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We might be one month into 2022, but that doesn't mean you should miss out on the 11 other months of great local images

Ventnor Heritage Centre have chosen a fabulous Victorian snowy scene for their Christmas card this year and also have great calendars for 2022. Don't miss out

A look back at moments that have meant Thanksgiving in the Port City

Column: Was Wauka higher, or did it just shrink? Johnny Vardeman The city of Gainesville is razing the old Turner, Wood & Smith Insurance building on Brenau Avenue. That building has had a variety of uses. In the 1940s, it was a Big Star supermarket, and in the 1950s it became Colonial Stores. During the 1980s, it was home to the Social Security office.  Then the insurance agency moved into it from nearby Bradford Street. And, after Turner, Wood & Smith moved to Jesse Jewell Parkway, Hall County Library used the building as a temporary location, while ...

Pickering's toyshop at 28 High Ousegate. Picture: Derek Reed MOST of us are probably still wrapping up those last-minute Christmas presents or - the younger ones among us, at least - waiting with feverish impatience for December 25 to dawn so we can tear them all open and scatter the wrapping paper across the living room floor. One reader, however, has been casting his mind back to the 1940s and 1950s - the days when toys were toys, rather than digital gadgets or smartphone apps. When Derek Reed was a lad in the 1940s and 1950s, there was one place that children were always drawn to lik...