Local/State News

Wednesday, Sept. 5 marks the annual Day in the Park for Veterans event, held at Helen's Riverside Park Pavilion along the Chattahoochee River on Edelweiss Strasse.

Georgia's Democratic candidate for governor told more than 1,000 attendees at the party's state convention Saturday that Democrats' fate in November rests with people who don't usually vote.

Along with teaching online and hybrid courses at Truett McConnell University, Cierra Winkler, Associate Professor of English, is working as a playwright for The Skit Guys, based out of Dallas, TX, and as a feature film writer for the Jim Henson Studios in Los Angeles.

A developer who wants to build a multi-use development in the New Holland area will ask the Gainesville Planning and Appeals Board to again consider an annexation request for the project.

Twenty-one Georgia communities, including three in northeast Georgia, have been awarded state financing totaling $84.7 million for water, wastewater, and sewer infrastructure improvements.

Forsyth County commissioners vote to accept a grant for over fifteen thousand dollars from FireHouse Subs Foundation.

Grammy award-winning country music artist Joe Diffie will be in concert on North Georgia Technical College's Clarkesville Campus Oct. 20 in celebration of the college’s 75th anniversary.

A Buford woman has been charged in the death of her husband, according to Gwinnett County Police Department investigators.

Cadet John "Woody" Perry, who is entering his junior year at the University of North Georgia, had the honor of meeting and providing event briefings to "Jeopardy" host Alex Trebek and U.S. Undersecretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy recently in Washington.

Hall County drug agents arrested a 70-year-old Lula man Thursday, Aug. 23 after they found marijuana growing on his property.