CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By Leon Galis When the Board of Education announced its separation agreement with CCSD's former superintendent Demond Means, I was sure t...

By Evander Baker I didn't know "Congressman John Lewis." And I don't mean that in the sense that I'd never met him or got to know him as...

By Johnnie W. Lewis We came. We saw. But we left, taking our hearts with us. San Francisco is safe from the Lewises. We won’t be taki...

On Thursday, a group of parents and teachers, called Concerned Stakeholders of Barrow County Schools, sent a letter to the Barrow County ...

By Alex Benoit I am a full-time dual enrollment student at the University of Georgia and Oconee County High School. A couple months ago, ...

By Farol NeSmith Two days before the citizens of Athens-Clarke District 6 re-elected Jerry NeSmith for his third term on the ACC Commissi...

By T.W. Burger The two bikes rattled down the piney hill, a cacophony of loose metal, knobby balloon tires barely hanging on to the red c...

By Johnnie W. Lewis California is an extremely diverse place to visit in our RV, though I’m not sure I would want to live here permanentl...

Chert Rock Used by aboriginal North Americans along the Upper Oconee River Watershed. He watched the young that sat amongst him chip, chi...

By Jeff Snowden My mentee wanted to know how I felt about the removal of the memorial to the county's Confederate soldiers who were kille...

By Charlie Maddox As a citizen of Athens, Georgia for 73 years and as one who has dedicated the majority of my life to helping Athens bec...

To say this campaign has not gone the way we expected or hoped is an understatement. The pandemic disrupted our ability to engage and sha...

By T.W. Burger In January of 1961 I was an 11-year-old kid in Athens when Charlayne Hunter, now Hunter-Gault, and Hamilton Holmes, both A...

By Leon Galis Along with nearly 8,500 other people (and counting), I read with interest Nhan-Ai Simms’ extended discussion of the plan Co...

By Pat Priest A single, exasperating post on my neighborhood listserv recently made me think: We need to move!  An older guy had written ...

By Dr. Robert Sinyard It’s been just over two months since the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) announced the first positive cas...

By Nhan-Ai Simms Dear Mayor Girtz and the Commission of Athens-Clarke County, I am writing today to express my concerns about the budget ...

By Shane Sims I entered the Georgia State Prison system on the heels of one of the most brutal assaults against the inmate population in ...

By Johnnie W. Lewis Here’s an average Travel Day for us, or at least Act One, all performed before breakfast. Unlock tow-dolly, move it, ...

By Leon Galis In all the finger pointing following the May 31st demonstration downtown, one of the responsible parties is getting a pass....