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NEW for 2/18: On ballet, school board, pardons
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Help Gwinnett Ballet Theatre thrive for the arts locally
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Meandering Gwinnett school board raises questions
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College
ANOTHER VIEW: Trump’s pardon of insurrectionists who attack Capitol
FEEDBACK: This theory explains Trump, Musk and chaos
UPCOMING: Sitting too much can cause lower back pain
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Tech gets new VP for economic development
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Circuses first appeared in Georgia back in 1801
MYSTERY PHOTO: Steel bridge engineering feat is today’s Mystery Photo
CALENDAR: Sugar Hill Preservation Society meets Feb. 19
NEW for 2/11: Footsteps exhibit, federal judiciary, music, more
Click here to read the latest new edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Ansel Adams’ Footsteps exhibit returns Feb. 15
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Federal judiciary is our hope in halting Trump madness
SPOTLIGHT: Peachtree Campus
ANOTHER VIEW: Music gives life to everything
FEEDBACK: We must help young families find housing
UPCOMING: Lawrenceville proposing expanding city limits
NOTABLE: GGC professor looks at AI development ramifications
RECOMMENDED: Sandlot Peanuts, by Charles Schultz
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Wassaw Island least disturbed of barrier islands
MYSTERY PHOTO: Long Distinctive Bridge is today’s mystery photo
CALENDAR: Art exhibit at Norcross Gallery and Studio opens Feb. 13
NEW for 1/31: Mall Corners, Piedmont Bank, 3rd rail
Click here to read the latest edition of GwinnettForum. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: New owners to redevelop Mall Corners Shopping Center
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Piedmont Bank sold to United Bankshares of W.Va. and D.C.
SPOTLIGHT: E.R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
ANOTHER VIEW: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – the 3rd rail
FEEDBACK: Anxiety of students during raids worries him
UPCOMING: Striper’s Chopper plans Groundhog Day appearances
NOTABLE: Schoolcraft is Gwinnett Tech GOAL winner
RECOMMENDED: Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Fort Benning namesake was Confederate general
MYSTERY PHOTO: Sun, mountain peaks and reflection make neat mystery
CALENDAR: Personal goals workshop will be Feb. 1 in Norcross
Gwinnett Forum | April 22, 2025
“You wear different clothes when you are buying than you do when you are selling.”
– Buford auto dealer Nicky Johnson, who died in 1995.
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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.
- County-wide microtransit services.
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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