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- Thursday, June 20, 2013 Gainesville, Georgia
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911 Center adds to lifesaving duties
Senior Communications Officer Rachelle Dhabolt and her co-workers in Hall County's 911 Center have often felt the frustration of answering medical emergency calls but being prevented from dispensing any instructions to the callers.
Hundreds more students to attend summer school
Summer school is going to be bustling this year, as, following a statewide trend, the number of Gainesville and Hall County students failing the high-stakes math portion of the state's basic-skills test more than doubled from last year.
Discovery of virus leads to euthanization of Humane Society pets
The Humane Society of Hall County was forced to euthanize most of the animals in its shelter Wednesday in order to control an outbreak of respiratory disease.
County’s employees reluctant to retire
Talk about bad timing.
Cagle says he won’t endorse any candidate for transportation board post
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle said Wednesday that he risked a considerable amount of political capital in the last race for the State Transportation Board and he, along with the House speaker and the governor, will sit on the sidelines for today's caucus to fill the seat left vacant by the resignation of Chairman Mike Evans. The Chestnut Mountain Republican made his comments during a visit to Forsyth County. He indicated ...
Two injured in morning wreck in North Hall
A car crash victim was flown to an Atlanta hospital after an accident Wednesday morning in North Hall County, officials said. The Georgia State Patrol was dispatched to the three-car accident at the intersection of Lula Road and Glade Farm Road at about 8:10 a.m. Wednesday. A state patrol operator said one person was taken by helicopter to Grady Memorial Hospital in ...
Residents blast tax increase plan
Gainesville school officials said Wednesday that they don't know how the system piled up a mountain of debt, claiming a former financial chief told them the district had a surplus before she left.
Woman drowns in North Hall pool
Alcohol may have played a role in the accidental drowning of a 34-year-old Gainesville woman in a residential pool Wednesday in North Hall, authorities said. Residents at a home in the 5900 block of Whitmire Road called 911 at 1:14 p.m. Wednesday to report the drowning, Hall County sheriff's Sgt. Kiley Sargent said.
Low-cost pneumonia vaccine available
The 13 county health departments in Northeast Georgia's District 2 Public Health region are offering discount pneumococcal vaccine to patients who are at risk for pneumonia.
Risk is small when teens give blood
Teenagers who donate blood are more likely than adults to suffer reactions such as dizziness and fainting. But medical experts say the risk is so small that it should not deter young people from giving blood. Two years ago, the American Red Cross examined the records of nearly 2 million blood donors, including 145,000 who were 16 or 17 years old and 113,000 who were 18 or 19. <font ...
Our Neighbor: Plans for a bookstore still on the shelf
Mike Reno knows how to sell Stephen King novels. If Gainesville's sewer plans had not run right through Our Neighbor Inc.'s desire to refashion a 1930s-era house into a bookstore and coffee shop, Reno would be doing that today.
Gainesville maintains good fire protection rating
If you live in Gainesville and your house is on fire, you should expect good service. A measure of fire protection that influences home insurance premiums for Gainesville residents has stayed among the best in the state, city officials learned this week.
Oakwood ushers in an age of expansion
Oakwood residents have been scrambling around orange construction barrels for months, but officials said roads and sewer lines being built now pave the way for the city's bright future.
A life’s work in Dawson Forest
William Thacker spent more than half of his life taming some of the wildest land in Georgia. He built. He burned. He fixed. He carved out roads with a bulldozer. He cleared acres of trees and planted many more. He dammed up streams to build ponds when the beavers were too lazy or preoccupied to do it. He introduced a population of wild turkeys, planted food plots for deer and killed a few feral hogs ...
Candidates play politics for seat on transportation board
For those who don't follow politics, this is the ultimate game of inside baseball. The members of the State Transportation Board are the only state regulatory panel elected solely by members of the General Assembly. Average voters couldn't name their district board member, but the phones of 24 members of the House and Senate have been busy this week with candidates for the vacant transportation board seat in the 9th ...
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Storms, showers in area may not be done
Look for a couple of wet days ahead heading into the weekend.
4 plead guilty, fined in N. Hall animal hoarding case
Four people pleaded guilty Wednesday in an animal hoarding case stemming from May that led to the impoundment of 69 animals.
Woman, son dead in Jefferson; father in custody
JEFFERSON - A mother and her 13-year-old son are dead and her 47-year-old husband, the child's father, is in jail on murder charges.
Residents get peek at potential passenger rail service between Atlanta and Charlotte
SUWANEE - Miles Williams is eager to find out whether Suwanee, the North Gwinnett city where generations of his family have lived, will once again be a bustling stop for passenger rail.
Probable cause hearing set for slaying suspect
A probable cause hearing is set for later this month after a Gainesville man made his first appearance Tuesday in Hall County Magistrate Court on murder charges.
Motion denied, trial date set in 2012 boating deaths
A Hall County Superior Court judge Tuesday denied a motion to dismiss the case against Paul Bennett, who is charged with eight counts of homicide by vessel in a Lake Lanier accident that killed two Buford boys.
Gainesville City Council faces more opposition to at-large voting at meeting
Gainesville has an ugly history of discrimination and the city's at-large voting system is violating the federal Voting Rights Act, a speaker said at Tuesday's City Council meeting.
Hall County's tax digest drops
Hall County's 2013 final tax digest is down 1.51 percent from last year, according to final numbers from the Tax Commissioner's office, making the county's 2014 proposed budget short by $560,000.
Hot weather health tips
Here are some tips to help you deal with the summer heat wave.
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