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11/18: From Christmas in Dacula to smoke across Georgia
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Third Annual ‘Christmas in Dacula’ Scheduled for December 3
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Mountain Fires in Georgia Impacting State as Far South as Macon
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett County Public Library
FEEDBACK: Look at smoke in Macon from wildfires
UPCOMING: 29th Annual Lighting of Tree at Historic Courthouse Is on Thanksgiving
NOTABLE: County To Purchase Historic Promised Land Maguire-Livsey House
RECOMMENDED: A Lowcountry Heart: by Pat Conroy
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Little Known Today, Mary E. Hutchinson Was Acclaimed Artist
TODAY’S QUOTE: What Will Rogers Thought of Individual Greatness
MYSTERY PHOTO: Massive Overlapping Steel Provides This Issue’s Quandary
BRACK: People are there for you if something runs amiss in your life
By Elliott Brack | In the distance, was that a siren? Waiting among a large group in a medical facility recently for a doctor’s appointment, an ambulance pulled up to the building entrance. That explained the siren. Three EMTs started rolling in a gurney.
About that time a Gwinnett fire truck from Station 15 on Perry Street in Lawrenceville also quietly pulled up to the building, with three fireman joining the EMTs.
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 5, 2024
“Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.”
– American Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 – 1959).
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SAMPLE BALLOTS
Consolidated sample ballots are available below and are not specific to a voter’s individual ballot. To find what your ballot will look like, visit My Voter Page on the Georgia Secretary of State’s website.
>> Click here for the 11/5 consolidated sample ballot in English/Spanish
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MULBERRY CANDIDATES
Residents of the new city of Mulberry can read answers to questions put to the 15 candidates for the coming council elections through a public service offered by GwinnettForum.
>> Click here to learn about Mulberry’s candidates.
>> Click here for the Mulberry election FAQ and sample ballot
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
- Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
- 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.
- 21st century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
- Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.
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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