Jerry Gunn

Gainesville's Interactive Neighborhood for Kids (INK) in the Featherbone Communiversity on Chestnut Street beginning the new year with a brand new exhibit; a vintage 1931 Model 'A' Ford convertible that greets visitors young and old at the front door.

The steady rain that fell on this New Year's Polar Bear Swim Saturday at Lake Lanier delayed but did not stop the swimmers from diving in to the chilly water.

Youngsters showing up at the Interactive Neighborhood for Kids museum in the Featherbone Communiversity Center on Chestnut Street this New Year's Eve day had a year's end celebration of their own Friday.

Cold weather and hard times are filling Gainesville's homeless shelters to capacity as 2010 comes to a close and last weekend's historic snow fall also caught the Good News Shelter by surprise.

A weekend Christmas plus Hall County compactor sites closed Sunday because of the snow fall has made for very busy days for the trash handlers.

Just because the historic Northeast Georgia Christmas weekend snowfall made roads hazardous did not mean you could not have fun in it. Kids of all ages celebrated the winter weather Sunday morning.It was historic because it was reportedly the first full sized Christmas snow in Georgia since 1882.

On any given Saturday and Sunday the Fair Street Elementary School Gymnasium in Gainesville is the place to be if you are a basketball fan.

In Gainesville at Fair Street School a group of lay clergymen banded together during the Christmas season to help 'Feed the Need', and they say with the economy, the need is growing.

Gainesville First United Methodist Church families learned that A Baby Changes Everything during the noon Christmas Eve service in the church Great Room Friday on Thompson Bridge Road.

It's beginning to look a lot like...shopping!