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State signing up veterans to serve as poll workers
ATLANTA — Georgia voters will be getting help from veterans on Election Day this year, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Tuesday. Raffensperger’s office will partner with Vet the Vote, a new nationwide organization that recruits veterans and members of their families to serve as volunteer poll workers. More than 135,000 veterans across the nation will be serving as poll workers this year, Dan Valone, director of Vet the Vote,...
Biden asks Congress for 5% rent increase cap
ATLANTA — Efforts to address affordable housing could soon come from the federal government. This Tuesday, the Biden administration announced a proposal to cap how much landlords could raise rent or risk losing tax breaks. Metro Atlanta realtor Alex Szemetyllo, he adds, in recent years he’s watched rent drastically...
Georgia sees youngest female mayor in history
The state of Georgia has now seen its youngest female mayor in state history. Brooke Huckaby is 21 years old is now the mayor of a small town named Arabi, located approximately 150 miles south of Atlanta. "It's just really concerning to me how people my age aren't involved in...
Interior Department nominates Civil Rights Movement sites for World Heritage List
Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday that the National Park Service will potentially nominate 11 different sites from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to be added to the World Heritage List. “The U.S. sites that mark the civil rights movement are integral in helping us tell a full and complete story of American history,”…
White County Sheriff’s Office Asking For Help Locating A Missing 16 Year Old
(Cleveland)- The White County Sheriff’s Office has asked the public to help them locate a missing 16-year-old. A notice on the Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page said they need help in locating 16-year-old Zachariah Nunnally who has been missing since Tuesday, July 16. Zachariah is a white male,...
ACC Mayor and Commission discusses zoning, TSPLOST 2026
The Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission met for the monthly agenda setting meeting on Tuesday, July 16, where they covered a range of issues, from zoning change requests to funding youth sports development initiatives. Prior to the regularly-scheduled agenda setting meeting, the commission met for a special called session, where commissioners discussed and voted on topics including the timeline for the 2026 Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax and school resource officer funding.
Athens Area Humane Society offers free vaccines to 200 pets
The Athens Area Humane Society is hosting a free pet vaccine clinic from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the facility at 1030 Mitchell Bridge Road. The clinic will operate on a first-come, first-served basis and is limited to the first 200 pets from households in Clarke, Jackson and Madison counties.
Health inspections: Two Athens restaurants dinged for 'food debris' in kitchen ovens
Here are the Georgia Department of Health's restaurant inspection scores for Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties conducted July 3-16. Scores in each category are listed in order of most recent inspection date. The Georgia Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Section, conducts regular restaurant inspections to help keep residents and visitors...
Greg Sankey defends Georgia as deserving 2023 College Football Playoff team, shades Florida State after snub
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey defended Georgia after the Bulldogs missed the 2023 College Football Playoff, touting the program in retrospect as a deserving national championship contender and taking a subtle jab at Florida State in the process. Both the Bulldogs and Seminoles narrowly missed last season's playoff and, in turn, went head-to-head in the Orange Bowl, wherein Kirby Smart and his squad routed their ACC foe in a 63-3 beatdown.
No bad blood between Florida Gators, Georgia running back Trevor Etienne
DALLAS, Texas — This year's edition of the Georgia-Florida rivalry will have an interesting storyline with former Florida running back Trevor Etienne suiting up for the red and black. While Florida fans will surely let the former Gator have it, his former teammates don't hold a grudge as he prepares for a new phase of his career.
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