Ken Stanford

The summer of 2003 - which came to an unofficial end Monday with the Labor Day holiday - turned out to be one of the wettest on record in north Georgia, and it was much cooler than recent summers.

When dove season opens in north Georgia this weekend, hunters in our area will have a new public place to hunt.

The two announced candidates for the Gainesville City Council seat being vacated by Sissy Lawson are using the holiday weekend to reach out to voters as they officially kick off their campaigns.

Road work will require the closing of a portion of Queen City Parkway in Gainesville Tuesday.

The Gainesville City Counil Tuesday is to consider two controversial requests.

A new state report paints Georgia teachers in a very positive light - and those in Gainesville and Hall County are about on par with others in the state.

Gainesville will host the Special Olympics Georgia Fall Games October 24-26 - and volunteers are needed to help with the games.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Little People - those soft-sculpture, hand-stitched dolls conceived in Cleveland in 1978 by Xavier Roberts - which evolved into the mass-produced Cabbage Patch Kids four years later.

A hearing will be held next week on a suit filed against the Jackson County Commission over the method it plans to use in financing construction of a new courthouse.

The pace of activity will quicken next week at the Lake Lanier Olympic Center at Clarks Bridge Park.