Northeast Georgia News
Reporting from Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and surrounding counties.
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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.…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Emily Thomas
Emily Thomas was in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, working for a law firm six blocks away from the World Trade Center. “It was such a beautiful morning, I will never forget how gorgeous it was. I was upstairs on one of the higher floors of the building when…
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Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later: Melvin Davis
Melvin Davis, Former Chairman of the Oconee County Board of Commissioners “We felt like it was appropriate to have a piece of that World Trade Center here in Oconee County to remind individuals of what happened on that day. I was excited to be a part of that and wholeheartedly…
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The Trouble With T-Shirts: Fast Fashion, Greek Life and What’s Next
Shannon Marsh, a senior fashion merchandising major, looks down at her drawer stuffed with sorority T-shirts. Since joining Delta Gamma in 2018, she has collected 24 shirts, wearing about eight of them regularly, yet she can’t bring herself to part with them. The rainbow collection of shirts ranges in shades…
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Professor Uses Twitter to Challenge Status Quo
Professor Janet Frick’s recent Twitter activity has been noticed by news outlets who have included her opinions about the University System of Georgia mask mandate and January’s runoff election in their coverage. The associate professor in the psychology department at UGA has been on Twitter since 2010, but Frick…
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Media Literacy: You Think You Know More Than You Do
John Weatherford, a senior lecturer at the University of Georgia’s New Media Institute, talks to David Velez about the importance of media literacy in today’s digital age. David Velez is a senior majoring in journalism, minoring in sport management, and earning a Certificate in Sports Media in the…
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Athens Drag: A Story of Pandemic Resilience
After a smoke break and 3 p.m. breakfast of waffles, bacon, syrup and berries, 24-year-old Tia Blake Jackson lounges in her bed. Her pink tank top hangs off her shoulder as she lays on her stomach. Donning a sweet gap-toothed smile, she wears no makeup, and a cream-colored bonnet covers…