Jessica Smith

It was a big night for the Clarion County Fair’s 2021 4-H Livestock Auction as support from the large crowd of business owners, area officials and community members

The other cannabis appeal on the agenda for the board on July 20, was from the director of the Planning Department regarding the Planning Commission’s June 10 decision to grant

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Before trailer telematics came on the scene, many fleets saw their trailers not necessarily as an asset but as a problem. Today, proactive fleets using the data gleaned from trailer telematics dashboards can actually make their trailers a real asset to their operation and bottom line rather than pri…

The storefront windows of over two dozen businesses have become pop-up exhibition spaces for “When in Athens,” a photography project that brings together images made in any place named Athens, whether that’s here in Georgia, abroad in Greece or in one of over 20 other U.S. cities. The exhibition was…

ACC LIBRARY (2025 Baxter St.) On view in the Quiet Gallery, “Stories Told” features collages by Susan Pelham, who is influenced by Magic Realism, nursery rhymes, children’s camp songs, limericks, haiku poems, the Renaissance and 20th-century folk art. Artist talk and collage workshop offered July 19…

You probably knew it was coming, especially if you’ve been paying attention to the details of the Varsity tear-down story in Flagpole. Anyway, the folks who own the restaurant in Athens are planning on opening up two new locations, one in Oconee County and one in Barrow County, meaning you can still…

While empathy—the ability to recognize, understand and share the feelings of others—is widely considered an integral part of healthy interpersonal relationships and general functioning within American life today, the term is fairly new to the English language and is rooted, fascinatingly, in aesthet…

(Super Carnival Recordings) Written by guitarist and vocalist Bob Jesus Alvarez and drummer Darrick Alvarez, Sundown Radio is a four-song glimpse into the brothers’ perspectives as Peruvian-American immigrants. Reflecting a love for their ancestry and heritage—introduced by the cover’s illustration …

Varsity fans will still be able to get a chili dog at Milledge and Broad—they’ll just have to buy the ingredients and cook it themselves. In a move that has been expected for years, The Varsity’s Athens location quietly shut its doors June 20, announcing it on social media the following day. After m…

Several Clarke County School District parents started a petition after they’d learned that CCSD had quietly rescinded the mask mandate for summer school, as previously reported in Flagpole. While communication on masks was sent out via a letter to parents, several parents complained that there was n…

Y’all, I’ve made a huge mistake. I took something for granted, and I would never advise anyone else to ignore such an experience or disregard it or assume that they were insulated from it. There are not many freedoms or safeguards that I consider to come naturally with being a Black person in Americ…

Electronic cigarettes. Hair supply outlets. Discount aquatic pets. Tribal tattoo concepts. Everyone sees the signs that hang over the endless maze of strip malls lining the rolling expanse of Georgia countryside between Athens and Atlanta—and indeed the rest of America. It’s the vanguard—the outer l…

For anyone who has ever stood bewildered in front of a shelf of beer and impulsively reached for the most interesting design, it goes without saying that the label can be just as influential as what’s inside the can. Sharing the common goal of catching eyes, Athens’ oldest brewery, Terrapin Beer Co.…

Clarke County school board members are crafting a statement for the full board to approve condemning the Georgia State Board of Education’s ban on critical race theory. Originating in law schools in the 1990s, critical race theory examines how discrimination is structurally embedded in American inst…

You may know Grady Thrasher as a retired Atlanta lawyer who grew up in Athens and eventually returned home, or as the author of children’s stories, or as the behind-the-scenes supporter of various vital Athens groups, or maybe for his greatest achievement as the husband of artist Kathy Prescott. Who…

About 20 people gathered at John Bernard Croak Memorial Park in Glace Bay on Thursday afternoon for the grand opening of the Port Morien Wildlife Association (PMWA)’s barrier-free accessible fishing site, which has five fishing stations spaced six

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the film industry has been crushing: box office figures plummeted, production schedules screeched to a halt, award ceremonies lost their dazzle, festivals were upended and many theatrical releases were postponed or sent straight to streaming platforms. While in…

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Athens-Clarke County Internal Auditor Stephanie Maddox has accused Mayor Kelly Girtz and ACC Manager Blaine Williams of intimidating and discriminatory conduct that has subjected her to a hostile work environment. “I have endured [for] almost three years in October the most traumatic experiences of…