Articles by: GwinnettForum
11/2: Group tapped to pick GGC pres; Endorsements; Media
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Regents Name 17-Person Committee to Pick Next GGC President
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here’s Summary of GwinnettForum’s View on Tuesday’s Big Election
ANOTHER VIEW: Doesn’t Understand that Television Networks Operate Nationally
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Purdue Pharmaceuticals and the Opioid Crisis: Are They Sociopaths?
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Library Invites Input on Its Future with Several Workshops
NOTABLE: Snellville Police Get Grant To Implement Traffic Calming
RECOMMENDED: Wallander, the streaming series by Henning Mankell
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Spear and Arrow Tips (Arrowheads) Found Throughout Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: That Norcross Photograph Got No Identifiers from the Last Issue
CALENDAR: Learn How To Digitize Your Photos at a Workshop Coming Soon
10/31, full issue: Sgt. York and Norcross; Fishing weirs; Shelters
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Alvin York Got Military Training at Norcross Range of Camp Gordon
EEB PERSPECTIVE: The Indians Used Weirs to Pull Fish from the Chattahoochee
ANOTHER VIEW: Animal Shelters Run by Counties Need More Regulation by the State
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
FEEDBACK: Not Voted Yet? Upcoming Debate Might Help You Decide on Governor
UPCOMING: Extra $500,000 Primerica Gift Helps Fund Homeless in Gwinnett
NOTABLE: Inaugural Show at Eagle Theatre in Sugar Hill Is Oscar Wilde Comedy
RECOMMENDED: The Landmark History of the American History by David Boorstin
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Soybean Growing Provides Unique Problems for Georgia Farmers
MYSTERY PHOTO: Watch Out Making Rash Guesses at Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Suwanee Car Show at Town Center This Saturday
10/26: Big Data; Constitutional amendments; Portugal’s way
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Solution Will Be from Government: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Consideration of Five Constitutional Amendments on Upcoming Ballot
ANOTHER VIEW: Having Tried Everything Else, Perhaps We Should Try Portugal’s Way
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
UPCOMING: Commissioners Approve 2040 Comprehensive for County’s Future
NOTABLE: Sugar Hill To Host Extraordinary Traveling Troupe in December
RECOMMENDED: Wallander: From the Swedish Mystery series by Henning Mankell
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Native Was the Librarian of Congress for More Than a Decade
MYSTERY PHOTO: Identify This Skyscraper for Today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Concussion Discussion Coming on November 1
10/23: New E Center; On Wally Eberhard; Voting questions
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett To Issue Bonds To Buy Key Site for Possible Film Production
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Wally Eberhard: A Person Instrumental in Changing My Own Life
ANOTHER VIEW: Finds a Reason Why She’s Always Asked Questions When Voting
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: Watch Two Upcoming Debates Concerning Governor’s Race
UPCOMING: Rotary Clubs To Hear Epidemiologist on Worldwide Polio Initiative
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech, The Citadel, Team Up for Credits Toward Degree
RECOMMENDED: The Honest Spy, by Andreas Kollender
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Pine Mountain Based Author New Inductee of Ga. Writers Hall of Fame
MYSTERY PHOTO: Familiar Scene Asks for Its Location
CALENDAR: Check out the “Name a Robot” Contest October 25 at Eastside Medical Center
10/19: Jackson EMS linemen win; MTI Baths and art; Medicare for all
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Jackson EMC Linemen’s Team Wins 35th Annual International Awards
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Sugar Hill Firm Working on Innovative John Portman Art Project
ANOTHER VIEW: Medicare Needs To Provide Coverage for Everyone in the USA
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: Do We Want Government Mandating Women on Corporate Boards?
UPCOMING: Ninth Annual Print Big! Art Event Is Saturday at The Hudgens
NOTABLE: Bond Referendum Would Fund Major Gwinnett School Improvements
RECOMMENDED: Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Central of Georgia Railway Organized To Help State Cotton Industry
MYSTERY PHOTO: It’s a Beautiful Setting for This Edition’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Trick or Treat Festival Coming to Yellow River Water Treatment Center
BRACK: Sugar Hill firm working on innovative John Portman art project
By Elliott Brack | Russell Adams, president of MTI Baths of Sugar Hill, supplied shower pans for a John Portman hotel project in Hotel Indigo a few years back, which eventually has led to a new opportunity for his company. (MTI Baths manufactures high-quality acrylic and bath products, including whirlpools, soaking baths; lavatories; shower bases; and kitchen sinks.)
10/16: GwinnettForum’s 2018 endorsement issue
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | After nearly a full year of people campaigning for election in 2018, the end is near. On November 6, Georgians will vote in the General Election, picking the people to lead our nation in Congress, our state government and our local governments for the short-term future.
Despite all the rhetoric and commercials about the election, we can only hope that our voters will see through the smokescreens and innuendos, and decide for themselves which of the many candidates to support.
GwinnettForum again this year has interviewed state and local candidates—-88 so far—to learn about them so it can select the candidates most worthy of the Gwinnett voter’s choice. What follows is our endorsement of the candidates we think will best serve our area in the coming years. It was a delight to see so many good candidates offer for office.
10/12, full issue: Hudgens Prize; 2018 elections; Income inequality
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Some Georgia Artist To Win Fourth Annual $50,000 Hudgens Art Prize
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Slight Possibility Georgia’s Political Season Could Extend to December
ANOTHER VIEW: Overcoming Income Inequality and Other Workable Ideas
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
FEEDBACK: Lilburnite Has Enjoyed Several Major Purchases Through Craigslist
UPCOMING: Lopez Home, Hit by Fire in 2009, To Be Feature of Lilburn Home Tour
NOTABLE: Time Coming Close for Payment of Gwinnett Property Taxes
RECOMMENDED: Stone Mountain Highland Games
GEORGIA TIDBIT: The Chicago Defender Is Big Influence on The Great Migration
MYSTERY PHOTO: It’s a Quiet, Peaceful Setting for This Issue’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: New Gwinnett Bicentennial Photo Exhibit at Collins Hill Library
Gwinnett Forum | July 30, 2024
“You may not know who I am or what I mean
But I will be good faith to you nevertheless.
And filter and fiber your soul.
“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged.
Missing me one place, search another.
I stop, somewhere, waiting for you.”
– Walt Whitman
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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