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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…
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…
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…
One More Thing
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…
One More Thing
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…
Health Scores Watch
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:…
Council Watch
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…
Heads Up
Last call: Wall of Fame nominations close tonight
Apparently it s nominating season in Milton because the city wants one more from you, and this deadline is end of day today . The Milton Wall of Fame at Bell Memorial Park honors…
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A Webb Road care home has been on generators since April
Milton families should know about this one, first reported by the Milton Herald : Vitality Living Milton , the 94-unit senior community on Webb Road offering independent living,…
Best of Milton
It s open. Go.
As promised: the first-ever Best of Milton ballot is live, right now. Twenty-nine categories, write-ins welcome, skip anything you don t have a strong opinion about, and the whole…
Heads Up
Two quick ones from City Hall
If sirens sound Monday or Tuesday July 20 21, that's the plan. The city is testing all 11 outdoor warning sirens placed around Milton each should sound for about 15 seconds, then…
Friday Night Lights
Set your August Fridays now
Football is back this month, and both of Milton's programs open under the August lights. Worth the calendar hold: Milton Eagles Thu, Aug 6 Grayson, preseason scrimmage Fri, Aug 21…
The Drive
The Freemanville bridge is officially gone
An update on the project we mapped Thursday: the old Freemanville Road bridge over Cooper Sandy Creek has been fully demolished, and GDOT's contractor reports the replacement is…
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Two days until Milton names its favorites
Tuesday at 7 a.m., in this very inbox: the first-ever Best of Milton ballot. Twenty-nine categories, from best pizza to best scenic road, and every one of them decided by…
Best of Milton
Five days until the ballot
Nominations for Best of Milton 2026 open Tuesday, July 14 , and the ballot lands in this very inbox at 7 a.m. Twenty-nine categories, reader-nominated and reader-voted, from best…
The Drive
Your summer road-work scorecard
Between new exits, closed bridges, and fresh signals, Milton driving is a moving target this summer. The current state of play: Exit 11A is open. GDOT's new GA-400 interchange at…
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And a big one: Milton is getting a real community center
Council approved $3.7 million in initial funding for a new indoor community center a 60,000-square-foot, multigenerational facility that will replace the converted clubhouse on…
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Council's big question: what should Deerfield become?
As promised, here's what happened at Monday's council meeting. The headline discussion was Milton's Comprehensive Plan Update, the every-five-years refresh of the city's guiding…
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Introducing Best of Milton 2026
Something new this summer, and it's yours to decide. We're launching Best of Milton 2026 , the first annual, reader-voted awards for the best of our town. Best pizza. Best coffee.…
Milton Homes
A $5 million kind of week
Twenty new listings hit the Milton market this past week, and the top of the market made an entrance. Two arrivals landed just under $5 million: a new-construction nine-bedroom on…
The Drive
Two summer road projects just crossed the finish line
Mayfield at Bethany is open again. Just over the Milton line, Alpharetta has reopened the roundabout at Mayfield and Bethany roads, right on schedule. Detours for through-traffic…
Around Town
Red, white, and a brand-new Uncle Sam
Friday morning at Broadwell Pavilion, Milton threw its annual Red, White, and YOU! celebration, and the town showed up in force: strollers wrapped in bunting, kids on decorated…
Council Watch
Milton's money, your Monday: the July 6 council cheat sheet
City Council meets Monday at 6 p.m., and the agenda is heavier than a summer Monday has any right to be. The headliner: the first public discussion of Milton's Fiscal Year 2027…
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Jake James just won high school theater's biggest prize. On Broadway.
When we covered the Shuler Hensley Awards in June , Milton High's Jake James had just been named Georgia's Best Leading Actor for his turn as Jacob Jankowski in Water for…
Assessment Season
A flat rate can still mean a bigger bill
A quick note for anyone who opened a 2026 Fulton assessment notice and did a double take. Next door in Alpharetta, the city is holding its millage rate flat (5.75, unchanged since…
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