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FOCUS: New health center, The Bridge, opens Sept. 13 on Jimmy Carter Blvd.

FOCUS: New health center, The Bridge, opens Sept. 13 on Jimmy Carter Blvd.

By Jerene Curse | A new charitable health center is to open east of Interstate 85 on September 13. This new center, Bridge Atlanta Medical Center, will focus on providing not only primary health care, but specialty care, for such chronic conditions as hypertension, heart failure, asthma, COPD and diabetes.

Bridge Atlanta Medical Center provides healthcare for uninsured and underserved individuals and families in a Christian faith-based environment. It is located at 4864 Jimmy Carter Boulevard, in Norcross, (just past Rockbridge Road, one block from Walmart.)

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by · August 16, 2016 · Today's Focus
MYSTERY: This stately structure would take forever to paint

MYSTERY: This stately structure would take forever to paint

This edition’s Mystery Photo is one that it would take forever to paint, and you would use quite a bit of paint. Check out this photograph and figure out where it is located. Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown

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by · August 16, 2016 · Mystery photos
8/12: On new Aurora series; Two new high schools; more

8/12: On new Aurora series; Two new high schools; more

Click here to read the latest full issue. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Aurora Lab Series To Have Regional Premiere with Next Offering
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Two New High Schools Coming to Norcross and Meadowcreek Areas
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Nothing Wrong with Having a Partisan Political Action Group
UPCOMING: Hudgens Center Offers Program On Marketing of Handmade Products
NOTABLE: Sugar Hill Seeks Assistance in Picking New Downtown Mural Design
RECOMMENDED: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta Gets Several Tangible Legacies from Hosting Olympic Games
CALENDAR: Foster Parents Workshop Upcoming in Two Sessions
TODAY’S QUOTE: Raymond Chandler’s Views on Ability, Motivation and Attitude
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Mystery Photo Has Few Clues To Guide You
LAGNIAPPE: This Auburn Little Free Library Is in the Middle of Town

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by · August 12, 2016 · Full issues
BRACK: Two relief high schools to offer specialized subjects, but no athletics

BRACK: Two relief high schools to offer specialized subjects, but no athletics

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Two new smaller “relief” high schools in the Norcross and Meadowcreek clusters are expected to come on board in the next two years. Both are to be different types of high schools, aimed at giving students a different approach to the high school experience.

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by · August 12, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
FOCUS: Aurora Lab Series to have regional premier with next offering

FOCUS: Aurora Lab Series to have regional premier with next offering

By Chelsea Bohannon | An unconventional convention filled with laugh-out-loud livestock-inspired comedy, Aurora Theatre will debut its 2016-17 GGC Harvel Lab Series with the Southeastern regional premiere of Singles in Agriculture, to run September 16 through October 9.

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by · August 12, 2016 · Today's Focus
MYSTERY: This photo offers a few clues to guide you

MYSTERY: This photo offers a few clues to guide you

Who will step forward and identify this Mystery Photo. There are few clues in this photograph, so you’ll have to come through creatively to identify this photograph. Send you guess to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown.

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by · August 12, 2016 · Mystery photos
8/9: Helping Latinos to graduate; The joy of re-reading a book

8/9: Helping Latinos to graduate; The joy of re-reading a book

Click here to read the latest issue. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Loganville Couple Start Program Helping Latinos Graduate from School
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Oh, the Fun of Re-Reading To A Really Good Author’s Book
SPOTLIGHT: Howard Brothers
UPCOMING: Minority Groups File Suit Against County for Voting Right Violations
NOTABLE: Sugar Hill and Chamber To Partner on Business Resources
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Twenty Years Later, Looking at the Centennial Olympics in Atlanta
CALENDAR: Cookbook Swap
TODAY’S QUOTE: Watch Out for That Mob Merriment, Noise and Nodding Acquaintances
MYSTERY PHOTO: Patriotic Photograph Commemorates Specific Story
LAGNIAPPE: Tiny House Exhibit Proves To Be Quite Popular

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by · August 9, 2016 · Full issues
BRACK: Oh, the fun of re-reading a really good author’s book

BRACK: Oh, the fun of re-reading a really good author’s book

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | There is nothing more satisfying to me, on lazy days, than to return to a book you have enjoyed previously. One I pulled down from the bookshelf the other day was The Wines of Pentagoet by John Gould.

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by · August 9, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
The Hollandsworths

FOCUS: Loganville couple starts program helping Latinos graduate from school

By Melinda and Jim Hollandsworth, founders, The Path Project | In 2008 my wife Melinda and I drove into a mobile home park in Loganville to deliver Christmas presents through our church. This neighborhood is home to mostly first and second generation Mexican immigrant families.

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by · August 9, 2016 · Today's Focus
MYSTERY: Patriotic photograph has specific story

MYSTERY: Patriotic photograph has specific story

This patriotic outcropping has quite a story. The name of the town may give away the story. Give us the synopsis, if you can and Send in your thoughts to elliott@gwinnettforum.com and be sure to include your hometown.

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by · August 9, 2016 · Mystery photos
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