Ken Stanford

Jackson EMC President/CEO Chip Jakins announced Wednesday that its renewable energy supplier, Green Power EMC, has reached an agreement to purchase the full output of a new 52-Megawatt solar array planned for construction in Jeff Davis County near Hazlehurst.

Work on a tunnel under Browns Bridge Road west of Gainesville is impacting traffic and will take a new twist beginning Thursday.

With state funding approved recently, the University of North Georgia (UNG) plans to open an instructional site this fall in Blue Ridge.

Cadet SGT Adrian O'Sullivan, a Riverside Military Academy sophomore, has been selected for the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders (CFSTL) to be held in Boston, Mass. June 28-30.

The Suwanee Farmers Market opens at Town Center Park Saturday, May 2. It will be open each Saturday from 8:00-12:00 through October 3.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) Friday hosted student counselors, admissions officers, financial advisors and others from University System of Georgia (USG) institutions in a one-day conference about increasing financial literacy among high school and college students.

Douglas W. McDonald, Sr., Grand Master of The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the State of Georgia, participated in an Easter Weekend Wreath Laying Ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

The Piedmont College Theatre for Youth will present a one-day only production of “Puss In Boots” by Moses Goldberg at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 25, in the college’s Swanson Center Mainstage Theater.

Forsyth County Commissioner and Vice Chairman Cindy Jones Mills was recently named Chairman of the General County Government Policy Committee for ACCG (Association County Commissioners of Georgia).

Jackson EMC recently awarded Allison Walls, Flowery Branch High School senior, with a 2015 Walter Harrison Scholarship, named in honor of a rural electrification pioneer.