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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Times-Journal Inc. |
| Publisher | (formerly) J.K. Murphy [1] |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Lawrenceville, Georgia [2] |
| Circulation | 64,113(as of 2013) [3] |
| ISSN | 1086-0096 |
| Website | gwinnettdailypost |
The Gwinnett Daily Post is a daily newspaper published in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and serves as the county's legal organ. [4] The newspaper is owned by Times-Journal Inc. and prints Wednesday and Sunday each week. [5]
In 1970 advertising director Bruce Still left his job at the Gwinnett Daily News to start a weekly publication in Lawrenceville, the Lawrenceville Home Weekly. [6] [7] In 1973 it was renamed The Home Weekly [8] and was published until 1987, when it was renamed The Gwinnett Home Weekly to reflect its expanded readership and circulation. [9] These were weekly publications that served Lawrenceville and surrounding Gwinnett County. In 1992 the Gwinnett Home Weekly changed its name to the Gwinnett Post-Tribune and began publishing twice a week. [1] [10] The newspaper was owned by Still Advertising and Promotions [9] [10] until 1995, when Gray Communications purchased it for $3.7 Million [11] and reorganized it as a daily publication, the Gwinnett Daily Post, which published Tuesday through Saturday. [1] In 2005 Gray's newspaper holdings were spun off into a separate company which was named Triple Crown Media. [12] Triple Crown Media changed its name to Southern Community Newspapers Incorporated in 2010. [13]
A Sunday edition of the paper was added in 1997 due to its expanding circulation, and the Tuesday publication was dropped in 2012. [7]
In November 2022, the paper was sold by Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. to Times-Journal Inc. [14]
By 1996 the newly owned and renamed Gwinnett Daily Post had a circulation of 13,055, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations's September 1996 report. Gwinnett County officials designated the Gwinnett Daily Post as the county's official legal organ that same year. [15] In January 1997 the Gwinnett Daily Post partnered with Northeast Gwinnett Cable Vision to provide its customers with free Gwinnett Daily Post subscriptions, which were purchased at a discounted rate by Northeast Gwinnett Cable Vision. [16] The agreement added subscriptions for over 38,000 cable customers, which more than tripled the Post's circulation. [15] [17]
In response to the subscription partnership, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution filed a lawsuit in 1997 against Gwinnett County to prevent them from using the Gwinnett Daily Post as the county's legal organ. They argued that cable customers were not considered paid subscriptions, citing a Georgia statute that required 85% of a newspaper's circulation be paid subscribers in order to be designated as a county's legal organ. [18] The lawsuit was dismissed by a Gwinnett Superior Court [19] which was appealed and taken to the Georgia Supreme Court. That court ruled in favor of the Gwinnett Daily Post and dismissed the lawsuit. [20]
Gwinnett County is located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. It forms part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. In 2020, the population was 957,062, making it the second-most populous county in Georgia. Its county seat is Lawrenceville. The county is named for Button Gwinnett, one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence.
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Lawrenceville is a city in and the county seat of Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is a suburb of Atlanta, located approximately 30 miles (50 km) northeast of downtown. As of the 2020 census, the population of Lawrenceville was 30,629. In 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the city population to be 30,834.
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The Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center is an environmental and cultural community center and museum in Buford, Georgia, United States. The center opened in 2006 and is designed to be an educational facility with a focus on environmentalism. The building itself follows the center's environmental theme and is a green building that utilizes less water and energy than other buildings of its size. It hosts exhibits and summer programs, many of which are focused on environmental topics, including water science and preservation primarily geared towards children. Located at the center are an historic home and barn from the 1800s that were each moved to sit adjacent to the facility in 2012 from elsewhere in Gwinnett County. It also has a ropes course that opened in 2011 and is connected to a series of several miles of walking trails that lead to other nearby destinations.
The Hooper-Renwick School is located in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and was Gwinnett County, Georgia's only Black public high school in the 1950s to 1960s, until the end of segregated education in the county. Hull Elementary was the county's only Black elementary school during this same time period. The Hooper-Renwick School merged with the Gwinnett County School system in the 1960s and has since served a variety of other purposes within the Gwinnett County Public School System. Plans are currently underway to transition the building into a library and Black history museum.