Ken Stanford

The Lake Lanier Association wants the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reconsider releasing water from rain-swollen Lake Lanier at the rate it announced last week.

Habitat for Humanity Hall County has received a warehouse load of items for its thrift store and needs volunteers to help move the items.

Barrow County Emergency Services and Barrow County Schools have joined together in a program that has the potential to save lives for years to come. Every staff member with the school system will be taught the Stop the Bleed- School Response Program.

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.

A section of Thompson Mill Road near Buford will be closed until the middle of next month for some bridge work

Sears will close another 72 stores, three of them in Georgia, as sales shrink and losses grow, an announcement that has become a familiar refrain as the company retrenches.