CLASSIC CITY NEWS

From the Barrow County Fire Department: At approximately 6:20 a.m. on Thursday Barrow County emergency crews were dispatched to a...

From the Athens-Clarke County Fire and Emergency Services Department: A-Shift, Engine 26, Ladder 1, and Winterville Fire responded to a...

I wrote this a couple of decades ago for the Athens Banner-Herald Joe Johnson jjohnson@onlineathens.com December 15, 2004 " Well it's set way back in the middle of a field/Just a funky old shack and I gotta get back." The tin roof and a burned-out frame are all that remain of the little old place where Kate Pierson once got together with her B-52's band mates. An early Monday morning fire gutted the unoccupied five-room cabin set back in a field that is believed to have insp

By Joe Johnson A 4-year-old Athens girl on Saturday survived a drowning incident at Sandy Creek Park. According to a police report,...

By Joe Johnson A house in the Normaltown neighborhood of Athens was destroyed by fire Sunday morning. The lone resident, Patti Thorne,...

By Joe Johnson Squatters possibly are to blame for a fire early Sunday morning at Cascades on the River apartments on Sycamore Drive off...