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Donor visits Da Vinci Academy museum where fossils are displayed
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Dr. Steve Nicklas and Darla Roberts are responsible for bringing this mossasaur fossil to the Da Vinci Academy museum in Gainesville. - photo by Kristen Oliver
Darla Roberts has loved dinosaurs since she was 6 years old. Friday, she visited the triceratops fossil named after her, and which she donated to Da Vinci Academy in Gainesville last year. “I was the 6-year-old in the first grade back in my home town in Illinois who had an incredible interest in dinosaurs, and there was only one book on dinosaurs in the entire first grade library,” Roberts said.
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Where a new subdivision is being developed off Lake Lanier
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Construction crews prepare new single-family homes and townhomes currently going up Wednesday, April 2, 2025, off Chestatee Rd. near Bolding Mill in Hall County at the new Falcon Landing subdivision. - photo by Scott Rogers
A new housing development is springing up off the shores of Lake Lanier.
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