School Board public forum set Monday at Forsyth Central
Featured Stories, News October 17, 2021
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. – The Forsyth County Board of Education will hold a public forum in the Forsyth Central High School Auditorium Monday (Oct. 18) at 6 p.m.
Board members will not answer questions.
Speakers will be allotted 3 minutes for individuals and 5 minutes per group. A yellow card will be held up when there is one minute remaining and a red card will be held up when the speaker’s time has ended.
The Board Chair will call speakers to the microphone. All remarks shall be made to the Board as a body and addressed through the Chair. Remarks shall not be addressed to individual Board members.
Speakers may bring printed material and other supporting materials. These materials should be given to the Clerk of the Board.
Speakers are asked to keep their remarks civil. Profane, rude, defamatory remarks and personal attacks will not be allowed. Audience members and speakers that are disruptive will be asked to leave.
Cumming Christmas Parade is Saturday
News December 3, 2020
CUMMING Ga. — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Cumming and the 3rd Annual City of Cumming Christmas Parade is just around the corner on Saturday, Dec. 5, beginning at 5 p.m. The parade will flow from Forsyth Central High School down Tribble Gap/Castleberry Road, through downtown Cumming, and end at the Cumming Fairgrounds.
The festival following the parade at the Fairgrounds will not be held this year, but a small “tree” lighting will be presented at the Fairgrounds at approximately 6 p.m. to ignite the large tree-shaped Christmas light display on the outside of the arena.
Tribble Gap/Castleberry Road will be closed to traffic beginning at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 5 and will remain closed until the parade is completed at approximately 6:30 p.m. Participants and spectators of the parade are encouraged to wear masks and socially distance themselves as much as possible.
Cumming American Legion Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11
News, Press Release November 7, 2020
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Annual Veterans Day Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 11, beginning at 11 a.m. The event, which this year is presented by American Legion Cumming Post 307, will be held at the Cumming Veterans War Memorial, next door to the Cumming Police Department.
This free community event will feature patriotic speakers, Forsyth County Sheriff and Fire Department Honor Guard, and music from Forsyth Central High School’s Flash of Crimson Band, local homeschool groups and soloists. Those in attendance are asked to wear masks and practice social distancing as much as possible, and to reserve parking spaces at the Cumming Police Department for the elderly or those with mobility issues. Additional parking is available at the Cumming Fairgrounds and the Castleberry Road parking deck.
Everyone is welcome to come out and help honor our community’s veterans and active duty service men and women.
City leaders present city logo designs; Announce brick-a-brick program
Press Release June 29, 2020
CUMMING, Ga. – City of Cumming leaders are pleased to present the official logo designs of the Cumming City Center, as well as a community Buy-A-Brick Program, which will allow the public to purchase personalized bricks that will be incorporated into two prominent areas of the City Center.
City Center Background
The Cumming City Center is the vision of Mayor Troy Brumbalow, who heavily promoted the idea of creating the Center during his 2017 mayoral campaign in order to bring back some of the small-town charm that had been lost in downtown Cumming over the years while establishing a new community gathering place. He immediately went to work to make the project a reality after he was sworn into office in January of 2018.
Ground was broken on the project in August of 2019, and since then crews have been conducting site work in anticipation of vertical construction, which will begin later this summer. The Cumming City Center is expected to open to the public in fall of 2021.
Situated on 75 acres located between Canton Highway (Hwy. 20) and Sawnee Drive, west of downtown Cumming and behind Forsyth Central High School, the Cumming City Center development will offer a “main-street Americana” feel. Features will include approximately 117,000 square feet of retail space, a new Cumming Police and Municipal Court building, an amphitheater adjacent to a small lake, two water fountains, ample greenspace including several “pocket parks,” a miniature golf course, and an extensive trail and boardwalk system meandering above the Kelly Mill Branch stream, its tributaries and wetlands. Across Canton Highway, another 10 acres will also be donated to the City for development of additional walking trails.
Logo Creation
In creation of the City Center’s main logo, city officials and staff wanted a design that would capture the main-street Americana feel of the development while also incorporating modern elements for a classic yet unique and bold look.
“Working with graphic designers from Beeferman Design, our city team went through a fairly lengthy design process,” said Mayor Brumbalow. “The designers took our team’s initial design thoughts and ideas, and from there they created about a dozen different looks for us to review over the course of several weeks before making the final decision.
“I think we landed on a logo design that conveys all the feelings that we wanted to express, not only in just the logo, but with the Cumming City Center itself. It harkens back to a simpler time, but also just looks really sharp and cool.”
“The logo is going to fit in beautifully with the entire aesthetic of the City Center,” added Jennifer Archer, City Center Property Manager. “I think it’s something that our community can be proud of and that visitors to the City Center will remember.”
The official logo will be featured prominently throughout the City Center in areas such as the main entrance, the amphitheater, on some building exteriors as wall murals, and in all formal communications mediums such as letterhead, envelopes and staff business cards.
City staff also adopted a less formal “merchandise logo” which can be used in future creation of promotional items such as t-shirts and mugs after the Center has opened. The merchandise logo is encapsulated inside a hexagon shape. It features a representation of Sawnee Mountain and utilizes a more modern font style than the official logo.