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The Canoe restaurant is busy on Mother's Day in Atlanta on Sunday, May 9, 2021. (Photo: Steve Schaefer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Mother’s Day brings crowds to metro restaurants amid COVID rules rollback

C.T. Martin speaks at a City Council meeting in 2011. Martin, who was one of the longest-service council members, died Saturday, May 8, 2021, at age 84. (Photo: Bob Andres/AJC)

C.T. Martin ‘was a fierce voice for the voiceless’

South Gwinnett High School in Snellville is one of the meeting points for a motorcade event Saturday. CONTRIBUTED AJC FILE PHOTO

Local groups participate in national voting rights event Saturday

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Atlanta mayor calls end of her reelection bid a ‘very difficult decision’

Clara Butler, a 17-year-old from Lawrenceville, overdosed on a Percocet pill that turned out to be pure fentanyl. Remembered as an independent, yet compassionate teenager, Butler celebrated her birthday just a few days before her accidental death. (Courtesy of Andrew and Dionne Butler)

Gwinnett County

Fentanyl pills causing deadly overdoses in Gwinnett

DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond speaks during his state of the county address, held virtually on Feb,. 25, 2021. SCREENSHOT

DeKalb’s virtual career academy offering paid summer jobs for youths

Hawks Talon Gaming, the official NBA 2K League affiliate of the Atlanta Hawks, now have a practice/remote competition space inside State Farm Arena. (Kyle Hess Photography via Atlanta Hawks)

Atlanta Hawks NBA 2K e-sports team to now also compete at State Farm

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms speaks at a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden on Nov. 2, 2020, in Atlanta. Bottoms has told people in her circle that she does not intend to run for re-election. (Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

What Atlanta’s business leaders want candidates for mayor, council to prioritize

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Education

Teens typically stay up until 10 p.m. or later. To achieve their optimum nine hours, they should sleep until at least 7 a.m., which isn’t possible when classes start 30 minutes later.

Get Schooled Blog

Atlanta wakes sleeping giant with decision to start high school earlier

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, center, speaks to a group of Clark Atlanta University students on Friday, May 7, 2021. Ossoff visited the campus to discuss federal funding that will soon come there and to other historically Black colleges in Atlanta for coronavirus pandemic relief. ERIC STIRGUS/ESTIRGUS@AJC.COM.

Atlanta HBCUs get millions for student aid, campus projects

Students and teachers from the Paideia School have been among the groups learning about Georgia's ecosystems with a lesson on the Floating Classroom.

Program puts classroom on the water

Despite the fact many colleges are not requiring SAT or ACT scores for admission next year, some students are still planning to take the college admissions exams. Is that a good idea? (Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com)

Get Schooled Blog

Looking for answers on the ACT and SAT

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