Today’s Focus
FOCUS: Water Tower continues to elevate, educate, innovate
By Kristan VandenHeuvel | Since the launch of the two nonprofits that comprise The Water Tower, it has established itself as a dynamic international hub for utilities, researchers, companies, and other industry leaders to address real-world water challenges, while making a meaningful local, national, and international impact on the water sector.
FOCUS: Norcross police achieve its third accreditation award
The Norcross Police Department has earned its third accreditation: the Excellence in Policing (EIP) Certification. This achievement comes from the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA), Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police (GACP) and Local Government Risk Management Services (LGRMS), marking another milestone in the department’s continued pursuit of professional excellence.
FOCUS: Native Gwinnettian is partnership economic developer
By Lisa Sherman | A new senior vice president for economic development has joined the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce. He is Kevin Carmichael, who was raised in Gwinnett and who will spearhead the strategic vision and execution of Partnership Gwinnett, the community and economic development initiative aimed at driving sustainable economic prosperity in the community.
FOCUS: There’s a unique food pantry nearby in Tucker
By Neil Duggan | Imagine walking into a grocery store where instead of price tags, the aisles are lined with dignity and hope. That’s the everyday reality at the NETWorks Cooperative Ministry in Tucker, Georgia — a Christian-based organization that provides food and financial resources to help neighbors find long-term solutions to poverty.
Gwinnett Forum | June 3, 2025
“When a man’s wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.”
– English writer, lecturer, art historian and philanthropist John Ruskin (1819-1900) via John Titus, Peachtree Corners.
Continuing objectives
Gwinnett Forum publisher Elliott Brack suggests Gwinnett County needs a long-range list of continuing objectives for improving the county. His 2025 list:
- Move statewide non-partisan judicial and school board elections to the date of the General Election.
- 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.
- Eliminate single-use plastic packaging and straws in Gwinnett and require instead the use of paper products.
- Gwinnett planners to encourage condos and townhouses instead of apartments.
- County-wide microtransit services.
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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