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Grayson has been one of Gwinnett County’s quieter growth stories. While communities like Sugar Hill and Suwanee got most of the attention for rapid residential expansion, Grayson was steadily building along the Loganville Highway corridor, attracting families who wanted a little more space and a slightly slower pace than the busier northern parts of the…

Lilburn sits in the middle of Gwinnett County, sandwiched between Lawrenceville to the north, Stone Mountain and Tucker to the south, and Snellville and Grayson to the east. It is one of those communities that does not make the news much but quietly has a large population, a strong sense of neighbourhood identity along the…

You own a 2016 Honda Accord registered in Gwinnett County. Your registration renewal is coming up next month. You need the emissions test done before the tags expire. There is just one problem. You work a demanding schedule; your mornings are packed, and carving out the time to drive to an emissions station during business…

Snellville has some real emissions testing options. Unlike parts of Gwinnett County where drivers have to search for a certified station, Snellville has Go Green Emission on Scenic Highway, Grease Monkey on Centerville Highway, and a handful of other certified locations spread across the community. For a city that has been part of Gwinnett County’s…

Braselton is one of the most unusual small towns in Georgia, and not just because of the Circuit of the Americas road course nearby or the surrounding wine country. It is unusual because the town literally sits in four counties at once. Braselton spans Jackson, Barrow, Gwinnett, and Hall counties. That is not a figure…

Most people expect their emissions test to be quick. You arrive thinking it will take ten minutes, but then you notice a long line of cars. Suddenly, your quick errand turns into a forty-five-minute wait you did not expect. It does not have to be like this. At Emission First LLC on Buford Drive, the…

Picture a Tuesday morning in Buford. You drive into Emission First LLC on Buford Drive at 9:15 in the morning. By 9:27, you are back in your car with a passing result. You open Georgia DRIVES on your phone before you have even turned back onto Buford Drive, enter your plate number and the last…

Here is something a little uncomfortable to admit. Most drivers who have been getting the Georgia emissions test done every year since the late 1990s have never actually stopped to ask what it measures. You pull in, a cable gets plugged into your car, something runs for a few minutes, and a printout says pass…

Sugar Hill has grown fast. Drive through any neighborhood off Buford Highway or GA-20, and you can see it — new construction, young families, busy commuter traffic heading toward Gainesville and Buford every morning. With all that growth comes one thing that catches many Sugar Hill residents off guard every year. The registration renewal notice….

You just installed a new exhaust on your car. Maybe it is a cat-back system that finally gives your daily driver the tone you wanted since you bought it. Maybe a buddy convinced you to do a muffler delete for weekend track days. Or maybe you deleted the catalytic converter entirely because you read it…