Marc Eggers Recent Articles by Marc EggersAvery Niles has been sworn in as commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Gainesville Police Chief Brian Kelly brought before the City Council at Thursday’s work session a city ordinance amendment that he feels will better help in the recovery of stolen property - namely, those items that frequently end up in area pawn shops and secondhand dealers. A national trade association says Georgia lost roughly 4,800 construction jobs in the past year. The South Hall Business Coalition held its monthly meeting Tuesday morning at the headquarters of one of south Hall County’s largest, and most closely followed, businesses: the Atlanta Falcons. The federal government has given its final approval to deepen the Savannah harbor to make room for supersized cargo ships, a project that Georgia has sought for 16 years and that is expected to cost $652 million. The Hall County Board of Commissioners voted Thursday evening to retain The PFM Group for financial advice services. The Gainesville Care Center has a new name: Choices Pregnancy Care Center. As representatives of the eight Hall County municipalities enjoyed dinner inside the exquisite and new City of Buford Community Center, quiet conversations among the city leaders alternated between the splendor of the new building and the stalemated Hall County Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) negotiations. A former Gwinnett County commissioner who will soon start serving a jail sentence for accepting a bribe from an undercover FBI agent said in an interview that she believes bribery was a common practice. A Hall County man wanted on outstanding warrants was arrested Thursday afternoon following a brief high-speed chase that led from northwest Hall County into southern Lumpkin County. Ministerial representatives from nearly a dozen Hall County churches watched and listened intently to sobering video testimony about the life-long, life-changing effects that victims of childhood sexual abuse must endure. Republican candidate Doug Collins and Democratic candidate Jody Cooley spent ninety minutes Tuesday evening debating the issues most near-and-dear to the hearts of northeast Georgia citizens as they grappled for votes in their bid for the ninth congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Against a backdrop of City Hall white marble, Georgia Mountains Center brownstone, and cerulean blue skies the Gainesville Pedestrian Bridge had its official dedication Tuesday afternoon. Personnel at the Georgia Mountains Center removed a dividing wall to double the size of the room for Monday night’s Hall County Planning Commission meeting. And well they did, as over 100 area residents showed up to demonstrate their solidarity in opposing the rezoning request of Z-H Farms. The Hall County Commission held a first reading and public hearing Tuesday afternoon to consider changing the County Code to allow alcohol sales at non-profit special events. Oakwood residents could see two things going up in their city very shortly: millage rates and a "bubble" to cover the city’s swimming pool, allowing the facility to be open twelve months a year. Three new storm warning systems are in the works for the city of Flowery Branch, part of a fund-matching grant provided by the Georgia Emergency Management Agency. Things got a bit tense at Monday evening’s meeting of the Hall County Planning Commission. At one point Chairman Don Smallwood had to tap his gavel several times before giving it a resounding "bang" and bringing wide-eyed silence to the room. fter collecting a record 276 tons of expired or unwanted medications in a nationwide voluntary surrender-program last April, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency decided to present the opportunity again for individuals to properly dispose of such items, no questions asked. The Hall County Commission Thursday night unanimously approved a resolution that normally would be outside the scope of their jurisdiction: business relationships with the nations of Iran and Sudan. Previous |1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | Next |
  
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