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With about 60,000 residents spread out over 342 square miles, creating a unified vision for Jackson County's future is complicated.

UGA Alumni Assoc Athens chapter tailgate cookoff Date: September 11, 2009 Description: The UGA Alumni Association's Athens chapter will host a tailgate cookoff at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Wray-Nicholson House, 298 S. Hull St.

12 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Greater St. James Overcoming Church of God. The focus of the event is to develop strong, positive, responsible black males.

Five sitting mayors will face election battles in November, with challengers qualifying by Friday's deadline to take on Comer Mayor William E. Burroughs and Danielsville Mayor Glenn Cross.

The UGA Alumni Association's Athens chapter will host a tailgate cookoff at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Wray-Nicholson House, 298 S. Hull St.

A news brief published Thursday on Page A7 of the Athens Banner-Herald incorrectly characterized the $1 million the Georgia Environmental Facilities Authority awarded to the Nicholson Water Authority.

It took firefighters from five different departments more than three hours to put out a fire in Jackson County Wednesday morning.

Union Baptist Church on Georgia Highway 106, just south of Ila, will hold a four-day revival beginning Sept.