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- Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
Archive By Author - Jeff Gill
Movin’ on up
GAINESVILLE - Credit Gainesville High School's campus principal for Keith Vincent ending up in the Gainesville school system and now working as the district's transportation and maintenance director.
New elementary principals named in Hall
Three Hall County elementary schools will have new leaders for the 2008-09 school year.
Students' reading habit gets them up close with farm animals
GAINESVILLE - Centennial Arts Academy students got to see and pet farm animals Friday morning, and they didn't have to leave the school.
Rockin' the house
GAINESVILLE - The songs may have been brand new to Mount Vernon Elementary School students, but they were regular toe-tappers at one time - and may be still - for many of the adults present.
Partners in friendship
FLOWERY BRANCH - Young and old met Tuesday at Willowwood Nursing Center to share in the Christmas spirit, singing carols and mingling over hot chocolate and crackers.
‘Smartville Garden’ will be conservation friendly
GAINESVILLE - Hard rains have taken their toll on the ground in front of Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy.
Queen of the library
GAINESVILLE - Sugar Hill Elementary School's "Queen of the Library" has a new title: Georgia School Library Media Specialist of the Year.
Snow gone; now comes wind and cold
Don't set aside your winter clothing yet. Snow, gusty winds and cold temperatures are back in the forecast.
Making the switch
OAKWOOD - Laura Elder always found herself returning to the state's technical colleges system.
Basic arithmetic: Price of gas times 200 buses equals one huge expense
GAINESVILLE - How's this for the rising cost of fuel?
Tadmore holds CRCT prep sessions for parents
Tadmore Elementary School in East Hall hopes to show 12 ways busy parents can help children do well on standardized tests.
Gainesville schools human resources chief gets 15 percent raise, new title
The human resources director for the Gainesville school system is receiving a 15 percent raise, along with a new job title.
Mixup results in new White County STAR student
CLEVELAND - A banquet was given in Bethany Caywood's honor for being named White County High School's STAR student, an honor that's reserved for the very brightest.
Top Lanier Tech student Nowakowski gets to compete for new car
Karen Nowakowski had been questioning why she had to take math and psychology classes on her way to completing her fire science degree at Lanier Technical College's Winder campus.
School board aims to ease Enota traffic ills
Gainesville school officials hope that parking and other changes at Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy will help ease traffic woes, particularly in the morning when parents park to walk their children into school.
Articles By Author - Jeff Gill
Flood causes sewer spill into Flowery Branch Creek
Sunday's historic flood in Flowery Branch has produced another problem for the beleaguered South Hall city - a 200,000-gallon sewer spill into Flowery Branch Creek.
Hall County sheriff proposes buying 12-14 patrol cars
To update its aging fleet, the Hall County Sheriff's Office is looking at spending $550,000 to buy 12-14 new patrol cars and refurbish another four or five.
Crews busy fixing roads after floods
Under sunny skies and no trace of rain, area governments worked Monday to fix roads that had been damaged, some seriously, by fierce storms overnight Sunday.
Fair Street students may use tablet computers next fall
Gainesville's technology director gave City Board of Education members a Kuno tablet computer to play with briefly Monday night.
McEver still closed, fire official reports
Under sunny skies and no trace of rain, area governments worked Monday to fix roads that had been damaged, some seriously, by fierce storms overnight Sunday.
Eyes on the Road: More feet added to Ga. 53 fix in Dawson County
An additional 500 feet of Thompson Road will be closed as part of a Georgia Department of Transportation project to rebuild the road's intersection at Ga. 53 in Dawson County.
South Hall flooding causes county to declare emergency
Early Sunday storms rocked Hall County, leaving heavy flooding, collapsed roads and other damage in its wake.
Proposed left-turn ban on Green raises a stir
The potential for no left turns on Green Street has raised hackles along the busy, four-lane road, according to one of its most vocal business leaders.
2013-14 tax rate likely to remain the same in Flowery Branch
Flowery Branch is moving toward a fiscal 2013-14 budget with the tax rate remaining the same, but with local option sales taxes remaining an unknown factor because of an ongoing dispute between Hall County and the cities.
Senate passes water bill that doesn’t limit Lanier use
The U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to OK a water reauthorization bill that will not limit Georgia's water use from Lake Lanier and Lake Allatoona, a restriction that had been sought by lawmakers in Alabama and Florida.
11-year-old injured in four-wheeler accident identified
The Georgia State Patrol on Tuesday identified the 11-year-old boy who was injured Sunday afternoon in a four-wheeler accident in West Hall as Lanny Charles Dunagan.
City schools present budget figures at hearings
The few people who showed at the hearings got to see the thinking behind the math in the Gainesville school system's crafting a budget for fiscal 2013-14.
Corps hopes to keep dock permit process going
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hopes to forge ahead this spring and summer with issuing dock permits, and not resort to moving employees assigned to that task to covering parks, as it had to do last year.
Oakwood looking at sewer project at apartments
Oakwood City Council voted Monday night to apply for a grant to help pay for a sewer system that would serve an apartment complex where a septic drain field has been failing for years.
Hall native studying oyster population
A Hall County native is at the forefront of research into oyster populations, a touchy subject for some Lake Lanier advocates who fret over water releases to protect endangered species in the Gulf of Mexico.
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