Cumming News

A memorial will be held for Bob Lenk on Saturday, January 2 at 11 a.m. the Lenk's home in Cumming, Georgia, to celebrate his life.

CUMMING Forsyth County started 2009 with 1,405 employees. With just a few weeks left in the year, there were 102 fewer workers, and those who remained were likely to have greatly reduced paychecks in 2010.

Steve Namowicz of Cumming has been named a financial representative for COUNTRY Financial.

FORSYTH COUNTY - A 20-year-old Cumming man was hospitalized in critical condition after his car flipped three times Saturday morning on Post Road in Forsyth County.

Library programs connect children with books through reading, storytelling, music, puppets, and movement.

Jim Chapman Communities, one of Atlanta's leading active adult developers offers residents a desirable location just two miles from Lake Lanier Islands Resort as well unprecedented quality and amenities including a 2,400 square foot clubhouse at its Brookhaven at Lanier Ridge community.

Commission Chairman Charles Laughinghouse missed the Nov. 5 meeting so he could represent Forsyth County at the annual meeting of the Georgia Association of Regional Commissions, and the message he brought back was not good news.

Commissioners and their appointees to the Forsyth Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals might have to live in the same districts if a proposal by Commissioner Patrick Bell is adopted.

Forsyth County Commissioners didn't like the city of Cumming's proposal that the county pay 65 percent of the city's costs for a new water intake in Lake Lanier, particularly when a federal judge's ruling could mean that water intake is shut down in three years.

On Dec. 5, Cumming residents Ken and Stephanie Austin and their children donated toys to Clark Howard's Annual Christmas Kids Toy at a Wal-Mart store in Alpharetta.

CUMMING Keep Forsyth County Beautiful is hosting public input meetings this month and in January on proposed updates to the Forsyth County Solid Waste Management Plan.

Free wood chips are available to Forsyth County residents while supplies last near the Forsyth County Roads and Bridges facility on County Way in Cumming.

Country Gourmet Cafe and the Bare Knitting Ladies in Cumming recently hosted their first-ever Stitch for the Cure, benefitting the Northside Hospital-Forsyth Breast Care Center.

On Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 2:03 p.m., in the Commissioners Conference Room of the Forsyth County Administration Building, the Forsyth County Board of Commissioners held a Work Session with the following persons present: Charles Laughinghouse Chairman, Jim Harrell Vice Chairman, Patrick B. Bell Secretary, Brian R. Tam Member, Jim Boff Member, ...

Federal agents in conjunction with the Roswell Police Department and Forsyth County Sheriff's Office arrested four men Nov.

Forsyth County, the land of million-dollar lake homes and rolling farm pastures transformed into McMansion-filled subdivisions, has laid claim to another distinction during the economic downturn.

James Lewis Watkins, Jr. of Fayetteville, Georgia passed away November 30, 2009, at the age of 59.

Sometimes Santa Claus is a hard to find guy, especially this time of year. This is the place to turn to find out where to go to see Santa Claus around Atlanta and plenty of other Christmas happenings.

A 48-year-old Cumming woman who was not wearing her seat belt and may have been eating a sandwich at the time was fatally injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday night.

North Georgia Barbershop Singers, from left, Dave Haas, Tom Riggle, Ivan Cottrell, Rich Pilch, and Forsyth Senior Center employees Shelley Johnson, director, Valerie Rhoads, Debbie Carlton and May Johnston celebrate the donation.