Gainesville City Council during this year's final meeting Tuesday said 'no exceptions' to the solid waste ordinance in response to a homeowner's request to allow him to continue using his submerged trash container.
Santa Claus turns up in the most unusual places these days, like the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit, where he made a first time visit Monday night.
Gainesville's historic Piedmont Hotel, once owned and operated by Confederate General James Longstreet, is decked out for the holidays, but Christmas was a different celebration when the General ran the hotel.
Gainesville City Council held its first meeting Friday morning in the Justice Center in the city's new Public Safety Complex on Queen City Parkway and got some good financial news.
Flowery Branch subdivision homeowners Thursday night came to City Hall looking for relief from what they say are high and unreasonable charges for street lights in their neighborhood.
The Hall County Sheriff Department said goodbye Wednesday to a veteran deputy who helped start the Dive Team, served with the SWAT team, and was the department spokesman for many years.
The 'Barn' at Jaemor Farms quickly filled with friends and well-wishers who came to say not "Good-bye', but "good luck" to Billy Skaggs at a reception for him Tuesday.
Gainesville's Planning and Appeals Board Tuesday night refused to amend the city's Unified Land Development Code to allow for so called 'industrialized residential buildings'or pre-fabricated homes to locate in traditional 'stick built' subdivisions.
Next March 15th, voters go to the polls to decide if they want to extend the special local option sales tax for education to support school funding in Hall County, Gainesville and Buford
