A Gwinnett County Public Schools bus was involved in a collision that caused it to flip onto its side Thursday morning, but Gwinnett police and GCPS officials said no serious injuries were reported.
The accident happened around 6:30 a.m. on Buford Highway near Sudderth Rd. in Sugar Hill, GCPS officials said, and involved a bus carrying special needs students to Lanier High School. According to police, a vehicle failed to yield and pulled out in front of the bus, hitting it and causing it to flip on its side. All the students were cleared by EMS and then put on another bus and taken to school. Once the students got to school, in an abundance of caution, the decision was made to transport one student to the hospital because he had a contusion on his head.
Gwinnett County Public Schools is getting more than $5 million from the federal government to pay for improvements to off-campus broadband internet access for students, according to U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock.
Warnock announced that his office worked with the Federal Communications Commission to get the funding for GCPS. Warnock's office also secured funding for similar off-campus broadband access improvements for students at Brighten Academy in Douglasville and The Museum School of Avondale Estates in Decatur.
The funding is coming through the FCC's Emergency connectivity Program. Of the three allocations that Warnock and his office secured, GCPS got the overwhelming majority of the funding. The district will receive $5.3 million in federal funding while Brighten Academy will receive $102,465 and The Museum School of Avondale Estates will receive $79,695.
Warnock's office said the funds will be used to provide students and school staff with laptop and tablet computers as well as WiFi hotspots, modems, routers and other broadband connectivity purchases. The resources are intended to help ensure students have equal opportunities to learn.
Warnock's office said he has been a champion of federal investments to expand broadband access in Georgia. He has filed legislation designed to encourage broadband development with a particular focus on rural areas by preventing certain grants from being treated as taxable income. His office also said he took FCC chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to Jackson County to meet with students, parents and local officials and hear about their broadband needs and challenges, and has been advocating using the bipartisan infrastructure law's Affordable Connectivity Program to ensure affordable broadband is available to more Georgia residents.
It’s slime time, y’all.
The New York-based Sloomoo Institute, referred to as “a slime paradise” by The Washington Post, opened its first Southeastern location in Atlanta this fall in Buckhead. The Atlanta outpost, complete with its slime showers and slime lake, showcases a series of interactive experiences guaranteed to delight the senses.
In addition to the DIY bar, where visitors can make more than four million different slime creations with 40 colors, 150 charms and 60 scents, Sloomoo Institute offers dozens of slime vats for interactive play, “Lake Sloomoo,” which contains some 350 gallons of slime to walk on, a “Slime Wall,” soundscapes, scent exploration and immersive videos. Composer Pei Pei Chung, who wrote the music for Sloomoo’s Autonomous Senrory Meridian Response soundscapes (called “Synthesoothers”) is among the institute’s expert collaborators, which also includes artists Laia Cabrera and Isabelle Duverger (who developed Augmented Reality and interactive video installations, including the “Slimey Mirror”) and architect Demetrios Comodromos of Method Design.
Sloomoo Institute is open from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. During the holidays, the institute will be open seven days a week. The institute also features a retail space where visitors can take some slime home with them.
For more information in Sloomoo Institute Atlanta, visit www.sloomooinstitute.com.
Clients of a Duluth-based day center for people with dementia got some good news on Wednesday.
A fundraising effort to keep Peachtree Christian Health, which was on the verge of closing three weeks ago due to funding issues, open was successful. The day center will not close after all.
Peachtree Christian officials announced during a Facebook Live video that the center will remain open. The center had said it needed to raise at least $500,000 to avoid closing at the end of the year. It ended up surpassing that goal by nearly $100,000.
Peachtree Christian officials had previous said they wanted to raise the money needed to stay open by Thanksgiving Day, but a strong initial response convinced them to keep the campaign going for a few more days, until Tuesday.
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