Katie Allen already knows what she wants to be when she grows up: a writer. “I’ve already been thinking about a plan,” she said. That plan includes her dream of living in California and studying how to write novels. For many of the 500 seventh-grade students that attended a career […]

Gainesville’s square is getting a Mexican cantina, a French bakery, an ice cream and dessert shop, a smoothie joint and more on the ground floor of the new Parkside on the Square development. Most of the storefront and restaurant spaces have committed tenants as project managers get closer to their […]

Hundreds of golden birds hidden around Gainesville. Pianos popping up for the public. Murals hanging at the Olympic Park. Sculptures at Hall County headquarters. In 2018, Vision 2030’s public art committee is making a huge step toward its overarching goal: “art everywhere.” The committee will place more than 70 pieces […]

  Two of eight sculptures have been installed at the Hall County Government Center on Browns Bridge Road as part of the county’s bicentennial celebration. Forsyth County artist Gregory Johnson installed his two pieces for the bicentennial exhibit in early February, according to Hall County spokeswoman Katie Crumley, who is […]