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What began as another weekend of world-class WERA motorcycle racing ended with a fatality at Road Atlanta. According to Hall County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Deputy Nicole Bailes 29-year-old Andrew White from Dallas, Georgia, was participating in one of the WERA motorcycle events on Saturday, …
The only unfortunate aspect of the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce’s next Small Business Success Seminar — Ten Steps for Dealing with Difficult People — is it won’t be held in a room that can hold 20,000 people. Jim Kerlin, owner of Sandler Training, is expected …
National Trails Day (NTD) is the culmination of many years of efforts from the American Hiking Society (AHS). The annual National Trails Day, always on the first Saturday in June, is dedicated to promote outdoor activities in hundreds of locations around the nation. Each year NTD …
The summertime, downline striper fishing bite is here. Downlined bluebacks fished 20 to 30 feet deep over a 25-60 foot bottom, on and just off points are working well. We are seeing great numbers of 10 to 20 pound fish with a few bigger ones …
Trying to find the water release schedule for Lake Lanier’s Buford Dam is similar to trying to find a missing Bluetooth headset. We know that we saw it recently. We know we didn’t lose it. We know that we’ll probably never find it because it’s easier to buy a …
Rahab’s Rope is a store on downtown Gainesville, GA’s Square, named after a prostitute in the Bible’s Old Testament Book of Joshua. God spared Rahab from the destruction of Jericho because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho. Rahab delivered Joshua’s men by …
The 41st Annual Helen to the Atlantic Hot Air Balloon Race is almost up, up and away!!! The race begins at 7 AM on Thursday, June 5th, but Helen will be hot air balloon heaven each morning and evening through Saturday, June 7, 2014. …
Remember the days of drought … when we thought Lake Lanier might never be full again? Well, things change. At midnight on Sunday, June 1, 2014, the official level of Lake Lanier at the Buford dam was 1071.12 feet above sea level. That’s roughly an …
Department of Natural Resources Spokeswoman Melissa Cummings has the final totals from all the boating incidents that occurred around Georgia over the Memorial Day Holiday Weekend — the unofficial start to summer. Law enforcement officers and rescue personnel were busy this past weekend, but there …
Melissa Cummings, our friend in the Communications Department at Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources, tells lakelanier.com that there have been no fatalities on Lake Lanier over the long Memorial Day Weekend, as of 3 PM on Monday, May 26, 2014. One tragic drowning death was …