By Elliott Brack | Gwinnett County Commissioners can avoid raising taxes in future years, even with a growing budget, if they will take a step now to ensure fairness among the county taxpayers. That’s because real property owners of Gwinnett are being reassessed this year, meaning most everyone will soon see an increase in their taxes. Property tax notices went out last week, but that tax was based on the previous year’s assessments.
By Brianna Poplaskie | September brings so much change — a new school year, cooler temperatures, falling leaves, but Aurora Theatre brings top performances and cultural events to Lawrenceville and that never changes! This month, Aurora Comedy Nights returns with three weekends featuring comedians Dan Mengini and Henry Cho and improv troupe Improv Athens.
By Vipul Patel | Here are my ideas concerning the redevelopment of the Stone Mountain Tennis Center site. At the Park Place Boulevard exit, I own and manage three hotels: Country Inn and Suites, Holiday Inn Express and Days Inn. I not only work there but I live in Lilburn, less than two miles from the development. I work, live, shop, play and pray in this area.
If advertising means anything, lots of readers ought to get an idea where this week’s Mystery Photo is located. Put on your thinking caps, and figure out what this photo represents, and where it is located. Send your answers and hometown to elliott@brack.net.
The building shown in the recent Mystery Photo might have been in many cities, since funds and plans for that building and many others similar came from steel magnate Andrew Carnegie.
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Dahlonega family is flip-flopping the Appalachian Trail
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Baseball stadiums, beautiful medians, shoe soles and $50 co-pay
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Big count: six letters to the editor on varied subjects
UPCOMING: Georgia Gwinnett bucks trend, with freshman enrollment up
NOTABLE: Sugar Hill gets Historical Record grant for digitizing records
RECOMMENDED: Bicycles Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni
GEORGIA TIDBIT: GEORGIA Magazine is publication of EMCs of the state
MYSTERY PHOTO: This mystery is not quite a Cream Puff, but should be easy
LAGNIAPPE: Ninth annual run at Annandale Village raises $125,000
CALENDAR: Public Health law scholar speaks in Norcross September 8
By Jordan Shenefield | After three years of planning, the Skogman family of Dahlonega began their flip-flop hike of the Appalachian Trail (AT) on May 31. My wife and I drove our daughter Joni, her husband, Darrell, and their three sons (Jasper, 15; Baxter, 13; and Grayson, 11) to their jumping off point, High Point State Park, N.J.
Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: The packed SCOTUS will eventually be nonpartisan again
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Wheels of justice eventually move, but usually ever so slow
ANOTHER VIEW: New site helps family decisions about college affordability
SPOTLIGHT: Sugarloaf Community Improvement District (CID)
FEEDBACK: Upset that student loan relief stands values on its head
UPCOMING: Johns Creek Symphony announces upcoming professional season
NOTABLE: Suwanee Arts Center plans “Dam Dinner” on Oct. 14
OBITUARIES: Wilson Offie Holmes III
RECOMMENDED: When God Weeps: by Joni Eareckson Tada and Steven Estes
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Elena Diaz-Verson Amos among wealthiest Hispanic women
MYSTERY PHOTO: Let’s scare up a dozen answers to this cream puff photo
LAGNIAPPE: GACS families donates supplies to Meadowcreek Elementary
CALENDAR: Public health specialist to speak at Norcross library on Sept. 8
“I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.”
— American Humorist James Thurber (1894 – 1961)
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
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