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10/16: GwinnettForum’s 2018 endorsement issue

10/16: GwinnettForum’s 2018 endorsement issue

By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | After nearly a full year of people campaigning for election in 2018, the end is near. On November 6, Georgians will vote in the General Election, picking the people to lead our nation in Congress, our state government and our local governments for the short-term future.

Despite all the rhetoric and commercials about the election, we can only hope that our voters will see through the smokescreens and innuendos, and decide for themselves which of the many candidates to support.

GwinnettForum again this year has interviewed state and local candidates—-88 so far—to learn about them so it can select the candidates most worthy of the Gwinnett voter’s choice. What follows is our endorsement of the candidates we think will best serve our area in the coming years.  It was a delight to see so many good candidates offer for office.

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Order 366 Facts about Gwinnett County, Ga.

Order 366 Facts about Gwinnett County, Ga.

GwinnettForum has published a great new book, 366 Facts about Gwinnett County, Ga., that will amaze you every day of the year leading up to the county’s 200th bicentennial in December 2018.

This new book is a 5.5-by-4.25-inch softback book with a fact-a-day about the county beginning on Dec. 15, 2017, and ending on the county’s birthday, Dec. 15, 2018.

You can purchase the book by mail or online for just $7.50 plus $0.45 in sales tax.  

Click the headline above to learn how to order by mail or order online.

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by · March 8, 2018 · News
Available as an e-book.

NEW: Gwinnett history now available as e-book

Gwinnett: A Little Above Atlanta, by Elliott Brack, is now available as an e-book.

Gwinnett County’s most recent history book, all 850 pages, sold out after two printings. But you can purchase the text of the award-winning book now for only $9.99 for your Kindle or Nook reader. (The hard copy edition of the book sold last for $75.)

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by · June 9, 2017 · News
Lillian Webb, center, pictured in 2010 with state Rep. Tom Rice, left, and Pedro Marin, right, when a Norcross park was named in her honor.  More.

NEWS: Former County Commission Chair Lillian Webb dies at 87

[UPDATED, 4:10 p.m., Sept. 15] GwinnettForum learned today of the passing of Lillian Webb, 87, former chair of the Gwinnett County Commission for eight years, and former 11-term mayor of Norcross.

She was named Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce’s Citizen of the Year in 2013. More.

The family will accept visitors on Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Crowell Brothers Home, while the funeral will be Saturday, September 17, at 2 p.m. at Norcross United Methodist Church, with burial following at Crowell Cemetery.

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by · September 15, 2016 · News