In the Loop
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Auburn Fan Claims He Was Spit on, Hit by Bottles in Athens
This is an anonymous Reddit post, so take it with a Big Gulp full of grains of salt, but a (purported) Auburn fan didn't have a good time in Athens last weekend (if this person was even here at all).
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Nov. 17
Photo Credit: Ted Mayer
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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Todd Gurley's Career at Georgia Is Over
Photo Credit: John Kelley
Surely, you thought, after last year's cavalcade of exploding ligaments, Georgia could get through a season without a serious knee injury. Sadly, that is not the case.
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A Faulty Road for Caterpillar Cost Taxpayers $220,000
Oconee County is paying nearly $110,000 as the county’s share of the cost of repairing Orkin Drive, the main entranceway to the Caterpillar plant on the east side of Bogart.
The roadway failed shortly after the two counties accepted responsibility for it in August and September of 2013, and it was partially closed and rebuilt at the end of last year. Total cost of repair was just less than $220,000, with Athens-Clarke County and Oconee County splitting the expenses.
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The Twilight Criterium Route Is Changing
Photo Credit: B.D. Andrews
The downtown route for the popular Twilight Criterium bike races will be changing due to an ongoing streetscape project on Clayton Street that will coincide with the April 24–25 event.
Twilight's main races have traditionally started on Clayton and College Avenue, turning onto Lumpkin Street, then Washington Street, then Thomas Street and back to Clayton.
Next year, however, races will start at College and Washington, turning onto Jackson, then Hancock Avenue, then Hull Street, then back to Washington.
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Athens Power Rankings for the Week of Nov. 10
Photo Credit: John Kelley
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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John Barrow Is Moving Back to Athens
After losing last week's election, U.S. Rep. John Barrow is moving back to Athens.
Barrow, who lost his bid for a sixth term to Republican Rick Allen, has put his Augusta house up for sale and plans on coming back to his hometown, where he still owns a house and his family lives, spokesman Richard Carbo told the Augusta Chronicle.
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Oconee Voters Approve Liquor by the Drink
Oconee County voters approved by large margins the sale of liquor by the drink in restaurants throughout the county and its cities and continuation of the 1 percent Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax for another six years.
Unofficial results show 65.4 percent of those who cast ballots approving of liquor by the drink, and 65.1 percent approving of SPLOST.
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