Jerry Gunn Recent Articles by Jerry GunnAn impact study released Tuesday night by the 1071 Coalition clearly shows it was low lake levels, more than the recession, that caused the Lake Lanier region's economy to plunge two years ago. Northeast Georgia Medical Center held its annual Love Light Celebration Monday night as winter cold blew down on the Auxiliary Love Light Garden outside the North Patient Tower. County Commissioners likely will not make a decision on new sewer rates affecting South Hall subdivision home owners until next year, but one of them said the Monday work session he hopes they make some changes. Temperatures near freezing with a brisk wind that made it feel colder did not discourage the crowd who turned out Sunday evening for Christmas on Green Street, 2010, the historically based holiday celebration in Gainesville that annually ushers in the season. Hall County's Da Vinci Academy middle school students who are moving on to high school have a chance to continue their innovative high tech learning in high school in a program under review by school board members. No one attending the Saturday Flowery Branch Christmas festival on historic downtown Main Street could deny that the city knows how to bring in the holiday season and make it special for kids. Are Democrats who shift to the Republican Party quitters? That's what one Hall Democratic leader asked Saturday as his party met to select committee members. Gainesville City Council Thursday learned from a recent survey that city employee retirement, sick leave and vacation benefits are generous; in the opinion of three council members, a bit too generous considering the economic times. Gainesville Kiwanis Club members Tuesday heard from a Gainesville native who now serves as a psychological consultant to the U.S. Army in Afghanistan. At Gainesville's new Public Safety Complex on Queen City Parkway there were two ribbon cuttings, one for the Justice Center and one for the city's new fire department headquarters. Next year with state permission students at the World Language Academy get to advance to the sixth grade at their school. The Hall County School board approved a request to amend the school's charter to expand another grade. The Executive Director of the Lake Lanier Islands Development Authority told Gainesville Rotarians Monday a community improvement district would bring more business to the area. The 14th Annual multicultural concert at Gainesville First United Methodist Church on Thompson Bridge Road, "Christmas is One Language," featured the holiday as it is celebrated in Mexico Sunday evening. The temperatures were a bit chilly but that did not seem to bother the estimated 400 people who turned out for the Clermont Christmas parade and tree lighting Saturday evening. Around 300 people gathered at the historic Flowery Branch Train Depot Thursday night for the annual lighting of the Great Tree in Flowery Branch, signaling the beginning of Christmas season in the south Hall County town. With only a slight delay because of Chattanooga traffic, Dahlonega trucker Jeff Underwood and his U.S. Capitol Christmas tree caravan came rolling down Main Street Wednesday evening into the center of his hometown. A Gainesville World War II era veteran who became a music minister and then a car salesman says life is good at age 84 because he refuses to "grow old." Around 75 members of Antioch Baptist Church in South Gainesville got up early for a busy day handing out holiday dinners early to families who drove up in their cars in a church tradition that dates back over 20 years on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Around 15 members of the 802nd Ordinance Company rolled into the U.S. Army Reserve Center parking lot on Shallowford Road in Gainesville about an hour after their expected arrival Friday evening, and they were glad to be home following a year in Afghanistan. The Salvation Army in Gainesville/Hall County launched its 'Red Kettle' donation campaign Friday morning at Lakeshore Mall and the needy list is growing because of the continuing recession. 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 | Next |
  
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