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NEW for 8/2: Part 2 of Vietnam escape; School enrollment

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TODAY’S FOCUS: After Thailand, Vietnamese family finally lands in States
EEB PERSPECTIVE: County schools starting with record 182,865 enrollment
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Couldn’t wait for second installment of escape from Vietnam story
UPCOMING: Buford branding agency wins an award in communications
NOTABLE: Project SEED at Georgia Gwinnett provides hands-on learning
RECOMMENDED; The Slow Reading Movement:
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Southern Labor Archives located at Georgia State University
MYSTERY PHOTO: This lighthouse seeks to extend your imagination

by GwinnettForum · August 2, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/29: Escape from Vietnam and state’s largest hospital campus

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett family escaped Vietnam via the sea in a small boat
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Eventually Northside Gwinnett Hospital will have largest campus in state
SPOTLIGHT: The 1818 Club
FEEDBACK: Concern about handicapped parking got his attention
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Place site team releases plan for redevelopment
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville to start using cameras to slow school zone speeders
RECOMMENDED: The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wesleyan College in Macon has sterling reputation
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another artist’s conception for you to identify and locate
CALENDAR: Southwest Gwinnett Chamber meets August 5 at Crown Plaza Hotel

by GwinnettForum · July 29, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/26: Updated song; thoughts on Liz Cheney

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Applying recent insurrection to popular gospel song
EEB PERSPECTIVE: January 6 hearings show Liz Cheney being highly responsible
ANOTHER VIEW: Some thoughts when you feel old age creeping up
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Stripers
FEEDBACK: Remember when you used them to wrap fish, too?
UPCOMING: PCOM to graduate 75 new master’s degree holders this morning
NOTABLE: GGC students have option of attending summer resource camps
RECOMMENDED: Alienist by Caleb Carr
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Stevens and Wilkinson was major architectural firm since 1947
MYSTERY PHOTO: Bright red objects are for you to guess about today
CALENDAR: GGC president to address Snellville Commerce Club on August 2

by GwinnettForum · July 26, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/22: More on newspapers, Norcross council, Greene

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Some reasons that newspapers may be declining
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Norcross Council considering charging seniors for waste pick-up
ANOTHER VIEW: Marjorie Taylor Greene is snookering the Democrats
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: PCOM pleased to give medical insight to prospective doctors
UPCOMING: County adds new SPLOST proposal to ballot this November
NOTABLE: Gas South District, Northside Hospital form outreach pact
RECOMMENDED: How the Brain Works
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Cotton Patch Gospel author was Clarence Jordan
MYSTERY PHOTO: You may think this Mystery is in a rain-soaked area

by GwinnettForum · July 22, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/19: On democracy, 988 hotline and more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Our democracy may be in trouble with today’s poorer newspapers
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New national suicide prevention phone line is 988
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
FEEDBACK: Supreme Court has set the stage for turning USA backwards
UPCOMING: Masks now required while inside county facilities
NOTABLE: Gainesville hospital graduates eight in Pathway program
RECOMMENDED: We need your input with new recommendations!
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Scientists hoping to restore American Chestnut tree to maturity
MYSTERY PHOTO: You must look “up” to this week’s Mystery Photo

by GwinnettForum · July 19, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/15: On work program, UGA students, pilgrimage

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Utah program gets unemployed folks back to work quickly
EEB PERSPECTIVE: President says 85% of UGA students are residents of Georgia
ANOTHER VIEW: Dozen people enjoy church “Pilgrimage” to Ireland
SPOTLIGHT: Comet National Shipping
FEEDBACK: His concern is possible tyrannical right theocracy
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners invests $2 million in new playground equipment
NOTABLE: Lawrenceville plans slip lane for direct hospital access
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Chestnut trees, once prevalent, were victim of blight fungus
MYSTERY PHOTO: Another lighthouse, but it’s a short one!

by GwinnettForum · July 15, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/12: Ukrainian mission trip and a new book

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Morsberger heard air raid sirens on Ukrainian mission trip
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New book of Gwinnett’s transformation raises at least one question
SPOTLIGHT: Law Office of J. Michael Levengood, LLC
FEEDBACK: Are “widows and orphans” today’s “single moms and their children?”
UPCOMING: GC&B opens application for Green Youth Advisory Council
NOTABLE: Here are ways to enjoy a vacation, while relieving stress
RECOMMENDED New York by Edward Rutherfurd
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Guidestones offer10 principles to ensure humankind’s survival
MYSTERY PHOTO: The tree, the fence, building and big sky: where is it?
LAGNIAPPE: CALENDAR: Historical Society to hear talk July 18 on last slave ship

by GwinnettForum · July 12, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/8: On library program, an exemption, Vidalia onions

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Ex-inmates find opportunity for work: they hire themselves
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Taxing real property is not always easy and often not fair
ANOTHER VIEW: Reflecting on the powers of the distinctive taste of a Vidalia Onion
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Clean and Beautiful
FEEDBACK: Forcing someone to carry a pregnancy to term is abhorrent
UPCOMING: Economy dooms proposed GBC-People’s bank merge
NOTABLE: GC&B’S Citizens Advisory Board gets six new members
OBITUARIES: Gladstone Ferle Snell
RECOMMENDED: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
GEORGIA TIDBIT: No one knows who paid for the Georgia Guidestones
MYSTERY PHOTO: Aged structure awaits your prognostication
CALENDAR: Author Vanessa Riley speaks July 13 at the Norcross public library

by GwinnettForum · July 8, 2022 · Full issues, Uncategorized

NEW for 7/5: A tax hike, new King statue, religious states

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Commissioners adopt same millage, which equals a tax increase
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnettians work on dedicating 8 foot statue to Dr. M.L. King Jr.
ANOTHER VIEW: The most religious states in USA are also the most violent
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Ignorance limits intelligent decision making and becomes stupidity
NOTABLE: High schoolers participate in anatomy lesson at PCOM academy
RECOMMENDED: Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living by Martin H. Levinson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893 among deadliest in nation’s history
MYSTERY PHOTO: Did someone leave the doors open, and the leaves blew in?
CALENDAR: Writer’s Workshop coming to Duluth Library on July 16

by GwinnettForum · July 5, 2022 · Full issues

NEW for 7/1: On continuing education, Gwinnett foundation, pets

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Gwinnett Tech offers wide array of continuing education
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Original Gwinnett Foundation founders must be mighty pleased
ANOTHER VIEW: Yes, it’s hot outdoors, so look out for your pets, too
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
FEEDBACK: Rulings gives her the impetus to dust off old credentials
UPCOMING: GGC professor seeks to help farmers in study of pollinating bees
NOTABLE: Rogers Bridge work wins ASNE Project of Merit award
RECOMMENDED: Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living by Martin H. Levinson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: UGA’s Marine Institute is located at Sapelo Island
MYSTERY PHOTO: Just where is this stately structure located?

by GwinnettForum · July 1, 2022 · Full issues

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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NEW for 8/2: Part 2 of Vietnam escape; School enrollment

NEW for 7/29: Escape from Vietnam and state’s largest hospital campus

NEW for 7/26: Updated song; thoughts on Liz Cheney

NEW for 7/22: More on newspapers, Norcross council, Greene

NEW for 7/19: On democracy, 988 hotline and more

NEW for 7/15: On work program, UGA students, pilgrimage

NEW for 7/12: Ukrainian mission trip and a new book

NEW for 7/8: On library program, an exemption, Vidalia onions

NEW for 7/5: A tax hike, new King statue, religious states

NEW for 7/1: On continuing education, Gwinnett foundation, pets

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