Ken Stanford

On the heels of announced plans for a 26 percent tax increase, members of the Hall County Board of Commissioners are scheduled to appear Monday on WDUN's "Morning Talk."

The University of North Georgia Foundation has added four new members to its Board of Trustees, including Carol Burrell of Gainesville.

Another new eatery is opening on the Dawsonville Highway in Gainesville.

The late John W. Jacobs, Jr., founder and former board chairman of Jacobs Media Corp. (parent company of WDUN-AM, WDUN-FM, 1240 ESPN Radio, and AccessWDUN), is being honored by the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

A fire late Sunday afternoon in North Hall displaced three people, including a 4-month-old.

A 70-year-old motorcyclist from Duluth was killed Sunday afternoon when, according to authorities, a pickup, whose driver was DUI, turned into his path on Georgia 347.

The Hall County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a man wanted in connection with the theft of phones from a store on the Atlanta Highway last month.

The third annual Gainesville City School System Summer Leadership Summit will be held for three days this week at Brenau University's Downtown Center.

Overnight work continues along the I-985 corridor to replace portions of failing and damaged concrete, and the Georgia Department of Transportation says the project is now 30 percent complete.

More lane closures await motorists using Dawsonville Highway west of Gainesville this week, according to the state Department of Transportation.