Jerry Gunn

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Gainesville City Council members got a reminder Tuesday afternoon to contact State Senator Butch Miller before the General Assembly adjourns Thursday about a measure that would alter the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax.

Gainesville School Board members learned Monday night that location is the leading factor in where parents want to send their children to school.

Gainesville City Council Thursday morning heard from department and agency directors in the first phase of how to divide an estimated $29-million city operating budget for FY 2015.

The City of Flowery Branch is planning to 'paint the town' with a historic mural that recalls the days when steam locomotives pulled in to pick up and deliver freight and passengers.

Flowery Branch City Council Thursday night on first reading voted to annex and rezone 41 acres of land in a request from rock quarry owner and operator Vulcan Construction Materials.

The Gainesville Kiwanis Club Tuesday presented the 2014 edition of Student Teacher Achievement Recognition (STAR) students and teachers at the First Baptist Church Banquet Hall on Green Street.

Flowery Branch City Council got the 2013 audit they wanted to start 2014 on a good footing Thursday night from auditor Wayne Tuck of Gainesville.

Hall County Commissioners reversed a Monday decision to table consideration of an architecture services contract for the new corrections institute after hearing from Warden Walt Davis Thursday night.

Flowery Branch City Council Thursday night highlighted their first meeting of the New Year by giving first reading approval to annex and rezone nearly 20 acres of potential retail property and adopting its proposed ten year Old Town redevelopment plan.