Author: On Common Ground News

Put out your favorite foods and put on your dancing shoes! The City of Stonecrest is having a virtual Xmas Party. We know we must deal with a new normal, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. The DJTEam will be live on Facebook on Dec. 18, 7 to 9 p.m. FB@Stonecrest ParksRec.  See you there!

Join Hudson and internationally known speaker and life coach Christopher Palasz Orrin Hudson, founder and president of Be Someone Inc., a Stone Mountain-based non-profit that uses the game of chess to teach life lessons, has issued a unique invitation: “Join us Friday – via Zoom – Dec. 18, 5:30 p.m. (ET) for an opportunity to better understand that the best way to determine your future is to create it,”  said Hudson. Hudson’s special guest will be Christopher Palasz, an international speaker and life coach who “inspires and empowers leaders to become positive influencers and virtuous beings.” Palasz believes that life is…

County officials seek to bring new life to stalled shopping district through strategic investment and planning The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners approved the Urban Redevelopment Agency of Gwinnett County’s (URA) purchase of 39 acres of the Gwinnett Place Mall site. The property is being purchased for $23 million from Gwinnett Place Mall GA, LLC, which has owned the parcels at the core of the 90+ acre retail development since 2013. The purchase, approved on Tuesday( Dec. 16), is part of a strategic effort by Gwinnett’s government to create new opportunities for catalytic development in…

CONYERS—The open house and ribbon cutting for the new Conyers City Hall on Monday, Dec. 21, has been postponed due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Conyers and Rockdale County. The county has also been categorized as having a high transmission rate according to information provided by the Rockdale Emergency Management Agency. “To err on the side of caution and with the safety of all in mind, the difficult decision was made to postpone the December 21 open house in the hopes that the event will be rescheduled in the coming months,” said Mayor Vince Evans. “The…

Rockdale County’s Elections Director Cynthia Willingham released the results below  on Dec. 14, the first day of Early Voting, for the Jan. 5, 2021 runoff elections. Early voting runs Dec. 14-31 at the Rockdale County Government Annex, 1400 Parker Road, Conyers.

DECATUR–Registered voters in DeKalb County can now cast their absentee ballots in the Jan 5. runoff at four additional drop box locations throughout the county. The newly added drop boxes became active and accessible for DeKalb voters on Dec. 14, at 2:30 p.m. The new drop box locations are: Stonecrest Library 3123 Klondike Road Stonecrest, GA 30038 DeKalb-Atlanta Senior Center 25 Warren Street, SE Atlanta, GA 30317 North DeKalb Senior Center 3393 Malone Drive Chamblee, GA 30341 South DeKalb Senior Center 1931 Candler Road Decatur, GA 30032 All drop boxes are under 24-hour surveillance and ballots…

DeKalb County Commissioner Lorraine Cochran-Johnson has launched the JOIN ME! COVID-19 Awareness Marketing Campaign to raise awareness and provide residents with up-to-date information on the coronavirus as the country enters the third and highest wave of known cases since the inception of the pandemic. The campaign takes a conglomerate approach to engagement through messaging on static and digital billboards, MARTA buses and shelters, and social media using IP addresses to strategically target DeKalb residents living in areas with the highest known COVID-19 cases. One of the digital billboards for the JOIN ME! COVID-19 Awareness Marketing Campaign. Centered around three…