Alexander Popp

JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — The first thing you’ll notice when visiting Ethiopiques Café and Restaurant in Johns Creek is the amazing aroma of grilling meats and exotic spices. The second thing you’ll notice is how much fun patrons are having sharing communal dishes of lovingly prepared traditional Ethiopian dishes. Opened in 2020 by three friends, Liza Abebe, Amy Asegidew and Biruk Demeselasie, Ethiopiques Café and Restaurant has quickly become a community staple for interesting ethnic and traditional foods that serve any taste preferences with a wide variety of vegan, vegetarian and grilled meat dishes.

DUNWOODY, Ga. — Over the past six years, Dunwoody resident Ron Clyne has been on a mission to make the city Georgia’s bluebird capital. There’s been no word on whether that’s officially possible or what it would require, but Clyne has singlehandedly made hundreds of bluebirds birdhouses that have been distributed in the community. A former Korean War Army aviation mechanic and retired administrator at Dunwoody High School, Clyne only got into woodworking when he began looking for a hobby after retirement.

In the wake of recent news that dozens of local senior citizens could be displaced from their homes at the Orchard Apartments in the coming year to make way for a large mixed-use development, Mashburn Village, that has been proposed in the heart of Cumming, hundreds of local residents have taken to social media to voice their concerns over the proposed project.

For hours, puffs of blue, green, red and every other imaginable color filled the air over the Atlanta Cricket Fields in north Forsyth, covering crowds of dancing people as they celebrated the blossoming of spring and the Hindu celebration, Holi.

Last week, 12 refugee women from across the globe traveled through the South on a pilgrimage to see and learn from civil rights heroes that lived, fought and changed the country with their sacrifices.

Over a span of seven years, the average sale price of a home in Forsyth County has risen by more than $100,000.

A call comes over the radio at 1:15 p.m. and the message is bad news. "... 911 calls have come in reporting that the gunman has entered a baggage claim area of the airport terminal. The suspect is armed with a handgun, multiple shots have been fired, and casualties have been confirmed," echoes from nearly a dozen radios of deputies and officers waiting in a huddle on a covered back loading dock at North Forsyth High School.