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9/6: On good neighbors and a story about a bridge
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Good Samaritan Center Seeks Nominees for Good Neighbor Award
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Georgia Highway 20 Bridge at Sugar Hill Opened……with Manpower
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Stripers
FEEDBACK: Recent Chart Shows How Dramatically Some Counties Are Changing
UPCOMING: New Art Work Goes Up for September at Snellville City Hall
NOTABLE: Jackson EMC Releases 84 Contractors To Assist EMCs in North Carolina
RECOMMENDED: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
GEORGIA TIDBIT: In 1941, Macon Votes To Raise Taxes To Help Construct Robins AFB
MYSTERY PHOTO: Three Figures in Statue Bring with Them Questions of Location
CALENDAR: Tannery Row Juried Art Show Starts on September 14
BRACK: Bridge over I-16 to be named for fallen firefighter from Gwinnett
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Many of us do not recognize how many government services we have. For instance, when motorists are driving down Interstate 16 toward Savannah, south of Macon you see a sign for the town of Allentown. Motorists along about a 20-mile section of this interstate are under the protection of the Allentown Volunteer Fire Department. The department often makes emergency runs — about 16 percent of its calls — for accidents or auto fires on the Interstate.
5/6: Survey on Peachtree Corners’ bridge; Our primary endorsements; Cuba
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Survey Says Majority of Peachtree Corners Residents Oppose Bridge
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Consider These Candidates When You Go Into the Voting Booth
ANOTHER VIEW: Here’s Another Look of Recent Trip to Cuba by Southern Journalists
SPOTLIGHT: Precision Planning Inc.
FEEDBACK: How Patty Davis Says Alzheimer’s Touched Ronald Reagan
UPCOMING: Commissioners OKs $75 Million Addition for Gwinnett Courthouse
NOTABLE: Refunding Water-Sewer Bonds Results in $18.5 Million Savings
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Union Forces Capture Jefferson Davis in Irwin County
TODAY’S QUOTE: Shhh. Or the Whole World May Know!
MYSTERY PHOTO: New Mystery Photo May Bring Lots of Head Scratching
5/3: On Peachtree Corners, visit to Cuba, tax breaks
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TODAY’S FOCUS: Peachtree Corners Mayor Answers Questions on Proposed Bridge
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Visit to Cuba Shows Happy, Friendly People, But Crumbling Buildings
ANOTHER VIEW: State Should Call Bluff of Filmmaker’s Many Tax Breaks in Georgia
SPOTLIGHT: The Gwinnett Braves
FEEDBACK: Letters On Bridges, Cubans, Artists and Candidates
UPCOMING: Aurora Theatre Announced Themes, Times for Summer Acting Camp
NOTABLE: Mural in Toyota Promotion To Remain in Norcross’ Skin Alley
RECOMMENDED: Singing for Mrs. Pettigrew by Michael Morpurgo
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Horace Ware Born Lowly, Rises to Federal Judicial Bench
TODAY’S QUOTE: When To Start on Your Retirement Activity
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Significant Hints In This Edition’s Mystery Photo
LAGNIAPPE: Peachtree Corners Rotary Hosts First Career Exploration Night
4/22: Aurora reunites 2; Cagle’s religious liberty; letters
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TODAY’S FOCUS: I’m Not Rapport Presentation at Aurora Reunites Two Actors
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Does Cagle’s Religious Liberty Stand Hurt His 2018 Governor’s Race?
SPOTLIGHT: Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce
FEEDBACK: Two Views of Pedestrian Bridge in Peachtree Corners
UPCOMING: Backyard Garden Festival Coming April 24 to Environmental Center
NOTABLE: Nine Agencies Share $113,463 in Jackson EMC Foundation Grants
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Feature of Progressive Movement Was Greater Role of Woman
TODAY’S QUOTE: A Thought from Neil Armstrong on Earth Day (Today)
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Readers Spot Eiffel Tower, Taken from Underneath
LAGNIAPPE: Sandy Creek Student Wins Gwinnett Realtor’s Scholarship
FOCUS: Peachtree Corners’ bridge: From city-lite to big government
By Ali Stinson | It was barely four years ago when Mike Mason was the president of the United Peachtree Corners Civic Association on the campaign trail to sell us all on a new concept in local government that he branded “city-lite.”
As the story went, this was a brand new form of government: a city chartered for only three services – trash collection, code enforcement, and planning and zoning. He touted a financial study that said the whole thing could be run for $750,000. It was all very simple. He promised local control of whether and where apartments would be built and cheaper trash collection.
Gwinnett Forum | April 26, 2024
“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
– The 40th president of the United Sates, Ronald Reagan (1911-2004).
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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