Alpharetta News Archives

“Jittery Joe's is one of the few coffee shops that's college town tested because they've been so successful in Athens”

Jittery Joe's Coffee is coming to Macon. The Athens-based roaster and coffeehouse is the second new business to be located in Mercer Village, a recently restored development at Montpelier and Linden avenues ... via The Macon Telegraph

“Those who cheat Medicare are cheating the American taxpayers who ultimately bear the financial loss”

A federal jury on Monday found a former medical supply company executive guilty of stealing more than $600,000 in Medicare funds and more than $360,000 from her company. via The Macon Telegraph

“DNA is a physical code that describes you ... and in many ways so are your antibodies”

Federal researchers say they've developed a human identification test that's faster and possibly cheaper than DNA testing. via SiliconValley.com

“They were an animal that never really got worked with very much in other zoos not to any great extent and that was something we wanted to change so that took over our lives and its become a full-time occupation.”

Roger and Debbie Nelson have always loved animals, especially Kangaroos. "I've always a very special feeling for kangaroos." says Debbie. via WBIR-TV Knoxville

“We are in the last stretch of actually getting a permit”

Tan and built like the college fullback he used to be, developer Stan Thomas lives on a ranch 38 miles south of Atlanta, where prize Angus cattle are nurtured and sold. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“For nonprofits that serve vulnerable people, failure to screen volunteers may prove far more costly than background checks”

At least 144 people with criminal records seek employment or a volunteer opportunity every day with a nonprofit organization, Alpharetta-based ChoicePoint reported today after a new audit of its records. via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“We continue our investment to ensure we have the best, most advanced services and reliable network in Georgia and across the country. And customers appreciate it. More people continually choose Verizon Wireless over any other wireless company”

Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, announced today the continued investment to enhance and expand its network across Georgia. via TechWeb.com

“There's still a lot to do but it's right on schedule.”

Trudging over the packed and graded Georgia Clay, Don Fox, the Chief Financial Officer of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, proudly surveys the 45 plus acres off Haynes Bridge Road in Alpharetta. via MyATLtv.com

“It'll allow us to move higher up in the food chain ... we're currently in the Asian and North American markets, and this opens up the rest of the world - Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and elsewhere”

Enablence Technologies Inc. is set to make its third purchase in less than two years, this time Georgia-based Wave7 Optics Inc. via Ottawa Business Journal

The development team for the Windward Mill project is be hosting a open house, informational meeting on Monday April 21th and Tuesday April 22nd from 7 PM to 9PM at Roam at Windward Crossing at the corner of ... via Local Newspapers for North Fulton and...

“The significance is we still have a lot of foreclosures going forward”

A record number of metro Atlanta properties are scheduled to be auctioned on the courthouse steps next month, according to numbers released Tuesday by Equity Depot, an Alpharetta company that tallies ... via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A woman stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth jewelry from an Alpharetta store, police said. via CBS 46

“I didn't know she was working at the other jewelry store”

Police say The Shane Company in Alpharetta wasn't the only victim of an employee suspected of pocketing $1.2 million in jewels. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“And now we will all come together and pull ourselves out of this.”

With the mortgage crisis deepening, Congress is trying to come up with a new plan to help homeowners who are facing foreclosure -- as many as 2 million this year. via WXIA-TV Atlanta

Please join us on Monday, April 7th at 6:00 PM for the monthly Microsoft Professionals / Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET / VB Study Group meeting at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta. via Blah Blah Blog [Ryan Rogers]

Police say a jewelry store worker is facing charges in two counties for stealing 1.2 million dollars in merchandise from her employer. via WTLV

She's detailing her experiences -- and her headache -- in Tuesday's blog. My photographer Dan Reilly and I, both have pounding headaches. via WXIA-TV Atlanta

Infor software offers insight into consumption patterns Enterprise software vendor Infor, out of Alpharetta, Ga., is positioning its application as a means of helping companies better organize their corporate ... via ZD Net

A minister has been arrested on charges he molested two teenage girls.

Police arrested the Reverend Derek Gillet on March 7 on two counts of aggravated child molestation and two counts of sodomy. The 38-year-old Gillet was youth director at Midway United Methodist Church in Alpharetta until last May when he left to start his own congregation, Cornerstone Community Church in Forsyth County.

Police took Gillet into custody at his Alpharetta home. He's being held without bond in the Cherokee County jail. Read more

“But at the same time, they're going for a cleaner look that's not overdone, using pieces they appreciate.”

It's a family affair at Accentrics Design, the decor and design store in Alpharetta. via Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“For the last two years, Corrections has asked for the entire amount it needed, but each year we've only approved what was needed for the coming year”

Two years after the announcement that the Georgia Department of Corrections would move its headquarters and training center to the former Tift College campus, major work is under way there. via The Macon Telegraph