Hall County paused Friday evening to remember the lives of the 26 Sandy Hook Elementary School students and teachers who lost their lives a week earlier in one of the worst mass shootings in the nation’s history. Hundreds of people, including teachers, students, school administrators and parents, braved the cold in Gainesville and held a candle in a dark Clermont gym Friday evening, all to pay their respects for the 20 students and six teachers gunned down Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn. Tracy Kakos was among those who filled the Clermont gym Friday for the town’s candlelight vigil.
Hall communities honor victims of Connecticut school shooting
Hall employees wore green-and-white ribbons