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Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton recently became the region’s first hospital to offer a new minimally invasive lung cancer diagnostic technology.

The Sears store in Gainesville is one of 504 Sears and Kmart stores Sears Holding Corp. plans to sell.

A memorial service will be held Sunday for Gainesville businessman Tom Paris, Jr., who died earlier this week.

Jackson EMC has donated $30,000 to Path Project in Gainesville for the purchase of a van to provide transportation for students in the Baker & Glover Mobile Home Park.

You could call it an early Christmas present. Habersham EMC’s Board of Directors has approved a rate decrease for its members by reducing the Wholesale Power Cost Adjustment (WPCA) factor for the remainder of 2018.

North Georgia Technical College has two new vice presidents, Keith Powell and Amy Hulsey.

Three Forsyth County schools and a Habersham County theater group are among recipients of Vibrant Communities grants from the Georgia Council for the Arts.

Six people from Hall County are among the graduates of the Georgia Academy for Economic Development's regional training program.

Pennie Eddy, Program Director and Instructor for the Lanier Technical College Accounting Program, has been named the college’s Instructor of the Year and winner of the Rick Perkins Award.

The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors recently awarded $96,300 in grants, including $16,500 to organizations serving Hall County residents.