Gillsville News

Hall County is home to cities ranging in size from tiny Gillsville, with 225 residents, to the county seat of Gainesville, with more than 33,000. But when it comes to elections, size doesn't matter.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for parts of Forsyth, Gwinnett and Hall counties until 6:45 p.m. Wednesday.

A woman who was injured when the ATV she was riding crashed in East Hall Sunday night is hospitalized at Gwinnett Medical Center.

The Hall County Board of Commissioners is looking over the county's official code of ordinances after local farmers expressed concerns over new fencing regulations.

In Saturday's edition, The Times will have a complete wrap up of who qualified for municipal seats across Northeast Georgia, including Hall, Banks, Habersham, Dawson, Jackson, Lumpkin and White counties.

Who would like to be the Post 2 representative on the Gillsville City Council? Apparently no one.

Listed below are the municipal seats up for election in Hall and surrounding Northeast Georgia counties.

It all started with Ezekiel Lafayette Buffington. Buffington was the first to annex land in Hall County and raised his nine children around the area that is now Gillsville Highway.

Hall County officials at Monday night's joint local government meeting in Gillsville called on city mayors to support construction of Glades Reservoir.

Some water customers in the Lula and Gillsville areas received phone calls Tuesday telling them to boil any water that they consume.

There may be a sucker born every minute, but Kathleen Brennan isn't one of them.