Articles by: GwinnettForum

MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s an up front and personal photo about a building

MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s an up front and personal photo about a building

This is undoubtedly a handsome structure, but sometimes when you get close to one, it’s hard to identify. Can you figure out this puzzle and locate what this photo is about and where it was taken?  Send your thoughts to elliott@brack.net, including your home town.

First in with the identification of the recent Mystery Photo was Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill: “This is the Chateau Vaux le Vicomte…

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by · September 30, 2022 · Mystery photos
NEW for 9/27: On new book, old coach, green power

NEW for 9/27: On new book, old coach, green power

Click here to read the latest edition. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Duluth resident authors book on Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Finally Ga. Tech fires Geoff Collins; How about Brian Bohannon?
ANOTHER VIEW: Blacks, too, can gain more strength through green power
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
FEEDBACK: Will be bereft not having newspaper with her each morning
UPCOMING: Georgia Banking offers info for possible refundable tax credit
NOTABLE: GGC one of two top colleges for Hispanics in Georgia 
RECOMMENDED:  The Voyage of St. Brendan by Simon Webb
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Lookout Mountain is famous for its several tourist areas
MYSTERY PHOTO: Magnificent structure asks you to identify it
CALENDAR: 12th annual Public Safety Fall Festival at Coolray Field on Saturday

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by · September 27, 2022 · Full issues
Bohannon

BRACK: Finally, Ga. Tech fires Collins; How about Bohannon now?

By Elliott Brack |  Finally, finally  Georgia Tech has booted Football Coach Geoff Collins.  And he took down Athletic Director Todd Stansbury with him!

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by · September 27, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
Knott

FOCUS: Duluth resident pens Tiny Blunders, Big Disasters

By Jared Knott  |  The book I have authored, Tiny Blunders Big Disasters (Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed The World Forever) draws its inspiration from an old adage that is found in Poor Richard’s Almanac. Benjamin Franklin made an old saying famous as follows …

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by · September 27, 2022 · Today's Focus
ANOTHER VIEW: Blacks, too, can gain more strength through green power

ANOTHER VIEW: Blacks, too, can gain more strength through green power

By Jack Bernard  |  The saying above is accurate.  The bottom line in America is that it is the bottom line that matters. To get respect, you must be economically successful, along with having basic integrity and other positive qualities like work ethic, honesty and intelligence.  

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by · September 27, 2022 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: Georgia Banking offers info for possible refundable tax credit

NEWS BRIEFS: Georgia Banking offers info for possible refundable tax credit

Georgia Banking Company (GBC ) is teaming up with Innovation Refunds (IR), a firm specializing in the federal Employee Retention Credit (ERC) and payroll tax refunds, to help businesses claim up to $26,000 per employee kept on payroll during COVID-19. 

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by · September 27, 2022 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Magnificent structure waiting for you to identify it

MYSTERY PHOTO: Magnificent structure waiting for you to identify it

Today’s mystery photograph may be one of the more difficult ones of recent days. Stretch your imagination and tell us more about this magnificent structure. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net to include your hometown. 

The different angle of the last Mystery Photo may have thrown off some readers. 

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by · September 27, 2022 · Mystery photos
NEW for 9/23: On Social Security and “Wall Dog” Sonny Franks

NEW for 9/23: On Social Security and “Wall Dog” Sonny Franks

Click here to read the latest full edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Feels the country needs to change Social Security
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lilburn artist, a “Wall Dog,” paints mural in Oregon
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85
FEEDBACK: Sees similarity in previous USA and what is happening now
UPCOMING: Electric Vehicle car show coming to Peachtree Corners this Saturday
NOTABLE: Program tries new ways of keeping interest in teaching
OBITUARIES: Marvin Nash Worthy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Lookout Mountain is located in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us where you think this architectural gem is located
CALENDAR: Gwinnett County Fair continues through September 25 

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by · September 23, 2022 · Full issues
Franks paints.

BRACK: Lilburn artist, a “Wall Dog,” paints mural in Oregon

By Elliott Brack  |  A Lilburn artist is part of the team “The Wall Dogs,” an elite international group, which selects a town each year where they paint murals on walls of that town, transforming it beautifully.  He is Sonny Franks, who has produced two wall paintings in Lilburn, the “Lilburn Tunnel Bridge” on the Cofer building, and “Butterflies” on the Lilburn Park Rest Room.

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by · September 23, 2022 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
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FOCUS: Feels the country needs to change Social Security

By Alvin Johnson  |  In an earlier issue of the GwinnettForum, I mentioned the Biden administration was considering making changes in the Social Security program and I offered up recommendations for their consideration. 

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by · September 23, 2022 · Today's Focus