Clarke County News Archives

Lisa Summers' phone rang early on May 16. Her parents were away from their Oglethorpe County home, but there was an emergency on the farm and someone should come quick, their neighbors told her.

When Clarke County schools rezoned more than half of elementary school students this year, the change didn't affect just the kids.

A little less than a year ago, some parents of Clarke County elementary school students waited nervously as the Clarke County Board of Education began to weigh a proposal by then-interim Superintendent James Simms to reconfigure elementary-school attendance zones.

The economics for the new Athens-Clarke County jail proposal appear to grow steadily worse .

Athens-Clarke commissioners had nothing to say Thursday about a plan to go up to $80 million in debt to expand the overcrowded Clarke County Jail.

A car's catalytic converter sparked a brush fire that burned about 20 acres near Athens-Ben Epps Airport on Tuesday afternoon, an Athens-Clarke emergency management official said.

Firefighters from Winterville talk with an Athens-Clarke police officer at the scene of a brush fire Tuesday along Beaverdam Road Extension.

Firefighters from Winterville talk with an Athens-Clarke police officer at the scene of a brush fire Tuesday along Beaverdam Road Extension.

Road work taking place around the region this week. On the road: Area road work Athens Banner-Herald Story updated at 9:04 pm on 8/9/2009 Area road work.

Kindergarten teacher Jan Neubauer says hello to a former student, James Johnson, when she spotted him in the hallway Thursday at Whitehead Road Elementary School.

There's a breeze on Audrey Rowden's porch that makes it a near-perfect place to spend a summer afternoon, but during the past few months, that breeze has made her porch unbearable.

The following traffic restrictions, weather permitting, are expected this week in Athens-Clarke County: 1 - Downtown Athens : West Clayton Street between North Hull and North Lumpkin streets.