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Gainesville responders, volunteers band together to save trapped dogs
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Whitney White, the clinical services manager at the Humane Society of Northeast Georgia, on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, holds one of six dogs that were rescued from a vacant lot off Atlanta Highway in Gainesville earlier this week. - photo by David Barnes
A half-dozen Gainesville firefighters lay pressed to the dirt, peering into a deep hole in an empty lot in the cold, dark night on Tuesday. They had been there for hours, digging and hunting with crestfallen volunteers behind them worried that their prizes would be lost and die — but at about 8 p.m., when temperatures were dipping below freezing, the last of five abandoned puppies came out of the hole in a firefighter’s gloved and muddy hand.
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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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