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Class Notes: Gainesville City Schools hosting meal program

Gainesville City Schools will host a summer meal program open to the public through June 28 at Gainesville Middle School. The program is funded through the U.S. Department of Education's School Nutrition Program. Children 18 years and younger are eligible to eat at no cost. Adult charges are $1.50 for breakfast and $2.75 for lunch. People interested in participating may contact Michelle Bell or Louvenia Richardson at 770-534-4237. Flowery Branch High School teacher up ...

June 04, 2013 | Carly Sharec | Local


Deal ‘ready to spend’ state funds to deepen harbor

Gov. Nathan Deal said Tuesday he's willing to use state money to start deepening the Port of Savannah's busy shipping channel without waiting for funding from Washington as long as the federal government promises to pay its share of the $652 million project later.

June 04, 2013 | Associated Press | Local


Blood drive to honor disaster victims

The Hall County Sheriff's Office is teaming up with the North Georgia Detention Center and the American Red Cross to host a blood drive to honor victims of natural disasters both close to home and hundreds of miles away.

June 04, 2013 | Emma Witman | Local


Suspect charged with murder in fatal shooting

A man was shot and killed Monday evening in the parking lot outside the Peppers Market off E.E. Butler Parkway in Gainesville.

June 04, 2013 | Shannon Casas | Local


Flowery Branch named fastest growing city in Hall County

Flowery Branch is Hall County's fastest-growing city, expanding 2.7 percent between July 2011 and July 2012, according to recently released census statistics.

June 04, 2013 | By Dana Towns and Lisa Laskey The Times | Local


An eXtreme eXperience: Summer camps focus on career offerings

"Do you feel nourished?" That's what rising seventh-grader Christina Antoci asked Adrianna Silva after wiping toner from her face Monday.

June 04, 2013 | Alana Swain | Local


The Local Agenda: Gainesville City Council has full agenda

City Council members are scheduled to consider several items at their meeting this evening. On the agenda are raising city water and sewer prices, adopting a West Gainesville-Hall County opportunity zone, setting the 2014 property tax rate for the Gainesville Board of Education and changing the ordinance on annexations initiated by the city.

June 04, 2013 | Sarah Mueller | Local


Taxi driver shot in hand during fight

A Gainesville man was charged with using a gun with a filed-off identification number after a man was shot in the hand outside the J&J Foods on Jesse Jewell Parkway just before midnight Saturday.

June 04, 2013 | Shannon Casas | Local


Gainesville City Schools adopts tentative budget

The Gainesville City Schools Board of Education tentatively adopted its fiscal year 2014 budget at its Monday night work session.

June 03, 2013 | Carly Sharec | Local


Tax hike part of Hall schools budget approval

The Hall County Board of Education voted Monday night to OK a tentative $200 million budget for fiscal 2013-14, which begins July 1.

June 03, 2013 | Jeff Gill | Local


Jones Elementary renovations almost complete

Sylvester B. Jones Elementary School has undergone extensive renovations to prepare for a future when it could be once again at full capacity.

June 02, 2013 | Carly Sharec | Local


Oakwood business park buzzing with activity

Thurmon Tanner Parkway in Oakwood is continuing to buzz with activity. The city's planning commission voted last month to recommend approval to rezone and annex nearly 11 acres in the 4000 block of the four-lane road for Aerocom to set up offices. The company is moving from leased space in the Oakwood Industrial South Park off Rafe Banks Drive to slightly larger offices - about 12,000 square feet - in the burgeoning Tanners Creek Business ...

June 02, 2013 | Jeff Gill | Local


Hall County Sheriff’s Office to upgrade aging fleet

A stagnant motor pool at the Hall County Sheriff's Office will soon be invigorated with several new patrol cars.

June 02, 2013 | Emma Witman | Local


Jail doctor gives inmates what they need

Physician Linwood Zoller's first stop Monday through Friday is the Hall County Jail. He practices a different kind of medicine than in his private practice.

June 02, 2013 | Sarah Mueller | Local


Thunderstorms blow through area

Rain returned to the area Sunday night and might settle in for much of today. For the past couple weeks or so, residents have gotten a break in the soggy weather that has characterized the area's weather for most of the year. Thunderstorms blew through the area Sunday, dropping more than a third of an inch of rain at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville. About 1,000 households in Gainesville served by Jackson Electric Membership ...

June 02, 2013 | Jeff Gill | Local


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