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NEW for 12/15: On Greenland, bar hours, Rowen progress
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Consider this area for your vacation: Greenland!
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Regulate Activity at Bars in Early Morning Hours
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Gas
ANOTHER VIEW: Rowen project on track to be completed in 2024
FEEDBACK: Herding cats falls short in two-party warring factions
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Stripers attendance continues upward
NOTABLE: JEMCF contribution includes $72,000 to local area
RECOMMENDED: Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Former Fort Gordon now named Fort Eisenhower
MYSTERY PHOTO: Check out today’s unusual photograph
CALENDAR: Christmas program at Mary Our Queen Church tonight
ANOTHER VIEW: Rowen project on track to be completed in 2024
By Brian Brodrick | One year ago, the Rowen Foundation hosted its formal groundbreaking and tree-planting ceremony to mark the beginning of Georgia’s first-ever foundation-led knowledge community. Since then, tremendous progress has been made on the 2,000-acre site, with Phase 1 infrastructure on track for completion in 2024.
NEW for 12/12: On health care and remembering an old friend
Click here to read the latest from GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Former President Trump is clueless on health care
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering a close friend of 60 years
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
FEEDBACK: On national leaders and Rep. Collins
UPCOMING: County awards contracts for several initiatives
GEORGIA TIDBIT: John Stith Pemberton and Coca-Cola
MYSTERY PHOTO: Wow. Look at the gables on this structure!
CALENDAR: Poll worker hiring set for Dec. 18
Gwinnett Forum | Jan. 14, 2025
“I have learned that our greatest blessings come when we are able to improve the lives of others.”
– The only president from Georgia, No. 39, Jimmy Carter (1924-2024), via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
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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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