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Cherokee Bluff football program leaning on having one of state’s top defensive units, sports,™ Midweek Edition-OCTOBER 21-22,2020 | $1.00 | GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA | gainesvilletimes.com Honestly Local What’s old will be new Photos by SCOTT ROGERS I The Times Construction fencing is up Tuesday, Oct. 20, around the former Lanier Technical College campus in Oakwood at the University of North Georgia as the university prepares to renovate and expand the campus. UNG expansion on Lanier Tech campus to be complete in 2021 BY NATHAN BERG nberg@gainesvilletimes.com Three renovation projects that are part of the $19 million expansion of the University of North Georgia in Gaines ville on to the former Lanier Technical College campus will be open in time for classes in fall 2021, according to UNG Gainesville Vice President Richard Oates. “Never did I think I would be able to inherit a college campus right across the street,” Oates said during a Zoom conference with the South Hall Business Coalition on Tuesday morning. “It will be so easy to integrate. It will be seamless integration.” UNG originally acquired the prop erty adjacent the Gainesville campus on Mundy Mill Road in Oakwood in July of ■ Please see UNG, 5A Must vote at polling place Election Day BY MEGAN REED mreed@gainesvilletimes.com Although voters can choose from eight early voting locations until Oct. 30, they will have to go to their assigned polling place on Nov. 3 — the place assigned to their precinct, one of 31 areas of Hall County with their own polling places. Precincts always have at least 100 voters liv ing in the area and each have one polling place, according to Lori Wurtz, Hall County’s elections director. Precincts are drawn by Hall County’s elections board, although in larger counties, a governing body like a Board of Commissioners is responsible for deciding precinct boundaries, she said. “Those areas are determined by how many voters are in that area,” Wurtz said. “They can be divided, re-divided, altered for various rea sons, but they’re set in place so the voters in that geographic area will have one location for vot ing. Sometimes, as we see in some areas of the county, one area will grow a little faster than ■ Please see PRECINCT, 4A More election information To read The Times’ coverage of the 2020 election, go to gainesvilletimes.com/ election2020 To find your polling place or review sample ballots, go to the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office My Voter Page site, mvp.sos.ga.gov 11 -year-old on bicycle hit by truck in Gainesville BY NICK WATSON nwatson@gainesvilletimes.com An 11-year-old on a bicycle suffered serious injuries after being hit by a truck in Gainesville on Monday, Oct. 19, according to Gainesville Police. Authorities said a Ford F-150 was driving on Buena Vista Circle around 6:30 p.m. Monday near Catalina Drive. The child left their drive way on a bicycle and was struck, police said. The child was taken to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for treatment and was last listed as critical but stable condition. The crash is still under investigation. Police did not release any further informa tion on the case Tuesday, Oct. 20. Homes could start selling soon at new Sterling section BY JEFF GILL jgill@gainesvilletimes.com Construction has started on an 86-acre, 214-lot, active adult section of the 1,000- acre Sterling on the Lake subdivision that gained final approval last week by the Flowery Branch City Council. Grading and develop ment has been underway for about a year, with two model homes expected to open in late November or early December, said Chris Whit taker of Newland Communi ties, Sterling’s developer. “ I think they’ll have homes available to close in the first quarter of next year,” he said. Final build-out of the proj ect could take place in 2024, Whittaker said. The Retreat, as it is called, could become a gated com munity with privately main tained roads, according to plans. “Market studies show that the active adult commu nity desires privacy and the security provided by a com munity with a security gate,” states a rezoning application from Looper Lake LLC. Houston-based David Weekley Homes is the builder of the development, which will feature homes starting in the $300,000s. The land where the sec tion is built, known as the Honeycutt Tract, is off Capi- tola Farm Road near Scarlet Way. The street entering the property would be Welcome Road. The Retreat would not have access to any other ■ Please see STERLING, 5A Sterling On The Lake’s new active adult community is being prepared for home construction Tuesday, Oct. 20, along Capitola Farm Road in Flowery Branch. SCOn ROGERS The Times DEATHS 6A Emily Barnes, 94 Guen Adkins, 44 Jackie Allred, 83 Nora Barnes, 67 Peggy Biggers, 89 Helen Burrell, 86 Sam Catanzano, Jr., 92 Brian Forrester, 47 Harry Forrester, 75 Betty Freeman, 88 Joseph Goode, III, 66 Joshua Grant, 32 Robert Griffin, 66 Arthur Grizzle, 88 Ronnie Hamby, 62 Rhonda Healan, 60 Edith Hobart, 78 Margery Johnson, 89 Robert Johnson, 86 Junior Kidd, 67 Tommie Ladd, 96 Robert Lewallen, 52 Robert Lott David McCall, 45 Mary Moore, 76 James Morgan, 84 Eugenia Mote Peggy Owen by, 54 Alfred Patterson, 83 Mitchell Rider, 75 Timothy Robertson, 47 Doris Shartouny, 85 Mary Shields, 68 Mary Shuman, 73 Bobby Stone, 90 Harold Sullins, 64 Emma Summers, 68 Jackie Thomas, 88 Jack Tinsley, 78 Jacob Villanueva, 36 Timmy Walden, 60 Margielean Watson, 72 Betty Neel Velina White, 81 Shirley Whitmire, 77 Vera Williams, 86 Linda Sewell Wright, 74 Joseph Zappulla, Jr. 48 0 *40901 06835 8 We will make it through this, and the strength of hope will shine brightly. 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