http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk An online community for the city of Snellville in Gwinnett County. en-us sgast@ajc.com 2008-05-22T06:52:25-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 An online community for the city of Snellville in Gwinnett County. http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/05/22/the_man_behind.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk For a decade, all we knew was the marker. We came across it during a family blackberry-picking outing, an annual ritual that took us along rural roads. Our children were young then, and we stopped in Barrow County to use... 4056303@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-05-22T06:52:25-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/05/14/mums_the_word_t.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk A friend dropped by the other day. We got to talking and, during our side-door chat, he wondered aloud what ever happened in the double shooting in south Gwinnett County. It was a high profile crime. There was a party... 3869803@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-05-14T18:14:12-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/05/07/theft_of_booste.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk In the triage of illegal behavior, stealing money from a school booster club probably ranks in the “minor” category. But it sure does get under my skin. In recent days there have been two reports of theft from school-related but... 3695803@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-05-07T17:36:42-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/04/30/parade_sets_the.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk When the Snellville Days parade winds down Wisteria and Oak Roads Saturday morning, the event will be more than just a showcase of faces, fun, floats and attractions. It will be a parade of stories. There are the Vietnam veterans,... 3484603@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-04-30T11:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/04/28/do_you_stop_for.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk Our mission on Sunday was to travel to Columbus, pick up my 83-year-old mom and then drive her to north Alabama to spend time with her newest great-grandchild. I was driving her green Mercury Grand Marquis, traveling north on U.S.... 3450303@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-04-28T13:19:42-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/04/24/one_less_fourwa.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk The colorful little flags beside North Road in Snellville mark more than the location of utilities. They are signs of further change for the mostly residential corridor that has been overtaken by heavy, cut-through traffic. Gwinnett County Department of Transportation... 3367703@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-04-24T13:01:45-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/04/17/when_love_begin.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk Ahhh Spring! The season of flowers, young romance, proms. If you can get past the pollen you might find — as they say — “love is in the air. ” So here’s a true love story— one that started with... 3184703@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-04-17T11:24:58-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/04/10/what_drives_you.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk “I couldn’t believe it,” my daughter exclaimed. “This lady - she was about your age - cut me off and almost hit me. I honked the horn, and she flipped me off.” Uh-oh, I thought. My daughter had honked the... 3021303@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-04-10T11:36:46-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/04/03/whats_the_411_o.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk The Snellville Police Department has been in the news lately — and the subject hasn’t been crime. Snellville’s mayor announced that the city plans to buy land near city hall for a new police headquarters. Then the department’s chief, Roy... 2838003@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-04-03T01:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/03/27/what_do_you_do_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk People sometimes ask Kenneth Malcom if he is scared to resume working with the electricity that almost killed him seven months ago. They ask him if he saw white lights during his brush with death. No, he says, to both... 2664003@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-03-27T01:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/03/20/have_you_had_a_1.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk Few have a better view of U.S. 78 construction right now than Eunice Spence. Not only does her business, Spence Monument Co., sit beside the current work zone, her home does as well. But Mrs. Spence, who moved to property... 2504203@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-03-20T01:00:56-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/03/12/climbing_the_mo.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk I’ve often thought that we who live in the shadow of Stone Mountain take it for granted. (Or, “for granite” as my kids teased when they were younger.) I don’t usually come to this conclusion while passing by the towering... 2331103@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-03-12T18:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/02/28/a_night_on_the.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk At a party last Saturday I overheard a woman mention that she and several friends were going to see “Godspell” at the new theater in town. She invited another guest to come along, and a lively conversation ensued over the... 1942402@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-02-28T01:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/02/21/i_object_pursua.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk Across Gwinnett — and beyond — top students in our high schools have temporarily set aside their interests — soccer, yearbook, literary magazine, school pageants — to take sides for and against a student charged with selling marijuana to an... 1748402@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-02-21T01:00:00-05:00 http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/entries/2008/02/14/tired_of_all_th.html?cxntfid=blogs_snellvilletalk How do you feel about your town? Proud? Some Snellville citizens would say “embarrassed.” In fact, several took the podium at Monday’s city council meeting to tell leaders just that. “Don’t you hear the snickers and laughter?” Wayne Blackburn asked... 1601102@http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/snellvilletalk/ Susan Gast 2008-02-14T01:05:28-05:00