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If you're a Milton High School student then we have something for you. For the past two years, we have designed the logo and T-shirts for our annual Milton Roundup. This year, you're the artist.

The winning entry will be featured as the 2009 Milton Roundup logo and will be placed on all the posters and advertisements prior to the October celebration as well as on all T-shirts at the event. The deadline for the contest is May 1.

The student whose design is selected will win a $100 cash prize and will have their signature on the design. Be creative and have fun with it. Remember, the City of Milton is a distinctive community that embraces small-town life and heritage while preserving and enhancing the city's rural character.

Entries may be hand drawn or electronically designed.

E-mail all entries to linda.blow@cityofmiltonga.us or deliver them to City Hall.

If you have questions, call Milton City Hall at 678.242.2500.

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The Milton High School Debate Team was recently named the 2008-2009 GHSA AAAA/AAAAA State Debate Champions. Milton's affirmative team members are Meredith McKay and Austin Layton, with Ken Bailey and Farzon Lotfi as Milton's negative team. Along with this team accomplishment, Austin Layton was named the state's top affirmative speaker and Ken Bailey the top negative speaker. Pictured are Principal Ron Tesch, Layton, Bailey, Lotfi, McKay and Coach Jeremy Spiegel.

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Eight Fulton County high schools are “AP Honor Schools” according to a recent announcement made by the Georgia Department of Education. Advanced Placement, or AP, classes and exams are administered by the College Board and offer rigorous college-level learning options to students in high school.

The 2009 AP Honor Schools are named in three categories based on the results of 2007-08 AP classes and exams: (1) AP Challenge Schools (schools with fewer than 900 students that offer AP classes in core content areas); (2) AP Access and Support Schools (schools with higher percentages of minority students taking AP classes and scoring highly) and (3) AP Merit Schools.

The AP Merit Schools distinction recognizes those with at least 20 percent of students taking AP exams and with at least half of those exams receiving a score of three or higher. Eight of the 27 schools in this category are from the Fulton County School System. This is the second consecutive year that each have been named AP Merit Schools.

· Alpharetta High School

· Centennial High School

· Chattahoochee High School

· Milton High School

· North Springs Charter High School

· Northview High School

· Riverwood International Charter School

· Roswell High School

The College Board administers AP exams each spring, with scores ranging from one to five. Students who receive a three, four or five on AP exams are eligible receive college credit or may be exempt from some introductory college courses.

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Hundreds of parents came to Autrey Mill Middle School on Monday night to get a glimpse of the proposed attendance lines for the new high school under construction in Johns Creek.

The proposed maps were the result of comments and suggestions submitted from an earlier meeting. Suggestions are generally boiled down into two or three possibilities, but this time four options were presented.

"I was afraid that if we didn't put all of the options out there, people would say, 'Why didn't you consider this?'" said Patrick Burke, the chief facilities officer for Fulton County Schools.

Ashley Widener, District 5 school board representative, said the planning staff offered up so many options with the hope that "the community will help come up with a better plan."

The school populations most affected by the redistricting so far are Alpharetta, Chattahoochee and Northview. Attendance zones for Centennial, Milton and Roswell are not affected at this time because a new high school is planned for the Freemanville area in 2012 that will require redistricting.

After an hour long presentation by Burke, the more than 350 parents broke into small groups and gave additional input on the four options. Those ideas and comments be used to condense the four maps into one or two by the next meeting later in the month.

Community members who were unable to make the meeting can participate via the district's Web site, where the handouts from the meeting and the four maps can be viewed.

Labels: Alpharetta, Attendance Maps, Chattahoochee, High School, Johns Creek, Northview

For Centennial High students, Wednesday, April 2 was not a normal day. During fourth period (lunchtime for many students), an announcement came to immediately evacuate the building for an undisclosed reason. School newspaper editor-in-chief and senior Yaanik Desai said that he and his fellow students were caught by surprise when the announcement came.

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"We were at lunch when the announcement came," he said. "Because everyone wasn't in class, it wasn't as organized as it could have been the evacuation was a little haphazard, but we all got out to the stadium pretty quickly."

Desai said that the students immediately ruled out a fire or storm because the school did not go through the normal fire or storm drills. He recalls that there was not much fear in his fellow students because no one thought it was an intruder or a bomb threat.

Once they got outside, several teachers said that it was a chemical spill before Principal John Bartley made the announcement to the students.

"People were definitely happy to be let out early once we learned what had happened," said Desai. "I think it speaks a lot to the administration that they got us out quickly and safely under the circumstances."

Although students enjoyed their early dismissal, Desai said he was pretty sure that it will back to school as usual today.

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Buck Greene has been named the principal of the new high school under construction in Johns Creek. He begins the new position at the end of the current school year.

Since 1992, Greene has served as a teacher and an administrator in several Fulton County schools. He currently is principal of Alpharetta High School and before that was principal of Sandy Springs Middle School. Greene taught at Westlake High School, Riverwood High School and Chattahoochee High School, where he later became an assistant principal, and also was an administrator at Northwestern Middle School.

Before working in education, Greene was city manager for Midway Airlines' Atlanta hub, an experience that allowed him opportunities to travel worldwide. He also was an exchange student at England's Oxford University. These international experiences impacted his teaching and management styles, molding his schools into learning environments that embrace diversity and international culture.

Under Greene's leadership, Alpharetta High School received numerous state and national honors. Most recently, the Georgia Department of Education recognized Alpharetta as an AP Merit School for its students' high passing rates on Advanced Placement exams. The school also was recognized this year with the Governor's Cup for its high SAT achievement and was named among the Top 25 highest scoring schools in the state.

Greene received degrees from Emory University and the University of Georgia where he is pursuing his doctorate.

In addition to recruiting staff, one of Greene's first priorities will be to form a community committee for developing a unique school identity, such as its official name, mascot and colors. The school opens in August 2009.

Labels: High School, Johns Creek

Northview vs. Milton (Oct. 12); Chattahoochee vs. Milton (Nov. 9)

Mayors Mike Bodker and Joe Lockwood are ready for some footballMayors Joe Lockwood and Mike Bodker have placed a friendly bet over which city has the best football team -- Milton or Johns Creek -- with the first round of friendly competition scheduled this Friday night, Oct. 12. That’s when the Northview Titans host the Milton Eagles at 7:30 p.m. for Northview’s 2007 Homecoming.

If Milton High wins, Johns Creek Mayor Mike Bodker has to wear an Eagles jersey for the entire length of the next Johns Creek City Council meeting. If the Northview Titans win, Mayor Lockwood has to wear a Northview football jersey for an entire Milton City Council Meeting.

The competition continues on Friday night, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m., when the Chattahoochee Cougars play Milton on their home turf. The same “jersey bet” applies to the losing school’s mayor for that game, too.

Let’s cheer our team to victory so we can see Eagles jerseys in our neighboring City Council meetings all season!

Labels: Alpharetta, Chattahoochee, Eagles, Football, High School, Johns Creek, milton, Northview, Roswell, School