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Duluth Fall Festival is Saturday, Sunday
The 40th annual Duluth Fall Festival lis just around the corner on Saturday, Sept. 30, and Sunday, Oct. 1. There will be hundreds of displays of arts , crafts , holiday items, food, outdoor events, sponsor booths and more with many exciting new vendors. Entertainment on two stages is set, along with the parade, opening ceremony and road race.
Take advantage of the FREE shuttle service Saturday and Sunday from these area schools: Duluth Middle on Pleasant Hill Road, Chattahoochee Elementary on Albion Farm Road or Mason Elementary on Bunten Road. Ride in comfort to and from the festival, and don’t worry about parking at all!
NEW for 9/12: On energy growth, Kurt’s 80th, Hawaii
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Georgia works well with “slow and steady” energy growth
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Surprise 80th party for famed restaurateur, Kurt Eisele
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Banking Company
ANOTHER VIEW: Remembering a vacation to Hawaii years ago
FEEDBACK: Ways to determine if an email is from a scammer
UPCOMING: Johns Creek Symphony opens its 17th season Sept. 30
NOTABLE: New officers named for Mountain Park Community Association
RECOMMENDED: Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life by George Elliot
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia railroads financially sound, dominated by two lines
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s another wooden bridge for you to identify
CALENDAR: The 69th annual Gwinnett County Fair begins Thursday
NEWS BRIEFS: Johns Creek Symphony opens its 17th season Sept. 30
Johns Creek Symphony Orchestra is ready to ignite the area with a dynamic concert performance, featuring Mark Wood, the original string master of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. “The Mark Wood Experience” will be held on Saturday, September 30 at 7 p.m. in Newtown Park, 3150 Old Alabama Road in Johns Creek.
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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