Jerry Gunn

Governor Sonny Perdue showed up with a plaque, a check for $3,000 and T-shirts for the North Hall High School graduating class Tuesday morning at a student assembly that filled the Trojan gym.

During its Monday morning Lakeview Academy implemented 'Talk About It', a program that gives students a mechanism to reach out to adults and report problems anonymously such as bullying and potential school violence.

The Hall County School Board Monday night took advantage of federal stimulus provisions, passing a resolution for 18 year bonding under Quality School Construction.

Selling the old county jail was discussed by Hall County Commissioners Monday morning.

Flowery Branch City Council heard Thursday night that it might be better to use local funds for city street improvement rather than tying them up as a match to get state grant money.

Construction workers, university system officials, Gainesville State College president Dr. Martha Nesbitt and her staff and Lt. Governor Casey Cagle gathered Thursday for the topping out of the GSC academic and instructional building, scheduled for completion next summer.

Gainesville Councilman George Wangemann Tuesday morning learned what it is like to be a fire fighter at the Joint Gainesville Hall County Fire Training Center; he joined recruits in learning how to battle flames in a simulated house fire.

An historic house in Gainesville would be the next addition to the Lanier Career Academy in a plan presented to Hall County School Board members Monday.

Georgia's Transportation Commissioner told Gainesville Rotarians Monday that a vote for a state amendment on November 2nd is a vote for flexibility in highway project funding.

It was up, up, and away this weekend in Flowery Branch at the First Annual Harvest Balloon Festival at Sterling on the Lake, hosted by Newland Communities to benefit Challenged Child and Friends and the National Military Family Association this weekend.