Articles by: GwinnettForum
NEW for 2/21: On GACS, classical music, AI
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: GACS investing $30 million in campus improvements
EEB PERSPECTIVE: My appreciation of classical music goes way back
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
ANOTHER VIEW: Check this story generated by artificial-intelligence
FEEDBACK: Feels Gwinnett school board needs splitting
UPCOMING: County opts out on statewide exemption legislation
NOTABLE: Historic Braselton building gets better access
RECOMMENDED: To Echo and Remain. by Greg Lang
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Ga. Tech College of Management is now Scheller College
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can you pinpoint this home’s location?
CALENDAR: GGC Four Pillars scholarship gala is Feb. 21
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can you pinpoint this home’s location?
Look at the beautiful detail on this stately home. Note all the detail, the round turret, the bannisters and columns, that second floor porch, and all the many doodads that its carpenters completed. Your job: tell us where this home is located. Send your guess to ebrack2@gmail.com, and include your hometown.
NEW for 2/18: On ballet, school board, pardons
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Help Gwinnett Ballet Theatre thrive for the arts locally
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Meandering Gwinnett school board raises questions
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
ANOTHER VIEW: Trump’s pardon of insurrectionists who attack Capitol
FEEDBACK: This theory explains Trump, Musk and chaos
UPCOMING: Sitting too much can cause lower back pain
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech gets new VP for economic development
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Circuses first appeared in Georgia back in 1801
MYSTERY PHOTO: Steel bridge engineering feat is today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Sugar Hill Preservation Society meets Feb. 19
Gwinnett Forum | April 1, 2025
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
— Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), via Lee Klaer, Duluth.
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- 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.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
- County-wide microtransit services.
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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