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NOTICE: Mailing Address Change Effective 3.31.2023

By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023

NOTICE: Mailing Address Change Effective 3.31.2023

Northside Gwinnett Outpatient Center opens

By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023

A wide range of services is available at the Northside Gwinnett Outpatient Center, which recently celebrated its opening.

Employee ideas in innovation fund changes for patients, families and employees at NGHS

By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023

Patients, visitors and employees at Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) will soon have a better experience at the hospital after six NGHS employees were awarded grants to fund their ideas for better care.

Auxiliary donates lifesaving equipment

By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023

The Northside Hospital Cherokee Auxiliary recently donated $45,000 to help the fire departments in Big Canoe and Pickens County buy lifesaving equipment.

Patient travels from Minnesota for Georgia Heart Institute’s first robotic heart surgery

By Press release submission | Feb 20, 2023

Heart surgeries that used to require long incisions and months of recovery can now be performed in Gainesville through tiny 8-millimeter incisions – about the diameter of an ink pen – with much faster recovery times.

173 registered sex offenders live in Forsyth County as of week ending Feb. 18

By NE Atlanta News | Feb 19, 2023

Forsyth County is home to 173 sex offenders registered as of the week ending Feb. 18, according to the Georgia Sex Offender Registry.

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NE Atlanta News area weekly mass times

By NE Atlanta News | Feb 18, 2023

The following parishes in the NE Atlanta News coverage area hold weekly mass at these designated times.

Hall County is home to 386 registered sex offenders as of January

By NE Atlanta News | Feb 16, 2023

The Georgia Sex Offender Registry shows 386 registered sex offenders are living in Hall County as of January.

Register now for the 2023 Hall County Government Scholars' Academy

By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2023

Registration is now open for the Hall County Government Scholars' Academy, which will be held March 7- May 9.

Weather sirens, Citizen's Alert System test set for Feb. 8

By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2023

The audible test of Hall County's severe weather warning system will sound at 9 a.m

Forsyth County is home to 174 registered sex offenders as of January

By NE Atlanta News | Feb 15, 2023

There are 174 registered sex offenders living in Forsyth County as of January, according to the Georgia Sex Offender Registry.

Author and award-winning news director Jeffrey Blount to speak at Brenau Feb. 20

By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023

Author and Emmy award-winning news director Jeffrey Blount will visit Brenau University later this month to talk about his latest book, The Emancipation of Evan Walls.

Riccarda de Eccher to speak at Brenau Feb. 16

By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023

Internationally renowned artist Riccarda de Eccher will exhibit some of her contemporary watercolors in Sellars Gallery at Brenau University beginning this month.

TAP Trials on February 16

By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023

TAP Trials on February 16

Northside BMT Program again beats expected survival outcomes by wide margin

By Press release submission | Feb 15, 2023

The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute — one of the largest and most comprehensive bone marrow transplant programs in the Southeast — again has been recognized as having among the very best survival outcomes in the U.S. for bone marrow transplants.