In the Loop
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Michael Adams Comes Out of Retirement to Take Over Pepperdine
Former University of Georgia President Michael Adams has been hired as chancellor of Pepperdine University effective Aug. 1, the Malibu, CA school announced Thursday.
“I have great confidence that Mike will open doors of opportunity, giving us the advantage we need to become a preeminent, global, Christian university,” Pepperdine President Andrew K. Benton said in a news release. “Mike and Mary Adams are true and dependable friends who have never been far from the Pepperdine community.”
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Oconee Utility Director Resigns Over Sewer Spills
Chris Thomas, head of Oconee County’s beleaguered utility department, has resigned effective June 19.
Thomas, 42, has been with the county for 17 years and has been director of the utility department since 2008.
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Rockdale Chief Deputy Scott Freeman Is Athens' New Police Chief
Photo Credit: Courtesy of Athens-Clarke County
Athens-Clarke County Manager Alan Reddish has hired Scott Freeman as ACC's new police chief, effective July 6, from among 64 candidates, the local government announced today.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of June 8
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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Aldi Is Coming to the Eastside
Following a meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Planning Commission on Thursday, Aldi’s proposal to add a second Athens store at the intersection of Barnett Shoals Road and College Station Road is moving forward.
The area in which the discount grocery store—which already has a location on Atlanta Highway—is proposed to be built is a five-acre plot currently inhabited by an old service station. The store and its 84 parking places would only represent about an acre and a half of that whole plot, leaving the rest to act as a buffer around the store. But to the south, near the Green Acres neighborhood, the buffer would be only 44 feet, along with a fence to screen the headlights of cars in the parking lot, leading some neighbors to voice concerns about a grocery store virtually in their backyards.
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UGA President Jere Morehead Is Donating $100,000 to UGA
University of Georgia President Jere Morehead is donating a big chunk of his $250,000 pay raise to a new scholarship endowment, the university announced today.
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UGA Student's Letter Reveals Tiananmen Square Coverup to the Chinese People
UGA student Gu Yi distributed this photo to media outlets with his letter.
This is ancient history for most UGA students, but in the first week of June in 1989, the Chinese military confronted student-led protesters calling for reforming the autocratic government in Beijing. It was the Arab Spring of my generation—except it didn’t work. The government redoubled its crackdown on dissidents.
Even today, merely mentioning the Tiananmen Square protests is illegal in China. But Gu Yi, a UGA graduate student in chemistry, wrote an open letter (signed by 10 other Chinese expats) and managed to get it past China’s censors and Internet filters. The letter calls for an end to political persecution and for those who killed protestors to be put on trial.
Here’s the Washington Post’s take:
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Oconee County Creeks Are Full of Sewage
Luckily for Oconee County utility workers, this photo was taken in India.
Oconee County reported two new sewage spills to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division on Friday, one of which was classified as a “major spill” and involved the discharge of sewage into Calls Creek.
The smaller spill was into McNutt Creek behind Creekside subdivision, which is on the east side of Jimmy Daniell Road at the county line.
The spill into Calls Creek was at the troubled Calls Creek wastewater treatment planton Durhams Mill Way north of Watkinsville, where a separation of pipe allowed sewage to flow for five minutes into the creek.
For more, visit Oconee County Observations.
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