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Tolbert Street will close for at least two months to com
plete much needed work, including alignment of sharp
curves.
Tolbert Street to
close Monday for
two-month project
By Colby Jones
Staff Writer
Tolbert Street in Cumming
will close Monday as con
struction crews install a cul
vert and align sharp curved
portions on the road.
The road is expected to
remain closed to all traffic for
about 60 days, said City-
Administrator Gerald Black
burn.
Residents and businesses
located on the street includ
ing Tyson Foods Inc. have
been advised to take alternate
routes during the construction,
he added.
The work being done on
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Tolbert Street, a popular cut
through between Kelly Mill
and Castleberry roads, is simi
lar to that recently completed
on Tribble Gap Road.
A number of sharp curves
on Tolbert Street will be
aligned and the completed
road will allow more cars to
travel on it. according to city
officials.
The road work coincides
w ith construction of office
buildings and an addition to
the Cumming Fairgrounds in
the area.
If the weather cooperates,
the road work could be com
pleted in less than two months,
said Blackbum.
County eyes 921 -lot subdivision
Smoking ban committee also to be appointed Monday night
From Staff Reports
The Forsyth County Board
of Commissioners on Monday
night is scheduled to consider
a request to rezone 700 acres
for development of a 921-lot
subdivision in the northwest
ern part of the county after
delaying action on it for nine
months.
Commissioners last June
tabled the request from Fox
Creek Properties Inc. to
rezone the land from agricul
tural to single family residen
tial for a conservation subdi
vision. Since that time, the
county’s development code
has been modified; changes
include revised residential
zoning categories and pro
hibiting private companies
from owning new sewer
plants.
However, developers and
COHAN from 1A
her career.
“1 think what I did best was
teaching. You have relationships
with people that you don’t have
anywhere else," Cohan said.
Since leaving the classroom,
Cohan has not forgotten that
children are the center of
schools. Her passion for student
achievement is evident in her
work.
At Thursday ’s called school
board meeting, Cohan made a
presentation on the governor’s
SAT Cup Challenge. The com
petition is designed to encour
age schools to raise their
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores
because Georgia ranks so poor
ly compared to the rest of the
nation. While Cohan supports
increasing SAT scores, which
have gone up 20 points two
years in a row in Forsyth
County, she was quick to say
that actual learning far out
weighs the numbers.
“What concerns us about the
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WHO: Forsyth County
Board of Commissioners
WHAT: Regular monthly
meeting
WHEN: 5 p.m., March 8
WHERE: Auditorium,
County Administration
Building
private companies can con
struct sewer facilities with
direction from the county's
Water and Sewer
Department. In addition, the
county government may con
tract with private companies
to operate sewer facilities
once construction is com
plete.
The new community
along the Etowah River off
Nicholson Road is expected
to contain 921 lots with a
minimum lot size of 9,000
square feet.
Cup is not increasing scores, but
to focus on just the test scores is
short gain,” Cohan told the
school board.
Gault said Cohan's expertise
gained from years of teaching
will be missed by Forsyth
County’s schools. Cohan is not
afraid to take on daunting proj
ects and does so with zeal,
Gault said.
"Ellen is a wonderful
thinker, and we need that. We
still need that." Gault said.
Cohan said the school board
has been very supportive of her
desire for an innovative, chal
lenging curriculum in Forsyth
County. The board’s job is to
manage the budget to give
teachers and administrators the
resources with which to educate
children, she said.
"They’re the best board of
education I have ever had the
pleasure to work with." Cohan
said.
“It allows people like me to
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, March 7.2004
Conditions placed on the
rezoning request include pro
hibiting development of the
area until sewer service is
available.
Also during the meeting,
commissioners are expected
to appoint members to a
committee that will examine
whether the county should
impose a ban against smok
ing in public areas including
restaurants.
That committee will then
present its findings and make
a recommendation to the
board at a later date.
Last week, the state
Senate passed legislation
against smoking in public.
For the regulation to become
state law. it would have to
pass in the same, exact form
through the House of
Representatives and be
signed by the governor.
do my work.” she said.
Cohan’s work has been
teaching and learning for almost
four decades. At 58, she is ready
to spend more time at her
Forsyth home playing with her
nephew. Joshua, and dog Zooey.
Cohan was born in
Brooklyn, N.Y.. and grew up in
Miami, Fla., with her two broth
ers. She graduated from the
University of Georgia with a
bachelor’s degree. While teach
ing in Florence. S.C.. Cohan
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In other business during
the meeting, commissioners
are expected to discuss:
• Authorizing public
hearings for an ordinance
regulating door-to-door solic
itation.
The ordinance, if passed,
would require door-to-door
salesmen to wear an identifi
cation badge and obtain per
mits from the county.
• A change order of
$129,790 to Townley
Construction of Dawsonville
to place water lines on Post
and Kelly Mill roads.
• Rejecting bids for the
construction of a 100,000-
gallon overflow sewage stor
age tank and reviewing
options to lower the cost.
The three bids received
for the project were more
than $400,000 each.
earned her master’s degree at
Francis Marion College. She
later finished a doctorate degree
at Georgia State University.
The school system is adver
tising for applicants to fill
Cohan's position. It will be a
tough job to find a replacement
to fill the associate superinten
dent’s shoes. But as Cohan is
fond of saying, “There’s just
nothing that’s too big to take
on"
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