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Frigid temperatures hitting Gwinnett With possible snow, wind chills below zero degrees, Hopewell Church opens as shelter BY ISABEL HUGHES
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With frigid temperatures expected to grip Gwinnett and much of Georgia for the next several days, on
Tuesday, the county opened a public warming center to give residents a reprieve from the cold. Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church opened its doors at 4 p.m. at 182 Hunter St. in Norcross as a
Swanson said. “They’ll need a place to warm up, and the kind folks at Hopewell have stepped up to assist.” Though officials said the church does not provide sleeping accommodations, food, medical care or pet sheltering, with wind chills below zero, residents should not hesitate to come by. Hopewell has room for
temporary refuge from the extreme cold. “It’s going to be too cold for homeless people or anyone without adequate heating to be outside or in vehicles,” Emergency Management Director Greg
about 300 people in its warming center, and Gwinnett County will monitor its capacity. The Emergency Management office is coordinating the necessary supplies and volunteers. It also helped prepare the county’s roads for the snow that was forecast for Tuesday night. Beginning at noon Tuesday, the Georgia
Department of Transportation began brine treatment of interstates, state routes, bridges and overpasses in Gwinnett in preparation of Tuesday night’s arrival of wintry precipitation. “Please be aware of the brine trucks in your areas given they must travel 40 mph to properly apply the
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Family and friends mourn slain father Man leaves behind eight children, fiancee BY ISABEL HUGHES
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Marchers make their way to Moore Middle School from GJAC at the Gwinnett County MLK Parade in Lawrenceville on Monday. (Photos: Anthony Stalcup)
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The United Ebony Society of Gwinnett County’s Rory Johnson recalled a time — 18 years ago to be exact — when the Gwinnett County MLK Parade in Lawrenceville wasn’t very big at all. The parade was in its first year and the number of participants was small. There were only enough people in the parade to fill up one section of the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center’s parking lot, which has been the traditional staging area for the parade. It has grown a lot since then. “We have more than 2,000
people in it this year,” Johnson said. “When we first started, it was just three groups who fit in one section of the parking lot. This year, the lineup of parade participants stretches from section A all to the way to section J, and we have school groups, churches, bands, people running for office and civic groups in the parade.” The large number of people involved in this year’s 18th annual parade had organizers boasting that it was the largest See PARADE, Page 10A
Theresa Bailey, an alumna of the Hooper-Renwick School, was the keynote speaker at a ceremony before the Gwinnett County MLK Parade in Lawrenceville on Monday.
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A group of residents from one community outside Lawrenceville fumed at county commissioners Tuesday after the county leaders approved a 114-home subdivision on Simonton Road that neighbors had opposed. A decision on the Parkland Communities Inc. proposed Brookefield neighborhood had been postponed earlier this month because of John Heard questions Commissioner John Heard, who represents the area, had about the project’s impact on traffic and utilities. Heard had
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Family and friends are mourning the death of a Norcross father of eight who was shot multiple times at a Norcross apartment complex Sunday. Joseph Lamont Love, 42, was gunned down inside an apartment on Rockbridge Court in unincorporated Norcross shortly before 1:30 p.m. Sunday, where he was Joseph pronounced dead by first Love responders, according to Gwinnett County Police Department Cpl. Matthew Williamson. A second male occupant was in the apartment at the time of the incident and fled through a window when police arrived, but he later contacted Gwinnett police detectives and is not considered a suspect, Williamson said.
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