FLOWERY BRANCH — The race for Flowery Branch City Council’s Post 3 seat got off to an informal, subdued start Monday night at the South Hall Republican Club. In the first of two meetings featuring Flowery Branch council races, the club held a brief forum for Post 3 incumbent Fred Richards and his challenger, Ed Edwards, at the Hall County Library System’s Spout Springs branch. Richards has served on the council since April 2012 and is seeking his first four-year term on it.