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We regret to inform you of the death of Quentin Aaron Muse, age 20, of Braselton, Georgia. Mr. Muse was swimming with friends on Monday, June 8, 2015, near Shady Grove Campground in the northwest portion of Lake Lanier when he began to struggle. Deputy Robin …
If the red boat on the right looks like a ski boat, that’s because it was originally designed to be a ski boat before it became the Hall County Fire & Rescue’s primary emergency response vessel for Lake Lanier.  Honest. That 23-foot, 2005 Yamaha with twin jet-propelled …
We regret to inform you of the death of Ms. So Yang Kim, 29-years-old, from Buford, Georgia.  Ms. Kim was in a rented boat with a 34-year-old man named Young Tae Shim, also of Buford, whom DNR Sgt. Lee Brown believes was her husband. The investigation into …
We regret to inform you that the search for Mr. Kelly Nash, 25, of Buford, GA, did not end as we hoped. His body was found in Lake Lanier on Sunday, February 8, 2015. Mr. Nash went missing rather mysteriously from his home on Jimmy Dodd Road …
We regret to inform you of the death of Chad Frank Lovett. His body was recovered from the water near the shoreline of Lake Lanier at Mary Alice Park in Forsyth County on Monday, November 24, 2014. According to Deputy Doug Rainwater of the Forsyth County …
We regret to inform you of the drowning death of Earl Cosby, 60, of Decatur, Georgia. Information from Nicole Bailes, a public information officer for the Hall County Sheriff’s Office, says Mr. Cosby was on a dock at Clarks Bridge Road at the northern end of Lake Lanier at …
We regret to inform you of the death of Jacob Thomas, 28, of Atlanta, whose body was found in Lake Lanier after he went missing early Sunday morning, September 21, 2014. At approximately 1:30 AM, emergency personnel responded to calls from Sunset Cove, at the …
We regret to inform you of the death of 49-year-old Christine Earwood of Duluth. Department of Natural Resources Public Affairs Officer Mark McKinnon informed lakelanier.com that Christine Earwood had been missing since Labor Day, when she was last seen jumping from a boat at Big Creek …
On a warm summer night the week before school was to begin a group of 20 or so teenagers and young adults gathered in a secluded portion of a closed park to “party.” Law enforcement arrived to disburse the partiers who immediately scattered away. One young …
Georgia DNR Public Affairs Officer Mark McKinnon released a report about a personal watercraft (PWC) boating incident on Lake Lanier that occurred on Sunday, July 27, 2014. While on vessel patrol in Hall County on Lake Lanier in Flowery Branch Creek near Van Pugh’s swimming …