Marketplace 2003, the annual fund-raiser for the Northeast Georgia Medical Center Auxiliary, which has become a holiday tradition in Gainesville, raised a record amount of money this year.
Cheyenne Manning, a 16-year-old student at North Hall High School, was one of four first-place winners in this year's Jackson EMC Christmas Card Contest.
The Gainesville City School Board was one of five school boards in the state recently presented the Georgia School Boards Association's "School Board of Distinction" award.
A Habersham County man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after being convicted of vehicular homicide in the death of his two-year-old grandson last spring.
Requests involving plans for four billboards in eastern Hall County and a new subdivision in the same area are scheduled to be considered by the Hall County Planning Commission early next year.
"Sissy" Lawson, who is leaving office in a few days after 18 years on the Gainesville City Council, says she did not expect to spend nearly twenty years on the council when she was first elected in 1985.
Maybe the seeding process of the Lanierland Tournament knows-all after all. The top-seeded Johnson girls upset Class AAA No. 1-ranked Gainesville Friday night in the semifinals of the tournament, 56-47.
