“As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.”

— The Viking, Hagar the Horrible, creation of Cartoonist Dik Brown (1917-1989).

Duluth Fall Festival has been going strong for 41 years and is always Duluth’s biggest event of the entire year.  There is something for everyone!  

More than 300 arts, crafts, and food booths, a huge parade, music at two venues, entertainers galore, a 5K road race, the Festival Sunday Worship on the Green, and much, much more. It is the largest festival in the Southeast with no paid staff, but more than 300 volunteers!  They will all be there wearing their brand new 2024 Duluth Fall Festival T-shirts. 

We look forward to seeing you there, but do yourself and us a favor and take advantage of our FREE shuttle service.  It can be accessed at Duluth Middle School on Pleasant Hill Road, Chattahoochee Elementary on Albion Farm Road and Mason Elementary on Bunten Road. However, the only time this won’t work is during the parade on Saturday morning.  The shuttle will not be able to run between 9:30 and 11 a.m. on Saturday because the parade necessarily ties up the downtown roads.

For more information, please go to the Festival website:

–> DuluthFallFestival.org

Residents of the new city of Mulberry can read answers to questions put to the 15 candidates for the coming council elections through a public service offered by GwinnettForum.

>>> Click here to learn about Mulberry’s candidates.

Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests that Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His list:

1. Move statewide non-partisan judge and school board elections to the General Election.
2. Adoption of the 2023 Transit Plan for Gwinnett.
3. More creative efforts to support the arts in Gwinnett.  
4. Advancement and expansion of city historical societies.
5. Require establishments that serve alcoholic beverages to halt sales of such products at 1     a.m., and close by 2 a.m.
6. Require the Georgia Legislature to meet only once every two years.
7. 21st  century salary for the Gwinnett County Commission members.
8. Remove chewing gum on sidewalks at entrances of post offices and other governmental buildings.
9. Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
10. Condos instead of apartments for Gwinnett.

• The history of Gwinnett is also available as an e-book from Amazon or Barnes and Noble for $9.95.