Jerry Gunn

Gainesville Kiwanis Club members Tuesday heard from a Gainesville native who now serves as a psychological consultant to the U.S. Army in Afghanistan.

At Gainesville's new Public Safety Complex on Queen City Parkway there were two ribbon cuttings, one for the Justice Center and one for the city's new fire department headquarters.

Next year with state permission students at the World Language Academy get to advance to the sixth grade at their school. The Hall County School board approved a request to amend the school's charter to expand another grade.

The Executive Director of the Lake Lanier Islands Development Authority told Gainesville Rotarians Monday a community improvement district would bring more business to the area.

The 14th Annual multicultural concert at Gainesville First United Methodist Church on Thompson Bridge Road, "Christmas is One Language," featured the holiday as it is celebrated in Mexico Sunday evening.

The temperatures were a bit chilly but that did not seem to bother the estimated 400 people who turned out for the Clermont Christmas parade and tree lighting Saturday evening.

Around 300 people gathered at the historic Flowery Branch Train Depot Thursday night for the annual lighting of the Great Tree in Flowery Branch, signaling the beginning of Christmas season in the south Hall County town.

With only a slight delay because of Chattanooga traffic, Dahlonega trucker Jeff Underwood and his U.S. Capitol Christmas tree caravan came rolling down Main Street Wednesday evening into the center of his hometown.

A Gainesville World War II era veteran who became a music minister and then a car salesman says life is good at age 84 because he refuses to "grow old."

Around 75 members of Antioch Baptist Church in South Gainesville got up early for a busy day handing out holiday dinners early to families who drove up in their cars in a church tradition that dates back over 20 years on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.