Ken Stanford

The people at Oakwood Animal Hospital need to get in touch with a woman who left a couple of stray dogs at the McEver Road clinic Monday morning because one of the dogs has severely bitten an employee.

The rift between the Hall County Commission and the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce which became glaringly evident during the recent lot-size controversy is apparently growing.

Amy Mulkey, the Gainesville native who is the current Miss Georgia, is concluding her one-year reign - and she talked recently about the experience, especially when it came to competing for the Miss America title last fall.

Braselton police report confiscating thirty-seven pounds of high-grade marijuana during a routine traffic stop.

A situation that kept the middle schools in Hall County in sports against each other last year has apparently been resolved.

The Piccadilly Cafeteria at Colonial Lakeshore Mall in Gainesville has closed, leaving the shopping complex without a family-style sitdown restaurant for the first time in 16 years.

Most students may have gone home for the summer or graduated, but Brenau University in Gainesville is still a busy place.

Hall County school officials confirmed Tuesday that East Hall High School plans to drop to Class AA beginning with the 2004-2005 school year.

The man who brought the Olympics to Georgia seven years ago is returning to Gainesville Tuesday for the kickoff Lanier Legacy '96 - the boosters club being formed for the Olympic venue on Lake Lanier.

For the first time in recent memory, every county in the immediate Gainesville area has recorded a decline in the jobless rate at the same time.