Northeast Georgia News
Reporting from Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and surrounding counties.
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Seeing the Unseen Challenges that UGA First-Generation Students Face
The University of Georgia’s Division of Academic Enhancement states that “a first-generation college student is a student whose parents/guardian does not have a college degree.” As the first American-born daughter of Mexican immigrant parents, Amy Guzman-Reyes, 18, said she is amazed that she has the opportunity to attend the…
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Local Theater Participation Brings a Sense of Community
Between theater companies and theater facilities, Athens, Georgia, has a range of locations that contribute to the theatrical arts. (Infographic/Mary Martin Harper) ust when the people of Transylvania think the days of the Frankenstein family’s monsters are over, Frau Blücher and Igor’s cackling laugh take over the stage. The contagious…
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Athens Resident Turns Hobby into a Career
[flickr_set id=”72157708337252794″] Although working with kids makes Lindsey Warren “come alive,” the Athens resident says she recently made the tough decision to give up her teaching career to pursue life as a hobbyist. So over the last three years, she has created hand stamped jewelry in her home studio and…
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Mayor Kelly Girtz’s Office Advocates for Appropriate Purchasing Card Usage in Athens-Clarke County
Roughly 600 government-issued credit cards, or purchasing cards, are issued to various individuals and institutions within Athens-Clarke County Unified Government. Not one of them, however, belongs to the mayor. Mayor Kelly Girtz, sworn into office in January 2019, has not elected to have a purchasing card provided to him in…
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The Story of a Magazine’s Failing Fix: UGA’s Wally Butts and a Libel Case
Since September 2018, the second floor of the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library at the University of Georgia has been transformed into a sort of shrine for one of the university’s greatest football coaches: Coach Wally Butts. Jason Hasty, the UGA athletics history specialist, created this exhibit. He…
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Another Reason to Love Parks in Athens: They Help Reduce Crime
With many reasons to love parks and green spaces, reducing criminal activity can be added to that list. A 2015 study from the journal Landscape and Urban Planning found that “well-designed landscaping makes spending time outdoors more appealing, leading to more “eyes on the street,” which in turn leads…
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Quilting Creates Common Threads Across Generations
If you want to know about quilting, Frances Arnold is your woman. Arnold, who has been quilting for 34 years, has seen some ups and downs. She can tell you about the United States Bicentennial in 1976, which sparked a renewed interest in an art form that had been well…
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International Students Face Challenges After Graduation
Priyank Malviya, a computer science graduate student at the University of Georgia, feels that he doesn’t have an option in choosing his job. Malviya is from Lucknow, India, and he believes employers would prefer to hire someone from America, instead of dealing with visa issues. Malviya dreams of working for…
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International Students Speak Out About Campus Internationalization Efforts
Adjusting to the lifestyle of a college student is hectic at best for anyone. For many, college is a new place to call home full of new peers to become friends and classmates. However for others, like Jianing Xu and Zhenyao Jian from China or Leo Quaye from Ghana, this…
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How Collin McIntyre Is Creating His Own Potato Hybrids To Stop Spread Of Plant Viruses
Collin McIntyre has been gardening since he was young. He loves to plant and grow flowers, fruits and vegetables and watch things that he nurtures grow and produce fruit. For the past several years, Collin has been working on creating new hybrid plants that are unique to him. I think…