Gwinnett Daily Post
‘HUGE FOR EARLY VOTING’
Gwinnett County’s elections headquarters will have more space to accommodate voters who want to cast ballots early ahead of Georgia’s primary election in May and general election in November. County officials officially opened the renovated...
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FESTIVE ENCORE
The popular Atlanta Christkindl Market announced this week that it will return to the Lawrenceville Lawn later this year. Lawrenceville officials said 370,800 people visited the market last year during its first Christmas season in the city. The...
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Georgia’s youngest lawmaker
At 22, Georgia Rep. Akbar Ali, D-lawrenceville, is the state’s youngest lawmaker. Whether he was organizing climate marches in high school or rechartering the Gwinnett Young Democrats, Ali has long been civically engaged. The driving force behind...
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‘TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECT’
Gwinnett County has been talking about redeveloping the OFS site along Interstate 85 for nearly a decade, but Commission Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson announced Friday that county leaders are now ready to determine how the property should be...
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‘THIS IS RIDICULOUS’
The owners of the Yellow River Wildlife Sanctuary in south Gwinnett are in the fight of their animal refuge’s life. The threat the sanctuary is facing is 280 townhomes, single family homes and apartments residences that Virginia-based Middleburg...
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‘CREATE A BLUEPRINT’
Leaders in the fight to get more affordable housing in Gwinnett County have kicked off construction on what they hope will be a model for other metro Atlanta communities to follow. The Gwinnett Housing Corporation held a ceremonial kick off Wednesday...
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SOGGY STEPS
More than 1,700 people participated in this year’s Run the Reagan Road Race in Snellville. The event, sponsored by Piedmont Eastside, featured a half marathon, a 10K, a 5K and a fun run. Proceeds from the event, in its 31st year, go to three local...
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TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN?
Voters in about a dozen areas located on the edge’s of Lawrenceville’s city limits have a choice they have to make this spring: do they become part of the city or not. An annexation referendum will be held in conjunction with the May 19 statewide...
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‘SOMETHING REALLY IMPORTANT’
Former Congresswoman Carolyn Bourdeaux is used to dealing with financial issues and government, having led the Georgia Senate’s Budget and Evaluation Office during the Great Recession and later serving two years in Congress. But now she’s taking on...
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ALL HEART
Fifty-one years have passed since “Magic Man” kicked off Heart’s debut album, “Dreamboat Annie,” but that song and all of the other hits that followed don’t feel old for Ann and Nancy Wilson. Whether it’s “Magic Man,” “Barracuda,” “Crazy on You,”...
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‘OUR FALLEN BROTHER’
Above: Gwinnett County Police Lt. Collin Mcclendon speaks about fallen Police Officer Senior Pradeep Tamang during a celebration of life service at 12Stone Church in Lawrenceville on Saturday morning. Top left: Georgia State Patrol troopers salute...
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‘SERVING & PROTECTING’
Pradeep Tamang’s favorite color was orange, but his life path ultimately led him to the thin blue line. Like many people his age, the 25-year-old Gwinnett County police officer enjoyed spending his free time watching videos on social media. He was an...
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‘HEARTBROKEN’
The news of the death of Gwinnett County Police Officer Senior Pradeep Tamang and the wounding of Master Police Officer David Reed over the weekend has brought condolences from all levels of government in Georgia, from federal and state officer holders...
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‘WHERE GOD WANTED ME TO BE’
Dr. Candice Richardson’s path to the classroom didn’t follow the traditional route many teachers take. In fact, her path to teaching went through a doctor’s office in the Bahamas, where she grew up in Nassau. You see, Richardson started her...
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‘NO MAJOR ISSUES’
Gwinnett County did get some ice, according to trained spotters for the National Weather Service, but Winter Storm Fern ended up not being the major disaster local officials feared it would be on the county’s roadways. Gwinnett was under an ice storm...
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[INSERT NEW NAME HERE] FIELD
For 15 years, Gwinnettians have only known the home of the Gwinnett Stripers as Coolray Field, but they’re going to have to get used to a new name, for now: Gwinnett Field. Coolray Heating and Air’s longtime contract to hold the baseball stadium’s...
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‘PEACE AND HARMONY’
As Gwinnett County residents prepared to participate in the United Ebony Society of Gwinnett County’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade, they were reminded not only of what he did but also what they must do to preserve his legacy. County...
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Snellville opens The Grove’s Towne Center Market
Like most teenagers, Kierra Mays was ready to get out of her hometown of Snellville and see more of the world after she graduated from South Gwinnett High School in 2015. Even she started up her bakery, Keys Cakery, and wanted to move it from a food...
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Lashawna Edwards comes from “a family of givers.” Helping the less fortunate has always been a way of life, so having the tables turned on her was hard. “We’ve done all these things, to find ourselves on the other side of it, sometimes it’s a little...
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‘The greatest privilege’
Jason Lane said that from an early age he knew he was destined to be a teacher. “I had always wanted to be a teacher growing up,” said Lane, who for the last 13-plus years has served as principal at Mill Creek High School. “I really enjoyed school,...
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‘WELL LOVED’
A park that has been popular with Suwanee residents since it opened nearly 30 years ago is getting a major facelift. Suwanee is beginning construction for a nearly $846,000 renovation of Main Street Park this week. The renovation will provide a...
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‘BRINGING US ALL TOGETHER’
Buford resident Lenora Taylor was so inspired by a group of Buddhist monks who are walking across 10 states to promote peace that she had to see them twice on Wednesday. She saw them cross into Gwinnett County near Mt. Carmel Church on Old Stone...
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JOURNALIST MARIO GUEVARA IS ARRESTED AND DEPORTED
Another big story in 2025, not just in Gwinnett, but across the nation, was the federal government’s crackdown on immigration. That story came to Gwinnett in a big way this past summer when journalist Mario Guevara was arrested while covering an...
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‘It’s very expensive to live here’
Jeannie Johnson works two fulltime jobs. The single mother registers patients for hospitals in Atlanta and Snellville. Her four children are grown but two still live at home. Her daughter, Anayah, works full time and has considered moving out. “She...
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CHEERFUL CROWDS
Christmas came early for downtown Lawrenceville and the Atlanta Christkindl Market this year and the gift under the tree was people — lots and lots of people. This year marked the market’s first year at the Lawrenceville Lawn after spending the last...
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TITLE TWOSOME
Gwinnett County’s supremacy in high school football continued with two more state championships this week. Buford won the Class AAAAAA state championship — its 15th all-time and first in Georgia’s largest classification — with a 28-21 victory over...
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FROM STORYBOOK TO CELLO
Cellist Heewon Jeon’s inspiration for her upcoming solo performance at the Gwinnett County Public Library’s Duluth branch was a book she gave her young niece. Jeon, who is in the final months of her PHD program at Indiana University’s prestigious...
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A welcome addition
By first grade, Jennifer Hayduk knew public school was not going to work for her son. Tyler was coming home with scratches on his face, and once or twice with a bruise. His severe autism made communication almost impossible. He could not tell his...
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‘OLD TOWN AMERICAN FEEL’
Lawrenceville residents Avery Boutin and Jordan Lettis had never been to the Atlanta Christkindl Market before this year, but with it now settled in in their hometown, they were eager to check it out. They were among the vast numbers of people who...
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