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A cereal and dessert bar is coming to Atlantic Station and more restaurant news from the...
Jejna Mujkic, school staff, greets students arriving for the first day of school at Seckinger High School in Buford on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. All Gwinnett County employees were required to wear masks in school buildings to start the year. The requirement was lifted the second week of classes. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Masks are again optional for Gwinnett schools employees
County Administrator Glenn Stephens attends a board meeting at Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center on Tuesday, June 7, 2022. (Natrice Miller / natrice.miller@ajc.com)

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As Gwinnett grows, commission tries to streamline zoning meetings
Flan de Caramelo from the menu of Casa Robles.

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MAP: All the restaurants that have opened so far in metro Atlanta in 2022
A pedestrian was hit and killed at the intersection of Singleton Road and Harbins Ridge Drive in Norcross on Aug. 2.

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Gwinnett police seeking tips in pedestrian’s hit-and-run death
Chattahoochee Corners at River Green in Duluth is being sold to Pennsylvania-based Somerset Properties. (Google Maps)

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Chattahoochee Corners at River Green sold for $45 million
The Governor's Office of Highway Safety has chosen the Snellville Police Department to receive a Highway Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic H.E.A.T grant for 2021. (Courtesy Snellville Police)

Snellville Citizens Police Academy looking for participants
The Gwinnett Police Foundation recently awarded seven high school students $1,500 college scholarships. Shown here is Mycah Baker, graduate of Bethlehem Christian Academy and members of the Gwinnett Police Foundation. (Courtesy Gwinnett Police Foundation)

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Gwinnett Police Foundation awards seven college scholarships
Claudia Roberts, 45, was fatally shot by her husband, Glenroy Roberts, 51, at a Lawrenceville apartment on Bethesda Church Road on Aug. 2, according to Gwinnett County police.

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‘I miss you mama’: Slain Gwinnett woman’s teen daughter writes note to her
The Sugar Hill Community Garden at Gary Pirkle Park has a new garden pavilion next door to the existing barn at 6217 Suwanee Dam Road. (Courtesy City of Sugar Hill)

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Sugar Hill opens new garden pavilion
Sample Gwinnett school meals are displayed at Seckinger High School in Buford on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. With feedback from students and parents, the district updated its menu to be healthier, more global and plant-focused. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Gwinnett schools adjust meal offerings to be more diverse, inclusive
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Theatre practitioners (actors, designers, directors, managers, fundraisers, ushers, dancers, musicians and singers) are invited to a meeting to consider starting a theatre company in Peachtree Corners at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 2 at City Hall, 310 Technology Pkwy. (Wikimedia via Pixabay)

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Peachtree Corners seeking talent for theatre company
14 new places to have dessert in metro Atlanta
Man claims wife killed herself, Gwinnett Police arrest him instead
Removal of Gwinnett school Wi-Fi network draws student complaints
A 6-month-old was killed in a drive-by shooting Jan. 24.

Kids, teens across metro Atlanta among 2022 shooting victims
New I-285 lanes at Ga. 400 open Monday
Hunt on for hit-and-run driver after Lawrenceville bicyclist hospitalized
Man arrested in death of teen whose body was found near Lake Lanier
Sarai' Llanos Gómez (left), 19, was found dead in Flowery Branch on June 20. Authorities arrested 49-year-old Timothy Kreuger (right) on a murder charge after searching his home in Duluth on Thursday.

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Man arrested in death of teen whose body was found near Lake Lanier
Augusta Genealogy Society to host virtual seminar
Gwinnett investing in early learning to see benefits in kindergarten
Metro Atlanta transit board to recommend projects for state funding
Man told police his wife killed herself; now he’s accused of her murder

Cops: Lawrenceville man accused of murder after claiming wife killed herself
Gwinnett wants public input on hazards, disasters
Gwinnett’s Seckinger High School opens for first time
Lawrenceville man pleads guilty to stealing $230K through online romance scams
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Jejna Mujkic, school staff, greets students arriving for the first day of school at Seckinger High School in Buford on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. All Gwinnett County employees were required to wear masks in school buildings to start the year. The requirement was lifted the second week of classes. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Masks are again optional for Gwinnett schools employees
Sample Gwinnett school meals are displayed at Seckinger High School in Buford on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. With feedback from students and parents, the district updated its menu to be healthier, more global and plant-focused. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Gwinnett schools adjust meal offerings to be more diverse, inclusive
Students in Rhonda Zambo's ninth grade biology class use their Chromebooks during their first day at Seckinger High School in Gwinnett County. Across the district, students have taken issue with the district removing a Wi-Fi network that their phones and personal devices could access. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Removal of Gwinnett school Wi-Fi network draws student complaints
Teacher Emily Broich reads aloud to her kids and their mothers at B.B. Harris Elementary school in Duluth Friday May 13, 2022. (Steve Schaefer / steve.schaefer@ajc.com)

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Gwinnett investing in early learning to see benefits in kindergarten
080322 Conley, Ga.: Students wear mandatory clear book bags as they walk to their classrooms during the first day of school for Clayton County public schools at Anderson Elementary School, Wednesday, August 3, 2022, in Conley, Ga. (Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com)

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Gwinnett’s Seckinger High School opens for first time
Logan Malm, the new principal of Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Lawrenceville, poses for a portrait in her office on Thursday, July 21, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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Top Georgia high school gets new leader
Gwinnett County Public Schools Police Chief Tony Lockard demonstrates the district’s new front entrance security and sign-in system at Collins Hill High School in Suwanee on Friday, July 22, 2022. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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Gwinnett schools adding visitor screening system, new tip line
A group demonstrated Thursday, July 21, 2022, against a mask requirement for employees of Gwinnett County Public Schools. Gwinnett is at high risk for community transmission of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That triggered the district mask requirement. (Josh Reyes / Josh.Reyes@ajc.com)

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COVID risk triggers staff mask requirement in Gwinnett schools
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Wills listens to Judge Robert McBurney talk to the jurors at Fulton County Court during the selection of the special grand jury to investigate allegations that former President Donald Trump criminally interfered with Georgia’s elections in 2020. Monday, May 2, 2022. Miguel Martinez /miguel.martinezjimenez@ajc.com

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Fulton DA’s Trump probe enters more combative phase
Alternative Energy Southeast employees Aaron Basto, center, and Russell McCune, right, installs one of eighteen solar panels to the roof of a resident Tuesday, June 7, 2022, in Ellenwood, Ga. (Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com)

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Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp race for Georgia governor

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Abrams and Kemp chart rival economic strategies in Georgia
U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., speaks to reporters outside of the U.S. House of Representatives for a press conference with the Congressional Progressive Caucus regarding the passage of a health care, tax and climate change measure that's now headed to the desk of President Joe Biden. (Anna Rose Layden/The New York Times).

House passes federal health care, tax and climate change bill
Gov. Brian P. Kemp on Friday announced a $240 million grant program to help expand internet service in rural Georgia that will be funded through federal COVID-19 relief money. That's on top of $400 million he announced earlier for boosting rural broadband, also using federal funds. Curtis Compton / Curtis Compton@ajc.com

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Kemp plows more federal COVID relief money into rural broadband
05/07/2019 -- Atlanta, Georgia -- Anti-Abortion protestors rally outside of the Georgia State Capitol building following the signing of HB 481 in Atlanta, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill, surrounded by supporters and Georgia lawmakers, in his office Tuesday morning. (ALYSSA POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

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Crime
An Atlanta police officer checks a shooting scene on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW on Saturday, August 13, 2022. (Photo: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Another violent weekend in metro Atlanta claims 4 lives, 11 others injured
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A father in DeKalb County was robbed at gunpoint and kidnapped last week, according to police. One of two suspects is now in custody.

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1 of 2 suspects apprehended in armed robbery, kidnapping of DeKalb dad
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An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized after being hit by a car while crossing a busy Paulding County road Friday, according to police.

11-year-old boy struck while crossing busy Paulding County road
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Four people were shot Saturday night in Clayton County, according to police. One of them died.

Clayton County shooting leaves 3 injured, 1 dead
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This image from police bodycam video shows Antoine Sims, 24, outside a Cobb County McDonald's. He called 911 about cold fries, but police arrested him after discovering he had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in a homicide case.

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Murder suspect calls cops over cold fries, then arrested on active warrant
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A Cobb County police officer stands outside at a shooting scene on Olive Spring Road. (Photo: Ben Hendren for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Two people found dead outside Cobb home in suspected murder-suicide
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Gwinnett County restaurants
A menu item from Night & Day Cereal Bar.

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A cereal and dessert bar is coming to Atlantic Station and more restaurant news from the...
Flan de Caramelo from the menu of Casa Robles.

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MAP: All the restaurants that have opened so far in metro Atlanta in 2022
The Maiz en Texturas dessert at Casa Robles celebrates corn through many textures: as a moist cake, smooth cold ice cream, crunchy caramel popcorn and a warm corn sauce inspired by Central American hot corn beverage atole de elote. Photo by Andrew Thomas Lee

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14 new places to have dessert in metro Atlanta
Rendering of Your 3rd Spot.

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Your 3rd Spot sets opening date at The Works and more restaurant news from the week
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