B.J. Williams

The Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce has scheduled another webinar to update the community on the status of COVID-19 in the region, focusing this time on what life looks like one year after the start of the pandemic.

Nearly 200 nursing students from Piedmont College will get some hands-on training during a disaster drill scheduled for Wednesday, March 24 on the college's Demorest campus.

According to Lula City Manager Dennis Bergin, the mayor and members of the city council haven't had a raise in their base pay since 1982.

While Georgia has been criticized nationally for the number of COVID vaccines administered to the state's residents, Gov. Brian Kemp said Friday the state is making steady progress when it comes to getting shots into arms.

J. Alvin Wilbanks, the longtime superintendent of Gwinnett County Public Schools, will not be allowed to complete his current contract, following a vote Thursday by the county's school board.

More work is planned this weekend on the I-985 southbound bridge over Queen City Parkway in Gainesville. T

Slowly but surely, communities around North Georgia are getting back to a new normal as COVID-19 cases decline across the region. In the City of Lula, that means bringing back Railroad Days, a decades-long festival that was cancelled last spring as the pandemic struck.

The employment picture in the Gainesville metro area is steadily showing improvement, according to Thursday morning's report from the Georgia Department of Labor.

Even though the Gwinnett County Police Department had not received specific threats against any Asian-owned businesses in the county, officers increased patrols in light of Tuesday's deadly shootings at three spas in Cherokee County and the city of Atlanta.

Shootings at two massage parlors in Atlanta and one in the suburbs Tuesday evening left eight people dead, many of them women of Asian descent, authorities said. A 21-year-old man suspected in the shootings was taken into custody in southwest Georgia hours later after a manhunt, police said.