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Tuesday, April 11, 20231 GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA | gainesvilletimes.com Louisville bank employee livestreamed attack that killed 4. INSIDE, 4A Honestly Local Police: Wanted man shot NICK WATSON nwatson@ gainesvilletimes.com A Gainesville man wanted in a Stephens County home invasion case was shot multiple times Monday, April 10, by deputies after showing a handgun, according to authorities. Hall County Sheriff’s Office deputies were serving warrants Monday on Jason William Grindle, 34, at a home in the 2400 block of Brand Drive in northwest Hall County. Grindle had warrants including home invasion, armed robbery, exploita tion of an elder person, and aggravated assault from a Stephens County case. He also had a Hall County Superior Court arrest warrant. “As law enforcement approached Grindle in the backyard of the residence, the suspect presented a handgun,” according to the Sheriff’s Office. “At that point, HCSO deputies fired on by officers after flashing gun Grindle.” Grindle was conscious when he was transported by ambulance from the scene. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is leading the investigation. No officers were injured. No further information was provided. A Gainesville man wanted in a Stephens County home invasion case was shot multiple times at a home on Brand Drive by Hall County deputies after showing a handgun, according to authorities. SCOTT ROGERS The Times Improved food availability Photos by SCOTT ROGERS I The Times Aldi holds a groundbreaking ceremony Monday, April 10, in Braselton. The store plans to open its third Hall County location off Spout Springs Road and Thompson Mill Road. Aldi has announced the opening of new Braselton store location BY JEFF GILL jgill@gainesvilletimes.com South Hall is getting a new Aldi grocery store. Construction should begin soon on the 12,000-square- foot store at 7505 Spout Springs Road, off Thompson Mill Road, in Braselton. Aldi and other area officials held a groundbreaking ceremony at the site Monday, April 10. The store, which will cre ate 15-20 jobs, could open in early 2024, the company said. “Every time we have a new location like this, it pro vides food services and food availability for a part of our population that’s easier for them to get to, whether it’s walking or a short-driving distance,” said Tim Evans, the chamber’s vice president of economic development, at the ceremony. The Aldi is in the middle of a fast-growing retail and resi dential area near the Gwin nett County line. The store will be in front of an apartment complex, Harrison at Braselton, that opened several years ago, and is close to Kroger- anchored and Publix- anchored shopping centers. South Hall’s other Aldi is in Oakwood. In 2021, Kroger Mar ketplace announced a 113,531-square-foot store and two outparcels off Friend ship Road/Ga. 347 about a half-mile from the existing store. The grocery chain had filed a rezoning/annexation application at the time. Kevin Keller, Braselton’s town planner, said Monday he had no updates on the development, and Kroger couldn’t be reached for comment. The Aldi is in the middle of a fast growing retail and residential area near the Gwinnett County line. The store will be in front of an apartment complex, Harrison at Braselton, that opened several years ago, and is close to Kroger- anchored and Publix-anchored shopping centers. Local activist Lucile Carter dies at age 90 BY BEN ANDERSON banderson@gainesvilletimes.com Lucile Fortuna Carter, a vivacious local activ ist with a passion for education, nature, the arts and sports, and a forceful civil rights advocate during the desegregation of Gainesville’s public schools in the late 1960s, died Saturday, April 8. She was 90. Carter joined the city school board in the early 1970s and served as its chair from 1980- 82, a rather turbulent decade in the district’s history. “Notably, she was on the school board during the years of adjustments to the deseg regation, the integration of schools and that was a particu larly difficult time for people to be on the school board,” said Merrianne Dyer, former superintendent of Gainesville City Schools who served alongside Carter. They lived in the same neighborhood, and Dyer babysat Carter’s children in the 1960s. “She was a big advocate for making sure there was diversity, not only within the schools but with the school administrators as well,” Lucile’s son Doug Carter said. “And when we say diversity, it was not only Black and White kids. She was always a huge proponent for female leadership in all roles as well, and probably was a little ahead of her time.” In her later years, she co-founded the now- defunct Gainesville High Booster Club, which raised money for schools in need. “We had clusters of poverty where children and schools did not have adequate resources that they have today, and she would make sure resources became adequate and abundant,” said school board member Sammy Smith, a friend of Cart er’s for 45 years. Carter ■ Please see CARTER, 3A scon ROGERS I The Times A proposed multi-use development, including commercial establishments and 40 townhomes, could be built on this busy corner in Oakwood not far from Interstate 985’s Exit 16. New commercial site plan OK’d for Oakwood crossing BY DONNELL SUGGS dsuggs@gainesvilletimes.com A revised plan for commercial development at a busy Oakwood intersection has been approved. Oakwood City Council voted Monday, April 10, to OK developer Eden Rock Real Estate Part ners LLC’s request to annex and rezone 10 acres at the corner of Atlanta Highway/Ga. 13 and Winder Highway/Ga. 53, next to Smoke House BBQ & Catering, for the development. Plans call for a 89,600-square-foot self-storage business and four other sites with buildings vary ing in size from 1,500 to 8,400 square feet. A “medical user” had been looking at the site but eventually backed out, requiring Eden Rock to amend its site plan, said Ethan Underwood, attorney for developer Eden Rock Real Estate Partners LLC, in January He has said he hopes, if all goes well, construc tion could start on the development in the fall and wrap up in 2024.
