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Visit any Athens restaurant and you’re likely to be hit with a board of specials, often  containing a multitude of locally sourced ingredients. Differentiating itself from mass produced ingredients, local food is produced within a short distance of where it is consumed. Just as carnivores and herbivores eat strictly meat…

Approximately 300 tons of material is disposed of in the Athens-Clarke County Landfill daily. The average dump truck holds 12 to 14 tons of waste, so approximately 23 dump truck loads of garbage are dumped into the 289-acre landfill per day. Yet, not all of it should be garbage. “About…

The final two KEBA Sandwiches locations closed on Oct. 20, 2019. Partial-owner Paul Whitman said he thinks they closed because they lacked brand awareness. “I think we really needed to bring in more of the current Athens community. We were living in the past,” Whitman said.   Owner Todd DeJasserand…

If you live in Athens, odds are you’ve seen this logo. If you’re a college student, you’ve probably seen it on social media or in person. It belongs to Joe Nedza’s business, Nedza’s. Nedza’s Waffles and Doughnuts is a mobile food vendor operating in and around Athens, Georgia, offering variations…

If you assume your trash today gets collected and sent off to one of the “dumps” you see in cartoons, you’re sadly mistaken.  Dumps haven’t existed since the 1970s; rather, the increasing amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Americans create gets sent to landfills where local governments like Athens are…

  Pet Supplies Plus in Athens, Georgia, has five aisles—all of them containing pet food. Three aisles for dogs, one for cats and the last dedicated to critter food such as reptiles, birds and small mammals.  “At our store, we have a select group of customers that want higher quality…

—To further our mission to talk about process and quality in journalism, each guest curator has highlighted what he or she sees as the “don’t want to miss” pieces posted to Grady Newsource that month, along with some constructive reflection about the journalism. About This Month’s Guest Curator  Casey Rose…

  On a busy Saturday night, Sara Moeller drives through downtown Athens, Georgia. In her back seat sit her Uber passengers. Past the bars and through the University of Georgia campus, she reaches their destination. Her phone pings. She puts her car in park and examines the pay breakdown of…

The pool deck is deserted except for the maintenance man making his final lap around the Gabrielsen Natatorium. The teal water rocks gently against the red and white candy cane-striped lanes. The only sound comes from the air conditioning unit echoing through the pool. Come late March, there will be…