Elliott Brack

Turner delivering a speech in 2000. Provided via Wikimedia. By Elliott BrackEditor and publisher, GwinnettForum MAY 8, 2026  |  What a tremendous person Ted Turner was! We are so pleased to have slightly known him. He died May 6 in Lamont, Fla., at age 87. He was driven, super intelligent, an original thinker, an environmentalist of the first order, a sportsman, an astute businessman, able to create the future from his own mind, and a worldwide leader in philanthropy.

By Elliott Brack Editor and publisher, GwinnettForum MAY 5,  2026  |  Gwinnett’s first Porchfest had a perfect day for people to mingle, listen to music and enjoy themselves at no admission charge on Saturday in Norcross. Mayor Craig Newton says that there was “A great turnout with the community coming together to enjoy all the bands and other groups there. It was a good thing for Norcross, and the downtown restaurants and shops were busy.

By Elliott BrackEditor and publisher,  GwinnettFoum MAY 1, 2026  |  It’s good to re-connect with Dennis Hayes. Some may remember him and his partner, the late Dale Heatherington, as the inventors and manufacturers of the modem in the 1970s that put Norcross on the map as the technological center of Georgia. Their firm was Hayes Microcomputer Company. It allowed a first-time quick way to connect the computer with the telephone, and to the Internet.