Ken Stanford

The campaign for passage of Tuesday's liquor-by-the-drink questions in Hall County was turned up a notch over the weekend.

A decade later, Steve Gilliam says he still gets goose bumps thinking about those 15 days in 1996 when "the world came to Gainesville."

Seventeen contested races will be voted on Tuesday in Hall County in the General Election primaries as well a two liquor-by-the-drink questions and a sales tax referendum.

About 3,000 people in Hall County have already voted for Tuesday's primaries, according to elections director Anne Phillips Lea.

A gun used in what police say was an ambush slaying outside a Canadian bar was sold at a store in Hall County.

The first month of summer brought with it a nearly 30 percent decline in the number of initial unemployment insurance claims in metro Gainesville.

"Whose ad is this anyway?" my wife, Sandra, asked one night recently as we sat in front of the TV as another of the ads for one of the candidates in the Democratic race for Governor rolled before our eyes. It was another of those "negative ad

It will be another two weeks - not this week - before a public hearing in Flowery Branch on annexation of a rock quarry.

So, what happens now - with thirteen schools in Gainesville and Hall County shown by the state as not making Adequate Yearly Progress?

Thirteen schools in the Gainesville and Hall County school systems are listed as not making "adequate yearly progress" in a report released by the state Tuesday.