Local Business News

The new year marks the 50th Anniversary of Alpine Helen and the Helen Arts & Heritage Center plans a series of five meetings during the year on the transformation of the mountain town to a tourist mecca.

The Flowery Branch City Council will consider scheduling a special city council election when it meets Thursday night.

South State Bank has donated $10,000 to support foster children and families in need in Towns and Union counties.

Twenty-nine providers at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group have received national recognition for their work.

The Sears store in Gainesville, which has survived one round of company store closings after another in recent years, will close by the end of March, according to company officials.

John Mansfield, Sr., of Amelia Island, Fla., formerly of Gainesville, and the founder of Mansfield Oil Company and Kangaroo convenience stores, died Thursday. .

2018 was a very good year for economic development in the Gainesville-Hall County metro.

Rushton Wealth Management has named Elisabeth D. Baldwin as its Director of Financial Services.

Gainesville set records in November for total jobs and employed residents, according to numbers released Thursday morning by Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler.