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NEW for 4/26: McClain’s honor and coming primary scorecard
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Rep. Dewey McClain to become ECU alumni award winner
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Forum provides readers scorecards for upcoming primary
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
FEEDBACK: Three more reports on taped-over post office boxes
UPCOMING: Senior Leadership Gwinnett plans rejuvenated program year
NOTABLE: Peach State FCU announced new scholarship winners
RECOMMENDED: Brother to a Dragonfly by Will Campbell
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Greenblatt makes significant advances in endocrinology
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another beautiful seacoast sunrise; where is it?
LAGNIAPPE: Lawrenceville Kiwanis Club now in its 99th year of service
CALENDAR: Gwinnett Police sponsor drug return program Saturday
NEWS BRIEFS: Senior Leadership Gwinnett plans rejuvenated year
Gwinnett Senior Leadership is returning after an absence of two years. The program offers people aged 50 and older an opportunity to interact with other leaders across the county, to understand what is happening in Gwinnett County, and to apply what they learn in finding ways to make the county a better place to live. Classes are limited to 30 members each year.
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another beautiful seacoast sunrise; Where is it?
Besides lighthouses, the seacoast provides beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Here’s one, we won’t say which. But figure it out and you’ve solved this Mystery Photo. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and provide your hometown.
There were few clues to the last Mystery Photo, as Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. wrote: “The presence of the yellow tulips in the flower pot was a great clue! It immediately brought to mind that no single place in the USA has more tulips than Gibbs Gardens in Ball Ground, Georgia.
NEW for 4/22: New manager, taped P.O. boxes, constitutional carry
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Jackson EMC names Fennell new Gwinnett district manager
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Taped Post Office boxes, Freeman, old businesses and passports
ANOTHER VIEW: Having Alice around is the only good side of “Constitution Carry”
SPOTLIGHT: Crowne Plaza Hotel
FEEDBACK: Reaction to comments about New Mexico’s college funding
UPCOMING: GGC prof studies impact of scientists in climate change
NOTABLE: Gwinnett County employees getting 8% pay raise
RECOMMENDED: The Second Mrs. Astor, A Novel of the Titanic by Shana Abe’
GEORGIA TIDBIT: State’s antebellum newspapers were mostly political in nature
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this beautiful pot of flowers located?
LAGNIAPPE: Snellville artist’s work on display at City Hall
CALENDAR: Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee will be April 23 in downtown Norcross
ANOTHER VIEW: Having Alice is only good side of “Constitutional Carry”
By Raleigh Perry | This country is going to hell in a handbasket. The tides will ebb and flow and other things will wax and wane but we are too close to the edge. We are in an endless teeter. Governor Brian Kemp signed a bill on April 12 that will allow every citizen that is eligible, and there are some who are not, to own and carry a gun.
NEWS BRIEFS: GGC prof studies impact of scientists in climate change
It’s been more than 50 years since the first Earth Day, and polling data shows an increasing understanding that humans play a significant role in the earth’s changing environment. An overwhelming majority of scientists – 97 percent – agree on anthropogenic global warming. Still, the remaining three percent play an impactful role in keeping the debate about the reality of climate change alive. Dr. Laura Young, associate professor of political science at Georgia Gwinnett College, wanted to know more about that disparity.
Gwinnett Forum | July 26, 2024
“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”
— American Humorist James Thurber (1894 – 1961)
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.
- Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
- Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1 a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
- Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
Interested in Gwinnett history?
Now re-printed in its third edition, Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, the award-winning history of Gwinnett County, is once again available for purchase. It sold out of its first two printings. The book won the 2010 Award of Excellence in Documenting Georgia History from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The book is available at Old Town Antiques at 93 Main Street in Lilburn.
- The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.
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