Ken Stanford

Lanier Christian Academy will host its first official event on Friday, Jan. 8.

Gainesville High School senior Joy Nish has been selected as a 2015 QuestBridge National College Match recipient, earning a full four-year scholarship to Washington and Lee University.

Brenau University Saturday officially awarded 455 undergraduate and graduate diplomas at the institution’s first “winter” commencement exercises in its 137-year history.

Susanna Sartain was crowned Belle of the Ball at Saturday night's Charity Ball at the Chattahoochee Country Club.

Visitors to the Forsyth County government website – www.forsythco.com – will notice a new look, along with a variety of enhancements designed to improve access to county information online.

Gainesville High School Theatre director, Pam Ware, and her husband, Dr. Bill Ware, former Brenau University's Dean of the College of Education, were recently named Louisiana Tech University's College of Education Distinguished Alumni for 2015.

Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner Homer Bryson recently announced the newest step in the agency’s educational programming for state prisoners with the distribution of Georgia Offender Alternative Learning (G.O.A.L.) devices.

The University of North Georgia's (UNG) Department of Visual Arts has been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), joining only 345 other schools, colleges and universities across the nation that hold the designation.

Hall County Fire Services celebrated its 45th anniversary Friday afternoon at the Hall County Emergency Services Complex on Crescent Drive.