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Parnell

FOCUS: Returns from Israel with new understanding of war

By Mack W. Parnell  |  Over the past month, I helped lead a delegation of elected officials and policy leaders on a solidarity mission to Israel. It’s nearly impossible to put into words all that we have seen, heard, and experienced. 

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by · December 1, 2023 · Today's Focus
The Byrds in 1965, via Wikipedia.

FOCUS: Choose the values of celebrations with positive agents

By Randy Brunson  |  In late 1965, The Byrds released Pete Seeger’s “Turn, Turn, Turn,” a peace anthem taken almost exclusively from the third chapter of Ecclesiastes. The overarching theme of these eight verses is seasons, with the author describing a time for every season and purpose under heaven.

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by · November 28, 2023 · Today's Focus
Statue of Tom Snell and James Sawyer in Snellville.

FOCUS: Learn more about E.R. Snell Contractor’s 100 years in business

SNELLVILLE, Ga.  |  Here’s something different today. Gwinnett’s oldest company continually operating in the county is E.R. Snell Contractor Inc. of Snellville.  The company in 2023 is marking its 100th anniversary of its founding. It now has over 1,000 employees.

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by · November 21, 2023 · Today's Focus
U.S. Supreme Court

FOCUS: Loss of faith in Supreme Court hurting democracy 

By Jack Bernard  |  The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is no longer the respected institution that it once was … and for good reason. Its recent decisions have been politically and ideologically biased, voiding present and long-established legal principles.

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by · November 17, 2023 · Today's Focus
The red-brick two story building on South Peachtree Street was the home of the Lodge 228 of the Free and Accepted Masons since early in the city’s history.

FOCUS: Norcross Masonic Lodge disbands, sells downtown building

By Gene Ramsay  |  The venerable Norcross Masonic Lodge, No. 228 of the Free and Accepted Masons, second oldest lodge in Gwinnett, faced with an aging membership and a building that needed repairs, has disbanded. It sold its building on South Peachtree Street in 2022. 

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by · November 14, 2023 · Today's Focus
FOCUS: Will possibilities be positive or negative?

FOCUS: Will possibilities be positive or negative?

By Ashley Herndon  |  Things, ideas, governments, and people die, some naturally and some violently. Are we as a nation facing the untimely death of our democracy?  Could be. 

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by · November 10, 2023 · Today's Focus
Sgt. Carvis Williams

FOCUS: Two from Gwinnett inducted into Ga. Military Veterans HOF

By Marilyn Weitzel  |  Two military veterans from Gwinnett County were inducted Saturday into the Georgia Military Veterans Hall of fame in Columbus.  Inducted were the late World War II Army Staff Sergeant Carvis Pittman Williams of Snellville and former Vietnam Prisoner of War Air Force Lt. Col. James Wesley Williams, who currently lives in Norcross. 

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by · November 7, 2023 · Today's Focus
Image is page 40 of Revised Rezoning Application.

FOCUS: Here’s background on future use of Olympic site

By Kate L. Pittman   |  At the October zoning hearing, the Gwinnett Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a revised rezoning application for the Olympic tennis site off U.S. 78 near Stone Mountain. 

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by · November 3, 2023 · Today's Focus
Walls

FOCUS: Braselton organizes foundation to support its police force

By Ed Walls  |  The Braselton Police Foundation has been organized to  fund equipment and financial support to the Braselton Police Department (BPD) to individual officers in need. The Foundation is additionally working with BPD so they can expand their activity to institute an array of public safety initiatives.

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by · October 31, 2023 · Today's Focus
Thurmann

FOCUS: Thankful to Jimmy Carter and for growing up on Boulevard

By Patty Thumann  |  In 1980, President Jimmy Carter opened the United States for Cubans who wanted to flee under political asylum. My father was a ham radio operator and was able to communicate in secret with an old family friend in the United States on helping to get to this country.

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by · October 27, 2023 · Today's Focus