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NEWS BRIEFS: Animal Shelter at capacity; adoption fees waived
The Gwinnett Animal Welfare Center has reached a critical capacity with more than 180 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens currently under care. To ease the strain on staff and resources, the shelter urgently requests potential adopters and foster families to take advantage of waived adoption fees.
NEW for 5/10: On demands of few and presiding over Trump trial
Click here to read the latest full edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: We should not accede to the demands of a few
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Today’s most difficult job: presiding over the Trump trial
SPOTLIGHT: Peachtree Campus
FEEDBACK: Call for action in removing Gwinnett District Attorney
UPCOMING: Students named to Impact46 summer internships
NOTABLE: Current GGC new nurses pass license at 100% rate
RECOMMENDED: What W.H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Library houses African American culture and history
MYSTERY PHOTO: You may have seen this lighthouse; where is it?
LAGNIAPPE: Sullens is Lilburn’s May Citizen of the Month
CALENDAR: Two new exhibits open May 11 at Hudgens Art Center
NEW for 5/7: Pro and con on new City of Mulberry; Elizabeth Williams
Click here to read the full, new edition of GwinnettForum. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Urges vote for City of Mulberry, citing local control
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering the library’s Elizabeth H. Williams
SPOTLIGHT: Gateway85 Community Improvement District
ANOTHER VIEW: Beware! The Mulberry vote is not what you think
FEEDBACK: Note the writer’s wordage in this diatribe
UPCOMING: New technical application makes for safer streets
NOTABLE: Southern Living lists Lilburn among best towns
RECOMMENDED: The Warden, by Anthony Trollope
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Social change agendas bring on new movements
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s a tribute to someone; but who?
CALENDAR: Richt speaks Thursday at Salvation Army lunch
Gwinnett Forum | Jan. 10, 2025
“Nothing makes us feel more connected than when we are engaged in a healthy balance of thoughtful speaking and hardcore listening.”
— Belgian-American psychotherapist and relationship expert Eshter Perel (1958- ) via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
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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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