Ken Stanford

Six groups will sponsor candidates for Belle of the Ball at this year's Gainesville-Hall County Junioir League Charity Ball.

It appears it will be two weeks, at least, before a heavily traveled North Hall Road is reopened.

Charlities based in Hall and three other Northeast Georgia counties will share in the more than $200,000 raised at this year's Dare to Share banquet.

Two Gainesville Christmas traditions are on tap over the next seven days.

A Habersham County man's brush with death earlier this year while cutting trees near his home is featured in a Reader's Digest story titled "A Very Dangerous Day."

Part of a much traveled North Hall road has been closed again, for the second time since September.

No one was seriously injured in a wreck Sunday night on Atlanta Highway at Ray Street in south Gainesville.

"How to foster the growth of small businesses in Northeast Georgia?" is the topic that will be explored at a two-day workshop early next year.

Lanier Point Park, west of Gainesville, will be closed most of the winter, starting Wednesday, because of sewer work on Dawsonville Highway.

A Barrow County woman and her extended family are sending a bit of Christmas joy overseas - to a group of soldiers in a war zone.