Roswell’s 6th Annual Decorating Contest

Is your house the envy of all your neighbors at this time of year?  Do you get really creative with your decorating, making your yard into a winter wonderland?  Do visitors have to wear sunglasses to approach your house at night because of all the lights?  If you love to decorate the outside of your home for the holidays and you live in Roswell, you should enter Roswell’s 6th Annual Holiday Decorating Contest! 

Residents, subdivisions, businesses, religious and civic organizations are all invited to participate.  Cash prizes are awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category, and for the first time this year a People’s Choice Award will be given.  (Might help pay for some of that electric bill come January!)

Entries must be submitted by Dec. 5th. 2008.  Judging will be done by an impartial panel between Dec. 8th and Dec. 11th.  Judges will base their evaluations on creativity, originality, thematic elements and overall design.

For more information or to enter, Click Here.

And don’t forget to participate in judging the People’s Choice Award.  Enjoy a nice drive, while viewing the best holiday decorations in the city.  Maybe you’ll even start a new family holiday tradition!  Click Here during the week of Dec. 8th through 11th for a map of entries, drive by the displays, then log on again to cast your vote!

For tips on decorating your home for the holidays, just hit the lights below.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Huge Turnouts for Roswell Elementary Redistricting Meetings

Update:  The final redistricting meeting was held on December 10th.  A large crowd was on hand to review and give feedback to the school board on the the final proposed map.  To see the map, Click Here.  If you would like to give your input to the school board, they welcome your comments.  Please e-mail them at planning@fultonschools.org with Bham Redistricting in the subject line.

A new elementary school currently being built in Milton on Birmingham Highway is set to open in time for the new school year in August of 2009. Classroom additions are also being added at two Roswell elementary schools, Roswell North and Mountain Park, to open at the same time. This means the existing attendance zones for other North Fulton elementary schools will need to be changed to create new boundaries. This is good news for Roswell as it will help address overcrowding issues at some of our local schools - targeting those located West of GA 400.

The Fulton County School Board has a redistricting process to get community input on the new attendance zones, and several meetings have already occurred with huge turnouts from the community. Not only have parents of students in the impacted schools attended, but also people from the area without elementary aged children who want to show support for their neighborhood schools.

The next and final meeting is on December 10th from 7-9 pm at the Milton Center (86 School Drive, Alpharetta.) To find out more about the process, the proposed plans, and next steps, Click Here.