In the Loop
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Athens Mourns With Charleston Over Church Massacre
The Rev. Claude Ray James, First AME's pastor, leads a prayer.
Athens First AME Church—the oldest African American church in the city—invited members of other local churches to participate in a prayer vigil on Wednesday for the nine victims of the racially motivated killings last week at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC. Flagpole photographer Joshua L. Jones documented the emotional evening.
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Terrapin Almost Left Athens for South Carolina
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
Terrapin Beer Co. used lucrative offers from other states to move its Athens brewery to extract more than $1 million in taxpayer incentive offers from the Athens-Clarke County government, according to documents obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of June 22
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.
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A Former Athenian on the Charleston Tragedy
Photo Credit: Travis Dove for the New York Times
Former Flagpole editor Richard Fausset reports in today's New York Times from Charleston, SC, on the racially motivated massacre by a white gunman of nine African Americans attending a prayer service.
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Athens Congressman Jody Hice: There's No Such Thing as Separation of Church and State
Jody Hice, the Walton County tea party Republican who represents Athens in Congress, told a San Diego Christian Conference that the "so-called separation of church and state" is a "false belief," and that Christians staying out of government has made it more corrupt, the website Right Wing Watch reported.
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Taxis, Food Trucks and Aldi: What the Athens Government Is Up to This Week
Photo Credit: Joshua L. Jones/file
The Athens-Clarke County Commission holds its agenda-setting (non-voting) meeting at 7 p.m. today at City Hall.
Agenda items include a plan to extend the North Oconee River Greenway (see tomorrow’s City Dope for more), reforms to the local taxi ordinance and a change in the sign ordinance allowing businesses to post an additional sign, for a total of two (aimed mainly at restaurants that wish to display menus).
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of June 15
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.
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