Gwinnett County Public Schools plans to open a new middle school next year and give it an easy name to remember. Northbrook Middle School will be on Northbrook Road in Suwanee, the school board voted Thursday night. The school is in the Peachtree Ridge school cluster and is to open in 2014.

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, among others, will no longer be considered fee-free days at U.S. National Parks. While the MLK National Historic Park in Atlanta doesn't charge admission, the new schedule will affect such metro Atlanta sites as Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. (Miguel Martinez/AJC)

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Jo'wan Bellamy taught in the GNETS program for 17 years and recently transferred to Atlanta’s new behavioral program at Crawford Long Middle School. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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