In the Loop
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Beware the UGA Homecoming Parade
Photo Credit: UGA News Service
Traffic will get pretty hairy in the downtown area this afternoon as UGA’s homecoming parade gets underway.
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Water Main Breaks on Jefferson Road
Photo Credit: Jeff Montgomery
A water main break in western Athens has forced authorities to close part of the Loop and advise some residents to boil water before drinking or cooking with it.
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Urban Outfitters Asks Employees to Work for Free
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
Here’s some more fuel to throw on the Urban Outfitters fire.
The clothing retailer’s Philadelphia-based parent company, URBN, recently asked salaried employees at its corporate headquarters to “volunteer” at a Pennsylvania warehouse to pack packages for shipping, labeling the free labor a “team building activity.”
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Ort Goes to Court, Cleans Up His Carport
After a somewhat convoluted hearing in Athens-Clarke County Municipal Court Monday afternoon, Judge Leslie Spornberger Jones found William Orten Carlton guilty of two counts of probation violation and ordered that he remain on probation for another month while he finishes cleaning up his property.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Oct. 12
Welcome to Athens Power Rankings. In the spirit of sports rating systems, through painstaking analysis, we rank the top movers and shakers in the Classic City each week. Who's hot? Who's not? Find out below.
Alice Walker
1. Alice Walker
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author speaks at the UGA Chapel Wednesday as the university's inaugural Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. See this week's paper for more.
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A Grand Jury Is Investigating Paul Broun and Jody Hice
"Did you really think you'd get away with this?" the lion asked Paul Broun.
A federal grand jury in Macon is looking into whether former Rep. Paul Broun and his successor, Rep. Jody Hice, misused taxpayer funds by mixing official business with their campaigns.
Consultant Brett O’Donnell is facing five years in prison for lying to investigators. Broun’s congressional office paid O’Donnell $43,000 in taxpayer money to prepare Broun for debates when he ran for Senate last year. At the urging of Broun’s chief of staff, David Bowser, O’Donnell initially told investigators that he was a volunteer on Broun’s campaign, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Commission Puts Food Truck Ordinance on Hold
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
Atlanta's Mix'd Up Burgers at a downtown Athens food truck festival last month that drew 6,000 people.
A proposal to allow food trucks to set up shop downtown one day a week is on hold after brick-and-mortar restaurant owners complained.
The Athens-Clarke County Commission voted 6–5 Tuesday night to hold the ordinance for 30 days while they hear concerns from restaurant owners. Commissioners Jared Bailey, Diane Bell, Sharyn Dickerson, Harry Sims and Allison Wright and Mayor Nancy Denson voted for the delay; commissioners Andy Herod, Mike Hamby, Jerry NeSmith, Melissa Link and Kelly Girtz voted against it because they wanted to pass the ordinance immediately.
The ordinance would allow six food trucks to park around City Hall on a first-come, first-serve bases on Tuesdays for a $200 fee.
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Ort's Trial Is Monday
Photo Credit: Blake Aued/file
Well-known local writer, DJ, record collector and beer connoisseur William Orten "Ort" Carlton will go to trial Monday in Athens-Clarke County Municipal Court on charges of having a bunch of crap in his yard.
Ort will face a probation-revocation hearing stemming from citations he received for violating local quality-of-life ordinances last October. He spent a night in jail last month after Judge Leslie Spornberger Jones ruled that he hadn't done enough to clean up his property in the ensuing months, in spite of several extensions.
"Our main goal is compliance," County Attorney Bill Berryman said after a brief hearing this afternoon to set a trial date. "We don't want to punish them [people who are cited by the Community Protection Division]. We want them to fix it."
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