Thirty hot air balloons lifted off in Helen Thursday morning, launching the 35th annual Helen Balloon Festival, highlighted by the country's only long distance hot air balloon race.
A former Hall County firefighter is now designated as a registered sex offender following his plea Thursday in Hall Superior Court to felony sexual battery charges.
That contentious zoning amendment out on Browns Bridge Road at McEver Road grew more contentious and divisive than ever Tuesday night at the Gainesville City Council meeting.
Hall County high school student drivers are now subject to random drug testing and can expect to pay higher parking fees to defray the cost of that testing.
The head of the Hall County Taxpayers Association said Monday night he would hold county school board members to the promise that they will look at their new budget and cut where they can.
The Gainesville Board of Education held another budget hearing and felt the anger and frustration from the taxpayers again Thursday night about a $6.5 to $7 million deficit and a possible 8 mill school tax levy.
