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Buford adds $20.6 million water plant off Lake Lanier. Here’s where, why
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Buford Waterworks Water Treatment Plant Supervisor Cory Burge tours a newly opened facility Thursday, April 4, 2024, on North Waterworks Road. The plant replaces the old water treatment facility which opened in the 1930s. - photo by Scott Rogers
A water plant Buford operated for 90 years — before Lake Lanier was created in the 1950s — has been closed in favor of a bigger, more modern plant next door.
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Friends plan to convert historic Flowery Branch business into ‘Bangarang Brews’
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Josh Roberts, right, and Adam Fiddler tour the old Hamilton Cabinet Shop Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Flowery Branch where the two plan to open a micro brewery - photo by Scott Rogers
A pair of lifelong best friends are planning to turn a 75-year-old building in downtown Flowery Branch into a brewpub, but they say they’re not about to put hops over history.
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