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The 2024 Best in Show, "Arches, Window, and Juniper,"  by Martin Bozone of Athens.

FOCUS: Ansel Adams’ Footsteps exhibit returns Feb. 15

By Stewart Woodard  |  The Gwinnett Chapter of Georgia Nature Photographers Association (GNPA) is proud to announce the 10th annual Walking in Ansel Adams’ Footsteps black-and-white photo competition and exhibition.

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by · February 11, 2025 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: ARC cohort is addressing housing affordability 

By Sheryl Merritt  |  Atlanta Regional Commission’s third Local Leadership Housing Action Committee (LLHAC) cohort recently announced their commitments to address housing affordability challenges in their jurisdictions.

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by · February 7, 2025 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Norton Intelligence forecasts N. Georgia real estate prospects 

By Jessica Knight  |  The Norton Agency recently presented its 38th Native Intelligence Forecast, an annual report providing an in-depth analysis of the Northeast Georgia real estate market and broader economic trends.

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by · February 4, 2025 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: New owners to redevelop Mall Corners Shopping Center

FOCUS: New owners to redevelop Mall Corners Shopping Center

Gwinnett’s Mall Corners shopping center is embarking on a new chapter, as it has been purchased by the partnership of Ben Thanh Mall LLC and JV Gwinnett Development LLC. The firm, NDIMAXIM Commercial of Duluth, played a pivotal role in brokering the acquisition of the iconic property.

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by · January 31, 2025 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: California needs lots of craftsmen to rebuild housing

By Raleigh Perry  |  Some sources list 10,000 and others say 20,000 structures have burned to the ground in the California wildfires.  They will need to be rebuilt. 

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by · January 28, 2025 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Economic suggestion for 2025 — Stay the course 

By Randy Brunson  |  How were the public markets in 2024? Another solid year, with the S&P 500 up 25 percent, its second year in a row with gains of more than 20 percent. The Fed lowered interest rates but the 10-year US Treasury yield moved in the opposite direction. 

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by · January 24, 2025 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Gwinnett may opt out of state-mandated exemption

FOCUS: Gwinnett may opt out of state-mandated exemption

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.  |  Gwinnett County announced Friday that it is considering opting out of the new Statewide Adjusted Base Year Homestead Exemption introduced in House Bill 581 and will hold three public hearings for residents to share feedback.

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by · January 21, 2025 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: City installs bioswales to stem fast stormwater runoff

FOCUS: City installs bioswales to stem fast stormwater runoff

By Louis Svehla | To assist with water quality and to lessen the impacts of potential flooding, the City of Peachtree Corners has installed a bioswale on Bankers Industrial Drive.

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by · January 17, 2025 · Today's Focus
Mason, right, with her youngest daughter, Caitlin.

FOCUS: Distinctive holiday spent trekking in Patagonia

By Tracey Mason.  |  A little over 500 years after Ferdinand Magellan discovered his Strait in South America, over five days at Christmas, I discovered Patagonia, directly to the north of the Strait  that reaches almost to the tip of South America.  Some call it the “End of the World.”  

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by · January 14, 2025 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Reflecting on 28 years on the school board

By Mary Kay Murphy  |  For the last 28 years as District III School Board member, I served on the Gwinnett Board of Education.  I represented schools in Norcross, Peachtree Corners, Berkeley Lake, Duluth, Peachtree Ridge, North Gwinnett, Sugar Hill, Suwanee, and Collins Hill.

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by · January 10, 2025 · Today's Focus