Northeast Georgia News
Reporting from Barrow, Clarke, Jackson, Madison, Oconee and surrounding counties.
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Solar Panels, Sustainable Workplaces Bring New Energy to Athens
A growing trend in the world of work is the rise of sustainability – which means that businesses and governments are taking responsibility for their actions and resource use by incorporating renewable energy, waste management, and resourceful practices into their business models. The implementation of sustainability can look like Starbucks…
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Magic Mushrooms Decriminalization Making Progress, Still Far Behind Cannabis
While marijuana is being decriminalized or legalized in states and municipalities across America, there is a new push to decriminalize psilocybin. Psilocybin is a naturally occurring hallucinogenic substance famously found in more than 200 kinds of mushrooms that are collectively referred to as “magic mushrooms” or “psychedelic mushrooms.” Zane Bader…
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Concussions Lead to A National Decline in High School Football, But Not in Georgia
Whistle. Break. Whistle. Break. The sound of helmets clashing against full pads fills the air until the whistle is blown and it’s time for the next two players’ strength and game-like skills to be put to the test. This is the sound of the Oklahoma drill in football practice. As…
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Locavores Unite: How Athens Restaurants Utilize Local Food In Menus
Visit any Athens restaurant and you’re likely to be hit with a board of specials, often containing a multitude of locally sourced ingredients. Differentiating itself from mass produced ingredients, local food is produced within a short distance of where it is consumed. Just as carnivores and herbivores eat strictly meat…
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How Local Trash Disposal Affects Climate Change
Approximately 300 tons of material is disposed of in the Athens-Clarke County Landfill daily. The average dump truck holds 12 to 14 tons of waste, so approximately 23 dump truck loads of garbage are dumped into the 289-acre landfill per day. Yet, not all of it should be garbage. “About…
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KEBA Sandwiches Closure: Local Businesses Can Struggle With Brand Awareness
The final two KEBA Sandwiches locations closed on Oct. 20, 2019. Partial-owner Paul Whitman said he thinks they closed because they lacked brand awareness. “I think we really needed to bring in more of the current Athens community. We were living in the past,” Whitman said. Owner Todd DeJasserand…
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Looking for a Home: How Local Mobile Food Businesses are Moving to Storefronts
If you live in Athens, odds are you’ve seen this logo. If you’re a college student, you’ve probably seen it on social media or in person. It belongs to Joe Nedza’s business, Nedza’s. Nedza’s Waffles and Doughnuts is a mobile food vendor operating in and around Athens, Georgia, offering variations…
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Athens Takes ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ To New Level
If you assume your trash today gets collected and sent off to one of the “dumps” you see in cartoons, you’re sadly mistaken. Dumps haven’t existed since the 1970s; rather, the increasing amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Americans create gets sent to landfills where local governments like Athens are…
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Pet Food Industry Continues To Grow, Creates Confusion for Consumers
Pet Supplies Plus in Athens, Georgia, has five aisles—all of them containing pet food. Three aisles for dogs, one for cats and the last dedicated to critter food such as reptiles, birds and small mammals. “At our store, we have a select group of customers that want higher quality…
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California ‘Uber’ Bill Could Threaten Driver Flexibility
On a busy Saturday night, Sara Moeller drives through downtown Athens, Georgia. In her back seat sit her Uber passengers. Past the bars and through the University of Georgia campus, she reaches their destination. Her phone pings. She puts her car in park and examines the pay breakdown of…