Athens-Clarke County
Reporting about Clarke County, Georgia. Some stories will be republished in the Athens Banner-Herald as part of a news-academic partnership with Grady Newsource.
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Q&As Capture Concerns, Opportunities for Athens Leaders, Community Advocates
Reporting I students set out to learn more about the area and their beats — business and consumer news, city-county government, diversity, local music, sustainability — by conducting research and interviews with leaders, advocates, musicians and students. The nearly 180 students in the course, which consists of journalism and public relations…
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Porchfest 2024: Here’s Some Itinerary Suggestions
The annual Historic Athens Porchfest is coming up on Sunday, Oct. 20, and students in Kyser Lough’s First Year Odyssey course on music in Athens have scoured the 200+ Porchfest band lineup to build a few custom, themed itineraries for attendees. We’ll give you the first four shows to visit,…
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Books for Keeps Hosts Community Book Fair in Athens
The Community Book Fair in Athens, hosted by Books for Keeps, will be open to the public from 2-6 p.m. for the next two Thursdays and Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the next two Saturdays. Each person can get up to 100 books for free. Christian Andrade…
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Athens-Clarke County Teacher Reuse Store Provides Materials for Educators
One man’s trash is another teacher’s treasure at the ACC Teacher Reuse Store — the CHaRM warehouse in Athens is full of free supplies for local teachers. The Teacher Reuse Store is open for educators to pick up classroom supplies every Tuesday and Wednesday as well as the first two…
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Athens-Clarke County Police Internship Helps Local Youth
The Athens-Clarke County Police Department’s internship program aims to bring young people into public service and law enforcement. The program upgraded two years ago, which provides more positions for students. UGA student Kendra Hood is one of this years current interns working in Community Outreach intern. This role allows…
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What’s on the Market: 3 Homes with History
Students in a journalism seminar on home and garden reporting learned about real estate prices prices, architectural styles and features by producing a roundup story with listings. The stories are written in the vein as the New York Times’ “On the Market” series and Country Living’s “Nest” feature in its magazine.…
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Athens Boutique Makes Fashion Sustainable, Transparent for Customers
COMMUNITY is a fashion boutique in Downtown Athens known for its innovative, handmade styles using all recycled materials. Sanni Baumgärtner, a native of Germany and owner of the boutique, expressed the store’s central values of being sustainable and transparent. Baumgärtner shared it was her main priority to have the sewing…
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Athens Recovery Warriors: Battling Addiction, Building Community
The audience fell silent as Sarah Corley made her way to the microphone. Corley told the crowd she found meth when she was 12, heroin at 13, left home at 16, and by 18 she was pregnant with her first child. For several years she was suicidal, intentionally overdosing…
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New Market Entices Athens Neighborhood
When Kristen Hindes opened Birdies in November 2023, she wasn’t expecting drivers to park off-site to see her market based on a word in the window — sandwiches — but they did. Birdies, a newly opened specialty market owned by Kirsten Hindes, lies at the intersection of Prince Avenue and…
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Clarke County Schools New Literacy Program Goes Back to Phonics
Clarke County School District (CCSD) is going back to the basics with its new curriculum that supports science of reading and is teaching kindergarten through third-grade students how to read with phonics and syllables. The program, which was implemented in August 2023, aims to build on foundational skills that previous…