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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Graduate Is Pulled Over By Police Impersonator
UGA graduate Hannah Johnson was driving from Atlanta to Athens on Georgia State Route 316 Sunday night when a car with blue and purple lights signaled her to pull over. “There was a car approaching me from behind, and I was really surprised because I wasn’t breaking the law, I…
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Northeast Georgia News
First Solo Woman Wins UGA’s Idea Accelerator Award
Senior Kaitlin Lutz recently won a $5,000 grant from the University of Georgia Idea Accelerator Program to start her very own company. “I think it happens to be one of the best moments of my life,” Lutz said. The UGA Accelerator Program is an eight-week long session offered every spring…
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Athens-Clarke County
UGA Comes Together to Support International Dawg in Need
Suraj Upadhaya, PhD student in Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, returned home to find that his apartment was robbed on Jan. 7, 2019. He said his door was locked, and there was no sign of forced entry into his South Milledge Avenue apartment. Upadhaya’s Nepalese passport, $3,600 and some sentimental…
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Doing Journalism
From Sustainable Communities to International Students: Mobile News Lab Journalists Tell Big Stories on Small Devices
The Fall 2018 Mobile News Lab, as part of the James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Journalism Innovation, Management and Leadership, provided the opportunity for students to work in teams to create multiplatform journalism using only mobile tools. This year, students reported and built storytelling with Adobe Spark Page. Sponsored by the Georgia Association of…
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Athens-Clarke County
Free Coffee for Cup of Kindness
ATHENS, GA– A new student club on campus is brewing up some positivity. Every other week, the club serves free coffee to students and local residents. There’s a catch. If you accept the cup of coffee you have to promise to perform an act of kindness. Jaren Mendel, a sophomore…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens Restaurants Adapt to Cheap Food Trend
ATHENS, Ga. – A new restaurant has just opened downtown. Its owners say they hope to preserve what they call the spirit of Athens. In recent years, many other restaurants and stores have closed. Restaurants that have closed recently include NONA, Preserve, Square One, Hip Pops, Brixx, Ten Pins Tavern,…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens Animal Workers Oppose Georgia Pet Bill
The Georgia House is considering a new law to regulate the sale of pets in retail stores. The bill, introduced by Rep. Earl Ehrhart, of District 36, would prohibit local governments from preventing the sale of dogs and cats from any pet store in the state of Georgia. HB 144…
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UGA
SDT Greek Grind Raises More Than $100,000
Alpha Omicron Pi lit up the stage at SDT Greek Grind, an annual dance competition between 17 University of Georgia sororities. Emma Murphy, choreographer and performer for AOPi says that her team felt confident, but shocked to win the competition. “We definitely weren’t expecting anything so that was a really…
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UGA
Sigma Delta Tau Marks Annual Greek Grind
Sigma Delta Tau is hosting their annual event “SDT Greek Grind” tomorrow night at 8pm at the Classic Center. “Its just a really fun event each year that gets all of greek life excited and together over one event for such a good cause,” Maddie Weiss the Director of Public…