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11/1: Rodriguez back in A Christmas Carol; No to big telecom merger
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Anthony Rodriguez Returns In A Christmas Carol Beginning Nov. 25
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Proposed AT&T Merger with Time Warner Should Be Blocked
ANOTHER VIEW: Governments Give Away Much in Subsidies To Firms
SPOTLIGHT: MTI Baths Inc.
UPCOMING: Duluth Snares 100 Employees of Engineering and Innovation Firm
NOTABLE: New Railway Museum Building To Increase Space Almost 50 Percent
RECOMMENDED EXCURSION: Wolf Mountain Vineyard
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Known as the “Bourbon Triumvirate:” Brown, Colquitt and Gordon
TODAY’S QUOTE: Writing a Book Means Some Demon Is Driving You
MYSTERY PHOTO: Where Is the Location of These Two Gunfighters Statues?
LAGNIAPPE: Watching a Soda Straw Rocket Soar at GSMST
CALENDAR: Barbershop Chorale Coming to Peachtree Corners Baptist Church
8/12: On new Aurora series; Two new high schools; more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Aurora Lab Series To Have Regional Premiere with Next Offering
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Two New High Schools Coming to Norcross and Meadowcreek Areas
SPOTLIGHT: Aurora Theatre
FEEDBACK: Nothing Wrong with Having a Partisan Political Action Group
UPCOMING: Hudgens Center Offers Program On Marketing of Handmade Products
NOTABLE: Sugar Hill Seeks Assistance in Picking New Downtown Mural Design
RECOMMENDED: The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Atlanta Gets Several Tangible Legacies from Hosting Olympic Games
CALENDAR: Foster Parents Workshop Upcoming in Two Sessions
TODAY’S QUOTE: Raymond Chandler’s Views on Ability, Motivation and Attitude
MYSTERY PHOTO: This Mystery Photo Has Few Clues To Guide You
LAGNIAPPE: This Auburn Little Free Library Is in the Middle of Town
8/2: On conventions; Aurora’s music; more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Delegate Gives Views of Activity at Democratic National Convention
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Music Steals the Show in Aurora Theatre In The Heights Production
ANOTHER VIEW: Who Will Hold Hillary Clinton Accountable When She Wins?
SPOTLIGHT: Walton Electric Membership Corporation
FEEDBACK: Feels Grandchildren Will Benefit by Slow Inertia of Reason and Caring
UPCOMING: Lilburn Plans 7th Annual National Night Out on Tuesday, August 2
NOTABLE: Peach State Federal Credit Union To Merge with RCT FCU of Augusta
RECOMMENDED: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Noble Jones Was the “Morning Star of Liberty,” Early Georgia Speaker
CALENDAR: Fourth Annual Light Up The Corners Glow Run Coming August 13
TODAY’S QUOTE: Why You Must Learn from Mistakes of Other
MYSTERY PHOTO: Here’s a Tower for You To Figure Out
1/26: Georgia premiere; Government mergers; S.C.’s governor
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Aurora Theatre Presents Georgia Premiere of Teen Interaction Drama
EEB PERSPECTIVE: New Wrinkle: Some Smaller City and County Governments Merge
ANOTHER VIEW: SC Gov. Haley at First Sounded Good, But Then a Turnaround
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Medical Center
FEEDBACK: Two Readers Respond to Column by Wilson
UPCOMING: Notre Dame Academy To Open George Student Center on January 29
NOTABLE: Kaiser Permanente Opens Member Services Facility in Gwinnett
RECOMMENDED READ: In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia First in Nation To Use Same Voting Machines in Each County
TODAY’S QUOTE: Why It Doesn’t Matter What A Room Temperature Is
MYSTERY PHOTO: Ever Hear of a Place Where People Say “Meet me at the Red Robin?”
LAGNIAPPE: Duluth Rexall Drugs Featured in Magazine about Drug Store Lunch Counters
FOCUS: Aurora Theatre presents Georgia premiere of teen interaction drama
By Chelsea Bohannon | A quintessential tale of two worlds colliding, audiences are invited to experience the power of diversity and the beauty of acceptance in the award-winning I and You at Aurora Theatre, January 29 until February 21. As part of the 2015-16 Georgia Gwinnett College Harvel Lab Series, this moving story of two teenagers and the bond they create through examination of poetry offers an ode to youth, life, love and the strange splendor of human connectedness!
JULY 7: Aurora’s 20th season, term limits, more
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Beginning 20th Season, Aurora Theater To Present Memphis
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Turnaround: Why It’ll Be Good To Have Term Limits
FEEDBACK: Reader Really Wants County to Have Mass Transit
UPCOMING: Nickels and Quarters of Thank Offering Grant Rainbow Village $75,000
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Installs One-Fifth of Area’s Water Saving Toilets
RECOMMENDED READ: The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel by Anita Diamant
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base Was First an Army Base
TODAY’S QUOTE: One Reason You Cannot Have a Bank Account
MYSTERY PHOTO: Only One Recognized Giant Sculpture in Barcelona
LAGNIAPPE: Fireworks for the Fourth of July celebration in Lawrenceville.
JUNE 26: Aurora’s line-up, Four Corners’ trip (full issue)
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Check Out Aurora Theatre Productions Coming in New Season
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Enjoy a Trip to the Four Corners……of the State of Georgia
FEEDBACK: Three Letters on Differing Subjects
UPCOMING: Prelude to the Fourth Returns to Lawrenceville Lawn; Ballet Conservatory
NOTABLE: Parks-Rec Offers Swimming Safety Programs; New Tethering Ordinance
RECOMMENDED BOOK: I Am Livia by Phyllis T. Smith
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Check Out Beautiful Art Works in Georgia Collection
TODAY’S QUOTE: Anyway, What We Are Doing on Earth?
MYSTERY PHOTO: We’ve Got To Start Offering Simple Mystery Photos
LAGNIAPPE: Views at the Governor’s Mansion by Frank Sharp
Gwinnett Forum | May 3, 2024
“Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.”
— Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren (1891-1974).
2024 PRIMARY CANDIDATES
Below are links to the ballots Gwinnett voters face in the May 21 voting.
NONPARTISAN CANDIDATE ANSWERS
To read answers to four questions posted by GwinnettForum to non-partisan candidates, click here. Answers in partisan races are forthcoming.
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
- Click here to read about Gwinnett candidates endorsed by GwinnettForum.
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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