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  Isabella Gonzalez, a 22-year-old voter who grew up in Athens and attends the University of Georgia, has a personal tie to the upcoming mayoral election, as she used to babysit for the current mayor, Kelly Girtz.  There are 80,500 registered voters in Clarke County, and 18-24-year-olds make up 10,067…

Danely Cruz changed her voter registration from Athens to her hometown of Cedartown and drove to Polk County on Election Day to vote in a special congressional election after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned from Georgia’s 14th Congressional District seat in January. Cruz, a third-year history and political science student…

Kennedy Farmer, a third-year undergraduate student at the University of Georgia, views voting as both a responsibility and an opportunity for young people to make their voices heard.  In Athens-Clarke County, voters like Farmer are part of a broader group of Generation Z female voters. Farmer, who identified herself as…

Leo Jahn, a fourth-year computer science and music major at the University of Georgia, plans to vote in person for the 2026 Georgia primary elections.  He said the environment and the economy are some of the most important issues that will influence his decisions in the May elections.  “I’ve always…

Inside a gym just outside Athens, the sound of sneakers cutting across hardwood echoes through the afternoon. Basketballs bounce in rhythm as players move from drill to drill, locked into a routine that looks familiar. What feels different is what comes next. For years, the path for young women in…

Shelby Dickerson’s experiences with mental health as a college student informs the way she teaches and communicates with students as a chemistry lecturer at the University of Georgia.  When she was a graduate student at the University of South Carolina, she had a sympathetic instructor who directed her to campus…

The whistle pierced the gymnasium at Clarke Central High School, and the Classic City Dawgs wheelchair football team broke from the line, pivoting into position.  AnukisSent Williams lofted a short pass to Lane Rogers, who pivoted and found space. Teammates marked defenders to hold the lane open, metal striking metal…

When the Georgia club lacrosse team logged onto Zoom on Dec. 14, head coach Holin Axley had news that would shift the course of the season. On Dec. 4, Axley and his wife had welcomed twin boys born five months premature after a sudden medical emergency. What was expected to…

Grady Newsource and Carmical Sports Media Institute students were in the middle of the Madness this March. The University of Georgia sent students to the 2026 Women’s NCAA Tournament through a partnership with USA Today Sports to cover the first and second weekends of March Madness, from March 20 to…

The fight over a  proposed rock quarry in Jackson County has grown from a local zoning dispute into a broader debate over groundwater protection and drinking water, something far more personal to residents in affected communities.  In May 2025, a Jackson County Superior Court judge upheld the county’s denial of…