Jerry Gunn

Gainesville City Council decided to give a downtown restaurant and lounge a break even though the business admitted violating alcohol beverage license ordinance.

Hall County Commissioners called a meeting at the Mulberry Creek Community Center near Flowery Branch with their tax people Wednesday morning and the prime topic was what revenues the cities, the county, and the school systems could expect in a dire economic year.

Gainesville School Board members had the chance Tuesday to quiz one of two architect finalists for the new Fair Street School project about what the firm could do for them.

Hall County School Board members Monday night designated Friendship Elementary School a "school of choice", a pilot school of wellness, the first in Hall County and one of the first in the nation.

Native Americans and their descendents held their first ever Yahoola Spring Powwow in Dahlonega this weekend to recall a bygone era and to start raising money for a Cherokee Museum.

Upgrading city water lines, building a bigger city hall and police station, and what do to about cutting the city's police department gasoline bill were topics for discussion at Saturday's Flowery Branch City Council retreat.

What to do with Cool Springs Park is neither gone nor forgotten, and it surfaced again Thursday night with a call to delete a portion of the March 10th Hall County commission meeting minutes.

The Executive Director of the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia Thursday in Gainesville there is growing interest in consolidation of city and county services.

Hall County Commissioner Scott Gibbs said Monday he wants to come up with an ordinance to allow the county to collect delinquent mobile home taxes.

A documentary producer with ties to both America and Iran presented "Nobody's Enemy: The Youth Culture of Iran Today", at Gainesville State College on Monday.