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Brenau now home to Golden Tiger sculpture
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Monte Paddleford guides a 2,200 pound bronze tiger sculpture to its base in the Brenau University park on Green Street. - photo by Tom Reed
She arrived in Gainesville at 7 feet, 6 inches tall, 14 feet long and weighing 2,200 pounds Friday afternoon at the intersection of Green and Academy streets, one of Gainesville’s heaviest-trafficked sites. Her birthplace is Cumming, from the mind of sculptor Gregory Johnson. Her delivery was more than 1,800 miles away in the small town of Lander, Wyo., where Monte Paddleford, president of Eagle Bronze Inc., who also holds a degree in metallurgy, molded her into a mammoth bronze statue.
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Hall County Schools mental health clinic has opened. Here are the details
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The new Ivester House Counseling Services location at 17 6th Street next to Ivester Early College is open. The clinic's services will be provided through Brenau University's Lynn J. Darby School of Psychology and Adolescent Counseling. - photo by Scott Rogers
The Hall County School District’s mental health clinic has officially opened.
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