Ken Stanford

A live nativity scene is being added to this year's Magical Nights of Lights at Lake Lanier Islands.

The husband and wife who have coached the Lanier Canoe and Kayak Club the past year have given up the post so the wife can train for the 2008 Olympics. Shelley Oates-Wilding, a two-time kayak Olympian from Australia, is returning to Australia to train.

The names and Social Security numbers of 36 substitute school lunchroom workers in Hall County were recently mailed to five people on a list of workers owed pay by the county school system.

Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Tommy Irvin is advising Georgians to check their freezers for a brand of frozen ground beef patties that may be contaminated with E. coli.

The tax rate in Cornelia is going down but the garbage pickup fee is increasing.

This year's World Series is history. One team that had never been there in its 44-year history and one that had not been there in 46 years squared off and it was over before it hardly started - with the Chicago White Sox sweeping the Houston Astros in

Because of new federal legislation taking effect January first, Hall Area Transit will make several changes to its charter bus service.

More than 60 Gainesville Kiwanis Club members recently began visiting all 25 elementary schools in Gainesville and Hall County to give every third-grader a dictionary to call their own.

The case of a Cumming woman who killed her husband by poisoning him with anti-freeze and is charged with killing a boyfriend in the same manner is portrayed in the current issue of Reader's Digest.

A Jackson County group picked up several awards at the 27th Annual Keep Georgia Beautiful Awards Luncheon recently.