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MYSTERY PHOTO: Have you seen this water feature?
Water is the defining foreground in this photo, and there’s a whole lot more to this photograph. Figure it all out, and send your thoughts of where this is to ellliott@brack.net, including your hometown.
Some Gwinnettians may be ashamed of themselves for not recognizing the recent Mystery Photo. It was the first brick school in Gwinnett County, located in Buford, and built in 1906.
NEW for 2/14: On school grants, Super Bowl 57 and food production
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Walton EMC awards $241,500 in grants to schools
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Super Bowl 57 was good example of brawn and brains
ANOTHER VIEW: Wants students to understand personal food production
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: Ten letters will enliven your reading of this edition
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners Library now exhibiting 100 juried photographs
NOTABLE: Stripers plan pre-season party at Coolray on February 26
RECOMMENDED: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Early housing in Georgia was identical clapboard design
MYSTERY PHOTO: Identify where this classic school is located
LAGNIAPPE: Gwinnettians turn in hazardous waste and recycling
CALENDAR: Mountain Park Community Association planning another meeting
FOCUS: Walton EMC awards $241,500 in grants to schools
By Savannah Chandler | Walton EMC is lighting up learning in K-12 classrooms within its 10-county service area. Cooperative representatives delivered checks totaling more than $241,500 to public and private school educators whose innovative ideas for creative learning projects were selected to receive a grant.
NEW for 2/10: On Lincoln, decorum and civility
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Words of Lincoln have meaning for our country today
EEB PERSPECTIVE: It’s a sad time when those in Congress heckle a president
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
FEEDBACK: Riding a bike to kindergarten would be “too dangerous”
UPCOMING: Community recycling will be Feb. 11 at Gwinnett Fairgrounds
NOTABLE: Amber Walden is Gwinnett Tech instructor of the year
RECOMMENDED: The Writing Class by Jincey Willtt
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Sam Jones was the South’s most famous minister in the 19th century
MYSTERY PHOTO: Colorful structures near the water ask for your identification
CALENDAR: North Gwinnett Kiwanis Father-Daughter dance is February 10-11
FOCUS: Words of Lincoln have meaning for our country today
By Ashley Herndon | What a wonderful world. What a wonderful force…but wrongful motivation destroys. The primary motivations in settling North America were religious freedom, commercial opportunity, political freedom, and individual property rights for individual persons or a group, such as in Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.
Gwinnett Forum | July 23, 2024
“I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together , not only our government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad.”
–The 38th president of the United States, Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006).
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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