CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Eddie Whitlock ​This is my second attempt at an end-of-2023 column. Just as Nikki Haley failed to mention slavery as the cause of the...

Erik Hogan is a photographer who primarily shoots landscape, wilderness, and nature scenes in the Athens area. Follow on Instagram...

By Erik Hogan There is a time frame in the Spring when rhododendrons bloom high in the Blueridge Mountains. I see other photographers’...

Every year December 21 marks the official start of winter. It also is the date of the Winter Solstice, when the sun is directly over the...

By Eddie Whitlock ​ ​Christmas isn’t as cool as it used to be. ​Literally, it’s not. ​When I was a kid growing up in Griffin the weather...

By Erik Hogan Field Notes XXXIII: How the largest cavalry charge in the history of warfare resulted in a Christmas cookie This is the...

By T.W. Burger On those rare occasions that I visit the small town where I was born, I find myself visiting graves, particularly those of...

By Erik Hogan I was out and about in the world the other day and experienced very dense fog throughout the morning. This is highly...

By Erik Hogan I drove very slowly along the quiet neighborhood street in the early morning. The road was so small it did not have lanes....

By T.W. Burger One doesn’t hear as much as much talk from the "back to nature" folks these days as one used to. Excuse me. That should be...

​By Eddie Whitlock I called my sister before I wrote this. Cathy is five years younger and a hundred times better than me. If I ever want...

By T.W. Burger Charles “Ches” McCartney, aka The Goat Man, had been a personal hero of mine ever since I was a boy growing up in Athens...

Resident's letter to commissioners and mayor about the possibility of the homeless encampment moving to Tallassee Road Dear Commissioners...

By T.W. Burger The malady can be contagious, but AWAM is mostly found among those of a certain age, especially in the US of A. AWAM is an...

By T.W. Burger In a recent ZOOM meeting of a book club I belong to, someone remarked that we all think of ourselves as cowboys, free...

By Mokah Jasmine Johnson Did you know one out of every three Black boys born today can expect to be sentenced to prison, compared to 1...

By Robert Covi All three branches of Georgia’s government have republican majorities and everyone knows how difficult it is for the...

Join the Athens-Clarke County Library Heritage Room in welcoming professional storyteller Jeanette Waddell. This event will take place at...

By Eddie Whitlock On a family vacation when I was about 10 years old, I bought a post card that wound up on the wall of my bedroom until...

By Eddie Whitlock My daddy was arrested in 1982 for selling beer on Sunday, which was illegal in Georgia at the time. I had been away at...