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15.07: Interstate truckers; Shivers down spine; Guns and ammo
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Why Interstate Truckers Don’t Buy Much Gasoline in Georgia
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Here’s a Situation That Really Send Shiver Down My Back
ANOTHER VIEW: Tax Guns and Ammunition to Fund Security Measures
UPCOMING: Grayson Seeks Vintage Photographs; Ballet Offers Summer Program
NOTABLE: Allgood Expands into Knoxville, Tenn.; Sugar Hill Youth Council Is Active
RECOMMENDED READ: Amish Confidential by Levi Stoltzfus and Ellis Henich
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Erskine Caldwell Is Prodigious Author, Writing about the South
TODAY’S QUOTE: Why It’s Better To Know Some of the Questions
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only Two Recognized Casablanca Mosque
Gwinnett Forum | Nov. 19, 2024
“If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners.”
– Nighttime TV Host Johnny Carson(1925 – 2005).
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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