Jerry Gunn

Gainesville has a new city manager; City Council Tuesday night picked its interim city manager for the top post.

Gainesville School Superintendent Dr. Merrianne Dyer told board members Monday night she has an expense cutting plan that includes unpaid employee furloughs but she hopes she won't have to use it.

The Hoschton scarecrows were spared from the flames Saturday night, but the scarecrow makers had a bonfire anyway to celebrate their 2008 world record setting event.

Hall County's new State Court Solicitor General was sworn in Friday afternoon.

It was another chilly Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club Polar Bear Swim to mark the New Year Thursday at the Olympic Venue on Lake Lanier.

New York has the 'ball drop', Atlanta, the 'Peach Drop' and now for New Year's 2009, Gainesville had the 'Chicken Drop'.

Children at Gainesville's Interactive Neighborhood for Kids (INK) had a New Year's Eve celebration all their own Wednesday.

Hall County firefighters and Georgia Forestry personnel battled a woods fire in East Hall Tuesday that included a pile of tires around 4:30 p.m.

The American Red Cross in Gainesville is in its annual holiday donor slump and needs all blood donors, especially Hispanics, with Type 0 blood

City officials say work is to begin Jan. 19 on the new Georgia Mountains Center parking deck.