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NEW for 1/10: On Robert E. Lee, courage and more on guns

NEW for 1/10: On Robert E. Lee, courage and more on guns

Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: When GwinnettForum has a story about guns, you can bet on letters
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Book about Robert E. Lee changed my mind on military base names
ANOTHER VIEW: Which state will have the courage to turn things around?
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 CID
FEEDBACK: Vagrant riders on MARTA can give Atlanta a bad name
UPCOMING: GGC offering free exercise program starting January 30
OBITUARIES: Deborah (Debbie) Lee Mason
RECOMMENDED: The Sagas of the Icelanders, multiple translations
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Patrick Hues Mell influential educator and educator in 19th century
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lighthouse on a cliff is this edition’s mystery
CALENDAR: Service to honor veterans is postponed

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by · January 10, 2023 · Full issues
FOCUS: When GwinnettForum has a story on guns, you can bet on letters

FOCUS: When GwinnettForum has a story on guns, you can bet on letters

One reason we print GwinnettForum is to have it available for all to respond to current topics, such as these below. We thank them for joining others who submit. Without you readers, life would not be so much fun. One aspect we require of submissions: to get printed, we require readers to list the name of the city where they get mail. This issue we had four more letters to the editor without a home town listing

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by · January 10, 2023 · Today's Focus
Herndon

ANOTHER VIEW: Which state will have the courage to turn things around?

By Ashley Herndon  |  The homes or offices of the new attorney general and four other elected officials in New Mexico have been buffeted by gunfire in the last month.  

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by · January 10, 2023 · Another View
NEWS BRIEF: GGC offering free exercise program starting Jan. 30

NEWS BRIEF: GGC offering free exercise program starting Jan. 30

Want to get a start on those new year health and wellness resolutions? Georgia Gwinnett College’s (GGC) School of Science and Technology is offering a chance for individuals to work on their personal fitness.

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by · January 10, 2023 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lighthouse on a cliff is this week’s mystery

MYSTERY PHOTO: Lighthouse on a cliff is this week’s mystery

GwinnettForum has not run through the nation’s vast number of lighthouses. Here’s one sitting on a cliff. Where is it?  Send your answers to ellott@brack.net and include your hometown.

Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. writes: “The last mystery photo is of the Owens-Thomas House, part of the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters National Historic Landmark in the Historic District of Savannah.

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by · January 10, 2023 · Mystery photos
NEW for 1/6: On qualified labor force, “open carry” guns

NEW for 1/6: On qualified labor force, “open carry” guns

Click here to read the latest full edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Businesses need qualified and motivated labor force
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Carrying six loaded guns in Publix, person may not be convicted as felon
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Appreciates thoughts on grieving in recent Forum
UPCOMING: Suwanee community program, Art Ties, focuses on visual arts
NOTABLE: Beginning of the year is good time for a financial checkup
OBITUARIES: Deborah Mason
RECOMMENDED: Chicken Salad Chick restaurants
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Fiddler Clayton McMichen known as the North Georgia Wildcat
MYSTERY PHOTO: Formally-designed, elegant household is today’s Mystery

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by · January 6, 2023 · Full issues
Schneiberg

FOCUS: Businesses need qualified and motivated labor force

By Alan Schneiberg, Ph.D. |  Recently I had the opportunity to interview  a CFO of a local business.  He described one of the most vexing problems for operating an efficient business today was the lack of qualified and motivated labor. 

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by · January 6, 2023 · Today's Focus
NEWS BRIEFS: Suwanee community program, Art Ties, focuses on visual arts

NEWS BRIEFS: Suwanee community program, Art Ties, focuses on visual arts

A new program dedicated to the arts is forming out of Suwanee. The Suwanee Arts Center and Suwanee’s branch of the Gwinnett County Public Library are working together to bring knowledge about the visual arts and art programming to the area with a new program called Art Ties.

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by · January 6, 2023 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Formally-designed, elegant household is today’s Mystery

MYSTERY PHOTO: Formally-designed, elegant household is today’s Mystery

Here’s an elegant residence, somewhat symmetrical in landscape design. Tell us more about this home, and include your name and hometown when you send to ellott@brack.net.

Recognizing the previous Mystery was Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill, who wrote: “This is Gythio, Greece, on the eastern shore of the Mani Peninsula.

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by · January 6, 2023 · Mystery photos
Deborah (Debbie) Lee Mason

Deborah (Debbie) Lee Mason

Deborah “Debbie” Mason, 71, wife of Peachtree Corners Mayor Mike Mason, died January 4, the city of Peachtree Corners has announced.  

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by · January 6, 2023 · Obituaries
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