On an August day in 1984, a man from Memphis, Tennessee came to town. He was doing the business of the federal government, charged with selling an old post office building in the downtown Buford square.
City Commission Chairman Phillip Beard greeted him, and they walked across the street together. It was blistering hot...
People talk about being present – making the effort not to dwell in the past or spending precious time anticipating the future. It’s a discipline some find difficult to master.
In December 2020, the Hayhursts of Buford would be dealt a crushing blow that weaker families couldn’t have endured. The silver lining they’d discover...
Written by Jaiden Arada, Converge multimedia journalism intern and Senior at Cherokee Bluff High School
Teachers are some of the most important people in some people’s lives. They share and provide their knowledge, but they also make real life connections with their students that other people cannot provide. A...
Written by Micah Xu, Converge multimedia journalism intern and Junior at Gwinnett School of Math, Science & Technology (GSMST)
Meet Mrs. Sweat, a media specialist working at GSMST in the Student Research Center. Mrs. Sweat is not technically a teacher per se, but rather a jack-of-all-trades. She represents the heart and...
There’s a framed illustration on the wall outside the office of Dr. William L. Sheals. It’s a rough pencil sketch of a church building and adjoining architecture on the back cover of a legal pad. Across the roof of one building are the words “ED. BLDG,” and on the other, “ADM. BLDG.”
Across the...
There is a moment that repeats itself in the lives of people all over the world. It’s a moment that divides time – cutting a clear path that creates two distinct portions of one’s life: the time before and the time after it occurred.
It happens in a hospital room, with antiseptic scents and...
Celebrate. Remember. Fight Back. Join Relay For Life of Gwinnett's highly anticipated return - the cancer-fighting community organization's first in-person Relay since 2019! SIGN UP HERE!
Event Details:Saturday, May 7, 20224 p.m. – 10 p.m.Lanier High School918 Buford HwySugar Hill, GA
Presented by Primerica and Northside Hospital
For...
In this episode of the Lawrenceville Bicentennial Podcast, we talk about all the new events coming to Free Comic Book Day in Lawrenceville with Galactic Quest owner Kyle Puttkammer, his daughter Andrea Puttkammer and the city’s resident comic book and geek culture advocate Lindsey Curnow, Event Coordinator! In addition, we fan out a...