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MYSTERY: Suggest a price for selling this distinctive home
You Gwinnett Realtors might like to suggest a price for which you think you could sell this house for, which is this edition’s Mystery Photo, and get the owner the best price. Seriously, if you think you know the location of this somewhat distinctive home, let us know. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.
9/4: Hospitals talking merger; Food trucks becoming issue
Click here to read the new edition. Inside:
TODAY’S FOCUS: Merger Talks Going on Between Gwinnett, Northside Hospitals
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Food Trucks Becoming More of an Issue to Many
FEEDBACK: Stop Signs and Another View of Roundabouts
UPCOMING: Duluth Getting Geotours; Lilburn Offers Glimpse of History
NOTABLE: Gwinnett Place CID Releases New Master Plan for the Area
RECOMMENDED READ: The Aubrey–Maturin Series by Patrick O’Brian
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Spanish Visit Georgia from Bases in Mexico in Early 1600s
TODAY’S QUOTE: One Way You Can Recognize When It’s Labor Day
MYSTERY PHOTO: Few Recognized Castle in Loire Valley of France
LAGNIAPPE: Here’s a Nice View of Downtown Atlanta
MYSTERY: Picturesque scene may challenge your memory
The breeze is flapping the flags at this castle-like building, with a town below, and water in the distance. Now, tell us where this is located, and the significance of this location. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live. The mystery photo (right) in the last edition, that of August 21, stumped […]
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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