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NEW for 9/1: On politics and watching birds

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Concerning the Democrats, Bernie Sanders and Climate Control
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Like Before, President Trump Introduces the Fear Card
ANOTHER VIEW: Find Pleasure Watching Birds in Your Own Backyard
SPOTLIGHT: Centurion Advisory Group
FEEDBACK: Defunding Police Departments Is Living in Never-Never Land
UPCOMING: Peachtree Corners Names 11.5 Mile Trail “Corners Connector”
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Chamber Presents Third Annual Moxie Awards
RECOMMENDED: Ghostwritten by Isabel Wolff
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Shakers Establish Colony in Georgia, Which Was Short Lived
MYSTERY PHOTO: Laid Back Scene Is This Edition’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Morgan No Longer Heading Georgia Activities for Renasant Bank

by GwinnettForum · September 1, 2020 · Full issues

NEW for 5/1: New scam; Sugarloaf’s name; Doing something

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TODAY’S FOCUS: New Telephone Scam Afoot; Targets Elderly, So Hang Up on ‘Em
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Sugarloaf Parkway: Name Came from the Rollins Farm Horse Stables
ANOTHER VIEW: Each Should Do Something To Bring Us Through Pandemic
SPOTLIGHT: Lail Family Dentistry
FEEDBACK: It Might Help Us All in These Times To Simply “Rant!”
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Bar Association Releases Poll on Judicial Qualifications
NOTABLE: GACS Teacher Drives 245 Miles Delivering Bags to Students
RECOMMENDED: Book on CD Review: Sister Queens by Julia Fox
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Forester Leon Neel Was Leading Advocate for Ecological Management
MYSTERY PHOTO: More Than You Might Imagine in Today’s Mystery Photo

by GwinnettForum · May 1, 2020 · Full issues, Uncategorized

NEW for 3/27: On virus’s economic impact; Grocery shopping; Quarantining

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Where Will the CoViD-19 Pandemic Hit the Economy Next?
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Early Morning Grocery Shopping Finds Unusually Easy Maneuvering
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s a Guy Who Had Training for Today’s Quarantine Situation
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Administration’s Public Health Failure Open for All to See
UPCOMING: Gwinnett’s The Water Tower To Begin Training Professionals Soon
NOTABLE: Animal Shelter Open, But Limiting Visitors Inside at a Time
RECOMMENDED: A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
GEORGIA TIDBIT: J & J Industries of Dalton, Makes Broadloom Carpet Since 1950s
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Mystery Photo Doesn’t Ask Where, But Instead “What?”

by GwinnettForum · March 27, 2020 · Full issues

3/3, full issue: On shopping carts, Georgia’s 2020 impact, debates

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Recognize that a Quarter for a Shopping Cart May Be Cheap Insurance
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Georgia’s Impact on the Presidential Race Getting Less and Less Likely
ANOTHER VIEW: Do Something To Reduce Frenzy at Presidential Debate
SPOTLIGHT: Renasant Bank
FEEDBACK: Another Consideration of What Causes Fluctuations in the Market
UPCOMING: Gwinnett Place Area To Get New Apartment Complex, The Rey
NOTABLE: Building with Earlier Functions Now Houses Kudzu Gallery and Studios
RECOMMENDED: Gods and Heroes: Myths and Epics of Ancient Greece by Gustav Schwab
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Whites, Blacks, and Other Persons Took Turns Exhorting Converts
MYSTERY PHOTO: Monumental Structure Over Street is New Mystery
LAGNIAPPE: Organizations Participate in Patriotic Observance in Gainesville
CALENDAR: Learn about the 1895 Cotton State Exposition Tonight at Environmental Center

by GwinnettForum · March 3, 2020 · Full issues

12/13: On public TV fund-raising, commission salaries

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Give Public TV Stations Buckets: That Might Rake in More Money
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Delegation: Bring Commission Chairman’s Salary Up to Date
SPOTLIGHT: Howard Brothers
FEEDBACK: Concern of Foreign Influence Does Not Fall on Deaf Ears
UPCOMING: Four Local Rotary Clubs To Erect Peace Pole in Lawrenceville
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Place CID To Invest in License Plate Reading Cameras
RECOMMENDED: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Even Unto This Day, Jane Fonda Protests, now on Climate Change
MYSTERY PHOTO: It May Not Be Easy To Guess Today’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Only One of These Gwinnett History Books Available
CALENDAR: Peachtree Corners Plans Corn Hole League in January

by GwinnettForum · December 12, 2019 · Full issues

11/8: Annoying robocalls; Politics in Gwinnett; Hudgens’ artwork

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TODAY’S FOCUS: With Robocalls, Adopt a “Little Old Woman” Voice When Talking
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Projecting What Will Happen in 2020 on the Gwinnett Political Scene
ANOTHER VIEW: Hudgens Center Offers Artwork by Artist with Brain Cancer
SPOTLIGHT: Primerica, Inc.
FEEDBACK: Send us your thoughts
UPCOMING: Northside Hospital Cardiovascular Institute Expands to Lawrenceville
NOTABLE: Stripers Create “Veteran’s Pack” only Available November 11-12
RECOMMENDED: The Great Alaskan Race (movie)
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Much of Wiregrass Georgia Is Mostly Agricultural Land
MYSTERY PHOTO: Yes, We’ve Found Another Lighthouse for You To Identify
LAGNIAPPE: Local DAR Chapter Visits Historical Homes in Athens.
CALENDAR: Cherokee Nation Master Gardener Tony Harris Speaks November 14 in Suwanee

by GwinnettForum · November 8, 2019 · Full issues

10/4: About left-handedness; Alvin Wilbanks; Trump and U.S.

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Ramifications of What It Means About Being Left-Handed
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Alvin Wilbanks’ Good Leadership Is a Hallmark for Gwinnett Schools
ANOTHER VIEW: Feels That President Trump Is Selling Out Our Nation
SPOTLIGHT: PCOM Georgia
FEEDBACK: Briggs Was On Target Depicting Matters in the Middle East
UPCOMING: Deadline Approaching October 15 for Payment of 2019 Property Taxes
NOTABLE: PCOM, GGC Agreement Saves Pharmacy Students One Year’s Tuition
RECOMMENDED: Where the Souls Go by Ann Hite
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Chet Atkins Fashions Softer Style of Country Music in 1960s and 1970s
MYSTERY PHOTO: Today’s Mystery Photo Shows a Modern Windmill; Where Is It?
LAGNIAPPE: Climate Change Prompts This Poster at One Gwinnett Office
CALENDAR: Leif Erikson Day at Tribble Mill Park on October 5

by GwinnettForum · October 4, 2019 · Full issues

8/13: More phone scams; GGC’s new president; Civil War battles

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TODAY’S FOCUS: New Phone Scam about Cancer Afoot, Again Targeting the Elderly
EEB PERSPECTIVE: GGC President Focuses on Students, Seeking Campus Filled with Joy
ANOTHER VIEW: Reflecting on Civil War Battles during the Heat at Manassas
SPOTLIGHT: Infinite Energy Center
FEEDBACK: It’s Not a Gun Problem That We Have, but a Culture Problem
UPCOMING: Aquatic Centers Have Extended Hours and Are Open until Labor Day
NOTABLE: Institute of Transportation Engineers Honors Duluth Resident
RECOMMENDED: Lazy Dog Café, in Peachtree Corners
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Some Works by Early Georgia Artists Still Hang in Museums in State
MYSTERY PHOTO: Mountain Town Is Mystery Photo for This Edition
LAGNIAPPE: Stunning Butterfly Photograph
CALENDAR: Puppets Coming This Friday to Lilburn Farmers Market

by GwinnettForum · August 13, 2019 · Full issues

7/23: Helping Young Eagles; Freedom from fear; Stalking law

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TODAY’S FOCUS: Veteran Pilots Give Flight Time to Young Eagles
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Freedom from Fear Is One of Our Basic Rights in the USA
ANOTHER VIEW: Recent Parking Lot Encounter Covered by Georgia’s Stalking Law
SPOTLIGHT: Peach State Federal Credit Union
FEEDBACK: Applying 19th Century Imponderables to Today’s Production World
UPCOMING: Sugarloaf Rotary Plans Fifth Annual Gwinnett Duck Derby August 3
NOTABLE: Sugarloaf CID Installs License Plate Readers To Improve Safety
RECOMMENDED: The Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Great Depression Was Hard on the Music Industry in Georgia
MYSTERY PHOTO: What Is In This Vast Array In Mainly Red and Yellow?
LAGNIAPPE: Using a Local Asset: Having Fun on the Chattahoochee River
CALENDAR: Some coming events

by GwinnettForum · July 22, 2019 · Full issues

6/25: On scams, Senate “grandees” and women’s health care

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TODAY’S FOCUS: The Elderly Are More Likely To Be Scammed, So Watch Out!
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Remembering Who Runs the U.S. Senate: The “Grandees”
ANOTHER VIEW: Keep Women’s Health Care Out of Politics, or Suffer Consequences
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
FEEDBACK: When Needs To Re-read a Paragraph, Blames Really Poor Editing
UPCOMING: Activities Begin at 5 p.m. on July 3 for Norcross Red White and Boom!
NOTABLE: Peachtree Corners Dedicates Veterans’ Monument at Town Center
RECOMMENDED: Dis Member and Other Stories of Mystery and Suspense By Joyce Carol Oates
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Brumby’s Neighbor Newspaper Group Once Had 500,000 Circulation
MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately Columned Southern House Is This Edition’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Lawrenceville Campground Meeting Now in its 187th Year of Services
CALENDAR: Discovery Gardens Neighbors’ Night Out is Thursday, June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.

by GwinnettForum · June 25, 2019 · Full issues

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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NEW for 9/1: On politics and watching birds

NEW for 5/1: New scam; Sugarloaf’s name; Doing something

NEW for 3/27: On virus’s economic impact; Grocery shopping; Quarantining

3/3, full issue: On shopping carts, Georgia’s 2020 impact, debates

12/13: On public TV fund-raising, commission salaries

11/8: Annoying robocalls; Politics in Gwinnett; Hudgens’ artwork

10/4: About left-handedness; Alvin Wilbanks; Trump and U.S.

8/13: More phone scams; GGC’s new president; Civil War battles

7/23: Helping Young Eagles; Freedom from fear; Stalking law

6/25: On scams, Senate “grandees” and women’s health care

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