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Certain topics wind there way into your brain and have a way of camping out there. I was able to preach this past Sunday at my church, and given that the Fourth is this week, our theme fo...

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Many celebrations of Fourth of July involve fireworks, either at home or a professional show. The Gwinnett County Department of Fire and Emergency Service would prefer that the use of fir...

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The city of Duluth will host its annual Fourth of July festival on July 3, beginning at 4 p.m. Duluth Celebrates America will take place at Scott Hudgens Park and it will include live mus...

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The Clean Air Campaign has distributed a Code Red Smog Alert for Gwinnett County and the metro Atlanta for Saturday. It would be the first Code Red exceedance metro Atlanta has experi...

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As Duluth residents know, summer days can be really hot in Georgia. Temperatures can easily reach 100 degrees or even hotter as in recent days. The heat can be especially dangerous ...

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You are at the beach with your baby. You are slathered in sunscreen. Should you share it with your infant? According to a FDA pediatrician, you really shouldn't.  "The best appr...

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The mercury is rising, but volunteers at the Salvation Army aren't sweating it. Temperatures Friday exploded past the century mark Friday. So the Salvation Army on Sugarloaf Parkway,...

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Surely, this is a misprint: 106 degrees? That's the predicted high temperature for Saturday, according to the Weather Channel, giving many of us a blistering start to our Fourth of J...