Athens News

A 19-year-old Winder woman died after her Lincoln Navigator overturned several times Thursday night on the Athens Perimeter.

When it comes to drawing major employers, Athens has been the bridesmaid so many times, it's starting to seem like a bad romantic comedy.

Friday, July 3, 2009 7:50 a.m. The Northeast Health District has confirmed a case of H1N1 influenza, commonly called swine flu, in the Athens area.

Siena College's Ryan Poplawski pitched a complete game and won his fourth game of the season as the Athens Pirates defeated the Windward Ringers 10-2 on Thursday.

For 13 years now, the annual AthFest music and arts festival has brought downtown Athens to life at a time that, before the festival's arrival, had seen downtown revert back to its days as a quiet precinct of a sleepy Southern college town.

Thomas Ehlers never had shared a swimming pool with a shark before, and he wasn't sure about the proper etiquette.

Authorities will toss some of the charges in a brutal dog mauling at an Eastside apartment complex last month after the teenage victim admitted he antagonized the dogs by bouncing a basketball against the outside wall of their home.

Workers closed an East Athens street today for water and sewer work, a day earlier than scheduled, the Athens-Clarke Transportation and Public Works Department said this morning.

Hansen Technologies, a refrigeration component manufacturer, is hiring 60 new employees to man a new production line in Commerce.

An Athens man died Sunday night when the pickup truck he was driving ran off Spring Valley Road in eastern Clarke County and hit a tree, Athens-Clarke police said.

The foreign invaders still are winning - but humans are beginning to fight back in the war against exotic invasive plants.

The Athens Pirates split a doubleheader with the Gainesville Travelers at Smith Field on Sunday afternoon.

People who are convicted of minor crimes in Clarke County are paying more fines and performing far more community service under a new government-run probation office.

People who are convicted of minor crimes in Clarke County are paying more fines and performing far more community service under a new government-run probation office.

Athens City Hall on College Avenue in downtown Athens. Special The new Lamar Dodd School of Art on the University of Georgia campus.

June 25, 2009 at 4:04 pm by Debbie Michaud in Comedy , Community , Events It seems almost everyone in these parts has a favorite memory of the Georgia Theatre, the iconic Athens, Ga., landmark that burned to the ground last Friday morning .

The North Georgia Jaycees will host the first annual Jaycees Celebrity Softball Game and Homerun Derby on Sunday, June 28, 2009 at 4pm at the Clarke Central High School baseball field.

There is a great little music festival this weekend in Athens, Georgia in Clarke County called AthFest that you ought to bring the family to several times in the next three days, and while you are at it, buy a bicycle at Sunshine Bikes either downtown in Athens next to the stage or at their store in Watkinsville.

The 19th-century building was a cornerstone in the alternative rock music scene that gave the world the B-52s, R.E.M. and the Indigo Girls, said Doc Eldridge, president of the local Chamber of Commerce.

A key bacterial compound that inhibits the growth of the plant pathogen Fusarium Verticillioides has been identified and could lead to better protection for plants, livestock and poultry from fusarium infection.