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Unconventional Small Business Strategy: Athens Skate Shop Gets Creative

April 11, 2017 Grady Newsource athens, bicycle, Bikes, Earthcruzerz, Local business, longboards, shop, skate, skateboards, small business, unconventional0 comment

Sebastian Uhde is an Athens native and owner of Earthcruzerz longboards. His shop opened last April and has been growing ever since — bringing in new customers like Jesse Conrad. “It was awesome. Sebastian was super helpful and it was really nice of him to make some time,” said Conrad who recently took up longboarding as a way to stay physically fit. But Earthcruzerz isn’t your average skate shop. If you take one step—literally–outside of his shop you’ll see that it operates out of a storage unit. It’s unconventional, but…

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Long-Awaited Firefly Trail Takes First Steps in Athens

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 Grady Newsource 39-mile, athens, firefly, funding, georgia, nature, path, rail-trail, T-SPLOST, trail, union point0 comment

After nearly seven years of planning, the much anticipated Firefly Trail is finally being built. The Firefly Trail, a proposed 39-mile rail-trail, will be constructed along the now abandoned historic route of the Georgia railroad running from Athens to Union Point. When finished, it will be the 3rd longest trail in the state of Georgia. Construction for the first .8 miles of the trail, which will run from East Broad Street all the way out to Old Winterville and Lexington Road, is currently underway in Athens-Clarke County. “Just yesterday the…

Free Coffee for a Cup of Kindness

March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 Grady Newsource athens, club, coffee, Community, cream and sugar, cup, donate, free, give back, Giving, Jittery Joes, karma, Karma Coffee, kindness, local, of, online, positivity, student0 comment

ATHENS, GA– A new student club on campus is brewing up some positivity. Every other week, the club serves free coffee to students and local residents. There’s a catch. If you accept the cup of coffee you have to promise to perform an act of kindness. Jaren Mendel, a sophomore accounting major, founded Karma Coffee in November of 2015. Mendel explains, “Karma coffee is a kindness initiative on campus, and instead of paying for the coffee with money, you pay for it with an act of kindness.” A bucket of…

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Athens Organization Working to Battle Bigotry

March 24, 2017 Grady Newsource 100+ Days Athens, athens, Bigotry, Donald Trump0 comment

It is 58 days into the Trump presidency, and Tanya Toledo feels that rhetoric from the new administration has increased the presence of bigotry in her day-to-day life. “I have had to encounter some situations where you know people will yell things… it’s just an uncomfortable situation,” said Toledo, a Sophomore Marketing and International Business major from Duluth, GA. In these situations, many young people like Toledo are sometimes left unsure of how to respond to statements they find offensive. That uncertainty is exactly what the local community-building organization 100…

Georgia Representatives Receive Backlash for Lack of Public Town Hall Meetings

March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 Grady Newsource athens, congressman, democrat, georgia, meeting, republican, Senator, together we will, town hall0 comment

Georgia senators Johnny Isakson, R-Ga, and David Perdue, R-Ga, as well as Georgia’s 10th District Representative Jody Hice are under fire from many constituents from their refusal to hold public, in person town hall meetings with their voters. Congressman Hice hasn’t hosted a town hall in Athens since his election in 2014. Senator Perdue said he prefers small meetings and telephone town halls, while Senator Isakson, just recently held a tele-town hall. Yet, none of these are putting Athens residents’ concerns at rest. Leandra Nessel, member of Athens’ chapter of…

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Student Boxer Remains Undefeated

March 23, 2017 Grady Newsource athens, boxing, keppner, student, undefeated0 comment

A University of Georgia student is preparing to defend his undefeated streak in a local boxing match this month. The series is called “Friday Night Fights” and features amateur boxing matches in the Athens Arena in Bogart, GA. Brian Barron, a junior criminal science major from San Mateo, California has been boxing with Keppner Boxing Gym’s Head Trainer Keith Keppner since August. His next match on March 31st will pair him with another amateur boxer who is also 2-0. Barron is hoping at his upcoming fight he will walk away…

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Sandy Creek Nature Center to Hold Tree Planting Day this Saturday

March 16, 2017March 17, 2017 Grady Newsource American Chestnut Foundation, athens, Managed Forest Project, Sandy Creek Nature Center0 comment

ATHENS, Ga.- Sandy Creek Nature Center wants residents to come out and plant trees this Saturday. The event is part of a long term Managed Forest Project at Sandy Creek Nature Center. The project will convert 30 acres of low-quality wildlife habitat into a managed forest. Over 25 years ago, Sandy Creek started the managed forest project using a group of volunteers and staff. This weekend, the project will continue its ongoing efforts to maintain a strong forest ecosystem by planting trees. One of the project’s main goals has been…

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Bear Hollow Zoo Has a New Look This Spring

March 16, 2017March 17, 2017 Grady Newsource Animals, athens, Bear Hollow Zoo, deck, gym, new, zoo0 comment

ATHENS, Ga.- After three weeks of construction and countless hours of intense labor, the bear observation deck at Bear Hollow Zoo has a noticeable new look. Clinton Murphy, the zoological coordinator at Bear Hollow Zoo said the renovations made were normal protocol to keep the zoo up-to-date. “Who needs a gym, right, when you got eight by eights, 12-foot-long and post hole dig going on,” Murphy said. The changes to the observation deck are now more consistent with safety designs being implemented all around Athens-Clarke County. Murphy said the design…

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Immigrants in Athens Fear Discrimination

March 16, 2017March 17, 2017 Grady Newsource athens, ban, discrimination, Donald Trump, executive, faculty, fear, illegal, immigrants, legal, order, policy, students, undocumented0 comment

An Athens woman is afraid she and her son may be the target of discrimination because of recent controversy surrounding immigrants and immigration policy. “America is my home I have children here, I have settled here, I went to college here, but I feel like I could be more targeted. My son who looks like me could be more targeted,” said Athens resident Patty Tacuri, a Peruvian legal permanent resident in the process of becoming a citizen. Tacuri points to policies like President Trump’s immigration ban and Georgia’s own proposed…

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Athens Restaurants Adapt to Cheap Food Trend

March 15, 2017March 17, 2017 Grady Newsource athens, Brixx, Cafe on Prince, Clarke's Standard, Downtown Athens, East West Bistro, food, Goodie Two Shoes, Hip Pops, new, NONA, Paul's Bar-B-Q, Preserve, prices, restaurant, Square One, Ten Pins Tavern, Tin Drum0 comment

ATHENS, Ga. – A new restaurant has just opened downtown. Its owners say they hope to preserve what they call the spirit of Athens. In recent years, many other restaurants and stores have closed. Restaurants that have closed recently include NONA, Preserve, Square One, Hip Pops, Brixx, Ten Pins Tavern, Tin Drum, Goodie Two Shoes, East West Bistro, the Cafe on Prince and Paul’s Bar-B-Q. Prices at both NONA and East West Bistro ranged from 11 to 30 dollars per entree. Most restaurants in Downtown Athens are listed on Yelp…

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Georgia Senate Bill to Protect LGBTQ Community

March 15, 2017March 17, 2017 Grady Newsource athens, Athens For Everyone, Georgia Senate, lgbtq, Senate Bill 1190 comment

ATHENS, Ga.—Some Athens residents are speaking up about a newly introduced state senate bill that – if passed – could have a big impact on the LGBTQ community. Senate Bill 119, also called the ‘Georgia Civil Rights For All’ bill, would create full protections in public accommodations for LGBTQ individuals. The bill was introduced in the state legislature in an effort to extend protections to LGBTQ individuals. The state currently has no laws prohibiting discrimination against them. Athens For Everyone is an organization that advocates for state legislation they believe will…

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The Global Compassion of Athens

February 22, 2017 Grady Newsource Africa, aid, Asia, athens, Bolivia, Caribbeans, children, christian, church, compassion, Cornerstone, countries, deprived, global, humanitarian, international, Julian, kids, organization, poverty, rescue, residents, Ruben, South America, sponsor, Uganda, world, worldwide0 comment

Compassion International connected Athens residents with kids from South America, Africa, the Caribbeans, and even Asia all in one weekend. They’re looking to connect even more residents to children worldwide. Compassion International came to Cornerstone Church Athens and ushered a walk-through in which attendants went through a twenty-minute visual presentation. Through an audio recording, they heard the stories of two deprived children living in two deprived countries. The stories consisted of Ruben, a boy growing up in Bolivia, who found himself digging through dumpsters to find food because he was unaccepted…