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FOCUS: How Norcross got what looks like Carnegie Library but isn’t

FOCUS: How Norcross got what looks like Carnegie Library but isn’t

By Geoff Hammett | It’s interesting that a Carnegie Library style building in Norcross resembles the early 1900s one-room Carnegie Library designs, but the Norcross library was built in 1921. So I investigated the possibility that the Norcross Library could be an unaccounted for Carnegie Library. Even if not funded as a Carnegie Library, the building is at least in spirit and in appearance a Carnegie Library. It eventually became the first library in Gwinnett County.

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by · November 24, 2015 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Move Election Day to Veterans Day, for honor and bigger turnout

FOCUS: Move Election Day to Veterans Day, for honor and bigger turnout

By Tom Taft | One of the saddest statistics in America today is the low rate of voter turnout. In the 2012 presidential election, only 57.5 percent of eligible voters turned out. That number is sobering. Even worse is having to go back to 1896 to find a rate significantly higher (79 percent). The oft-repeated reason for the low rate is that potential voters don’t think their vote will matter.

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by · November 20, 2015 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Louisianan’s view from living for a short period in Gwinnett

By Bill Long, Shreveport, La. | After retiring from college teaching in July of 2014, I moved to Duluth, Georgia, to be near family. Except for two years in Washington, D.C., where I worked in the U.S. Senate pursuing a graduate degree, and a year in Cambridge, Mass., studying at the post-doctorate level, I had resided in Louisiana where I was born and raised.

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by · November 17, 2015 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Study shows Gwinnett majority wants public transit

By Joel Wascher | The Gr8 Exchange on Transportation, one of the largest ever transportation studies focused on public input process undertaken in a single week, showed that Gwinnett residents are ready to talk about different options when it comes to their transportation network.

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by · November 13, 2015 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Chairman outlines improvements in Gwinnett Public Library

By Dick Goodman | On behalf of the entire board of the Gwinnett County public library board, (myself; Betty Atkinson, Lawrenceville; Babs Wagoner, Duluth; Suzanne Skeen, Duluth and Deborah Oscarson, Lawrenceville), I’d like to report on recent developments at the Gwinnett County libraries. Many of these may appear minor, but cumulatively they represent major improvements in the level and quality of service for our patrons. Significantly, they have come about as a result of the leadership and professionalism of our library director, Charles Pace.

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by · November 10, 2015 · Today's Focus
Moore

FOCUS: Reduction in school testing necessary to expand students’ minds

By Holly Moore | Education stories, particularly public school education stories, often dominate our news. You can’t escape the latest study or data pointing to successes and far too often failures. Bureaucrats, with little to no education background, weigh in on the best way to “fix” our schools. Systems explore the next big trend in teaching

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by · November 3, 2015 · Today's Focus
Rhodes Jordan

FOCUS: Remembering Rhodes Jordan, for whom new middle school named

By Denise Hartzell | On Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015, the faculty and staff of one of Gwinnett County’s newest schools, Jordan Middle School, hosted the ceremony which officially dedicated the new facility. Jordan Middle School is named for longtime Lawrenceville mayor and public servant, H. Rhodes Jordan.

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by · October 30, 2015 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Christian singles group meets regularly in Peachtree Corners

By Louis Detweiler | Alone, in the middle of a church service in 2004, Sally Knapp recounted, “I was feeling out of place with all the couples and I was thinking other singles must be feeling the same way.” A member of Christ the King Lutheran Church, Sally presented the idea of Christian Directed Singles to the pastor and the group officially opened within the church and to the community. The church is located at 5575 Peachtree Parkway in Peachtree Corners.

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by · October 27, 2015 · Today's Focus
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FOCUS: Georgia auto fatalities rising, so Drive Alert. Arrive Alive.

By Russell R. McMurry | Over one thousand fatalities. Over one thousand lives lost on Georgia’s roads. Over one thousand families in turmoil.

Georgia has reached an alarming milestone of over 1,000 traffic fatalities in 2015, with several months remaining in the year. As of October 1, the number of people who died in roadway crashes in Georgia was 1,006 — almost one every 6-1/2 hours; about four per day (3.67 fatalities to be exact) – just short of 26 deaths a week.

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by · October 23, 2015 · Today's Focus
Jones

FOCUS: Atlanta Cyclorama getting new building

By Gordon L. Jones | In the 1880s, before the advent of motion pictures, massive 50-foot high 360-degree cyclorama paintings were the virtual reality time machines of their day. The resulting fad produced at least 20 cyclorama paintings of seven different battles – virtually all of them Northern victories. But in the 1890s, cycloramas gave way to nickelodeons and nearly all were lost to fire or decay. Today, only two Civil War cycloramas survive on exhibit: The Battle of Gettysburg and The Battle of Atlanta.

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by · October 20, 2015 · Today's Focus
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