Oakwood News

Be Work Ready To register, contact Royce Glenn or Laura Westbrooks at 770-531-6358. Read more at www.begaworkready.org or www.laniertech.edu . By Carolyn Crist ccrist@gainesvilletimes.com 770-718-3407 Unemployed Georgians seeking jobs now have a new resource: the Be Work Ready program.

Oakwood City Council will consider Monday whether to revoke the alcohol license of one of the city's busiest eateries, La Parrilla Mexican restaurant.

Keeping busy Here are a few of the events the Humane Society of Hall County has planned this year: Ongoing through Friday and next Monday through Friday: Pet PALS .

Topeka Fire Chief Howard Giles will resign effective Sept. 4, he announced in an e-mail sent Monday to fire department employees.

Last week, government experts recommended reducing the maximum dose of Tylenol and other acetaminophen drugs, a move that local health officials applaud.

The smoke may be clearing from a population explosion in the south end of Hall County.

The law states: "Wire or wood sparklers of 100 grams or less of mixture per item; other sparkling items which are nonexplosive and nonaerial and contain 75 grams or less of chemical compound per tube or a total of 200 grams or less for multiple tubes; snake and glow worms; trick noise makers which include paper streamers, party poppers, string ...

George Wangemann had followed what he thought was basically healthy eating, aside from the occasional samplings of sweets and carbohydrate-rich foods.

To many tattoo artists, skin is a blank canvas and every tattoo tells a story. "This is the last place for the true artist," said Dwayne Matthews, the owner of Magick Dragon Tattoo in Gainesville.

Burglary suspects who eluded capture despite an early morning manhunt near McEver Road and Dawsonville Highway remained at large at midday Thursday.

An Oakwood man was arrested on charges of manufacturing methamphetamine after authorities got a tip that the man was buying unusual amounts of ingredients that can be used to make meth.

The man accused in the May 11 burglary of Oakwood's Maranatha Christian School was charged today with a church burglary that occurred 10 days later.

Officials with the Oakwood Police Department said they will make an arrest Tuesday afternoon in connection with the break-in at Maranatha Christian Academy last month.

It may seem like a futuristic concept to many, but Hall County officials are interested in seeing where high-speed passenger rail is in the state's sights.

" Paul Menk, Wachovia's business banking division manager for greater Georgia, has named J.D. Mealor market president for Gainesville, providing leadership to the business banking teams in the area "J.D.'s experience in community and business banking make him the ideal choice for this role," said Menk.

When Dr. Alfredo Quiones-Hinojosa spoke at Gainesville State College on April 3, more than 400 students came to the Oakwood campus to hear the formerly illegal migrant worker speak of his climb to the pinnacle of American success as an award-winning neurosurgeon.

The woman police say walked into an empty Cobb classroom, stole a teacher's wallet, then used her credit cards at grocery stores has pulled off similar crimes several times before.

Johnny Reed, a GSC Institute for Environmental and Spatial Analysis student from Oakwood, GA, placed second in URISAa s statewide GIS paper competition.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center officials say plans for a hospital campus at Medical Plaza 1 in Braselton remain on schedule as litigation with Barrow Regional Medical Center continues.

Just hours after Cobb County school police released images of a woman they said used stolen credit at a local ATM, they said they got a big break in the case.