Ken Stanford

The City of Gainesville will be closed Monday in observance of Labor Day, and the city's garbage/recycling schedule will be altered.

Boar's Head-Corps Alumni Weekend, a first-ever event planned for Sept. 9-11 at the University of North Georgia's (UNG) Dahlonega Campus, aims to connect current and former cadets during a weekend of mentoring and networking.

Thousands of people are without power, trees and powerlines are down, and roads and schools are closed across south Georgia as Hurricane Hermine moves through that part of the state.

It won't be an ordinary training run for members of the Chestatee High School Cross Country Team this Saturday. This time, each team member will be joined by four extra legs.

The Fockele Garden Company has added Joy Giusto to its staff as a landscape designer.

Charles Hardy, who founded an automobile dealership in Dallas, Georgia, in 1978, and whose holdings now include Hardy Chevrolet in Gainesville, has died. Hardy was also involved with NASCAR as a team owner, at one time with former NASCAR champion Bill Elliott.

The Gainesville City School System will show its support for its students and families who face the challenges that come with living with cancer as each of its schools participate in a coin drive through COINS4CURE.com.

Piedmont College students, faculty, staff, and friends gathered in the Chapel at the Demorest campus last week for a Convocation service to welcome a record freshman class and a new campus minister.

Megan Andres, a junior at the University of North Georgia, has been selected for the National Institutes of Health Undergraduate Scholarship Program, marking the third year in a row that a UNG biology student has been chosen.

A veteran Gainesville insurance executive, Ed Parks, died Saturday at the age of 85.