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Seven questions for the House District 47 candidates
OCT 13 Tuesday early voting opens Both House District 47 candidates answers, side by side. Seven questions for the next state representative. At 1 p.m. Wednesday we sent Democrat…
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Council votes to protect Birmingham Park for good
Birmingham Park, to be protected for good. Council voted unanimously Monday night to put about 185 acres of Birmingham Park, the city-owned park in northwest Milton, under a…
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Crabapple Fest stayed dry. Register to vote by Monday
Crabapple Road a little after 2 p.m. Saturday. Photos: Ryan Hall for The Roundabout. The rain held off Saturday, and the crowds came. Crabapple Fest filled Crabapple Road with…
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Crabapple Road closes 10 a.m. Friday, a day before the fest
Crabapple Fest fills downtown Saturday from 10 to 5, and the road closes a day early. At 10 a.m. Friday, Crabapple Road shuts to through traffic from the Heritage Walk roundabout…
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Milton police called Flock's approval rule new. It was in Flock's policy by April 2025.
Milton's police department keeps the photos and data from its 36 Flock license plate cameras for 365 days, up from 30. Flock Safety makes the cameras and stores the data they…
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Milton narrowed who can search its camera data. When?
Milton police run 36 license plate cameras made by Flock, a camera company. They photograph passing cars, and the photos stay searchable for a year. Three written answers from the…
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Taco Nest scored a 72. Its cooler was running at 65 degrees.
Two Milton restaurants scored below an A this month, and one of them has a county follow-up visit coming. Taco Nest Taqueria on Highway 9 scored 72 and a C on Sept. 16, after a 96…
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Milton's council approves buying the Verizon campus for a park district
Milton's park district cleared its first vote. The City Council voted unanimously Monday night to buy the Verizon campus off Windward Parkway, between Deerfield Parkway and Morris…
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How long should Milton keep your plate data? 52 of you answered.
Milton keeps your plate data for a year. Most of you would keep it a month or less. Sunday s issue reported the city s setting, up from 30 days. Tuesday we asked what it should…
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Milton's tax rate, next to every Fulton city's
North Fulton city tax rates since 2019. Roswell s 2026 number is a proposal; Milton s hasn t been set. Fifty-six percent. That s how much Roswell wants to raise its city property…
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Milton keeps your license plate data for a year. It used to be 30 days.
One lens, one solar panel, one pole. This is what a Flock license plate camera looks like; Milton runs 36 of them, the city says, and the map below has 55 inside the city line. A…
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What Milton's license plate cameras actually record
Milton has paid Flock Safety $341,235.62 for license plate cameras. That is 22 payments, from October 2020, where our copy of the city checkbook begins, through this past May. The…
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Wednesday is your say on next year's budget
Wednesday is your say on next year's budget. Milton's Fiscal Year 2027 budget gets its first presentation and its public hearing at the same Council meeting on Wednesday,…
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The flags go up at Milton High this week
The flags go up at Milton High this week. Thousands of small American flags, one for each person killed on September 11, 2001, will cover the front lawn along Birmingham Highway…
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Paving at the Hopewell-Thompson roundabout today
Today is paving day at the Hopewell-Thompson roundabout, so give yourself extra time through the circle by Bloom and Bell Memorial Park. Milling was set for Wednesday, and crews…
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What Restaurant Week actually costs
Milton Restaurant Week runs September 14 to 20 . The city bills it as "specially curated menus, exclusive deals, and unique dining experiences." Two of those three are a matter of…
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The county fixed his tax bill and told no one
The county fixed his tax bill and told no one. A Milton homeowner opened his 2026 property tax bill this month and found a number that could not be right: $31,839.60. His bill has…
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The plan deciding which Milton roads get money closes Sunday
The plan that decides which Milton roads get money is taking comments through Sunday. The North Fulton Comprehensive Transportation Plan is a regional effort, developed with the…
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Milton settles the Chang case, unanimously
The Chang case is over, and the last thing said about it was not about money. Milton's City Council voted unanimously Monday night to approve the $10 million settlement, agenda…
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Milton 30, North Cobb 29
Milton 30, North Cobb 29. The Eagles opened at home Friday night and kept it by a single point. We told you Tuesday to circle it. If you went, you got your money's worth.…
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Milton votes Monday on a $10 million settlement
The Milton City Council votes Monday night on a $10 million settlement that would end the nine-year Chang case. The city would pay $3,333,333.33 out of fund balance. GIRMA, the…
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Win your tax appeal, watch your bill triple
A Milton homeowner opened his August tax bill and found it had roughly tripled. Same house, same assessed value to the dollar. One column changed: the homestead exemption that…
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$7.5 million, 1,248 seats, nothing filed
Nine people spoke at Council last night. Most came about the same thing. Five days ago we reported that Restoration Church owns 29 acres at Arnold Mill and New Providence , and…
Milton picked. Here are all 29 winners.
Best of Milton is settled. Voting closed last week: 3,534 ballots cast by 346 of your neighbors across 29 categories. We did not nominate anyone, and nobody could buy a spot.…
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A church owns 29 acres at Arnold Mill. Nothing has been filed.
A church owns 29 acres at Arnold Mill and New Providence. Nothing has been filed. Restoration Church of North Atlanta is the owner of record on two adjoining parcels at the Arnold…
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Milton test scores, school by school
Fulton County put out its Georgia Milestones results last week and the county did well. What the county did not put out is how any single school did, and a district that runs from…
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Milton will ask the court for its own tax order
Milton will ask a judge for its own authority to collect this year's property taxes, the city says, the next move after last week's Fulton County tax order left Milton out of it.…
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The tax order landed at 9:04 PM. Here is the Milton version.
The judge said yes, and quickly. Hours after Fulton County made its case Tuesday afternoon, Superior Court Judge Shukura L. Ingram signed the order letting the county start…
Best of Milton 2026
One of these is tied
Voting closes Monday night, and the races are closer than we expected. Twenty-nine categories, 2,500 votes so far, and one category is a dead tie: Best Pet Groomer, where Dog Wash…
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Milton is Georgia's No. 2, and Johns Creek is No. 1
Milton is the second best place to live in Georgia. That is according to HomeSnacks, a list-making publication that ranks cities nationwide using federal data, primarily from the…
Crabapple Corner
Fifteen townhomes off Broadwell get their final review tonight
The Design Review Board meets at City Hall at 6 PM, and it has one real item: the final architectural and building review of the Urbandale Townhomes proposal at 12475 and 12505…
Milton Connections
New this week: we made you a puzzle
Sixteen tiles, four hidden groups of four. Everything is Milton, and everything comes from our own reporting this summer. One new puzzle every Sunday. Here is this week's board:…
On the Market
What is new in Milton this week
Three that just hit the market this week: 676 Dunbrody Dr , $1,349,900. Five bedrooms, 4,012 square feet, Milton High zone. 3075 Keyingham Way , $543,000. Three bedrooms, 2,054…
Best of Milton 2026
Week one: Milton votes like it means it
Voting opened Tuesday night, and by this weekend the ballot had logged more than 2,000 votes from over 200 neighbors across all 29 categories. Several races are genuinely close,…
Assessment Season
Tuesday, 4 PM: the hearing that unfreezes your tax bill
Quick reminder from Thursday's decoder: on Tuesday afternoon a Fulton County Superior Court judge hears the county's request to collect property taxes temporarily while it…
Back to School
First bell is Monday
Fulton County Schools starts back Monday, August 3. Bell times: elementary 7:40 to 2:20, middle 8:55 to 4:05, high school 8:20 to 3:30. We rebuilt our Milton schools guide this…
Best of Milton 2026
Voting is open, and Milton showed up running
Voting opened Tuesday night and the first day was a stampede: 1,203 votes from 117 neighbors across the 29 categories as of Wednesday evening. Eighty-one finalists made the…
Crabapple Corner
About that BBQ farewell: one partner says it never signed off
An update on Tuesday's story. Spiced Right confirmed to The Roundabout that its Crabapple location closed Sunday. But the farewell announcement that appeared on Six Bridges…
Assessment Season
Your tax bill will be late, then weird. Here is the plan.
Fulton County is not allowed to send you a property tax bill right now. The county office that sets home values fell badly behind this year, and under Georgia law, no finished…
Civic This Week
Milton joins the push to unfreeze Fulton tax collection
Fulton County has not finished its 2026 tax digest, so it legally cannot bill this year's property taxes until a Superior Court judge approves temporary collection. City Council…
The Drive
Crabapple Road gets its first red light at Green Road on Thursday
If you drive Crabapple Road, Thursday changes your commute. The new traffic signal at Green Road is set to go live July 30, per GDOT message boards that went up late last week,…
Crabapple Corner
Spiced Right serves its last ribs at Six Bridges
Sunday was the last day for Spiced Right Ribhouse at its Crabapple home beside Six Bridges Brewing's taphouse, the end of a four-year partnership that put smoked ribs next to…
Best of Milton
The ballot, by the numbers
Where the fights are: Best Overall Restaurant drew the most write-ins at 21, with Best Pizza right behind at 20 and Best Bakery at 18. Those finalist lists were hard to make. At…
Best of Milton
The ballot is set
Nominations closed at midnight with a final count of 312 write-ins across all 29 categories, from Best Overall Restaurant down to Best Pet Groomer. The late surge was real: 27…
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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…
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…
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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…
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…
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Mondays are for fire trucks at Camp Joyful Soles
Every Monday this summer, a fire engine pulls into Camp Joyful Soles. Tuesdays, it is the police. The city's seven-week parks and rec camp for young people ages 13 to 22 with mild…
Best of Milton
Nominations close Monday night
This is the last Thursday to get your picks in. The Best of Milton 2026 ballot takes about two minutes: 29 categories, answer as many or as few as you like, one ballot per…
On the Farm
The Equestrian Committee met. The outcome is not posted yet.
We told you Thursday that the Milton Equestrian Committee was meeting Wednesday on Birmingham Park trail improvements, an equestrian-themed camp, and a survey asking owners of…
Best of Milton
One week left to nominate
Nominations for the first Best of Milton close next Sunday, July 27. As of Saturday night, readers have written in 245 nominations across all 29 categories, and several races are…
Council Watch
A garage out front on Freemanville, and improv at the park
The Board of Zoning Appeals meets Tuesday on a variance for a 7-acre Freemanville Road property, where the owner wants a garage in front of a new single-family home. The Unified…
The Drive
Legacy Park and its fields are closed until the end of August
The parking project at the 8.5-acre athletic complex on Cox Road is well underway. Crews have cleared space to roughly double the number of spaces, and the gravel lot is being…
Health Scores Watch
Vintage Pizzeria's answer: a perfect 100
On Thursday we reported that Vintage Pizzeria's Crabapple location took a 79 and a C on its July 7 inspection, that all three cited items were corrected before the inspector left,…
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Council votes Monday on another data center pause
Milton's City Council votes Monday on extending its data center moratorium again, this time by up to 180 days. We covered the last extension on Thursday: the pause was first…
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The barn on Mayfield turns 11
The Milton Library, the barn-inspired one across from the horse-statue roundabout, throws itself a birthday party today, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The green facing Mayfield Road becomes a…
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A rough Tuesday on Broadwell Road
Vintage Pizzeria 's Crabapple location, a 99-point A kitchen as recently as January, took a 79 (C) on its July 7 state inspection. The three citations were the unglamorous kind:…
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Milton's data-center pause gets longer
One more from that July 6 meeting, and it's the consequential one: Council voted to extend Milton's moratorium on data-center permit applications, the ban it first imposed June 15…
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Deerfield's next act now has a calendar
Last Thursday we covered Council's big Deerfield question : what the area should become as Milton's Comprehensive Plan gets its five-year refresh. The City's fuller recap of that…
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