Jerry Gunn

Ninety-seven jumpers hopped into Lake Lanier's cold waters Saturday to begin the New Year with shivers and goose bumps at the 13th annual Polar Bear Swim.

An estimated 250 people brought in the New Year in Gainesville with ‘Chuck the Chicken’ at the second annual ‘Chicken Drop’ held at the civic center.

Barrow County may be well on its way to having a New Year’s tradition after welcoming 2010 at midnight Thursday with the first Jug Drop.

Around 300 youngsters celebrated New Year’s Eve early Thursday at Gainesville’s Interactive Neighborhood for Kids, (INK), in the Featherbone Communiversity Center on Chestnut Street.

I think I am going to remember this Christmas of 2009, more clearly, more joyfully and more reverently than just about any Christmas I’ve known.

Staff members were busy Tuesday putting the finishing touches on Jefferson’s ‘claim to fame’, the Crawford Long Museum. The museum, founded 53 years ago, is re-opening January 9th.

Northeast Georgia retailers stocked their shelves and dropped their prices, hoping to entice shoppers out into the chilly predawn the day after Christmas

A chilly Sunday night in Blairsville did not keep loved ones from Meeks Park for a candlelight service for Kristi Cornwell, missing since August and the subject of a continuous investigation by State and local law enforcement...It was her 39th birthday.

It was an afternoon of honors and memories Friday for outgoing Gainesville Police Chief Frank Hooper at the Civic Center.

The Eighth Annual 'Shop with a Cop' hosted by Gainesville Police and Wal-Mart brought 16 children and their parents out to get Christmas presents Friday.