Jerry Gunn

Lumpkin County school board members heard Wednesday night that now is not the time for an eleven percent school tax hike but also heard support for the plan.

Congressmen Phil Gingrey and Nathan Deal presented the White House Health Care Reform Bill, and told a packed audience at the Gainesville Civic Center Wednesday morning that the nation cannot afford it.

Developers of the multi-million dollar Midtown Gainesville City Center complex won a street abandonment approval Tuesday night from the Planning and Appeals Board, but construction won't be starting yet.

It's the first day of the new school year in Gainesville and the system's newest school was ready to go Tuesday morning.

The Hall County School System ended the just concluded fiscal year with about $5 million less than last year.

During a tour of the new North Georgia Detention Center Monday Corrections Corporation of America warden Stacey Stone promised his facility would be a good Midtown Gainesville neighbor; One City Councilman who took the tour is not so sure.

Hall County’s estimated 25,000 students headed back to school Monday morning and at least 1400 to 1550 of them arrived for the first day of the new school year at the new Flowery Branch High School on Spout Springs Road.

Eager school students and their parents got in line early Saturday for school supplies and book bags at the Back to School Rally at the Georgia Mountains Center.

Gainesville School Board Chairman David Syfan said Friday he expects board approval of a revised agreement with the city on supporting the Midtown Tax Allocation District.

Gainesville school teachers were told Friday morning the school board hopes to restore their local supplement as soon as it can but some of the teachers - with unpaid furlough days on the horizon - said they are approaching the new school year with apprehension.