Articles by: GwinnettForum

FOCUS: Bet you have had these types of robo calls!

FOCUS: Bet you have had these types of robo calls!

By Raleigh Perry  |  Since I am home all the time and within an arm’s reach of the telephone, I will answer 99 percent of the calls.  Today there are two calls on specific topics that are of interest to me.  

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by · March 5, 2024 · Today's Focus
NEWS BRIEFS: 9th Gwinnett Burger Week features 21 restaurants

NEWS BRIEFS: 9th Gwinnett Burger Week features 21 restaurants

The ninth annual Gwinnett Burger Week will be March 18-24, 2024, Explore Gwinnett has announced. The weeklong celebration features limited-time, exclusive burger creations for $10 each at restaurants across the county. 

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by · March 5, 2024 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Handsome Georgian structure

MYSTERY PHOTO: Handsome Georgian structure

Check out this handsome Georgian structure.  See if you can determine where it is located. Then send your guess to elliott@brack.net and include where you live.

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by · March 5, 2024 · Mystery photos
Gresham

Philip Hoke Gresham 

Philip Hoke Gresham, 92, of Demorest, formerly of Duluth, died March 1, 2024. Born August 20, 1931, he was a stoic man—a U.S. Navy veteran, business owner, and an independent thinker. 

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by · March 5, 2024 · Obituaries
NEW for 3/1: On banana republic and Buford restaurants

NEW for 3/1: On banana republic and Buford restaurants

Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Recent comment suggests Banana Republic elements
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Buford restaurant scene, and two national figures
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: GOP majority in Congress and a baseball analogy
UPCOMING: County approves several new initiatives
NOTABLE: Two students, ages apart, help each other
RECOMMENDED: Macbeth by William Shakespeare
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Two Ga. Tech grads form minority architectural firm
MYSTERY PHOTO: Distinct architectural gem is today’s mystery
LAGNIAPPE:  Doggin’ it
CALENDAR: Author of book about an estate executor speaks Saturday

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by · March 1, 2024 · Full issues
Downtown Buford, via Wikipedia.

BRACK: Buford restaurant scene, and two national figures

By Elliott Brack  |  For sheer mass, downtown Buford has a high concentration of quality restaurants.   It didn’t  just happen. Several factors combined to create today’s modern dining scene. 

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FOCUS: Recent comment suggests Banana Republic elements

FOCUS: Recent comment suggests Banana Republic elements

By Jeff Gorke  |  It’s easy to demagogue and name call without providing cites, facts, or being accurate. That way you can’t be refuted and the echo chamber dutifully nods. If you disagree with the direction of our country, you’re a Fascist, neo-Nazi, fill-in-the-bad-name here.

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by · March 1, 2024 · Today's Focus
NEWS BRIEFS: County approves several new initiatives

NEWS BRIEFS: County approves several new initiatives

Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners voted on several initiatives during their February  20 meeting. Below is a recap of what they approved.

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by · March 1, 2024 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Distinct architectural gem

MYSTERY PHOTO: Distinct architectural gem

Today’s mystery is a  period-piece architectural gem with several clues to guide you. Figure out where this photograph was made, send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.

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by · March 1, 2024 · Mystery photos
NEW for 2/27: On Cal Warlick, the March 12 primaries, immigration

NEW for 2/27: On Cal Warlick, the March 12 primaries, immigration

Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering the artistic talent of Cal Warlick
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Democrats: Vote March 12 against the biggest menace
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Place CID
ANOTHER VIEW: GOP leaders must usurp Trump, and solve immigration
FEEDBACK: Take action: you can block some of those robo calls
UPCOMING: Commission seeks to raise the chair’s salary
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC honors Gwinnett homebuilders
RECOMMENDED: Taqueris Del Mar, Peachtree Corners
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Egalitarian ideal not fully realized in colonial Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stone, stone, stone in today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Gwinnett Republicans schedule breakfast March 2

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by · February 27, 2024 · Full issues