🌱 Patch AM: Can Gainesville finish a stellar season with a 5A state title?

What's up Gainesville! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• Can Gainesville finish a stellar season with a 5A state title?
• How a late-night UTV crash sent two men to Gainesville
• Why Gainesville’s factories face extra risk in Georgia’s recession forecast

Also on today's calendar: Homeschool Day: Appalachian Christmas and 7 more events.

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 55 and low of 34 degrees.
• Wednesday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 55, low: 40.
• Thursday: An afternoon shower or two, with a high of 55 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Championship game previews for classes 6A and 5A (ajc.com) — Gainesville High’s football team is headed to the Class 5A state championship, facing Thomas County Central in a highly anticipated matchup that pits two top seeds against each other. The preview breaks down records, key players, and projected scores, giving Red Elephant fans plenty to chew on before kickoff.
   

• Two critically injured in Maysville UTV accident (accesswdun.com) — Two men injured in a weekend UTV crash near Maysville were airlifted to Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville with critical injuries, underscoring the hospital’s regional trauma role. Authorities say the UTV left Gowder Road, overturned and hit a tree, partially blocking the road for several hours while state troopers investigated and considered possible charges.
   

• Georgia's risk for recession at a near coin toss, annual study shows (savannahnow.com) — Gainesville’s food and machinery producers are flagged as especially vulnerable in a new University of Georgia forecast, which warns Georgia faces nearly 50–50 odds of recession. With tariffs, immigration limits, and high housing costs squeezing trade-dependent communities, local manufacturers moving goods through Savannah and Brunswick ports could feel a sharper slowdown than metro Atlanta.
   

📸 Around Gainesville

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Gainesville

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★ Featured events ★

Thursday December 18

• Elementary Art I, Art Adventures: Course 3 (Thursdays)
  Quinlan Visual Arts Center, 514 Green St, Gainesville
  3:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday December 18

• Homeschool Day: Appalachian Christmas
  322 Academy St NE , Gainesville
  10:00 am
• Chestatee Academy vs South Hall Middle
  Chestatee Academy , 2740 Fran Mar Dr , Gainesville
  4:30 pm

Friday December 19

• Drop-In Garden Tours
  Atlanta Botanical Garden , 1345 Piedmont Ave NE , Atlanta
  1:30 pm
• Gainesville Glows: Lanterns & Lights
  Atlanta Botanical Garden, GAINESVILLE , 1911 Sweetbay Dr , Gainesville
  5:00 pm
• Live Music — Cork It Gainesville
  Cork It Gainesville , 118 Main St SW , Gainesville
  7:00 pm
• Southern Stone Rock and Roll Band (Every Third Friday of the Month)
  American Legion, 2343 Riverside Dr, Gainesville, GA, 30501
  7:00 pm
• The Irish tenors
  The Hall at Bourbon Brothers , 312 Jesse Jewell Pkwy , Gainesville
  7:30 pm

Saturday December 20

• Holiday Ride-on Train
  Atlanta Botanical Garden , 1345 Piedmont Ave NE , Atlanta
  10:00 am
• Frog Feeding
  Atlanta Botanical Garden , 1345 Piedmont Ave NE , Atlanta
  10:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• Wrestling @ Flowery Branch
  West Hall Oakwood, GA 30566
  4:30 pm
• SENIOR NIGHT (Wrestling)
  Flowery Branch High FBHS
  4:30 pm
• JVB-BBALL (Away) AT East Forsyth
  East Forsyth High School , 8910 Jot Em Down Rd , Gainesville
  4:30 pm
• Flowery Branch Falcons vs West Hall/Central Gwinnett
  Flowery Branch High School , 4450 Hog Mountain Rd , Flowery Branch
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Please help locate our boys.
  They escaped today from the backyard and we spent the whole day driving around looking for them. Text/call: 404-552-1345 (Nextdoor Honeysuckle Rd)
• A commercial fire at 21 Georgia Avenue with no injuries reported has been cleared, and all lanes of traffic are now open.
  4:36AM on Dec 15: A commercial fire at 21 Georgia Avenue has been reported with no injuries, and alternate routes are advised. (Nextdoor )

• No one was injured following a fire that destroyed a duplex in Hall County early Monday morning.... (X: access_wdun)
• Show up at Gainesville High School tomorrow afternoon and help send our Red Elephants off to Atlanta to show out in the Benz #GoBigRed ... (X: goredelephants)

• The Home Depot, Inc. posted a job opening for Freight/Receiving in Gainesville. Apply here.
• Georgia Staffing posted a job opening for Seasonal Retail Stocking Associate - Part Time in Gainesville. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Gainesville here.

🗞 Nearby News

Flowery Branch

• Pro Bowl voting: How to support your favorite Falcons players (statenews.net)

Braselton

• Georgia lands 21 cross country and track signees (redandblack.com)

Hoschton

Ok Gainesville! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don't know, but April May!
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