by Arlinda Smith Broady | Mar 10, 2023 | Community, Education
Countywide initiative encourages parents, caregivers to get kids school ready as early as birth. Everyone pretty much believes in the adage that it’s never too late to learn. But a Gwinnett County Public Schools initiative has made it a mission to encourage parents,...
by Arlinda Smith Broady | Mar 10, 2023 | Community, Home & Land
The mayor says the wealth isn’t what makes this city special – it’s the people. Although Georgia is home to some of the largest companies in the world — Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and Delta Air Lines — it’s also home to 17 billionaires, according to Forbes magazine. Just...
by Arlinda Smith Broady | Mar 9, 2023 | Community, Fashion and Design
Pinckneyville Middle student Maya Robinson portrays Rapunzel as part of a collection of dolls across the African diaspora. As a typical teen, Maya Robinson had no aspirations to be in the spotlight. An eighth grader at Pinckneyville Middle School, she gets good...
by Glenn Boylan | Mar 9, 2023 | Community, Faith
Cemeteries are where people’s lives are remembered and honored. Certainly, that’s true for the Duluth Church Cemetery on the south end of Main Street in downtown Duluth. It contains the graves of almost every person who played a significant role in the founding and...
by Nathan Deen | Mar 8, 2023 | Community
Santiago Restrepo and Lesly Montoya signed up to be lifeguards in high school thinking it would be a convenient and temporary summer job. But now Restrepo is going on his fifth year working at the West Gwinnett Aquatic Center in Norcross and just started a new...
by Arlinda Smith Broady | Mar 8, 2023 | Community
Born and raised in Gwinnett County, Major J.D. Griffin vows to ‘police the way I want to be policed.’ Although you don’t see the phrase, “protect and serve” on police vehicles these days, Major J.D. Griffin, the new commander of Gwinnett County’s West Precinct...
