The Heroes Project 2018: Chad

Cancer survivor Chad Bliss is a committed Gwinnett Relay For Life volunteer and a member of its Executive Leadership Team, a group of volunteers...

The Heroes Project 2018: Jocelyn

Jocelyn Held, an adorable bundle of energy with pink glasses and curly pigtails, knows things. “She knows what chemotherapy is. She knows what a...

The Heroes Project 2018: Sandy

“Cancer has certainly tested my faith,” says survivor Sandy Osei. “But I know that if I have even the smallest amount of faith… if...

The Heroes Project 2018: Bailey

“I’m different and being different is good” — said no 16-year-old ever. Except Bailey Moody, who is both “different” in too many ways to count...

The Heroes Project 2018: Christia

Christia Burton is not your “typical” colon cancer survivor. She’s young, female, no family history or other risk factors. But in the summer of...

The Heroes Project 2018: Trish

Meet Trish Lowrie—a newly enrolled college student, a mother to three spunky children and a wife to a husband that she thinks is pretty...

The Heroes Project 2018: Kyle

When you have a big fight ahead, it helps to bring a big attitude. Meet Kyle Klerk, a young man with unbounded energy, lots of...

The Heroes Project 2018: Andrea

Andrea Cordy is a wise woman for someone so young. “There’s no good time to get cancer,” says the 36-year-old survivor. “Your world comes...

The Heroes Project 2018: Michael

Michael Sayles was a Georgia college student whose life changed on a dime his freshman year. “I went home to Illinois for Thanksgiving and...

The Rhythm of Success… or the Sad Song of Failure?

Let’s play Name that Tune. If your business was a song, what would it be? Is it a happy little number with a nice...

Wallace Graphics Relocates Operations to Gwinnett County

Wallace Graphics, a leading printing solutions provider, joined Partnership Gwinnett to announce the expansion of its operations in Gwinnett County. The announcement represents more...

Peachtree Corners Launches $2 Million Autonomous Vehicle Project

Technology Parkway, the main thoroughfare through the 500-acre Technology Park in Peachtree Corners, is about to become the testing site for a driverless vehicle...

Driverless Vehicles in Peachtree Corners

The city is about to become the testing site for the technology project.

Looking Forward

This May, I am graduating high school, and next fall, I will be in Athens. I will be studying English and music, taking literary...

Georgia SPCA: Adopt a Pet

The Georgia SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is a non-profit pet rescue organization located in Suwanee on Buford Highway. Their...

Looking Ahead to all the ‘Lasts’

Next school year will be my last year at Peachtree Ridge. As I look ahead to next year, I can't wait for my classes,...

Connecting Classroom Curriculum with the ‘Outside’ World

Shannon Costello is one of the two AP Psychology Teachers at Peachtree Ridge High school and has been at the school since 2005. Originally...

Sonnets and Sanguineness: How My Language Arts Teacher Impacted My Life

It was the first day of my second semester of high school, and I was a freshman struggling with apathy and lethargy like I...

Suwanee Town Center: Live, work, play and… shop

I moved to Suwanee when I was nine years old. One of the first places that my family found in our area was Suwanee...

Stress-Free Spring Break College Visits

"What schools are you looking at? In-state or out-of-state? What do you want to study in college?" As I get closer and closer to...