PBR's Cord McCoy tells us what it's like working on both sides of bullriding

PBR Stock Contractor and former world champion Cord McCoy talks about the business of bulls ahead of this weekend's PBR event in Duluth. 

Gwinnett County police are searching for a 19-year-old man who is wanted for a deadly shooting that happened in the early hours of Saturday morning.

According to Corpora. Angela Carter, Miguel Rodriguez is wanted for felony murder and aggravated assault in the death of 45-year-old Felipe Velasco.

Carter said police responded to a call on Fox Forest Ct. in Lilburn at about 12:40 a.m. and found Velasco inside the home suffering from a gunshot wound.

Velasco was transported to the hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival. Carter said Rodriquez is known to drive a Jeep wrangler with Georgia tag “XEG482.” She said a “domestic related” dispute led to the shooting.

Police are asking anyone with information to share in the case, or who has information on Rodriguez’s whereabouts, to contact Gwinnett detectives.

When Peachtree Corners officials were approached in 2019 about the city participating in the federal Urban County program with its fellow Gwinnett cities and the county itself, they were given a few days to look at impact of participating versus not participating and make a decision.

Without a whole lot of time to think it over, and without knowing the county would be impacted if the city did not participate, Peachtree Corners’ leaders decided to pass on the offer.

Flash forward to this past Tuesday and the situation was very different. The city’s leaders, armed with new information from the county, are considering joining the program. Peachtree Corners is the only Gwinnett city — the only part of Gwinnett in fact — that does not participate in the Urban County program. The federal program is set up to help communities get HUD assistance grant funding.

Gwinnett cities who opt to participate in the program with the county, as well as qualified residents who live in those cities, can apply to the county’s HUD program for community development block grants.

A qualified resident is a person who lives within a low-income census tract within a community. There are only two census tracts in Peachtree Corners that meet that criteria. Both tracts are in the southern part of the city, near the Gwinnett-DeKalb county line along the Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and Buford Highway corridors.

If a city does not participate in the program with the county, its qualified residents have to apply to the state for assistance.

In that scenario, Peachtree Corners residents would have compete against a much larger pool of applicants from across Georgia, and they would therefore be less likely to get approved for help.

One piece of information Peachtree Corners officials said they have now that they did not have in 2019 is the details on how not participating in the program affects Gwinnett County as a whole.

County and city officials said Gwinnett is missing out on $350,000 per year by not having Peachtree Corners participate because of the population its inclusion adds.

Gwinnett County residents who want to adopt a dog, or surrender a pooch they are no longer able to care for, from the county's animal shelter are out of luck — for now.

County officials have stopped dog adoptions and intakes at the Bill Atkinson Animal Welfare Shelter in Lawrenceville until Jan. 19 because of a disease outbreak at the shelter.

The situation at the shelter only affects dog adoptions and intakes, so people who want to adopt a cat can still do so at this time. Some dogs can also still be brought to the shelter for intake, but only if they are injured.

The county is also allowing pet owners to come by and reclaim their lost pets, including lost dogs, at the shelter despite the suspension of dog adoptions.

In the early years of the Hooper-Renwick School, events such as graduations, recitals and plays were like church affairs.

That’s in large part because those events were held in local churches because the school — which many African-American students in Gwinnett attended before desegregation of schools occurred in the 1960’s — did not have facilities to host events when it was first built.

Those kinds of spaces would not be available at the school itself until it was expanded in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s.

Two churches in particular which supported the school were the old Mt. Calvary United Methodist Church and Pleasant Hill Baptist Church in Lawrenceville. As work commences to turn the old Hooper-Renwick School into the Hooper-Renwick themed library, the city of Lawrenceville has secured several artifacts from Mt. Calvary’s 1960 building on Neal Street for display in the library.

The city saved the church’s stained glass windows and pews. It also found items which had been placed inside a time capsule with the church’s cornerstone. The items were removed before the church was torn down at the end of December.

Among the items found inside the time capsule were a 1960 Hooper-Renwick graduation program, a copy of the program from the church’s opening day celebrations and a copy of the new testament.

Multiple Gwinnett County government and business leaders have been named among the most influential and notable people in the state by Georgia Trend magazine.

Georgia Trend released its annual 100 Influential Georgians list, as well as its list of notable Georgians, this month. Among the people named Influential Georgians were Gwinnett County Commission Chairwoman Nicole Love Hendrickson and Gwinnett Chamber President and CEO Nick Masino. Two other names included on the list were Hussey Gay Bell CEO and Chairman G. Holmes Bell IV, who was listed by Georgia Trend as being from Duluth, and Johnson R&D and JTEC Energy founder Lonnie Johnson, who was listed as being from Lilburn.

The list of Influential Georgians recognizes people in the state who, according to Georgia Trend, “represents the best qualities of leadership, power, character and influence the state has to offer.” It includes a broad cross section of Georgians from government officials such as Governor Brian Kemp to business, healthcare, education and nonprofit leaders and even University of Georgia Head Football Coach Kirby Smart. There were also four Gwinnettians who made Georgia Trend’s Notable Georgians list, which recognizes people who have made a significant contribution to the state. These Gwinnettians include: Atlanta Regional Commission Board Chairman Kerry Armstrong; Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer; Partnership Gwinnett Vice-President of Economic Development Andrew Carnes; and American Council of Engineering Companies of Georgia President and CEO Michael “Sully” Sullivan. In addition to the eight people from Gwinnett who made the Influential or Notable Georgians lists, there were some other people with ties to Gwinnett who were named among the state’s most influential residents as well. Some of them lead hospital systems which have campuses or medical offices in Gwinnett while others are either state officials who live close to Gwinnett’s borders and have been involved in projects in the county.

One of them leads the company that has the naming rights to the Gas South District and has been involved in the county because of that.

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