Local Business News

Plans are in the works for yet another large subdivision in South Hall, the latest in a series of new residential developments proposed for that area.

The Fockele Garden Company has added Joy Giusto to its staff as a landscape designer.

Charles Hardy, who founded an automobile dealership in Dallas, Georgia, in 1978, and whose holdings now include Hardy Chevrolet in Gainesville, has died. Hardy was also involved with NASCAR as a team owner, at one time with former NASCAR champion Bill Elliott.

Gas prices are on the rise as Americans prepare for a Labor Day road trip, according to the latest fuel price report from AAA.

Piedmont College students, faculty, staff, and friends gathered in the Chapel at the Demorest campus last week for a Convocation service to welcome a record freshman class and a new campus minister.

A veteran Gainesville insurance executive, Ed Parks, died Saturday at the age of 85.

The Hall County Planning Commission is scheduled to hear a rezoning request next month for a 16.7-acre tract of land in East Hall where an agri-entertainment venue is planned.

Hiawassee and Ellijay are among fourteen places in Georgia recently awarded low-interest financing totaling $13.1 million by the state for water, sewer and wastewater infrastructure improvements.

Mazda is recalling more than 190,000 CX-7 sport utility vehicles because of a potentially dangerous steering control defect.

Several northeast Georgians were named to state boards by Gov. Nathan Deal last week.