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Oakwood plans revival for roads
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Gainesville Times
Oakwood is about to embark on a $200,000 effort to pave short sections of several city roads.
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Oakwood retirement plan upgraded
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Gainesville Times
Oakwood city employees now can use a combination of their age and years of experience to qualify for full retirement benefits.
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Oakwood approves $2.1 million sewer line construction
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Gainesville Times
A long-awaited sewer project got Oakwood City Council’s OK Monday night.
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State transportation tax is hot topic as cities meet
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Gainesville Times
A pair of Oakwood officials criticized the state’s new plan for a penny sales tax for transportation at a Monday night meeting of Hall County’s municipal leaders.
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Oakwood land purchased for industrial park
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Gainesville Times
The city of Oakwood Thursday announced the purchase of 32 acres for a new industrial park on White Road near Interstate 985.
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Oakwood sees small spike in 2009 population
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Gainesville Times
Despite several years of slow but steady growth in Oakwood, population estimates for 2009 reveal a steeper rise than the city has seen in years past.
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Oakwood hopes to attract more community events
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Gainesville Times
Gainesville has its Mule Camp Market and Dahlonega has Gold Rush Days.
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Volunteers clean up streams, streets in Oakwood
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Gainesville Times
Volunteers grabbed their gloves and litter sticks Saturday morning for the second annual Oakwood Stream and Roadside Clean-up at Oakwood City Park.
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Oakwood gets tougher on businesses failing to pay city taxes on time
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Gainesville Times
Oakwood is putting some teeth in an ordinance governing business taxes.
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Entrances to Flowery Branch, Oakwood to get facelifts
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Gainesville Times
Flowery Branch has received a $50,000 Georgia Department of Transportation grant for landscaping along a major entrance into the city.
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Oakwood puts government on display Friday
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Gainesville Times
From new sidewalks to police cars, visitors to Oakwood’s first City Government Day since 2004 will get to see what their taxpayer dollars are providing.
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Local government association kicks out Hall County
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Gainesville Times
Hall County has been kicked out of the Joint Local Government Association.
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Applications up in Oakwood for rezonings, annexations
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Gainesville Times
Judging by rezoning and annexation applications in this South Hall city, industrial activity is on the move again, signaling an uptick in the sluggish economy.
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Oakwood works to maintain roads
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Gainesville Times
Oakwood is about to gear up its road maintenance program this year after the economic downturn delayed it in 2009.
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Cities weigh in on Clermont library decision
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Gainesville Times
The recent change in North Hall library plans has more than just Clermont riled up, with officials in other Hall County cities coming to the town’s defense.
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Oakwood literacy center project shelved
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Gainesville Times
A budgetary issue is forcing Oakwood to wait a year to pursue a state grant for a new center teaching literacy, GED instruction and English for non-native speakers.
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Oakwood's Railroad Street getting reworked
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Gainesville Times
Oakwood is well under way with a downtown improvements project city officials hope will serve as a taste of things to come under its ambitious 2030 plan.
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