Northeast Georgia
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Athens-Clarke County
How to Buy a Home in a Competitive Market
Low supply and high demand have created a national boom in the housing market and as a result, homes have become harder for potential buyers to afford. From February 2021 to this past February, home prices in Georgia increased by 22% while the number of homes available for sale in…
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Athens-Clarke County
Rise of Build-to-Rent Communities Alter Local Real Estate Market
Buying a home is becoming more expensive, even in small towns in Northeast Georgia. Housing prices in the area experienced three-year highs toward the end of last year, as low mortgage rates prompted the demand for single-family homes to outweigh the available supply. This creates a phenomenon called a “seller’s…
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Doing Journalism
ANNOTATED: A New Era: Number of Female Politicians Grows in Athens
One of Sydney Fordice’s goals for this story was to bring awareness to the changes in the political atmosphere in Athens. The amount of women in office make Athens a “progressive pocket” among many small conservative cities in Northern Georgia, according to Fordice, and her she explains the process…
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2022 Election
A New Era: Number of Female Politicians Grows in Athens
In 2021, women across the country have changed history by winning seats in elected office on various levels for the first time in history. A progressive pocket in Northeast Georgia, Clarke County, has been leading this charge for the last several years and continues to do so. Currently, the county…
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Athens-Clarke County
Athens Alliance Prepares to Open ACC-Funded Houseless Encampment
In August 2021, the Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission approved the opening of a government-sanctioned houseless encampment behind the former North Athens School on Barber Street. Since then, the county government has been working with the local non-profit that will serve as encampment’s operator, Athens Alliance Coalition (AAC), to create…
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60th Anniversary of UGA Desegregation
Charlayne Hunter-Gault: 60 Years After Making History at UGA
The year 2021 marks the 60th Anniversary of the desegregation of the University of Georgia. An exhibit at the main library on the campus of UGA, honors people like Hamilton Holmes, who passed away on Oct. 26, 1995, and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, the two students who desegregated UGA in January…
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Athens-Clarke County
Local Health Experts Expect More Severe Flu Season
Local health experts are concerned that we are entering a potentially severe flu season. After a slow 2019-20 flu season, the typical barrier of natural immunity may not be as strong. The 2019-20 flu season started with a slow increase of cases in the fall, a growing number in November…
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Doing Journalism
ANNOTATED: The Struggles Of Graveyard Workers During COVID-19
Riley Armant is a graduate journalism student at Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
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Athens-Clarke County
War Was Hell, So Was the Withdrawal: Local Vietnam, Afghanistan Veterans Reflect on Their Experiences
Car bombs. Air strikes. Burning flesh. Mangled bodies. The pop of an enemy’s weapon. Rubble clinging to the streets. The city wearing the smell of death like musty perfume. “I really don’t know how to describe it,” Shane Kozusko, an Afghanistan War veteran in Athens, said. “I mean, it’s just…
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Northeast Georgia News
2021 Northeast Georgia Election Results
The results from the 2021 Special Elections are in. Here is a breakdown of the SPLOST votes from each county and the mayoral races in the counties that held them. For full election results from each county, click on the links below. Athens-Clarke County Results Barrow County Results…