Ballerina for a day

Aspiring ballerinas ages 3 to 9 enjoyed a day of dance Saturday at the Snow White Mini-camp and Tea Party held by the Gainesville Ballet Co.

Three Hall County schools get International Baccalaureate authorization

GAINESVILLE - Johnson, North Hall and West Hall high schools have been authorized to start up the highly challenging International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme.

Flowery Branch officials get a new view

The Flowery Branch planning and zoning department moved into new digs Friday.

New face leads Keep Hall Beautiful

Keep Hall Beautiful has a new director, a new office and a fresh start.

Hall County changes school shuffling plans

The Hall County school system no longer is looking at shuffling attendance lines to give a group of families the option of sending their child to the planned World Languages Academy.

Last of Dahlonega miners is gone

For Robert Jenkins, they were all golden years.

Students tie for third in reading contest

A group of students from Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy's Reading Bowl team tied for third place Saturday in the Sixth Annual Georgia Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl.

House OKs naming Cleveland post office in honor of Harkins

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to name the Cleveland post office in honor of Sgt. Jason Robert Harkins, who was killed in Iraq.

Wiegand’s legacy honored

As tribute after tribute was offered Thursday night, Nell Wiegand alternated between bursts of laughter and dabbing tears.

Georgia chamber head urges cooperation with water management plan

The president of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce praised the statewide water management plan Thursday, saying it will help Georgia in any negotiations with neighboring states.

Billy Graham’s daughter helps Gainesville Care Center raise money

Supporters of the Gainesville Care Center's ministry are sharing in a common burden and task, author and speaker Gigi Graham told a gathering of about 1,000 Thursday at the Georgia Mountains Center.

Longtime Gainesville police chief Hoyt Henry dead at age 86

Hoyt Herschel Henry, who served as chief of the Gainesville Police Department from 1952 to 1971, died Friday following an extended illness. He was 86.

Hall divers recover gun believed used in murder of Gwinnett deputy, her daughters

A diver with the Hall County Sheriff's office Friday morning recovered the handgun believed to be used in a Thursday night triple shooting that claimed the life of a Gwinnett County deputy and her two daughters.

DA wants to review Clark’s letters to husband

Hall County District Attorney Lee Darragh confirmed Friday he is looking into whether letters Lisa Clark purportedly wrote to her teenage husband from prison were a violation of the terms of her sentence.

Chamber wants Gainesville money for greener I-985 gateways

On more than one occasion, Gainesville City Council members have indicated their intentions to clean up "gateways" into the city.

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.

Class Notes: Gainesville City Schools hosting meal program

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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