B.J. Williams![]() Recent Articles by B.J. WilliamsThe government wants you to install solar panels at your house, and will even give you a tax break to do it. But your neighbors? Maybe not. Hall County will host a "budget open house" on a draft of the budget for the coming fiscal year next week. Armed with a fresh slate of primary victories, Mitt Romney is urging Americans to "hold on a little longer." The Kiwanis Club of Gainesville recognized Hall County Sheriff Steve Cronic Tuesday night with its Youth Service Award, an award newly renamed for the late John W. Jacobs, Jr. Charges are pending in an accident that killed a Maysville man Tuesday morning. A Georgia teenager who says he was ousted as student body president after he proposed changes to make prom more inclusive to gay students has lost another court battle. Two public hearings will be held Wednesday on a proposed fare increase for the Gainesville-Hall County public transit system. With the budget belt getting tighter and tighter for the Hall County School System, the school board is prepared to close the gap a bit by opening up some high school classrooms to tuition students. A Shell service station and convenience store will remain closed for awhile after a pre-dawn fire Monday. Hall County Animal Control has reported another case of rabies in the county. Dahlonega attorney Andrea Conarro has announced her campaign to become the Chief Magistrate Judge for Lumpkin County. Hall County commissioners hold a second reading and public hearing on revisions to the county's alcohol code Monday afternoon, revisions that will allow Sunday package sales. Even though he wasn't trying to set a record Thursday evening, well-known area strongman Greg Cochran used his brute strength to raise cash for the Da Vinci Academy's Museum of Inspired Learning. A Gainesville woman whose 12-year-old grandson was attacked and injured by a pit bulldog in another community is mounting an effort to have the breed banned in the city of Gainesville. With a renewed push on wellness in the workplace, the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce welcomed more than 1,000 runners and walkers to its annual 5K at Riverside Military Academy Thursday evening. A top Georgia lottery official gave an icy reception Thursday to an ambitious proposal to build a gambling complex in Atlanta's suburbs, casting doubt on whether the $1 billion project will move forward. Hall County authorities said a woman suffered severe facial and respiratory burns Thursday morning at her home on Poplar Springs Road. Governor Nathan Deal Thursday morning announced that Baxter International will locate a new bio-pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in the Social Circle area that will bring about 1,500 jobs to the state. A stretch of a busy thoroughfare through metro Atlanta and North Georgia is set to close as accident investigators reconstruct a wreck that claimed the life of a motorist. Georgia's unemployment rate has dropped for eight straight months a signal that more Georgians are looking for and finding jobs, the state Labor Department announced Thursday. 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 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | Next |
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