Articles by: GwinnettForum

U.S. Supreme Court

FOCUS: The packed SCOTUS will eventually be nonpartisan again

By Jack Bernard, contributing columnist | The new Supreme Court has become something unrecognizable, something that could have been featured in one of your Stephen King’s novels.

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by · August 30, 2022 · Today's Focus
Wallace

ANOTHER VIEW: New site helps family decisions about college affordability

By Lance Wallace |  The University System of Georgia (USG) is launching a new tool to help students and families work through critical decisions about college affordability and value. The new website, Georgia Degrees Pay, provides an array of public data on Georgia’s 26 public colleges and universities.

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by · August 30, 2022 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: Johns Creek Symphony announces coming season

NEWS BRIEFS: Johns Creek Symphony announces coming season

Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra, a professional symphonic orchestra is announcing  its upcoming 2022-23 concert series entitled Resilient Spirit, Resounding Season.

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by · August 30, 2022 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Let’s scare up a dozen correct answers for cream puff photo

MYSTERY PHOTO: Let’s scare up a dozen correct answers for cream puff photo

While having some difficult Mystery Photos lately, this one ought to be a cream puff. Let’s see if at least a dozen readers can identify this mystery. If you know this picture, join others in sending in your answer to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.

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by · August 30, 2022 · Mystery photos
Wilson Offie Holmes III

Wilson Offie Holmes III

Wilson Offie Holmes III, Norcross,  passed away on Sunday, August 21, 2022 at Northside Hospital Gwinnett at Duluth. He was 74. He was born in Greenwood, S.C. He was preceded in death by his parents, Offie Holmes Jr and Estelle Wiley (family name) Holmes. 

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by · August 30, 2022 · Obituaries
NEW for 8/26: Response team results; Political power; Ballparks

NEW for 8/26: Response team results; Political power; Ballparks

Click here to read the latest edition Inside this issue:

TODAY’S FOCUS: First year results of Community Response Team is impressive
EEB PERSPECTIVE: GOP  and Dem incumbents use power, gain big advantages
ANOTHER VIEW: Couple on a roll, having visited 21 of 30 Major League parks
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: Has second brush with death, and while visiting her parents!
UPCOMING: Free pet adoptions at Animal Welfare Center on August 27
NOTABLE: Trustees vote to disband Senior Leadership Gwinnett
OBITUARIES: Francis Thomas Lynch Jr. 
RECOMMENDED: We need more contributions. Isn’t anyone reading?
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Outdoor education programs are relatively new to state
MYSTERY PHOTO: Clues abound in this tightly-cropped photograph
LAGNIAPPE: It’s the time of years for the hosta blooms to shine
CALENDAR: British Car Fayre comes to Norcross September 10

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by · August 26, 2022 · Full issues
Hardegree

FOCUS: 1st-year results of Community Response Team is impressive

By Melissa Hardegree  |  Two behavioral health clinicians are now embedded into field operations with police officers to be dispatched on crisis-related calls.  The clinicians will assist people to obtain services after the crisis conclusion. 

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by · August 26, 2022 · Today's Focus
Walker

ANOTHER VIEW: Couple on a roll, having visited 20 of 30 Major League parks

By Taylor Walker |  This was never really something we intended to do, or had even talked about.  It started 10 years ago when my wife and I were in California to see my sister in Lake Tahoe. 

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by · August 26, 2022 · Another View
NEWS BRIEFS: Free pet adoptions at Animal Welfare Center on Aug. 27

NEWS BRIEFS: Free pet adoptions at Animal Welfare Center on Aug. 27

For the fifth year, Gwinnett Animal Welfare and Enforcement is joining shelters and rescues across the nation to find homes for shelter pets during its Clear the Shelters adoption drive. 

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by · August 26, 2022 · News
MYSTERY PHOTO: Clues abound in this tightly-cropped photograph

MYSTERY PHOTO: Clues abound in this tightly-cropped photograph

Clues, clues, clues along this walkway invite your attention.  Lots of people, too. So figure out where this is, and send us your idea to elliott@brack.net, to include your hometown.

It’s good to have people outside the regular spotters recognizing the Mystery Photos. Stewart Ogilvie of Lawrenceville recognized the battery and lighthouse at Cape May State Park in New Jersey.  The photo came from Bob Foreman of Grayson.

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by · August 26, 2022 · Mystery photos