Gainesville News

Flowery Branch is moving toward a fiscal 2013-14 budget with the tax rate remaining the same, but with local option sales taxes remaining an unknown factor because of an ongoing dispute between Hall County and the cities.

Hall County and Gainesville, on behalf of all the county's municipalities, each submitted their offers on the distribution of local option sales tax revenue Friday morning to visiting Superior Court Judge Frank Mills.

Gainesville Exploration Academy second-grader Helen Johnson and her classmates enjoys a pizza party Friday afternoon as students celebrate the last day of school.

Saying now is the right time, Gainesville City Council appears ready to move forward with the formation of a land bank authority.

Atlas Pizza, a long time downtown Gainesville restaurant, announces the purchase of the two-story, 32,000-square-foot 'Treasures for your Home' building at 305 Bradford Street.

Recent highly-publicized differing opinions between the City of Gainesville and Hall County were conspicuously absent as City Manager Kip Padgett and County Administrator Randy Knighton briefed the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning on the effect that impact fees are having in their respective jurisdictions.

The Gainesville High School Broadcast Journalism class has teamed up with Benita Sanders of the school's media center and with the system's technology department to stream live coverage of the graduation ceremony.

According to Americanprogess.org , many startling and disparaging statistics still plague people of color.

The following individuals were arrested and booked into the Barrow County Detention Center from May 10 through May 14, 2013: Gerardo Avalos, 1687 Parkhill Drive, Gainesville, was booked into the jail on May 10.

The company said that its expansion in recent years meant that it had now outgrown its current head office in Gainesville, Georgia, and had recently acquired new offices in Duluth, Georgia, to house its corporate headquarters, laboratory and production facilities, and research and development department.

DeShaun Watson, a five-star recruit from Gainesville, Ga. and Clemson commit, was offered by the Crimson Tide .

Oakwood City Council voted Monday night to apply for a grant to help pay for a sewer system that would serve an apartment complex where a septic drain field has been failing for years.

A 10-member focus group giving input to Gainesville's transportation master plan is set to meet at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Fair Street Neighborhood Center, 715 Fair St.

For the boys, Jackson Goble and Graham McKinnon of Gainesville and A.J. Morris of Flowery Branch all earned singles spots on the first team, while Gainesville's Alec Zais and Nick Dillard earned a first team doubles spot.

Calling it an extremely difficult decision, the Schreiber Foods Director of Communications Monday confirmed the company's decision to close its Gainesville operation, beginning with about 115 layoffs later this year.

Gov. Nathan Deal signed Senate Resolution 293 last week despite reservations over the renaming of Ga.

Prior Street is one of Gainesville's most important streets. It connects the northside of town to the southside.

Alicea Vega, of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps and Raleigh, N.C., ties honeysuckle vines to be ceremonially cut Saturday at the trail head of Linwood Nature Preserve.

Beth Baldwin, an Edward Jones financial advisor in Gainesville, GA, qualified for the firm's 2013 Financial Advisor Leaders Conference.

More women and children fleeing domestic violence will be able to find refuge in the coming months thanks to several community organizations.