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FOCUS: Main Street Grayson launches BOOST for local businesses
By Gail Lane | We know that what most business owners need more than anything is a little bit of support. It might be people eating in our restaurants, shopping in our stores, or just passing along a positive post on social media. Main Street Grayson wants to do more. We want to give our small business owners a little bump … a positive nudge … a BOOST that will help them rise to the next level of success and distinguish themselves from their competition.
FOCUS: GGC professor among those contributing to “Black Holes”
By Sally Ramey | Black holes are the subject of much fascination, not just in science but also in popular media. For example, the 2014 movie Interstellar portrays a fast-rotating, supermassive black hole, into which the protagonist falls in order to probe its center.
Such a scenario may be more than the stuff of Hollywood magic, according to a research team led by Dr. Lior Burko, associate professor of physics at Georgia Gwinnett College, and including Gaurav Khanna, associate professor of physics at UMass Dartmouth, and Anil Zenginoǧlu, science coordinator at the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling at the University of Maryland.
FOCUS: New tower graces campus of Greater Atlanta Christian School
By Jamie Dalton | Several years ago, a vision was cast to families of Greater Atlanta Christian School (GACS) as part of a $29.7 million capital campaign. A place was needed in the heart of the campus where all could see that Jesus was at the center of the school.
Many stepped forward and gave generously. This past December, GACS’s new Cross Tower and Baptismal were dedicated.
FOCUS: City of Sugar Hill named most active Georgia city by GMA
By Vanessa Butts | The City of Sugar Hill has been named by the Georgia Municipal Association as the Most Active City among Georgia’s 530 cities. This honor comes on the heels of another distinction. Sugar Hill was also awarded the American Heart Association’s award for worksite Innovation and is a “Gold Fit-Friendly Worksite.”
FOCUS: Aurora Theatre presents Georgia premiere of teen interaction drama
By Chelsea Bohannon | A quintessential tale of two worlds colliding, audiences are invited to experience the power of diversity and the beauty of acceptance in the award-winning I and You at Aurora Theatre, January 29 until February 21. As part of the 2015-16 Georgia Gwinnett College Harvel Lab Series, this moving story of two teenagers and the bond they create through examination of poetry offers an ode to youth, life, love and the strange splendor of human connectedness!
FOCUS: History of first 10 years of Duluth football ready for publication
By Charles Summerour | When two members of Duluth High School’s first football squad brought up the idea of capturing the history of the school’s football beginnings, we all realized that it was important that we do so soon, as many of the school and community leaders as well as a number of players, had passed away. The result is a History of Duluth High School Football: 1959-69, which will soon be published in booklet form.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 22, 2024
“We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.”
– Etiquette Authority Judith Martin (1938 – ), also known as Miss Manners.
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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