Ken Stanford

White County voters will get a chance early next month to comment on a plan to increase the size of their county commission.

Hall County's jobless rate is down as is the rate in all other counties in the Georiga Mountains region except Rabun.

AmSouth's top officer says some branches will be closed or sold with the merger of AmSouth and Regions Bank, which has offices in Gainesville.

Emergency personnel had to cut two men from their wrecked car early Thursday morning near Flowery Branch - and they were later jailed.

The principal at Gainesville Middle School is a finalist for superintendent of a Kansas school district, according to a Kansas City newspaper's Web site.

Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce Chairman John Vardeman, Chairman-Elect Jimmy Adams and President/CEO Kit Dunlap hosted a special night of recognition and accomplishment Thursday at the chambers annual meeting and gala which was held at Brenau University.

Metro Gainesville added 600 new jobs from March to April, bringing to 1,000 the number added over the past two months and to 71,000 the number in the area - but the net gain/loss won't be known until next week when new unemployment figures come out.

Hall County drug agents report seizing a pound of marijauana with the arrest of a 25-year-old Grayson, Georgia, man.

Nearly 150 new homes, an equestrian center, a new wastewater treatment plant, and a solid waste transfer station are on the agenda for the June 5 Hall Planning Commission meeting.

The search continues for three suspects in the reported robbery-beating of a man in the parking lot of a Gainesville motel over the weekend.