Oglethorpe County News

The lingering recession is doing a number on school bands, turning down the volume on the money schools need to buy and repair instruments at the same time parents' ability to fund their children's musical aspirations is going flat.

The two men accused of murdering a well-known Athens man and his companion in Oglethorpe County in 2006 have another new trial date.

Wednesday: 18 November 2009 Saturday in Oglethorpe County [General] - Wayne - wayne@sparkleberrysprings.com @ 08:41:07 Occasionally WFD is asked to participate in Oglethorpe County community events, and so on Saturday Glenn and I will run down to the station, pick up the tanker, and drive a few miles northeast into Crawford.

Dawson County junior point guard Stephen Scaife scored 25 points to lead the Dawson County boys to a 64-56 win against Oglethorpe County on Tuesday night in Dawsonville.

Faced with likely tax hikes and possible layoffs next year, Athens-Clarke officials are shuffling money around to avoid making a projected $1.4 million budget shortfall even larger.

Two recent University of Georgia graduates will lecture on African conflict diamonds at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Oglethorpe County Library, 858 Athens Road, Lexington.

An officer thought it was odd that two men were walking in the pouring rain early Wednesday near businesses on Lexington Road, and then found out one of them was carrying bolt-cutters and was wanted in Oglethorpe County, Athens-Clarke police said.

The Athens-Clarke Commission gave the final go-ahead to a new downtown parking deck Tuesday night over the objections of some residents who said it will be too big and is not needed.

Two recent letters to the editor , addressing the recent distribution of Bibles by the Gideons at an Oglethorpe County school , demand a response.

The man who shot and killed his former girlfriend then committed suicide Thursday nearly killed a third person as he apparently tried to escape from police.

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a murder-suicide that started with a woman's body found in a parked car about a mile from the University of Georgia campus.

Athens-Clarke police are investigating a murder-suicide that started with a woman's body found in a parked car about a mile from the University of Georgia campus.

The hunt is over for a man who police suspect shot and killed a woman this afternoon in a shopping center parking lot off South Milledge Avenue.

Oglethorpe County is a vote away from finally getting an animal control ordinance and an official to enforce the local law.

A 22-year-old University of Georgia student was trapped in the wreckage of his sport utility vehicle for nearly 90 minutes Monday after he ran off U.S. Highway 78 and hit a tree in Eastern Oglethorpe County.

Oglethorpe County road department worker Neil Farnsworth, left, watches Joe McCannon excavate Friday where a section of Walter Sams Road was washed out from the recent heavy rains.

Madison County Code Enforcement Officer Jack Huff kneels outside of a Colbert home where he served an animal complaint recently.

It's difficult for me to believe the front-page headline in the Oct. 14 edition of the Banner-Herald that read, "Passing out of Bibles protested." According to the story, an Oglethorpe County parent complained because his fifth-grade daughter came home from school with a Bible.

Patrons work at computer stations Friday at the Athens-Clarke County Library on Baxter Street.

Let's be honest here. It's not for nothing this part of the country has earned the nickname "buckle of the Bible belt." Wednesday-night church suppers, Sunday school and Bible studies long have been a part of the social and cultural fabric of the South, coloring it as surely and completely as the dust of its red clay soil.