CLASSIC CITY NEWS

By James P. Hilton Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewell. ~ Patrick Henry The...

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By Joe Johnson At 6:27 p.m. Friday. Athens-Clarke County Fire and Emergency Services received an alarm for a structure fire in at...

By Joe Johnson Each year, it’s estimated more than 40,000 pets die in fires, most succumbing to smoke inhalation. The reality in most...

By Bill Crane Others have written and more will write, detailed tributes to Coach Vince Joseph Dooley (age 90) as the winningest coach in...

A local radio program noted that Election Day itself is losing its identity with the advent and high participation of early voting. That...

As a homeowner in Athens’ West Broad neighborhood and a member of the Advisory Board, we advocated to our state representatives for help...

Since the 1980s, Republicans have argued for cutting public programs because they cost too much money, such as Social Security, Medicare....

Republicans, having learned that voter roll growth and high voter turnout always push their candidates lower down the rungs of power’s...

By Joe Johnson At about 11;15 a.m. Friday, Athens-Clarke County police responded to a report of a deceased person who was located in a...

I fear that many Americans believe the decision (Roe v. Wade) passed 50 years ago and recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court,...

Georgia has seen waves of new voting restrictions passed by a party that has learned that escalation of voter rolls shunts its candidates...

By Michael H. McLendon Two actions of the CCSD School Board this week do not bode well for the future of our schools and the...

By Mara Zuniga Blake Aued, an Athens journalist, once again has written an article that takes some truth, and some misinformation to try...

Athens NAACP is calling on the Clarke County School Board to hold a community meeting with the“sole finalist“ for school superintendent...

Georgia Republican candidates for state and federal office are pledging to ban abortion even in cases of rape, incest or to save the life...

Many of our elected officials- governors, state legislators, members of Congress-have failed to act to stop the murder of our children in...

“I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars… if a bullet cost five thousand dollars there would be no more innocent...

The cat is out of the bag, the rabbit is out of the box, the possum is sprung from the hav-a-hart, the steel-trapped weasel has finally...

Dear Editor, In 1984, Wendy’s launched a nationwide advertising blitz that became one the most effective messaging campaigns ever. A...