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🌱 Patch AM: Meet the Buford Senior Academy student inspiring classmates with creativity and spirit.

Also, don't miss Howl-O-Weenie: Dachshund Festival on the Buford Patch calendar

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Greetings Buford! We're your go-to source for what's happening in town. Read on to get plugged in! ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Meet the Buford Senior Academy student inspiring classmates with creativity and spirit.
  • See which Gwinnett teachers serving Buford earned 2028 honors.

Also on today's calendar: Howl-O-Weenie: Dachshund Festival and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call cows dancing in the dark 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: A heavy t-storm in the p.m., with a high of 90 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Sunday: A t-storm around in the p.m., temps: high: 86, low: 68.
  • Monday: An afternoon thunderstorm, with a high of 88 and low of 69 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Charlee Johnson brings creativity, spirit to Buford Senior Academy (northgwinnettvoice.com) — A Buford Senior Academy student, Charlee Johnson, is being celebrated for her creativity, school spirit, and involvement in cheerleading and soccer right here in Buford. She sews clothes for her dolls, paints canvases for family, and even looks up to longtime Buford community leader Phillip Beard, showing how local role models still inspire the next generation.
   

• Meet the Gwinnett County teachers of the year for 2028 (thegeorgiasun.com) — Gwinnett County Public Schools has named more than 150 local Teachers of the Year for 2028, including honorees at schools that serve Buford families like Lanier High, Lanier Middle, and Sugar Hill Elementary. These educators now move into a multi-stage process that will ultimately select one countywide Teacher of the Year, who may go on to represent Georgia at the state level.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed all four of them and they're using IV sedation.
    I've never had a surgery let alone been under anesthesia for those. We've gotten all four of them removed. What does it feel? Like please don't scare… (Nextdoor Thompson Mill Rd)
  • Whataburger posted a job opening for Restaurant Porter - Unit 1534 in Buford. Apply here.
  • American Eagle Outfitters posted a job opening for AE - Stock Associate - Early Morning (Off-Hours) in Buford. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Buford here.

🗞 Nearby News

Suwanee

  • Georgia Artists Take Center Stage as 'The Other Art Fair' Makes Its Atlanta Debut (georgiaentertainment.com)
  • Rep. Clyde Honors Winton Machine Company as Special Georgian of the Ninth (house.gov)
  • Link Logistics buys 4 last-mile facilities in Dallas-Fort Worth, Atlanta (freightwaves.com)

Dacula

  • Georgia Man Sentenced for Using Defunct Trucking Company to Steal More Than $170,000 in COVID-19 Relief Funds (justice.gov)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Night Moo-s (Thank you John S. for sending it in!)
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