Lilburn News

Scores of Lilburn residents finally got their wish Wednesday night when the City Council rejected plans for a giant mosque in their neighborhood "I'm so happy I can't even talk," homeowner Lorraine Lobos said.

The Lilburn City Council has denied a rezoning request by a Muslim congregation to allow them to build a 20,000-square-foot mosque in the Gwinnett County city.

Scores of Lilburn residents finally got their wish Wednesday night when the City Council rejected plans for a giant mosque in their neighborhood.

The Lilburn City Council is set to vote tonight on a controversial rezoning request that would allow a mosque, gymnasium, and cemetary to be built on eight acres of land at Lawrenceville Hwy.

Is it faith or future land use that's behind a Lilburn community's opposition to a giant mosque? Some neighborhood residents say religion has nothing to do with their vocal fight against rezoning plans to put a 20,000-square-foot mosque, cemetery and gymnasium at U.S. 29 and Hood Road.

One of the leaders of Lilburn's Dar-E-Abbas Mosque said Monday night that existing trees would be preserved as a buffer of 200 feet between the mosque's proposed expansion and adjacent homes.

Whitfield County commissioners are considering changing the way they award bids.

Neighbors are calling a Gwinnett County man a hero after he stopped a home invasion.

Supporters from the local Muslim congregation of Dar-E-Abbas listen as Rev. Bill Scott speaks in support of the rezoning and special use permit requested by the congregation during Lilburn's Planning Commission meeting Thursday night.

The quiet city of Lilburn has a lot of people talking. A proposed mosque has emotions running high on both sides.

Lorraine Lobos bought her Lilburn house in 2003 for the idyllic charm and tranquility.

Paramedics are now treating a Lilburn home invasion suspect captured by a police K-9. The suspect, who was not identified, was taken into custody Tuesday morning shortly after breaking into a home in the 4900 block of Jackson's Mill Drive, Lilburn Police Sgt.

Some Gwinnett County residents hit the streets Sunday as they prepared for a battle over a controversial neighborhood mosque.

Lynn Smarr with the Gwinnett Department of Water Resources announced recently that the new 12-foot diameter, three-mile long No Business Creek tunnel in southern Gwinnett County has "holed through." This means that the tunnel-boring machine, which started at the No Business Creek pump station site, drilled through to the end shaft at the Jacks ...

A Lilburn couple remains in the Gwinnett County Jail for allegedly running a prescription drug fraud.

With near record rainfall the past two months, and no freezing temperatures, fleas on dogs and cats are on the rise.

The new three-mile long No Business Creek tunnel in southern Gwinnett County has "holed through," Lynn Smarr, acting director of the Gwinnett Department of Water Resources, announced Wednesday.

Gwinnett County police said a 41-year-old Lawrenceville man died Oct. 20 after hitting a tree off Louis Road near North River Drive in Lilburn.

American United Bank , a tiny, one-branch bank based in Lawrenceville, failed on Friday amid large real estate losses as the state's banking crisis marches on.

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