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BRACK: Used car licenses, wisteria, early streetcars and two daylilies
By Elliott Brack | The business community of Peachtree Corners is growing, as are many Gwinnett cities. A report from Peachtree Corners the other day listed 33 new businesses in the city in June. But on close inspection, 14 of these new firms had applied and were granted a license as a used car dealer.
4/23: Town Center in Peachtree Corners; About key fobs
Click here to read the latest issue of GwinnettForum. Inside this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Town Center at Peachtree Corners Opening Will Be April 27
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Important Elements To Know About Those New Automotive Key Fobs
SPOTLIGHT: United Community Bank
FEEDBACK: Seeing the Cyclorama at the History Center Is Like Seeing New Painting
UPCOMING: Sports Medicine Fellowship To Begin at Gwinnett Medical Center
NOTABLE: Dr. Sandra Waldrop Is New President of Lilburn Business Association
RECOMMENDED: Question of Trust by Penny Vincenzi
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Oglethorpe’s Coastal Defense of Georgia Served Its Purpose
MYSTERY PHOTO: Colors in Today’s Mystery Photo May Help in Solving the Problem
CALENDAR: Snellville Days To Return on May 4-5
12/14: New solar farm; Bicentennial celebration; House district problem
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Facebook Chooses Walton EMC To Build State’s Largest Solar Project
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Gwinnett’s Bicentennial Gets Lots of People Involved; Ends Saturday
ANOTHER VIEW: Peachtree Corners’ House District 95 Has Contiguity Problem
SPOTLIGHT: Comet National Shipping
UPCOMING: Record 10,000 Wreaths Headed for Andersonville National Cemetery
NOTABLE: Dianne Monroe Is Snellville Senior Center Volunteer of Year for 2018
RECOMMENDED: Night of Camp David by Fletcher Knebel
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Businessman Joel Hurt Involved In Many Early Activities in Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: A Shadow Is a Clue in This Issue’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: It’s a Live Oak Tree Providing the Background for this Winter Scene
CALENDAR: Two Dedications on Tuesday in Gwinnett County
4/27: A locomotive that works; $2 million transportation idea
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Museum to have operating steam locomotive soon
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Peachtree Corners Funds $2 Million Emerging Transportation Idea
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
McLEMORE’S WORLD: God Given Gift?
UPCOMING: At Least Three Competing Big Events in Gwinnett This Weekend
NOTABLE: Russell Knick To Become Gwinnett County’s New Fire Chief
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia’s Virtual Library, GALILEO, First Founded in 1995
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can a Big Group of Readers Figure Out This Mystery Photo?
BRACK: Peachtree Corners funds $2 million emerging transportation idea
APRIL 27, 2018 | All across the nation, the big new high-tech topic is driverless cars. Wednesday in Peachtree Corners, that Gwinnett city announced a program that lets the city work toward leadership in cutting-edge ideas that may transform innovations in transportation technology. It is being called an advanced vehicle technology accelerator.
5/2: New PC city hall; Charm of an older hotel; Data and guns
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Peachtree Corners To Buy Building in Technology Park for City Hall
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Stay at Older Hotel in Hot Springs, Ark. Proves To Be Memorable
ANOTHER VIEW: Good Data Equals Good Public Policy in Gun Debate
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Tech To Host Coding Youth Camps This Summer
NOTABLE: Eastside Medical Center Proudly Flies Donate Life Flag
RECOMMENDED: This Close to Happy: A Reckoning with Depression by Daphne Merkin
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Artist Find Acceptance, Including Major Work Done for Coca-Cola
TODAY’S QUOTE: Problems With Having an Open Mind
MYSTERY PHOTO: Tell us Who This Bust Represents and Where It’s Located
LAGNIAPPE: Roving Photographer Frank Sharp Visits Zoo Atlanta
CALENDAR: Paper Shredding at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lilburn on May 13
4/4: Our 17th birthday with features on town green, highways, ACA
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Architect Completes Design of Town Green for Peachtree Corners
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Highway Routings, Political Forums and a Jackson EMC Promotion
ANOTHER VIEW: Republicans Now Need to Fix What They Feel Is Wrong with ACA
SPOTLIGHT: Walton EMC
FEEDBACK: Those Old Rural Buildings Are Now Homes for Bats, Owls and Varmints
UPCOMING: Senior Connections To Recognize Levetts with Community Award
NOTABLE: Georgia Gwinnett Wins IIE’s Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation
RECOMMENDED: Sell Out by Ebony Joy Wilkins
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Great Speckled Bird Has Amazing Run in Atlanta Newspaper Circles
TODAY’S QUOTE: For Some Matters, All You Need Is One
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Is Not Just Your Ordinary Victorian House
LAGNIAPPE: Plethora of Easter Egg Hunts Scheduled around Gwinnett County
CALENDAR: Pet the Cat’s Author Coming to Aurora Theatre
5/6: Survey on Peachtree Corners’ bridge; Our primary endorsements; Cuba
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Survey Says Majority of Peachtree Corners Residents Oppose Bridge
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Consider These Candidates When You Go Into the Voting Booth
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s Another Look of Recent Trip to Cuba by Southern Journalists
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning Inc.
FEEDBACK: How Patty Davis Says Alzheimer’s Touched Ronald Reagan
UPCOMING: Commissioners OKs $75 Million Addition for Gwinnett Courthouse
NOTABLE: Refunding Water-Sewer Bonds Results in $18.5 Million Savings
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Union Forces Capture Jefferson Davis in Irwin County
TODAY’S QUOTE: Shhh. Or the Whole World May Know!
MYSTERY PHOTO: New Mystery Photo May Bring Lots of Head Scratching
Gwinnett Forum | Dec. 24, 2024
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
— American scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat Benjamin Franklin (1706 –1790), via Cindy Evans, Duluth.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The next issue of GwinnettForum will be Jan. 3, 2025.
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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