Bulldogs roll into offseason of change in 2016
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. | Members of the Redcoat Band waved at the buses carrying Georgia football players as they rolled past late Saturday afternoon outside EverBank Field heading into an offseason of...
View ArticleKirby Smart adds three more assistants to UGA football staff
Georgia announced three additions to football coach Kirby Smart’s staff Sunday night. Dell McGee will coach running backs, James Coley wide receivers and Marshall Malchow will lead the recruiting...
View ArticleGovernment meetings this week in the Athens area
Oconee County Ambassadors’ meeting: 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oconee Chamber of Commerce, 55 Nancy Drive, Watkinsville. Ambassadors meet the first Tuesday of every month....
View ArticleRegents set to approve $42 million building for UGA busines school
The state Board of Regents is set to approve the University of Georgia’s next big building project when the Regents meet this week in Atlanta.University officials asked the Regents to approve the third...
View ArticleAthens-Clarke County poverty rate doubles in 2000s
Athens-Clarke County’s poverty rate has more than doubled since 2000, according to statistics released last month by the U.S. Census Bureau.Nearly 40 percent of Clarke’s 111,000 residents lived below...
View ArticleLady Bulldogs fall in conference opener at Texas A&M
COLLEGE STATION, Texas | Shacobia Barbee recorded her fourth double-double of the season and 15th of her career, but her 17 points and 14 rebounds were unable to help Georgia (12-2, 0-1) overcome a...
View ArticleJackson Street Books in Athens closes after three decades
Jackson Street Books, Inc. owner Tony Arnold said Athens can’t support a used book store anymore.He closed the doors of the shop on Sunday after 31 years of business.Arnold said he has seen reading go...
View ArticleUGA in running for 5-star LB Lyndell Wilson after Kirby Smart hire
Georgia wasn’t a school that Lyndell Wilson was considering until someone that he had known since his freshman season of high school football became its head coach.Kirby Smart has Georgia in the...
View Article89-year-old Athens woman arrested for felony shoplifting for second time in...
An 89-year-old Athens woman was arrested for felony shoplifting at a westside supermarket Saturday afternoon, less than a month after she was arrested on the same charge in Oconee County.Elizabeth C....
View ArticleAthens Academy's Drew Richardson, Oconee County's Tyler Davis compete in...
Athens Academy’s Drew Richardson and Oconee County’s Tyler Davis competed in the Clash of the Scholar Athletes all-star game in Boynton Beach, Fla. Saturday. Richardson and Davis played for Team...
View ArticleAthens man sought on Louisiana fugitive warrant says he's a victim of...
An Athens man arrested in Athens-Clarke County last month on a Louisiana fugitive warrant filed a civil action against Clarke County Sheriff Ira Edwards in ACC Superior Court Dec. 31 stating he “could...
View ArticleOconee County High School senior charged with molesting 4-year-old
An Oconee County High School student remained in the Oconee County Jail without bond Monday following his arrest Friday on charges of molesting a 4-year-old child.Nicholas Reese Simmering, 18, of...
View ArticleComer man charged with molesting two girls while baby-sitting
A Comer man remained in the Madison County Jail on Monday on charges he molested two girls who are preteens.Jerry Dwayne Fowler, 35, is charged with two counts of child molestation and was also charged...
View ArticleGood Samaritan killed in Jackson County was known for helping others
John Wayne Napier was killed a week ago in Jackson County while helping a stranded motorist, and for the past three years Napier has built a reputation based on helping others.“It wasn’t just stopping...
View ArticleAthens lawyer Ed Tolley will defend university system in whistleblower lawsuit
The state Board of Regents has hired Athens lawyer Ed Tolley to defend the Regents and University of Georgia officials from a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former UGA employee.Tolley filed notice he...
View ArticleAthens-Clarke commissioners to consider resolution to combat alleged...
Just six weeks after three Athens-Clarke County commissioners told their colleagues and Mayor Nancy Denson they’d like to draft a resolution targeting alleged racial and other discrimination in...
View ArticleSwearing-in of new Winterville mayor, council members to be particularly festive
The swearing-in of Winterville’s new mayor and its two new council members today will include a literal walk into the future.Dodd Ferrelle, a longtime part of the local music scene, won the three-way...
View ArticleAthens-Clarke commission to consider parking restrictions on Sylvia Circle
A proposal to restrict parking along parts of Sylvia Circle, a residential street which intersects with Prince Avenue in Normaltown, will be up for consideration by Athens-Clarke County’s mayor and...
View ArticlePlay It Again program helps keep Clarke Central athletes on track academically
The day before Clarke Central’s football team lost to Loganville and finished its season 4-6, Aaron Cavin helped freshman Tyler Bryant build a 3-D rendering of an organelle out of cardboard for a...
View ArticleNumber of in-state runners increases for UGA cross country, track and field
Brandon Lord was born in Canada, but that’s not what made him, as his teammates joked, “the foreigner” on the University of Georgia men’s cross country team.When UGA qualified for three consecutive...
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