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12/18: Remembering the Thomasons; Hudgens gets new director; U.S. Senate

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Blanche and Troy Thomason of Snellville
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Hudgens Art Center To Announce New Director
ANOTHER VIEW: Something Must Be Done To Reform U.S. Senate
UPCOMING: ARC Seeking Input to Comprehensive Regional Plan
NOTABLE: Here Are Tips for Your Pets from SPCA for the Holidays
RECOMMENDED READ: Shattered Consensus by James Piereson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Many of Melissa Fay Greene’s Books Focus on Georgia
TODAY’S QUOTE: Sit Still and Watch Your Troubles Go Away
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Recognized Recent Photograph
LAGNIAPPE: Fourth Grader Wins Lilburn Woman’s Club Scholarship

by GwinnettForum · December 18, 2015 · Full issues

12/15: Protecting yourself, for-profit colleges, more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Steps To Take If You Find Yourself in Terrorist Attack

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Settlement Against For-Profit College Firm Is Good for Nation

FEEDBACK: Watch Out When People Start Quoting You Statistics

UPCOMING: City of Duluth Accepting Applications for LEAD Program

NOTABLE: Philadelphia Winn DAR Hosts Students from South Carolina school

RECOMMENDED READ: The Einstein Prophecy by Robert Masello

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Much of Melissa Fay Greene’s Writing Concerns Civil Rights

TODAY’S QUOTE: Here’s the Way You Should Live Your Life

MYSTERY PHOTO: Several People Recognized Mystery, Plus a Good Yarn

LAGNIAPPE: Touchdown Club and Discovery High Recognizes Clyde Strickland

by GwinnettForum · December 15, 2015 · Full issues

12/11: Grateful man; County’s big taxpayers; more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Homeless Man Is Grateful To Those Who Rescued Him
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Just Who Are Gwinnett’s Largest Taxpayers?
FEEDBACK: Addressing the Problem of Fear in This Country
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Tech To Offer Courses in Filmmaking in 2016
NOTABLE: Medical College Wins Awards for Diversity
RECOMMENDED MOVIE: Bad Day at Black Rock
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wesleyan Faculty Concentrates on Faculty With Terminal Degrees
TODAY’S QUOTE: How the World Is Changed, and It’s From You!
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only Three Recognized Bridge Near American Landmark

by GwinnettForum · December 11, 2015 · Full issues

12/8: Sword drill, gun rampage legislation, past haven

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Remembering Old Times and Baptist Sword Drill

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gun Rampage Legislation Can Start at the Local Level

ANOTHER VIEW: Gwinnett Was Once Haven for Dumping of Atlanta Bodies

FEEDBACK: More on Brokered Convention, TV Antennas and Americans Being Fearful

UPCOMING: Duluth Seeking Members of Citizen’s Budget Review Commission

NOTABLE: First Student at PCOM Gets Award Fund

RECOMMENDED READ: Gamble by Felix Francis

GEORGIA TIDBIT: First American College Sorority, Alpha Delta Pi, Founded at Wesleyan

TODAY’S QUOTE: Why You Should Not Tell People Your Problems

MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Recognize Lodge at National Park

by GwinnettForum · December 8, 2015 · Full issues

12/4: European vacation, TV antenna, free college

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Roving Photographer Returns from Roving Around Europe

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Having Problems Trying To Hook Up Local-TV Antenna

ANOTHER VIEW: Should College Be Free to All? More on Brokered Convention

FEEDBACK: Wants Next President to Leave Party Label at the White House Door

UPCOMING: Lionheart Theatre Offers Big Variety of Programs for the Holidays

NOTABLE: Michigan Public Health Selects Gwinnett Fire Department for an Award

RECOMMENDED READ: The Abolition of Man; The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wesleyan in Macon Is Oldest Degree-Granting Women’s College

TODAY’S QUOTE: Here’s What Memory Can Give you During the Cold Season

MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Person Spotted Recent Mystery Photo

LAGNIAPPE: Snellville Police Citizens Academy Graduates Another Class

by GwinnettForum · December 4, 2015 · Full issues

11/24: Old Norcross library; Buford entrepreneur; Thanksgiving

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Is That a Carnegie Library Building in Norcross?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Enterprising Young Woman Ventures Out with First Product
ANOTHER VIEW: Oh, the Joys, the Anguish, of Thanksgiving
UPCOMING: Myriad of Christmas Activities in Dacula on Sunday, December 6
NOTABLE: Eleven Middle School Teachers Win Bright Idea Grants
RECOMMENDED READ: The Generals by Winston Groom
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Once a Wonder, Kudzu Is No Longer Considered a Beneficial Crop
TODAY’S QUOTE: The Name of Your Pillow Where You Pray at Night
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tall Column Commemorates What, and Where Is It?
LAGNIAPPE: Master Gardener Volunteers Win Recognition

by GwinnettForum · November 24, 2015 · Full issues

11/20: On election day, presidential politics, abortion

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Suggests Combining Election Day and Veterans Day

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Two Competing Factors Come Into Play for Presidential Race

ANOTHER VIEW: Proven Ways the United States Can Reduce Abortions

FEEDBACK: Feels Writer Has Misunderstanding of the Constitution

UPCOMING: Norcross Tour of Homes; Writing Workshop in Athens; Others

NOTABLE: Two People Singled Out for Accomplishments

RECOMMENDED READ: Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Guy

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Where Did the Phrase, “You’ll Be Out on Your Ear” Come From?

TODAY’S QUOTE: That Few Milliseconds Between Pitch and Call

MYSTERY PHOTO: Ex-Gwinnettian Sends Photo That No One Can Identify

by GwinnettForum · November 20, 2015 · Full issues

11/17: Louisianan’s view; on publishing GwinnettForum; more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: A View from Louisianan Who Lived Short Time in Gwinnett

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Response from Readers Makes Publishing Worthwhile

ANOTHER VIEW: Land Line Customers Have Callers Who Abuse Them

FEEDBACK: Four Comments, including Two on Paris Bombings

UPCOMING: City of Suwanee Seeking Snappers in Photo Contest

NOTABLE: Little Mulberry Park in Gwinnett Honored with Award

RECOMMENDED READ: Very Good Lives by J. K. Rowling

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Association of Georgia Artists Started in Murphy Home in Savannah

TODAY’S QUOTE: One Element That Has No Handicaps

MYSTERY PHOTO: Lots of People Recognize Harbor in Croatia

LAGNIAPPE: Augusta DAR Project and Tourist Attraction

by GwinnettForum · November 17, 2015 · Full issues

11/13: On public transit, college football, representation

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Majority of Gwinnett Citizens Now Favor Public Transit
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Unrest in Midwest Could Be Changing College Football
ANOTHER VIEW: Wants Change in the U.S. Constitution for “Fairer Representation”
FEEDBACK: We’re Rewarded with Three Letters for Readers Today
UPCOMING: Two Gwinnett Properties Named as “Places in Peril” by Historic Trust
NOTABLE: GGC Dedicates Military Success Center in Memory of Deborah Reato
RECOMMENDED READ: Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Christopher Murphy Jr. Prominent Artist For Years in Savannah
TODAY’S QUOTE: Why Voting Just Doesn’t Make Any Difference
MYSTERY PHOTO: What a Beautiful Photograph of a Harbor Town!
LAGNIAPPE: Vines Park Wins International Award for Grounds Maintenance

by GwinnettForum · November 13, 2015 · Full issues

11/10: Library improvements, plurality victory, more

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Major Improvements Seen in Gwinnett Library System

EEB PERSPECTIVE: Lilburn Councilman To Take Seat with Plurality Victory

FEEDBACK: Items on Huckabee, E-SPLOST, Closing Bars Earlier….and an Error

UPCOMING: Snellville Presents Well-Known Artist; Entries Sought in Promoting Event

NOTABLE: Dahlonega’s Calhoun Gold Mine Offered at Auction

RECOMMENDED RESTAURANT: Glen Ella Springs

GEORGIA TIDBIT: Yamacraw Indians Important When Oglethorpe Founded Georgia

TODAY’S QUOTE: On the Differences Between Hearing and Seeing

MYSTERY PHOTO: Four Readers Identify Recent Mystery

LAGNIAPPE: Vines Park Wins National Award

by GwinnettForum · November 10, 2015 · Full issues

Continuing objectives

Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:

Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
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.
Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.

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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12/18: Remembering the Thomasons; Hudgens gets new director; U.S. Senate

12/15: Protecting yourself, for-profit colleges, more

12/11: Grateful man; County’s big taxpayers; more

12/8: Sword drill, gun rampage legislation, past haven

12/4: European vacation, TV antenna, free college

11/20: On election day, presidential politics, abortion

11/17: Louisianan’s view; on publishing GwinnettForum; more

11/13: On public transit, college football, representation

11/10: Library improvements, plurality victory, more

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