The Athens Music Walk of Fame Committee officially announced five new inductees for 2025 in between acts during the AthFest Music & Arts Festival on Friday, June 20. Our very own Flagpole Magazine as ...

Mayor Kelly Girtz broke a tie in favor of a land swap for a student housing development north of downtown that will net ...

The Athens-Clarke County Commission split along familiar lines in approving Commissioner Mike Hamby’s budget proposal that, ...

If you were around in the middle of the last century, you remember those “Get US out of UN” signs along the roadsides.

Local officials in red and blue communities around the country are puzzled as to how they landed on a since-retracted U.S.

Beyond the auditory arts, AthFest is also amplifying the visual arts through the third annual Athens Art Book Fair. This ...

The Clarke County Board of Education approved its own budget last week as well. The $255 million spending plan is $13 million ...

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A list of 14 states, 298 counties and 200 cities deemed immigration sanctuaries by the Trump administration has disappeared ...

In another AthFest-affiliated event, 10–15 local writers who submitted via open call will be performing spoken word poetry ...

Plantation Buffet, on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy. (always an extremely awkward combination), has been renamed J & L ...