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NEW for 5/28: Foundation’s success; Safe driving rules
Click here to read the full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Looking back at 15 years of GCPS Foundation
EEB PERSPECTIVE: GwinnettForum’s 10 rules for safe driving
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Place CID
FEEDBACK: Voters should get information before elections
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners’ new art gallery opens May 31
NOTABLE: Explore Gwinnett awards $175,000 in arts grants
RECOMMENDED: Zenith Man by McCracken Poston Jr.
OBITUARY: Rev. Dr. John Hauser Roark
GEORGIA TIDBIT: “Swamp Gravy” returns in June at Colquitt
MYSTERY PHOTO: Locate where this functional structure is
LAGNIAPPE: Graduation time for new crop of doctors from PCOM
CALENDAR: Heritage celebration will be Wednesday, May 29 at GJAC
NEWS BRIEFS: Peachtree Corners’ new art gallery opens May 31
Peachtree Corners is getting a new art gallery, which plans to open May 31 at The Forum on Peachtree Parkway, near the Barnes and Noble bookstore. Anderson Smith is bringing the colorful and creative works of 18 different artists to the 4,300 square foot space. Smith owns a gallery in Buckhead but is now opening his second location.
NEW for 5/24: On special needs school, incumbents
Click here to read the latest full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Special Needs School kicks off $4.5 million campaign
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Do incumbent candidates have an election advantage?
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING:Goico joins Gateway85 CID board
NOTABLE: Regents honor GGC with award for student success
RECOMMENDED: KING by Jonathan Eng
OBITUARY: William (Bill) Dwight Brown and Jill Anna Swenson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Soft red wheat is major winter crop in Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can you determine where this gateway goes?
LAGNIAPPE: Well-placed chairs arrive before music lovers
CALENDAR: Memorial Day Challenge in Peachtree Corners on Monday
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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