The Braselton News
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
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Author meet-and-greet
Braselton Friends of the library to host bestselling author
The Braselton-West
Jackson Friends of the Li
brary and The Inside Sto
ry Bookstore and Cafe are
hosting New York Times
bestselling author John
Cribb at the bookstore on
Sunday. Feb. 5, at 2 p.m.
Cobb, whose novels
include the acclaimed Old
Abe, will discuss his new
est historical fiction, The
Rail Splitter.
"The Rail Splitter tells
the story of Abraham Lin
coln's remarkable journey
from a log cabin to the
threshold of the White
House — a journey that
makes him one of Amer
ica's most beloved he
roes,” according to a de
scription of the book.
The Inside Story Book
store and Cafe is located
at 55 Freedom Pkwy. 109,
Hoschton.
Submitted
Bestselling author John Cribb will ap
pear at the Inside Story Bookstore and
Cafe at 55 Freedom Pkwy. 109, Hoschton,
on Feb. 5 at 2 p.m.
Author
John
Cribb will
discuss
his new
est work
of histori
cal fiction,
The Rail
Splitter,
on Feb. 5
at the In
side Story
Bookstore
and Cafe
is locat
ed at 55
Freedom
Pkwy. 109,
Hoschton.
Submitted
Hall Co.
Cooper to serve
on community
services board
Hall County Commissioner
Kathy Cooper, who represents
South Hall in District 1 on the Hall
County Board of the Commission
ers (BOC), will serve on the Avita
Community Services Board.
Her nomination was approved at
the BOC's Jan. 26 meeting.
Avita Community Partners is
not a state organization but a public
organization formed by the 1993
Georgia State Legislature to serve
those suffering with mental illness,
developmental disabilities and ad
dictive diseases in Northeast Geor
gia. The board of directors consists
of one commission appointed res
ident from each of the 13 counties
represented in the Northeast Geor
gia area.
Cooper will fill the unexpired
term of Commissioner Greg Poole.
The term runs through Dec. 31,
2026.
Downtown continued from 1A
Harvest continued from 1A
from the heart of downtown.
“It was an extremely ambi
tious plan,” Scott said.
Due partly to this successful
planning, Braselton was one of
the first municipalities in the
state to earn “Plan-First Com
munity” status.
This next downtown plan
will be less involved, as re
flected in a timeline that’s only
a quarter as long as the previ
ous plan.
“We did 20 years because
there were so many projects
that they couldn't have pos
sibly been done in less time,”
Scott said. “Just moving a
state highway takes 10 years
or more. Now, the trend is to
do five-year plans for down
towns.”
While the timespan is short
er, Scott said she "can’t wait
to see what people want to see
in downtown that we don’t
currently have.” Scott said
she wants more businesses
downtown to make Braselton
a shopping destination.
“There is a whole section
of tourists that will actually go
somewhere that has a historic
center that has shopping that’s
different than tourists who go
other places,” Scott said. “We
love tourism here. It’s our big
gest industry, and I hate not to
have any section of that mar
ket.”
Scott said the informa
tion-gathering phase of the
downtown plan "takes a very
long time,” likely running
through May or June. The
process includes market stud
ies and a review of all current
Braselton plans, in addition to
taking public input. Scott said
the five-year downtown plan
will likely go before the may
or and council for a vote at the
end of this year or early 2024.
ONLINE SURVEY
Those who cannot attend
the Feb. 9 meeting can provide
input via an online survey at
www.surveymonkey.eom/r/
DowntownBraseltonGA. The
town will take online com
ments “for several months,”
according to Scott.
“Everyone should hopefully
have an opportunity to give us
their input,” she said. “We're
going to give them as long as
we can and as many ways to
give them to us as we can.”
HPC previously scheduled
the event for the city depot.
“I'm hoping we have a
run on history in the city
of Hoschton,” said DDA
and HPC member Marsha
Hunter during a Thursday's
(Jan. 26) HPC meeting.
Citizens donating arti
facts must register for a
30-minute appointment to
meet with an HPC member.
The final appointment is at
3:30 p.m. Hunter asked
her fellow HPC members
to encourage residents
with historical artifacts to
schedule an appointment.
“The whole point of this
is to find those people who
have a historic interest in
the City of Hoschton and
are willing to share it.” she
said.
“I’m predicting great
success for this,” HPC
member Dorothea McAl-
vin added. “I’m excited.”
The committee asks
those donating items to
notify organizers of what
items they’ll bring to their
appointment.
The HPC will have
scanners — including a
large-document scanner
— available to archive
historical documents not
being donated to the city.
The organization looks to
digitize old photographs,
documents, letters, diaries
and videos as part of the
harvest.
A "deed of gift docu
ment” will accompany all
donations and scanned
documents to signify the
items as city property.
Donated items will be
kept in a storage facility,
though the city eventual
ly hopes to build a library
with an archive room.
The history harvest
is part of a recent effort
from Hoschton leadership
to honor and document
the city’s past. Hoschton
formed its HPC last year
and commemorated the
city's 140th anniversary
(actually reached in 2021)
during the 2022 fall festi
val. The DDA also plans to
bury a time capsule in the
spring to be opened in 2081
when the city turns 200.
APPOINTMENT
TIMES
History harvest orga
nizers ask residents to call
706-654-3034 or visit city
hall to schedule a 30-min
ute appointment on March
11 to donate items.
Emergency continued from 1A
plane exited the aircraft before
the arrival of fire crews. No
fuel leaks were found at the
scene. The Gwinnett County
Haz-Mat team offloaded 10
gallons of fuel from the plane
before it was moved from the
location.
The cause of the downed
aircraft is under investigation
by the National Transportation
Safety Board.
Center in South Carolina.
He is charged with five
counts of identity theft/
fraud and one count of ex
ploitation of an elderly per
son.
According to the pre
liminary investigation,
Williams used the name,
date of birth and social
security number of a Bra
selton woman, 65, to open
checking and savings ac
counts, obtain a credit
card and take out loans
in excess of $15,000.
Williams committed the
offenses between May 1
and Aug. 24, of 2022. He
did not know the victim.
HCSO deputies first
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learned of the crimes on
Aug. 10, 2022, when the
victim reported them. She
had been alerted of sus
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