milton Branch Library, until 7 p.m. (free)
- →6:30 PM · Trivia · Six Bridges Crabapple, until 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 28
- →6:30 PM · Music Bingo · Six Bridges Crabapple, until 8 p.m.
Thursday, October 29
- →4:00 PM · Wanderlust Food Truck Fest · Market District Crabapple and Crabapple Market, until 8 p.m.
- →6:00 PM · Acoustic Tom · Hyde Brewing, until 9 p.m.
Friday, October 30
- →6:00 PM · Live music · Six Bridges Crabapple, until 9 p.m.
Saturday, October 31
- →12:00 PM · RPG Alliance: Teen D&D (teens 15 to 17; register) · Milton Branch Library, until 4 p.m. (free)
- →3:30 PM · Halloween drive-in golf cart movie night · Hyde Brewing, until 10 p.m.
- →6:00 PM · Live music with Kenny & Mollie & Sarah · Six Bridges Crabapple, until 9 p.m.
See the full Milton calendar → · Got an event? Submit it
Spot something we missed? Just reply. Every correction we have run is on our corrections page.
