Local Business News

A fourth budget/tax rate public hearing has been scheduled by Hall County school officials.

The funeral for former Hall County Tax Commissioner Keith Echols will be held Saturday at 2:00 at Memorial Park Funeral Home.

Friends and family have organized a benefit ride for leukemia patient Donna Funderburk of Hall County.

Mountain Fresh Creamery and Glo Crest Dairy in Clermont will host Dairy Day on Saturday, June 9 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

A winning jackpot ticket worth $125,000 was sold in Commerce for the May 26 Fantasy 5 drawing, according to information released Monday by the Georgia Lottery Corporation.

Former Gainesville Mayor Emily Dunlap “Sissy” Lawson has been named to Peach State Bank and Trust's Community Development Board, according to an announcement by the board’s chairman, Abit Massey.

A request to annex a 75-acre parcel of property in the New Holland area of Gainesville is scheduled to go before the Gainesville Planning and Appeals Board again Tuesday.

Brenau University’s Amanda Lammers, vice president for student services, is one of 20 senior college administrators selected by the Council of Independent Colleges to participate in a year-long Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission program for prospective college and university presidents.

The Buy Local Braselton campaign celebrates the opening of three newb businesses – Culver’s of Braselton, Red Rose Salon and BGW Dental Group.

A Gainesville adoption attorney, Judy Sartain, has been invited to become a Fellow with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys.