More Flowers Coming To I-85. Gwinnett Village CID Set To Complete Beautification Of Interstate

NORCROSS — It’s hard to miss the colorful rainbow of flowers and professional landscaping when travelling along Interstate 85 near the interchanges at Jimmy Carter Boulevard, Indian Trail Road and Beaver Ruin Road. Part of the Gwinnett Village Community Improvement District’s beautification efforts, those $825,000 worth of projects have been ongoing for several years.  
With the announcement made Wednesday, in [...]

Exclusive Interview With Congressman and M.D. Tom Price of Georgia’s 6th District

WASHINGTON D.C. — Ten hours after historic health care reform legislation passed in the House of Representatives, I sat down with Republican Congressman Dr. Tom Price in his fourth floor office across the street from the U.S. Capitol. The topic of our conversation this morning was health care reform and the bill now awaiting President Barack Obama’s signature. The [...]

Wines, Wines And More Wine. Specialty Wine Shop Arrives At Lawrenceville’s Historic Square

LAWRENCEVILLE — For those who appreciate and enjoy tasting and buying bottles of fine wine, Gwinnett County’s historic downtown Lawrenceville square just got a fantastic new addition — Niko’s Wine Corner, located at 178 E. Crogan St., Suite 210.
For Niko Patel, a 12-year veteran of the industry who also owns a package store in Snellville on Scenic [...]

Eliminating World Thirst, Providing Hope And Building Relationships – That’s The Mission Of The Nonprofit ‘Defy Thirst’

LAWRENCEVILLE — They’re young, ambitious, educated, hard working and well-travelled, and the goal they have for the nonprofit organization they’ve formed — Defy Thirst— is simple. Twenty-four-year-olds’ Matt Turner and Stephen Dupuis want to empower the poverty stricken people of the world to stand up and do what their organization’s name states, defy thirst.  Turner and [...]

Evermore CID Holds First Board Meeting At Former Olympic Tennis Stadium, All Part Of An Effort To Transform The U.S. Highway 78 Business District

SNELLVILLE — With new ceiling tiles, new carpeting and the smell of fresh paint on the walls, as promised the Evermore Community Improvement District Board of Directors held its first meeting at the pro shop of the former Olympic tennis stadium Wednesday.
As soon as the telephone and data lines are installed, the CID office will move [...]

Cory Ruth Declares Candidacy For Congress

ATLANTA — Republican Cory Ruth officially threw his hat into the ring for Georgia’s 4th District U.S. Congressional seat on Saturday. He joins Liz Carter and Larry Gause in the Republican race to unseat Democrat Hank Johnson for the area that encompasses southern Gwinnett County, DeKalb County and most of Rockdale County.
“I felt like I had [...]

Evermore CID Wins Grant; Keeps Hope Alive of Redeveloping Olympic Tennis Stadium At Stone Mountain

SNELLVILLE — The effort to eventually transform the former Olympic tennis stadium at Stone Mountain got a pleasant jolt in the right direction Thursday from the Atlanta Regional Commission.
The good news came when the ARC awarded the Evermore Community Improvement District with a $40,000 grant to allow it to further study a possible multi-modal mixed use center [...]

Making T-Shirts, Preserving Memories and Much Much More. It’s All Possible At Big Frog

SNELLVILLE — Perfect, cool, neat. Those three words uttered by customers in describing their in-store experience would be music to any small business owners’ ears.
They were also exactly the words Tha Slab Boiz used to describe their experience making T-shirts Tuesday at Big Frog, Custom T-Shirts & More, located at 1905 Scenic Highway in the [...]

Gwinnett Place CID Financially Strong; Looks Ahead At Fixing Pleasant Hill Road’s I-85 Interchange

DULUTH — After hearing from its Executive Director Joe Allen that the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District was financially strong, its board of directors Wednesday received a look at plans to fix and eventually replace the Pleasant Hill Road bridge connecting with I- 85.
Anyone who knows Gwinnett County traffic woes knows the Pleasant Hill Road bridge all too well. The plan moving through at present includes reconstructing [...]

Food, Inc. Will Move You…And It Should.

ATLANTA — My wife and I watched the documentary film, Food, Inc. this week. I’m now calling out Perdue Chicken…gobble gobble. I’m also calling out its cousin, Tyson Chicken… Bawk Bawk Bawk.  
Food, Inc. is a harrowing expose about America’s industrialized food system in the last 50 to 60 years and its effect on the environment, [...]

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