Local/State News

Good Sports and Let's Play has donated equipment worth $10,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lanier.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday for retired Cornelia Postmaster James Edward “Jim” Staples, 86, of Cornelia.

The technology director for the Gainesville City School System told school board members this past week that it's time for an upgrade to the school system web site.

A Toccoa man was seriously injured after being struck by a car in the parking lot of a Stephens County store Friday night, and the driver of that car is facing charges.

The Jackson County Historic Courthouse and Historic Archives will host a reading and book signing by G. Richard "Dickey" Hoard next month.

Sugar Hill City Council is looking to hold the millage rate steady at 3.8 mills, a rate that hasn't increased for 14 consecutive years.

Funeral services are pending for Judge William C. O'Kelley, a longtime federal court judge for the Northern District of Georgia.

Dr. James C. Eck has officially joined the Brenau University administration as provost and vice president of academic affairs.

For the second time this week, rescue crews from Gwinnett County and Johns Creek had to retrieve a stranded group on the Chattahoochee River.

Three stops in northeast Georgia - Blue Ridge, Lakemont, and Watkinsville - are planned next week by the Disabled American Veterans' Mobile Service Office.