Northeast Georgia News
Reporting from Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and surrounding counties.
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Danielsville Pastor Recovering From COVID-19 After ICU Stay
A Danielsville, Georgia, pastor is back at home recovering from a long and difficult bout with COVID-19 that at one point, led to a stay in an Atlanta intensive care unit. Robert Burt, 54, recently returned home to his wife, Joy, and his daughter, Tara Tyler, after spending almost three…
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Reporter’s Notebook: Making Ends Meet As Businesses Struggle
Kate Ross is an undergraduate student studying journalism at Grady College, who worked part-time at Walker’s Coffee and Pub on College Avenue in downtown Athens. Like many food service industry businesses, Walker’s shut its doors to accommodate social-distancing requirements, which limited the number of people gathering in one place.…
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Mobile Food Pantries Serve Northeast Georgia
Local organizations will be at the Kroger on College Station Road in Athens, Georgia, handing out food to those in need this Saturday. While the time and place might be the same as the past few months, COVID-19 has changed the set up of the distribution. Volunteers usually walk with…
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National Guard Members Enter New Type of Battle Ground With COVID-19
The National Guard is made up of men and women used to fighting overseas and helping to protect their communities at home. Now, they fight a different type of battle: COVID-19 and public’s need for food. The Food Bank of Northeast Georgia in Athens, Georgia, discontinued its volunteer program as…
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Shelter-in-Place Due To Coronavirus Causes Decreasing Crime Rates in Oconee County
COVID-19 has caused a lot of problems, but one result that’s not so bad — a reduction in crime rates in at least one Northeast Georgia county. The Oconee County Sheriff’s Department said they take quarantines and safety seriously. They are expected to use all of the safety procedures recommended…
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Cat Fostering Is Increasing During Georgia’s Shelter in Place
Fostering cats has become more popular in the Athens community due to Georgia’s shelter-in-place order. Maria Strom, who recently fostered two cats, said “it’s great to have them around and keep me company while I’m working. It has been more company than I would normally have because I’m not seeing…
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Any Jobs? The Georgia Work Economy During COVID-19
A few weeks ago, Stephanie Eason was working as a dental hygienist at Henry Cook Dental Care in Columbus, Georgia. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic led to the office temporarily closing its doors, leaving her unemployed until operations resumed. Two weeks later, she found work sanitizing shopping carts at her local…
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Meeting the Need For Meat In Georgia; Surplus or Shortage On The Horizon?
The line of people who waited patiently to pick up their beef and pork orders stretched half the length of a football field. Customers spaced themselves out more than six feet apart, practicing social distancing as they waited outside of the University of Georgia’s Meat Science Technology Center for someone…
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Reporter’s Notebook: What COVID-19 Took From the Class of 2020
For most University of Georgia students, the graduation ceremony in Sanford Stadium is the ultimate form of closure. The fireworks at the end of the ceremony are the perfect bookend to the fireworks seen on acceptances four years prior. On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, I, along with thousands of other…
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Reporter’s Notebook: ‘It Really Does Feel Like Life Or Death’
For the past three weeks, I have been living in isolation with my boyfriend and his family in a lovely home in Georgia, where we have food, shelter and each other. The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t seem too bad; I just felt lucky to be safe, sound and secure. Surely, we…