After county engineers found some problems with a piece of property on Harrison Drive that was supposed to be home to new community park, Hall County commissioners have gone back to the drawing board.
Increased U.S. crude oil production and lower gasoline demand has kept downward pressure on the national average price at the pump, which has fallen for 20 consecutive days.
Dina Hewett, director of the Mary Inez Grindle School of Nursing at Brenau University, was recently appointed to the Nursing Education Committee for the Georgia Board of Nursing.
The Georgia Department of Transportation recently awarded about $8.6 million for road projects in Dawson, Fannin and Pickens counties, including a roundabout in Dawson. Contracts for work in two other area counties were also approved.
Lauren Hockaday, a Firefighter/EMSP student at Lanier Technical College from White County, has been named the college’s Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership winner.
The City of Cornelia will use a $1.2 million low-interest loanfrom the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority to replace the city's current water meters.
The longtime chief executive of a Georgia-based national pipeline network is retiring months after two spills and an explosion that killed an Alabama worker and constricted the region's supply of gasoline.