House lawmakers voted yesterday to redraw the Senate's political map - a move that will affect the 49th District, which includes Hall County and part of Jackson and is now represented by Casey Cagle of Gainesville.
A Gainesville woman, prominent in state Republican circles for many years, is one of the new members of the Reed for Lt. Governor Statewide Steering Committee.
Charges that a proposal in the Georgia General Assembly could put the brakes on any future plans for a long-talked-about commuter rail line between Atlanta and Gainesville.
Fifteen more gas stations in Georgia - including two in Gainesville - have been fined for jacking up their prices in the wake of Hurricane Katrina last summer.
A drug suspect was shot in Toccoa Wednesday after he allegedly tried to run over one of the officers attempting to arrest him in an incident similar to what happened in Gainesville last week.
Curbside leaf pick-up - temporarily suspended in mid-December because crews were needed to clean the streets of ice storm debris - has resumed in Gainesville and has been extended into February.
She may have finished as first runner up in the Miss America Pageant in Las Vegas Saturday night but the reigning Miss Lake Lanier and Miss Georgia is number one in the Peach State.
