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Lula City Manager Dennis Bergin predicts the city’s sewer taps will increase by $100,000 next fiscal year, while water taps will increase by $3,000.

The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently announced the award of nearly $250,000 in literacy grants to Georgia nonprofit organizations, libraries and schools. Groups in Habersham, Elbert, Gilmer, Gwinnett and Hart counties are among the recipients.

First Citizens Bank & Trust of Raleigh, North Carolina, has taken over BestBank after the FDIC closed BestBank's parent company, Guaranty Bank - and BestBank's Cumming and Dawsonville branches have been closed.

For the first four months of 2017, officials with the city of Sugar Hill have issued 34 residential permits, a figure that is 19-percent higher than the first four months of 2016, perhaps a signal of the boom that continues in the city.

Banks County residents soon will be seeing the newest member of the Banks County Fire/EMS fleet responding to emergencies.

The architect who designed the Brenau Downtown Center and numerous other buildings throughout north Georgia, N.A. Jacobs, died Saturday.

There was a decline in first-time claims for unemployment insurance statewide over the past month, reflecting the lowest number of claims for a single month in 19 years. But applications were up in Gainesville.

A former head of the Hall County Board of Commissioners is set to lead the board of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Georgia, known in the Athens area as OLLI@UGA.

A corner lot at one of the busiest intersections in Gainesville, which has been on the market for some time, has been sold to Gainesville businessman Milton Robson.

Morgan House on Friday announced his resignation as manager of the Lake Lanier Olympic Park, site of the 1996 Olympics.