Local Business News

The Jackson EMC Foundation board of directors awarded $99,969 in grants during its November meeting, including $52,500 to organizations serving Hall County.

Peach State Bank & Trust held a “No Shave November” for the men in the bank and in return collected over $1,000.00 to help in the fight to eradicate cancer. Employees made donations to Emory Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta.

More Americans than ever on record – 115.6 million – will travel this holiday season, according to estimates released Thursday by AAA.

Members of the Brenau University PsyClub, the undergraduate psychology club on campus, recently collected about 500 stuffed animals for the children at The Edmondson-Telford Child Advocacy Center in Gainesville.

With a decline at the gas pump over the past week, Georgia motorists are now paying an average price of $2.42 per gallon for regular unleaded gasoline.

Fifty years after Lakeview Academy opened its doors, the Board of Trustees recently approved steps to move Lakeview forward in 2020 in its three foundational areas: academics, arts, and athletics.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton was recently designated a Remote Treatment Stroke Center by the Georgia Department of Public Health.

A number of students at the University of North Georgia who have researched ways to teach about the issues surrounding climate change will share what they have learned at a symposium on the Dahlonega campus Saturday.

The Gainesville-based Georgia Mountain Food Bank has launched a new "feed the hungry" initiative.

Concerts and other holiday happenings, Gainesville artist's painting to hang at State Capitol, and more...