I found myself between homes. Thankfully a family friend came to my rescueand paid for a hotel room in Athens. I lived there ...

Outgoing Western Circuit District Attorney Deborah Gonzalez highlighted what she considers her top accomplishments during a ...

Elvis really loved Christmas. He loved Christmas because he grew up poor and liked lavishing presents on his friends and ...

President Jimmy Carter, the only Georgian to ever occupy the White House, died Sunday, Dec. 29 after spending over a year in ...

As the year winds down, Athens stands tall—if slightly slouched, sipping a craft beer—proudlyholding its well-earned title as ...

The Athens-Clarke County Commission narrowly approved a resolution last week that could do away with costly and often ...

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The commission will spend $4.5 million to repair broken elevators and make other repairs at the county courthouse, even ...

Deep in the woods along a stream flowing to the river is a cottage that the King has never visited because he does not know it is there. Few places in the kingdom escape the King’s notice, but this is ...

My friend, Steve, moved to Georgia a few years ago from New York. He lived his whole life there but is not at all the “typical” New Yorker we think of here in the South. He is kind, respectful, quick ...

I turned 66 two days after the election. In Athens, warm and humid September weather had stretched through the entire monthof ...

For letting other people’s perception question my introspection. I let them- demonize my whys to bury their lies on top of my wise. How dare I… let them audit me. Destabilize a solid me. After I ...