Jerry Gunn

Flowery Branch City Council Thursday night took a step toward dealing with a troublesome road, Bragg Road, the source of several homeowner complaints.

A standing room only crowd filled Gainesville State College's Continuing Education Auditorium Wednesday to hear a discussion and debate about the removal of a controversial painting from the school's art gallery late last month.

The Gainesville City Council has signed off on another phase of the Flat Creek Restoration plan.

The Gainesville Rotary Club celebrated a new Man and Woman of the Year Monday night during festivities at the Chattahoochee Country Club.

Hall County School Superintendent Will Schofield Monday night told board members it

The Hall County Republican Party packed a large crowd into the main meeting room at the Spout Springs Library in Flowery Branch Saturday morning for a mass precinct meeting to choose delegates for next month's county convention.

An international drug smuggler, extradited from the Netherlands to Gainesville Federal Court, drew his sentence Friday but that sentence must be considered when he is returned to his home country for sentencing.

The doors opened at eight a.m. Friday morning to around 60 to 70 people, at least one of them who arrived at midnight, for free dental care at Gainesville Dental Group on Thompson Bridge Road.

Hall County Commissioners Thursday night voted unanimously to direct the County Attorney to negotiate a $5,000 monthly fee reduction in the contract of Atlanta attorney Tommy Craig, whose consulting group is working on getting the Glades Farm Reservoir project permitted.

Gainesville City Council was not ready at Thursday's work session to give its blessing to a public utilities plan to offer sewer service to county islands within the city to pick up more customers and get rid of septic tanks with unhealthy drainage.