Northeast Georgia News
Reporting from Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and surrounding counties.
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Lay Me Down to Rest: COVID-19’s Impact on Local Gravediggers
The jaws of the machine tear and pull at the stubborn ground like a mechanical madman. Dirt clods fall from the teeth of the machine as gravediggers force the ground to make way for another body — another COVID-19 body. This is what the gravediggers at Master Grave Service,…
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Oconee County Brings in Specialized Van to Determine Road Repaving Needs
Lights flash behind David McGhee as he begins his 390-mile journey surveying roads in Oconee County. McGhee is an operator with consulting firm Infrastructure Management Services or IMS. He is traveling through the county in a van equipped with state-of-the-art lasers to analyze the road conditions. “I collect all the data that…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Paul Eidson
Paul Eidson, U.S. Air Force, retired Once word came in that the United States was under attack, his unit issued a Threatcon Delta, which is the highest awareness level of security for a terrorist attack, and that was the only time he experienced that call. He said experiencing 9/11 reinforced…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Kayla Bergeron
Kayla Bergeron, a 9/11 survivor, at the Special Equestrians of Georgia center in Alpharetta, Georgia “Life is fragile. It can change in a second. I went from the dream job with a view of the Statue of Liberty on the 68th floor in the north tower. And it was taken…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Bob Hart
Bob Hart, Athens artist who created a memorial trail as a tribute to those who were killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks “There was still smoke coming up a month later that you could see there. It was a New York like I’d never seen before. When you’re in…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Dylan Cruz
Dylan Cruz, student veteran and employee of the Student Veterans Resource Center at the University of Georgia “When 9/11 happened, I was 8 years old. My parents sat me down and told me — from what I can remember — that things were going to be different, that things were…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Chris Huskey
Chris Huskey, U.S. Army, retired “I had a full-time job. I was actually rolling beer for Budweiser, and I looked around and I saw 40-year-old guys that were in the same position as I was as a 19-year-old kid and I was like, ‘there’s more to life than this.'” “I…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Joel Lumley
Joel Lumley, a CNC Machinist at Benchmark in Statham, Georgia “I was working at Fowler Products in Athens when it happened. It was just a normal day to start with. I was working in the office in the machine shop when somebody walked in and said an airplane had hit…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Andrew Dykes
Andrew Dykes, Captain at City of Monroe Fire Department “Ironically, I was working on an ambulance, in Chick-fil-A, when the news broke with the first plane. So I was actually working in public safety at the time. And that was, yeah, I guess it’s like every generation has their moments,…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Greg Trevor
Greg Trevor, associate vice president for Marketing & Communications at the University of Georgia, worked for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the World Trade Center in 2001. “On the night of September 11, after we were evacuated, I got home very late in the night.…