Click here to read today’s special edition. NOTE: This is a special edition to commemorate the memory of Catherine Coleman Brack, who died July 26, 2024. She is the daughter of Barbara and Elliott Brack of Norcross.
Click here to read the full new edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Adventures of getting through a reverse mortgage
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Why Gwinnett County has few significant water main breaks
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
ANOTHER VIEW: Violent right-wing political speech is too commonplace
FEEDBACK: Considerations of Gateway Monument coming to CID
NOTABLE: Firms get contracts to rehab three flood control dams
RECOMMENDED: The Eye of the Needle, by Ken Follett
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Opera in Atlanta dates back to the late 19th Century
MYSTERY PHOTO: Pouring water may be this mystery’s best clue
CALENDAR: Jazz in the Alley in Norcross on Saturday
The Gwinnett Department of Water Resources will rehabilitate six flood control dams maintained in the County. For each dam, work includes replacement or rehabilitation of a valve in the outlet control structure to ensure proper dam operation, lining the primary outlet pipe and performing maintenance repairs.
Click here to read the full new edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Sugarloaf CID plans Gateway Monument at I-85
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Is it possible that soon we’ll have a female president?
SPOTLIGHT: Centurion Advisory Group
ANOTHER VIEW: Examining fascism from another angle
FEEDBACK: Do yourself a favor: be sure to take your vacation
UPCOMING: Jennifer Fennell new State Education Board member
NOTABLE: Halle Foundation provides GGC study abroad grant
RECOMMENDED: Let Yourself Be Loved, by Eugene McCaffrey
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Christian singer Amy Grant is native of Augusta
MYSTERY PHOTO: Let the spires guide you in this mystery identification
CALENDAR: The Enchanted Bookshop at Lionheart Theatre July 25-28
By Jeff Gorke | Late last week I began to respond to Ashley Herndon’s tome in the July 9 GwinnettForum, “Explaining how fascism helps confuse today’s argument.” (As any reasonable person might do, I preamble by stipulating Trump is a bit of a hyperbolic loose cannon, lest the discussion get clouded.)
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
— American scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706 –1790), via Cindy Evans, Duluth.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The next issue of GwinnettForum will be Jan. 3, 2025.
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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