Good Morning Gwinnett Podcast

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com If Gwinnett County Public Schools offered an opportunity for its roughly 25,000 employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine from public health officials, more than 60% of the educators who are in schools and deal directly with students said they would take advantage of it, according to a district survey. The school system began making plans to survey its employees about thei...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Eric Bailey spends his mornings and afternoons working full time as a forensic investigator, assisting the Gwinnett County Medical Examiner’s Office in uncovering unnatural causes of death. After long days on the job, he heads to his Lawrenceville home to undergo dialysis treatments lasting 10 hours. A few years ago, Bailey went to his doctor after noticing a nasty tas...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Gwinnett County commissioners are discussing the possibility of using a county ordinance to reduce the punishment someone could face for possessing small amounts of marijuana, including eliminating jail time. Commissioner Kirkland Carden pitched the idea of decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana to his colleagues on Tuesday. It doesn’t make marijuana...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Gwinnett County Public Schools recently ordered 32,000 laptops for students, Superintendent J. Alvin Wilbanks told the county’s state legislative delegation recently in a videoconference. Wilbanks said the new Google Chromebooks should arrive sometime around next month. SOURCE: www. AJC.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-morni...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com A Gwinnett County resource to help residents struggling through the coronavirus pandemic just got a boost in funding. The Lawrenceville Response Center, which opened last April, this month received more than half a million dollars in additional funding, including money from the city and the county. The center raised $175,000 through donations which was then matched by...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Amaadi's journey as a wellness practitioner started at home, because movement was a must in her family. When she and her brother were young, their mother would wake them up before sunrise to bike or jog around the neighborhood before school. So, movement has always been a part of her life. Her mother made sure of it. She added healthy nutrition habits to her movement p...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Parents who support both keeping J. Alvin Wilbanks as Gwinnett County Public Schools’ superintendent and keeping in-person learning available for families who want it gathered at the district’s offices on Tuesday to make their voices heard. Nearly three dozen parents, who said they speak for a larger group of families who could not attend the mid-day rally, chanted “We...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Peachtree Corners could become the birthplace of new self-driving technology used in cars sold to the public in the near future. The Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners, the Gwinnett city’s publicly funded innovation lab, recently purchased a Ford Edge vehicle with self-driving capabilities. The city will allow private companies to test their autonomous driving systems...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com “Helping communities thrive is at the core of what we do, and we’re pleased to lend a hand in a place that so many Boehringer Ingelheim employees call home,” said Randolph Legg, president of the pharmaceutical corporation’s U.S. Animal Health business and a director of BI Cares, in the news release. The Gwinnett school district has about 177,000 students and slightly m...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com The Gwinnett, Newton and Rockdale Health Department is preparing to open a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Gwinnett Place Mall this weekend. The health department said the site, which will be located at the former Sears location at the Duluth area mall, is set to hold a soft opening on Friday to handle a small number of patients so any logistical issues can be worked...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Gwinnett County Public Schools is hosting a virtual event for district students who plan to become teachers. It will include a celebration of the high school seniors who have signed a letter of intent to teach in Gwinnett after earning the required degrees or certificates. The annual event, known as teacher signing day, will be at 7 p.m. Monday. Katie Blum, teacher of...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com There are 19 confirmed cases of the UK variant of the COVID-19 virus that have now shown up in Georgia, and Gwinnett County is one of the places where the variant has emerged, the Georgia Department of Public Health announced on Monday. In all, there are nine Georgia counties — all of which are in metro Atlanta — where the UK variant, also known as COVID variant B.1.1....

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Self-driving scooters are on a roll in Peachtree Corners, where residents will continue to see them cruising through Atlanta Technology Park without a driver. The e-scooters debuted in May 2020, giving approximately 8,000 employees a new way to traverse the 500-acre technology park. The Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners, the Gwinnett city’s publicly funded innovation...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Adam English enters his third year as the Vice President and General Manager for the Gwinnett Stripers in 2021. He was named to the position in November of 2018. This year will be his 17th in professional baseball. English joined the Stripers following six seasons leading the ticket sales department for the Sacramento River Cats (Triple-A, San Francisco Giants). Hired...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com ATLANTA - State Rep. David Clark, R-Buford, said he will not be forced to take "any unnecessary medical test" after Georgia House Speaker David Ralston ejected him from the House floor Tuesday for refusing to take a COVID-19 test. Clark hasn’t taken a single test for the virus since the 2021 General Assembly convened on Jan. 11, a violation of rules the House adopted a...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Lawrenceville is one of the latest Gwinnett cities to consider banning smoking products from its public parks and recreational facilities. At a work session of the Lawrenceville City Council earlier this month, Deputy City Manager Steve North recommended an update to the city’s park and recreation ordinance to reflect the county’s tobacco-free policy implemented in Oct...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com The five-member Gwinnett County Public Schools board of education unanimously Thursday chose Everton Blair Jr. as this year’s chair, kicking off a new era after the departure of former chair Louise Radloff, who served nearly half a century on the board. Blair, 28, two years ago became the Gwinnett school board’s first Black member. No other members were nominated for p...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Maria Taylor is the President of ChildCare Education Institute (CCEI), a professional development company specializing in providing online training and certificates, child care registry development, and administrative solutions for the early care and education industry. Maria is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of DirectoryNET, LLC., prior to her positi...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com The Gwinnett County Public Library will hand out food later this month to those struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. Beginning Jan. 27, the library will stop at its Buford location on Wednesdays and its Centerville location on Thursdays to distribute meals to the community. Gwinnett County residents can stop by the branches to pick up a frozen meal on these days...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com In response to pandemic concerns and the upheaval over social justice that swept metro Atlanta and the nation last year, more Gwinnett teachers are publicly criticizing the school district — and some want explicit protections against retaliation for doing so. Only a handful of people addressed the school board at meetings before the pandemic reached Georgia, and only s...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Alice O’Lenick Election Boards New Chairwoman — who referred to 2020 as a “terrible elections cycle” during the GOP meeting — outlined several changes pertaining to elections that she would like to see made in Georgia. Several of them pertain to how Georgians can cast ballots ahead of election day. One of them is having the state require up to 21 days of early voting —...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com . Today is one of the hardest days of my life. Today we lay my mom to rest. I’m grateful for the time we had her with us. I’m grateful that my family and friends are altogether today. This will be tough, but I know God will bring us through this. Thank You all for your prayers I really appreciate you all and love you to life for loving me. Become a supporter of this po...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com The Norcross Police Department is hiring. Starting salaries can be up to $47,633 and certified officers will receive a $2,000 hiring bonus. Benefits include 11 paid holidays, 80 vacation hours, 80 hours of sick leave, full medical benefits, life insurance, retirement and a take home car. To apply, you must be at least 21 years old, have a high school diploma or GED, be...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com New Gwinnett District Attorney Patsy Austin-Gatson and Solicitor General Brian Whiteside have agreed to pay fines to the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission for campaign violations, according to an attorney for the commission. Austin-Gatson has agreed to pay a $2,500 fine to the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com the proposed changes include $200,000 for warming stations, to help homeless residents find shelter when the temperatures dip below freezing. Matthew Elder, the director of HomeFirst Gwinnett, said a partner had received a grant to pay staff at such a shelter overnight, after failing to find enough volunteers to do so as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. But Elder...