Northeast Georgia News
Reporting from Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and surrounding counties.
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Free Rides to Tate
Who doesn’t enjoy free rides? Well, the luck of the Irish might be on your side today. Reporter Steven Farmer tells us UGA Campus Transit is providing security transportation for all students going to the Park Hall or Hull Street parking decks. Student drivers will be driving vans ordinarily used…
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Old Fraternity Tradition Put To An End At UGA
Sororities at the University of Georgia wanting to wear old-fashioned skirts during an annual event no longer have that hope….UGA made a decision to ban all sororities from wearing hoop dresses on fraternity events. Hoop dresses were worn in the Antebellum South prior to the Civil War, and this tradition…
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How this Oconee Man Keeps Things Moving
Each day over five thousand students, kindergarten through seniors, all get on the bus to get to school safe and on time… but behind the curtain, one man is in charge of an entire county’s school bus system. Reporter Zack Watson follows The director of Transportation for all oconee county…
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Liquor License Vote in Watkinsville
Watkinsville voters are deciding if local restaurants can serve liquor drinks today. But many voters may think they’ve already voted on this… because they have. They passed the exact same liquor referendum in a county-wide referrendum this past Fall. The polls were pretty dead this morning, but Reporter Adeline Kenerly…
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Child Crime Investigator
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department is hard at work trying to locate a family member who may have sexually assualted a child. Almost every day incidents of violence, assault, and rape are reported.. many with victims that are only children. Reporter Katie Kraft spent the day with an investigator who…
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Barrow County’s New Fire Department Recruitment and Training
The temperature outside has been rising, but it’s been getting a lot hotter for six firefighter recruits. The Barrow County fire department is currently training future firefighters. The recruits are practicing skills they will need so they can start working as firefighters in April. Reporter Jacob Moore shows us what…
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St. Patrick’s Day in Athens Brings In Green
Downtown Athens is decorated in green but thats not the only kind of green this holiday brings in. Green drinks for the customers and green money for the bars. Troy Aubrey and Kyle Kilo of The Foundry talk with our Grady Newsource Reporter, Jacob Blount about the 10th annual St.…
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Ivie Funeral Home Crematorium
Danielsville, GA- Ivie Funeral Home now has a crematorium. Judge Boswell approved the order on March 9th. The funeral home had filed against Anthony Dove, chairman of the board of commissioners in Madison County and Eddie Pritchett who at the time was the chief building inspector of Madison County, Georgia.…
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UGA Researchers Have Found A Protein That May Alter DNA
UGA researchers have made a discovery that could be a major breakthrough in our understanding of the potential uses for genetic engineering
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Old Weyerhauser Lumber Mill is Bringing New Jobs to Colbert Area
Madison County, GA – Weyerhaeuser Lumber Mill closed its doors in 2008. This lost a lot of jobs for the region. But there will be new ones for the region. Grady Newsource Reporter Rebecca Scott went out to see what all the