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Letters to the Editor, September 27, 2007 Sep 27, 2007: I enjoyed the cover story in the September 13 Roswell Beacon regarding the upcoming 2007 Roswell City Council elections. As a nearby resident of the Holcomb Bridge/Ga. 400 intersection, I was particularly interested in the candidates’ positions on funding the improvements of this intersection in preparation for redevelopment of the “Roswell East” area.

September 20, 2007 Letters to the Editor Sep 20, 2007: I have been admiring your calendar section (really the best calendar of any publication around) and our festival is in there, but I was hoping that you might be able to add some things and delete some things.

September 20, 2007 Letters to the Editor Sep 20, 2007: Mayor Wood has proposed that Roswell transition from suburban community to high-rise, high-density urban center. He supports his position on two premises:

September 6, 2007 Letters to the Editor Sep 8, 2007: Dear Candidates for Roswell City Council:

Thank you for caring enough about Roswell to run for City Council. I’m sure that you have some good ideas on how to make Roswell a better place to live. The City Council and I are struggling with a couple of issues which I would appreciate your help on.

August 16, 2007 Letters to the Editor Aug 15, 2007: Mr. Broadwell,

As a recently transplanted Yankee from the Boston area I took great offense at your not once, but twice referencing how the local northerners nearly killed you as you rode 30 miles recently training for the MS ride.

August 9, 2007 Letters to the Editor Aug 8, 2007: An Open letter to Mr. Dennis FitzGerald:

Sir, I believe you have stepped out on a limb which has the potential to be sawed off between you and the trunk. Based on your letter in the August 2 issue of the Roswell Beacon, you state, “If Mayor Wood gets his way, Dorvee, Barnett (please spell my name correctly) and Peoples will sit on the Council and the Roswell we know and love will come to an end.”

August 2, 2007 Letters to the Editor Aug 1, 2007: Missing from your article “Fit or Fat?” was any mention of the very real reality that residents in the area simply cannot walk to work, or to town (historic Roswell), or to school, or to church, or to the store to buy a gallon of milk.

From James D. Hargreaves Jul 25, 2007: The Roswell Beacon is serving a leadership role in the community. Your Candidate Forum helped bring more people into the political process earlier. Roswell will be better for it.

From Bonnie Lennon Jul 25, 2007: I applaud and concur with the letter to the editor written in your July 8 issue of the Beacon, regarding our severe drought/water-banning issues.

From Richard Arena Jul 25, 2007: Managing Roswell’s Growth for a More Livable Community

If the great Scottish bard, Sir Walter Scott, were among us today, he might have penned:

From Stephen Dorvee Jul 18, 2007: After reading my certainly inarticulate quote in your newspaper concerning the Charlie Brown Project which was, essentially, “it is an important project – it is a non-issue, no one supports it,” I feel some clarification is in order.

From Dennis FitzGerald Jul 18, 2007: Last night, July 9th, I attended the Jordan, Jones & Gouldings presentation of the transportation analysis for the Holcomb Bridge Road, Ga. 400, Old Alabama Road present and projected traffic study for these intersections.

From Jere Wood Jul 18, 2007: It will take ten years and $100 million to fix the Holcomb Bridge Road/Ga. 400 Interchange if we start today.

Last Monday night traffic engineers Jones Jordan & Goulding (JJ&G), hired by the city, recommended that this interchange be reconfigured to add lanes and a flyover bridge. JJ&G also recommended that two new bridges with connecting roads be built over Ga. 400, north and south of Holcomb Bridge Road at an estimated cost of around $50 million.

From Julie Brechbill Jul 18, 2007: I would like to respond to several inaccuracies in the July 12, 2007 Beacon article, “The Rules of Engagement,” concerning the city’s town hall meeting on the Roswell East project. You state “the city has invested literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in staff’s time and consultant’s costs in evaluating the Brown proposal, right?” Wrong.

From Gay Maloney Jul 18, 2007: Scott Brown, principal of CRB and the son of developer Charlie Brown, sent out an invitation to get his project “supporters” to attend a rally and a barbecue the night of the so-called “Town Hall Meeting,” of July 19th, where Roswell city staff releases it’s analysis of the proposed towers project.

From Lisa Machado Jul 11, 2007: I would like to commend you on your article "First Responders" (June 28th). Yes, the Roswell Fire Department does it all and they do it with professionalism and compassion.

From Rich Huffman Jul 11, 2007: First of all, let me say that your newspaper is a welcome addition to our community. You are not afraid to publish articles which challenge our elected officials as well as the status quo.

From Lance Martin Jul 5, 2007: As Congress contemplates another cloture vote on the once dead, now resurrected, immigration bill, the citizens of America have effectively been told that we are no longer a concern for our elected leaders. We are being told those whom have broken our laws to enter our country are more important than those of us who hold citizenship, or who have entered our country legally.

From Jamie Skates Jul 5, 2007: Dear Mr. Brown,

I am in receipt of Fact or Fiction-Get the Truth About Roswell East. While you have tried to clear up any misconception the public may have on this issue, it is clear that the cost of designing, printing, and mailing this brochure reveals exactly how much money you stand to make on this project.

From Mim Eisenberg Jul 5, 2007: In the June 29 Atlanta Journal-Constitution there was a front-page article about the severe drought.

Yesterday's merciful rainfall notwithstanding, I cannot fathom why, in the midst of this "most historic drought we have ever seen in recorded history," according to Environmental Protection Division Director Carol Couch, I have seen nor heard not one single mention of a total building moratorium.

From Teresa Miller Jul 5, 2007: Yesterday they broke ground on the new Amphitheater, which I believe technically sits in Alpharetta. I drove by as they keep talking about all the easy access this is suppose to have. This amphitheater is going to be sitting amongst some recently built town home developments, and unless there are a number of parking garages to go with this I am not sure where all the 12-15,000 cars are suppose to park.

From Dennis FitzGerald Jun 28, 2007: I personally take offense to Charile and Scott Brown’s constant referral to Roswell in the vernacular of "our community.” What part of "our" they pay taxes on in the City of Roswell?

From East Roswell Forum Jun 28, 2007: (Editor: This is an official rezoning request. The explanation follows the text of the request.)

Rezoning Request:

Office Professional with Green-space requirement to Residential, Office and Commercial with the following:

From R. Shirley Jun 28, 2007: After reading Kent Igleheart's comments in your column and Rick McDonald's “Letter to the Editor” about the June 11 Council meeting and the vote for the FCS expansion, a few questions popped in to my mind:

From Kent Igleheart Jun 28, 2007: I was aware that Fellowship was on the agenda and notified residents who were involved with the previous effort that this was coming up. However, none of us knew there was even a possibility of this being on the agenda until it suddenly popped up.

From Rick McDonald Jun 18, 2007: Sometimes it isn't so much what you do as the way you do it. Anybody can sing in the shower, but it sounds better when Tony Bennett does it.

From Ellen Keller Jun 18, 2007: Thank you very much for carrying up-to-date and informative articles on the proposed Charlie Brown (CB) project. You are equipping the Roswell citizens with vital information that they can act on.

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