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BRACK: Thoughts of forest fires and raking leaves for fire prevention

BRACK: Thoughts of forest fires and raking leaves for fire prevention

By Elliott Brack  |  It’s best for me to ignore many of the pronouncements coming from Donald Trump. As for his tweets, I don’t get them, though occasionally one is so outrageous that it pops out at me in news stories. 

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by · September 18, 2020 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
“Christmas in Dacula” starts with a 5K and Fun Run, as these four participants show from the 2015 Run.  The City of Dacula is planning this third annual Christmas activity for December 3.

11/18: From Christmas in Dacula to smoke across Georgia

Click here to read the latest issue. Inside:
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

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by · November 18, 2016 · Full issues
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BRACK: Mountain fires in Georgia impacting state as far south as Macon

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Having lived almost all of my life in Georgia, except for a three-year stint in Germany and a year in Iowa at graduate school, this week many of us experienced something unusual — something that had never happen to me before.

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by · November 18, 2016 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
BRACK: People are there for you if something runs amiss in your life

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.

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BRACK:  Middle Georgians lament fire at hot dog stand spelled incorrectly

BRACK: Middle Georgians lament fire at hot dog stand spelled incorrectly

By Elliott Brack | Pardon me for a personal reflection today.

Those of us who grew up in Middle Georgia, and in particular in Macon, are saddened today. You see, an institution which succored us from our earliest memories as a kid, burned down Friday morning.

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by · March 17, 2015 · Elliott Brack's Perspective