Articles by: GwinnettForum
14.101: Youth tour delegates; happy pigs; more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Four from Gwinnett Win EMC 2015 Washington Youth Tour
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Happy Pigs Make For Better Tasting Pork
FEEDBACK: On Hillary Clinton and When the Legislature Meets
UPCOMING: AARP and Gwinnett Tech Team Up for Tax Preparation Services
NOTABLE: Firm Providing Gwinnett Tech Scholarships; ARC Recognizes Gwinnett Programs
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Architect Creates Long List of Impressive Atlanta Buildings
TODAY’S QUOTE: Ever Consider What In Life Is Your Best Teacher?
MYSTERY PHOTO: Just Where Was That Cowboy Located?
LAGNIAPPE: Duluth L.E.A.D. Program Has New Graduates
MYSTERY: A walk on a path
CLUE: Soon this area in this photograph will be happily transformed as these graceful trees bud. But where is this photograph from? Imagine you are walking along this path, where you could easily be thinking deeply about the issues of the world. Tell us where this is by sending an email to elliott@brack.net. Be sure to include your hometown.
14.100: Remembering Claude Sitton, Georgia’s legislature
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Colleagues Remember Veteran Newspaperman Claude Sitton
EEB PERSPECTIVE: More Reasons Georgia’s Legislature Should Meet Every Two Years
FEEDBACK: Commuter Rail, Animal Abuse and Reflections on Hillary Clinton
UPCOMING: Two PCOM Students Find Common Ground; Stuart Woods To Appear Soon
NOTABLE: Students Win DAR Writing Contest; Reed Joins PCOM Staff
RECOMMENDED READ: A White Man’s Woman by Malvin Williams-Tyson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Architect Thornton Marye Raises Many Notable Atlanta Buildings
TODAY’S QUOTE: Reflections on Springtime from Lewis Grizzard
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Recognized Astoria, Oregon
LAGNIAPPE: Wayward Bird Spotted in Rhodes Jordan Park
FOCUS: Remembering newspaperman Claude Sitton of Conyers
Long before Woodward and Bernstein inspired a generation of Baby Boomers to become journalists, Claude Sitton was setting the gold standard for journalism.
Sitton covered the civil rights movement for The New York Times from 1958 to 1964 and served as national editor of The Times until 1968. He died in Atlanta on March 10. He was 89.
ISSUE 14.99: Ballet performance, Coolray apartments
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Brain Injury Group and Ballet Theatre Team Up
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Coolray Field Getting a Close-Up Neighbor: Luxury Apartments
ANOTHER VIEW: The Ever-Changing Presentation of Hillary Clinton
UPCOMING: GGC To Hear Pulitzer Winner; Noted Instructor Coming to Kudzu
NOTABLE: Two New Fire Stations in Sight; Snellville Has Garden Plots for Rent
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta’s Lucinda Bunnen Photography Acclaimed Nationally
TODAY’S QUOTE: One Man’s Definition of a Free Society
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Recognized Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Chancellor Recognizes GGC’s Excellent Financial Reporting
FOCUS: Ballet Theatre and Brain Injury Association team for performance
By Holly Calmes | The story behind Gwinnett Ballet Theatre’s (GBT) newest production, a contemporary three act story ballet, features the Journey taken by a young man through life as he struggles with tragedy, love, and friendship. People with brain injury go through “journeys” of their own, seeking healing, hope and support. GBT and the Brain Injury Association of Georgia are joining forces to support each other’s efforts, as they share such similar messages.Journey will be presented at the Gwinnett Performing Arts Center on Saturday March 28 at 2:30 and 7:30 pm and on Sunday, March 29 at 2:30 pm. The production is a regional premiere. Written and choreographed by GBT Artistic Director Wade Walthall, the ballet features the music of Rachmaninoff, Gorecki and Nyman.
Gwinnett Forum | July 19, 2024
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.”
–British Philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970).
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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