A Beautiful Day in Lawrenceville! The cans and cants of recycling.
We’re back with a new podcast! We sat down with Barry Mock, Lawrenceville Assistant City Manager and Public Works Director, and Schelly Marlatt, the Executive Director of Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful, to learn all about keeping Lawrenceville and...
In the parking lot of a building that bears her name off 316 in Lawrenceville, Louise Radloff gets out of her car. It’s rainy and cold out this morning, but she’s unhindered by these kinds of things. She’s 86 but feels good. She still runs four and a half miles on the treadmill at 5 every morning...
Some of the best ideas come along when we least expect. Lt. Manfred Sandler was 23 years old, serving compulsory time in a South African military hospital when he embarked on an idea.
Quickly, he scribbled in a notebook plans for a medical center that made sense to him, drawing up the design to...
Some call them moments of lucidity – those fleeting, crystal clear glimpses that sum up a situation or circumstance in a way not previously seen.
In a lifetime of public service, leadership and decidedly humble beginnings, Wayne Hill, now 80 years old, says it was in these rare moments that it came into focus...
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...
You can try to keep up with Wayne Mason, but you’ll fall behind. Even at 82, Mason is a human calculator, solving problems in his head with a nimble precision that’s almost uncanny.
His mind shines. You can see it in his eyes. They are alive and bright as he speaks in a swift...
It’s the mid-50s in middle Georgia. The sun beats down on Beauty Poole as she drags a cotton sack from one end of a sharecropping field to the other. Beauty wipes the sweat from her forehead and looks around. She isn’t alone; her brother and sisters work side by side with Beauty, harvesting....
Lawrenceville Marks 200 Years with Big Celebration
Lawrenceville’s Bicentennial celebration went off with a bang Wednesday night, as residents packed a brand-new venue built by the city on the historic downtown square.
The recently opened Lawrenceville Arts Center played host to the evening’s festivities, which included speeches...
