Local Business News

Dr. James F. Conneely has been named the new vice president of Student Affairs at the University of North Georgia and will assume the post July 16.

Suwanee City Council is looking to hold the millage rate steady for a seventh consecutive year, with the first public hearing set for Thursday on the upcoming fiscal year budget.

State Representative Kevin Tanner (R-Dawsonville) was recently named the 2018 Legislator of the Year by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce.

The Georgia Mountain Food Bank has received a $10,000 grant from Amerigroup Georgia to help cover the cost of its "diet-specific" food box program.

A fourth budget/tax rate public hearing has been scheduled by Hall County school officials.

The funeral for former Hall County Tax Commissioner Keith Echols will be held Saturday at 2:00 at Memorial Park Funeral Home.

Friends and family have organized a benefit ride for leukemia patient Donna Funderburk of Hall County.

Mountain Fresh Creamery and Glo Crest Dairy in Clermont will host Dairy Day on Saturday, June 9 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A winning jackpot ticket worth $125,000 was sold in Commerce for the May 26 Fantasy 5 drawing, according to information released Monday by the Georgia Lottery Corporation.

Former Gainesville Mayor Emily Dunlap “Sissy” Lawson has been named to Peach State Bank and Trust's Community Development Board, according to an announcement by the board’s chairman, Abit Massey.