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www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Early voting for Gwinnett County's Aug. 11 runoff election will largely mirror the schedule used for last month's primary, with one major exception, elections supervisor Kristi Royston told county commissioners on Tuesday. Royston presented the proposed early voting schedule for approval by the commissioners. The biggest change between the runoff and last month's prima...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Today’s show is different because I’m sitting in my car at the Northside Imaging Center waiting for my mom who had to have an emergency CT Scan. Being able to be there for my family in situations like this is one of my main reasons that I love being an entrepreneur. The freedom that this lifestyle affords me makes it all worthwhile. I also love being a podcaster becaus...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Despite declining revenues that have caused other governments to furlough and lay off workers, the city of Lawrenceville was able to include seven new jobs and an average 7% raise for its employees in its latest budget, which took effect July 1. Lawrenceville was not immune from the downturns other cities faced; their revenues from fines, sales tax and alcohol taxes ar...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Last week my guest was Mrs. LaShawn McCrary. She is an author, intuitive and life coach. We had a wonderful conversation and touched on energy healing just a little bit. Today we will take a deep dive into understanding energy healing and how we can use it in our lives. #DailyHoroscopes Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-morning-g...

www. GoodMoringGwinnett.com I’m glad to have the results now, and I’m honored to be in the runoff,” Lee Thompson said after the county’s elections board certified the recount results Tuesday afternoon. “I’d like to congratulate Curt. He ran a good race. And, obviously Nicole, she ran an excellent race.” The recount showed Lee Thompson received 14,271 votes, which is two less than he had been credi...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Gwinnett has added 11 additional locations to the county’s Summer Meals Program bringing the total to 31 sites for free grab-and-go breakfasts and lunches for children 18 years old and younger. The program, temporarily on hold, is expected to resume Monday, June 29. Parents, caregivers and community groups can pick up nutritious meals to take home to children, or child...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Ironshield Brewing and Big Kettle Brewing are bringing 60 jobs and $10M in capital investment with the opening of its operations on N. Clayton Street in Lawrenceville. Of the new jobs created, 40 percent will be in manufacturing and 60 percent in sales/admin/marketing. Big Kettle Brewing, which is open now, is a purpose-built contract brewing facility producing craft b...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com LaShawn’s passion is teaching women how to own their power (self-love). As an intuitive, love coach, author and speaker she specializes in guiding women to accept and embrace their soul’s mission, see themselves as God sees them and know that they are enough! She’s fulfilling her purpose by speaking, coaching, writing books and having conversations that empower women t...

www. GoodMornigGwinnett.com Georgia lawmakers reached across the aisle Tuesday to pass a contentious hate-crimes bill that aims to protect people in the Peach State from acts of violence or property damage perpetrated because of the victim’s race, sex or gender. House Bill 426 was pushed through the Senate after stalling there for more than a year, following its passage out of the state House of R...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Democrat Curt Thompson, who finished third in the primary race for chair of the Gwinnett County Commission, has requested a recount. Thompson finished 20 votes behind Lee Thompson, Jr. The second-place finisher will face Nicole Love Hendrickson in an August runoff. She had more than 49% of the vote, but did not get enough votes to win outright. Curt Thompson said he ch...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com State Rep. Shelly Hutchinson, D-Snellville, has authored House Bill 1212, which would prohibit confederate monuments, as well as statues of individuals who advocated for slavery, from being displayed on public property — except in Civil War battlefields and museums. The bill's filing comes one year after the Georgia General Assembly passed legislation to protect those...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Dr. Braxton A. Cosby is a physical therapist, receiving his Clinical Doctorate from the University of Miami. With over 19 years of professional experience as a presenter, licensed Physical Therapist, program facilitator, Certified Clinical Instructor, Sports Nutritionist, and Personal Trainer, Braxton currently works with both bariatric and geriatric patients in Atlant...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com The Chestnut Family Foundation donated $25,000 to Helping Mamas, which has more than tripled its distribution of baby supplies in just over two months due to the pandemic. Helping Mamas is the sole baby supply bank in the state, located at 4487 Park Dr. in Norcross. “The generous donation from the Chestnut Family Foundation will help us serve thousands of more families...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com The counting of absentee-by-mail ballots in Gwinnett County is still underway nearly a week after the state's primary election, a county spokesman confirmed Monday. Gwinnett received about 86,563 mail-in ballots for the primary, far eclipsing the usual amount of absentee-by-mail ballots received for elections in the county. The state's general primary as well as its pr...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Several recent racial incidents at Gwinnett schools have officials at the state’s largest school system scrambling to find answers. The recent national protests highlighting the racial divide in the country have ramped up officials’ sense of urgency to handle these difficult matters. The county’s issues also mirror incidents at other metro Atlanta school districts. Jus...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Penny is a wife, mother sister and friend and daughter of loving parents. She loves God and is a follower of Christ. She has been a community member of Gwinnett for 39 years. She is in love with her African American Heritage and is a Geechy Girl in her soul. She is passionate about loving and advocating for her Black Community. She has diligently worked for equity and...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Election day did not go as well as elections officials in Gwinnett County probably would have liked as voters hit the polls on Tuesday to cast ballots in the state’s presidential preference and general primary elections only to find equipment issues at several precincts. In what is the first major test of Georgia’s new voting machines in Gwinnett, there were reports of...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com With Butch Conway electing to not seek another term in office, the field to replace the longtime Gwinnett County sheriff is wide open, with four Democrats and two Republicans running to replace him. Republican Lou Solis, Conway’s chief deputy, has received the sheriff’s endorsement. When announcing his retirement in January, Conway said he had hired Solis in 2017 hopin...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com With the June 9th primary just one day away I will be joined today by Derrick J. Wilson who is running for Gwinnett County District 3 Commissioner. Derrick says that his goal is to unite Gwinnett even more and to make sure that there is adequate transportation in his district. He wants to make sure that the government refect the community and be more diverse. He is als...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Chef Hank Reid Hank Reid is the Founder and Executive Director of Trinity Community Culinary Institutes, Inc. a non-profit organization purposed to establish an educational and creative learning program, offering classroom instruction, seminars, workshops and employment training to the local community in a recreational environment in the area of Culinary Arts. The foun...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Gwinnett County has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in coronavirus assistance from the Atlanta Regional Commission to help ensure seniors in the county have access to meals. The ARC awarded $306,915 to Gwinnett as part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act so the county can expand its meal-delivery services to older adults. It's part of a $1.9 millio...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com A protest in downtown Lawrenceville remained largely peaceful Monday evening, ending with police officers and city officials bowing their heads in prayer with the 500 or so protestors at the scene. Though police officers blocked off several streets to keep the protestors from marching away from City Hall and were equipped with shields, zip ties and pepper spray, by the...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com awrenceville officials are expected to implement a 9 p.m. curfew for the city on Monday after two days of protests in or near Gwinnett County's government seat in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, according to City Manager Chuck Warbington. "Probably (Monday) due to a planned protest at 5 at city hall," Warbington said when asked on Sunday night if...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com William Hayashi is a life-long member of the Information Technologies industry. Beginning as a programmer in the early 1970s. He currently owns his own business consulting firm and donates much of his time to the creation and maintenance of computer labs for schools, after school study centers and adult education programs. He is an author of novels, short stories, moti...

www. GoodMorningGwinnett.com Mississippi State Coach Football Coach Tre' Bell joins me today at the table. We will be talking education, football, discipline, careers and more. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/good-morning-gwinnett-podcast--3262933/support . 🎙️ Good Morning Gwinnett Podcast The #1 hyperlocal podcast in Georgia, produced by Noise Media Network. C...