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Winners of the Jeopardy! quiz show know less about Lake Lanier than our friend, Stacey Dickson. Stacey is the president of the Lake Lanier Convention & Visitors Bureau. She is simply perfect for that influential position. Could Stacey correctly respond to this Jeopardy! question? This …
There was a time when the word “budget” brought to mind folks who were poor and couldn’t afford goods and services that the rest of us took for granted. Now, if you’re not on some sort of budget you’re probably headed for financial doom when your …
The latest edition of The Index has been released by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Floodplain Management Office. This informative newsletter will be especially interesting to those who pay attention to the issues surrounding the Upper Chattahoochee River Basin (UCRB) Project. The UCRB Project is …
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 29’s Public Affairs Officer Roy Crittenden told lakelanier.com today that about 180 people have taken their Boating Safely course since February 2013. He is thrilled with that number, but it’s not high enough. Officer Crittenden wants you to take the …
Southern Living Magazine chose wisely. Our own Lake Lanier was listed among the 20 best lakes in the South in one of their recent editions. Are we surprised Lake Lanier made the list? Heavens, no. Are we surprised they mentioned all the other, lesser, lakes? …
There’s more to rowing a boat than effortlessly floating gently down your average stream, although that’s a fun way to spend a few hours with a favorite friend or two. Rowing is one of the most elegant of Olympic sports. Teams — called “crews” …
The striper fishing has been very good on Lake Lanier since my last report. Our boats have done well on freelined bluebacks, Super Spooks and on Redfins. There are stripers down south in all the usual late spring locations and a few up north in …
Melissa Cummings of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Law Enforcement Division provided the official Memorial Day holiday weekend statistics for incidents in Georgia. These figures include information for the entire weekend, Saturday, May 25 through Monday, May 27, 2013. We are thankful there were …
Melissa Cummings, spokesperson for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, tells lakelanier.com that an 18-year-old white male, accompanied by his father, went to the Hall County Detention Center to voluntarily issue a “statement of involvement” in the hit and run boating accident that happened on …
Joanna Cloud of the Lake Lanier Association wrote a letter to the editor of the Gainesville Times regarding the concept of a 1073′ full-pool level of Lake Lanier. We appreciate Joanna’s ideas, clarity and passion expressed so well, and the willingness of the Gainesville Times …