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  The Oglethorpe County School Board wants to communicate with the community better, and it started with a survey. The board received more than 280 responses from the Oglethorpe community in late October. Residents answered five questions assessing the various challenges, problems and difficulties to better improve the board for next year.…

Paris attacks – Over 120 people died after ISIS members terrorized the city on Friday. A manhunt is on for a man believed to be a suspect in the attacks. ISIS threatened to attack Washington in a CNN video released this morning. Restaurant tipping – Joe’s Crab Shack is eliminating tipping from several locations…

\t The UGA women’s basketball team won its first game of the season on Sunday when it beat the Stetson Hatters 76-55. This was the first win for new head coach Joni Taylor, who replaced the now retired Andy Landers. Senior Shacobia Barbee recorded a triple double in her first…

Students at the University of Georgia are speaking out about security concerns on campus after a woman was kidnapped from the Tate Student Center parking deck early Tuesday morning. UGA currently has no staff monitoring  the deck after 11 p.m., despite the Miller Learning Center remaining open all night. UGA student…

By: Damian C. Reynolds Playoffs start this weekend for one local football conference. Thirty-two teams will compete, with participants from ages 6 to 12. You may follow high school and college football, but don’t forget this group. Dunta Robinson, a former Clarke Central Gladiator who went on to play for…

Taser training will continue for Athens-Clarke County police officers. Sixty officers have been trained to date and the remaining 85 on staff will complete training by the end of the year. The department received tasers in the spring and officers began carrying them in July after receiving training. Justin Gregory, who heads…

By: Damian C. Reynolds The Cedar Shoals boys basketball team has some unfinished business. The team lost by one point in last year’s state Final Four, which is still on everyone’s mind. A new season is approaching, and a 67-22 scrimmage victory over North Oconee on Wednesday night makes the team think…

The new Athens-Clarke County Jail will open Friday, Nov. 13, after more than two  years of construction. The $64 million project was funded by a special-purpose local-option sales tax (SPLOST), and will be more than enough space to house the county’s criminals. “Expansion and reuse of some of our old facility will allow…

  By: Anna Clark A wreck Thursday morning on Highway 316 adds to the long and growing list of accidents on the dangerous highway. Around 8 a.m., a car turned left from Harry McCarty Road onto 316 and was hit by a car driving eastbound on the highway. Both drivers…

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