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NEW for 6/6: Women’s chamber; Georgia’s coast; more

NEW for 6/6: Women’s chamber; Georgia’s coast; more

Click here to read the latest edition. In this issue:
TODAY’S FOCUS: New venture for Gwinnett: Women’s Chamber of Commerce
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Many newcomers miss out on Georgia’s seacoast
SPOTLIGHT: Georgia Gwinnett College 
FEEDBACK: Figures entitlements are something he’s already paid for
UPCOMING: Marlene Fosque to lead Partnership Gwinnett
NOTABLE: GGC grad comes for softball, now heads for grad school
RECOMMENDED: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Translated with Notes by Martin Hammond
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Largest of Georgia’s barrier islands is Cumberland
MYSTERY PHOTO: Can you determine which city owns this skyline?
LAGNIAPPE: Local groups place 1,800 flags at gravesites
CALENDAR: Bike ride across Georgia coming to Braselton this morning
VOLUNTEER WANTED: For position of theater critic for GwinnettForum

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by · June 6, 2023 · Full issues
Jekyll Island, via Pixabay.

BRACK: Many newcomers miss out of Georgia’s seacoast

By Elliott Brack  |  Many of the newcomers to Georgia aren’t getting the full pleasure of living in Georgia. They move here from the West, the Midwest and the Northeast, and soon think: “Oh boy! We’re within a hard day’s drive to the Florida beaches.”

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by · June 6, 2023 · Elliott Brack's Perspective
MYSTERY PHOTO: Lighthouse on a cliff is this week’s mystery

MYSTERY PHOTO: Lighthouse on a cliff is this week’s mystery

GwinnettForum has not run through the nation’s vast number of lighthouses. Here’s one sitting on a cliff. Where is it?  Send your answers to ellott@brack.net and include your hometown.

Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. writes: “The last mystery photo is of the Owens-Thomas House, part of the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters National Historic Landmark in the Historic District of Savannah.

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by · January 10, 2023 · Mystery photos
FOCUS: Truckers should have “crash avoidance” technology on big rigs

FOCUS: Truckers should have “crash avoidance” technology on big rigs

By John Suthers | The tragic deaths of five young women on Interstate 16 recently is a stark reminder of the dangers that tractor-trailers pose to all drivers on Georgia highways.

Five Georgia Southern University nursing students, riding in two cars, died when a tractor-trailer failed to stop for traffic slowed by a prior accident on I-16 in Bryan County during the early morning hours of April 22. Two other students were injured.

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by · May 8, 2015 · Today's Focus
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