Flowery Branch News

A performance bike shop in Gwinnett County surprised a special customer Saturday with a motorcycle makeover worth thousands of dollars.

Burn permits Gainesville: Call 770-534-3612 Hall County: Call 770-536-2442 for residential permits good for one day; for land clearing permit, call 770-531-6838 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays.

Flowery Branch City Council voted this morning to approve a tax allocation district reimbursement request for the developer of a planned $15 million downtown project.

A Flowery Branch man was sentenced to 32 years in prison after a jury convicted him of raping his girlfriend.

Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed a boat at a house near Flowery Branch early Monday.

South Hall Countya s new Mulberry Creek Community Center in Flowery Branch on J.M. Turk Road opened with a ribbon cutting, lots of visitors and more Saturday morning.

Gainesville High seniors Thomas Sprague and Daunte Carr have been selected to play in the GACA North-South All Star Game on Dec.

Two Flowery Branch men have been arrested and charged with the burglary of a vacant home in the Mundy Mill Development.

Routes that would have placed the Northern Connector through the properties of homeowners near Lake Lanier have been scrapped by the Gainesville-Hall Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Coming Sunday: Our Heroes The Times marks Veterans Day this coming week with special sections in print and online dedicated to those who have served and still serve in our armed forces.

Wachovia, A Wells Fargo Company, opened its first store in Flowery Branch Saturday.

" After finishing second at the Region 7-AAA meet just a week ago, the Flowery Branch boys cross country team showed it had plenty left in the tank on Saturday, winning the Class AAA title at the state meet in Carrollton.

Lamar Scroggs knows the value of hard work. He learned it early, growing up in a family that sharecropped cotton and corn.

FLOWERY BRANCH Flowery Branch's biggest subdivision now comprises most of the new City Council.

Here are the latest returns from Hall County in the contested city elections that were held today: GAINESVILLE ____ of 3 precincts reporting *School Board: Ward 1... David Syfan ______ 279 Kellie Weeks _____ 134 Ward 4... Delores Diaz _____ 75 Richard Lacey _____ 64 *Nonbinding referendums: Should the mayor of Gainesville be elected by the people ...

This is an off-year for elections in Georgia... meaning there are no federal or state races on the ballots, except for special elections in some areas.

Early voting was light for Tuesday's elections in Gainesville and two towns in the South Hall area.

" On Monday, Hall County Sheriff's Deputies arrested a father and son following an assault at a residence in Flowery Branch.

Gusti Crunkleton had always wanted to run her own restaurant. Family photo Three years ago, Gusti Crunkleton opened the Bon Appetit Restaurant in the North Georgia town ofA Clayton.

More than 1,700 people braved the chilly fall air to attend the Life is Good Pumpkin Festival at Sterling on the Lake in Flowery Branch Saturday.