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Could amphibious float airplanes soon become a common sight on Lake Lanier? One of the pilots participating in Saturday's Cracker Fly In at Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville is working toward that very goal.

Baldwin Paving Company of Marietta will begin work July 18 replacing a 76-year-old bridge over Toccoa Creek in Stephens County.

The Gainesville Planning and Appeals Board is scheduled to hear a request Tuesday involving a planned expansion to an Atlanta Highway supermarket/restaurant building.

Governor Nathan Deal and wife Sandra will help mark the 20th anniversary of the 1996 Summer Olympics August 5 and the part Gainesville and Hall County played in the games.

The Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce has named Gainesville-based named Championship Communication its "Business of the Month" for July.

Blairsville-based United Community Bank, which has bank branches in Gainesville and elsewhere in northeast Georgia, has received the Georgia Exceptional Lender award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Don Carter State Park will be the scene of a benefit triathlete event Saturday.

A detour in downtown Jefferson, which begins Wednesday, is expected to impact traffic for about three months, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Two new University of North Georgia Scholarship programs, one for the Cumming campus and one for the Blue Ridge campus, have been announced.

Three northeast Georgia men have been reappointed to state boards by Gov. Nathan Deal.