Local News
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Next month, Athens' community band will be gracing one of America’s most famous stages: Carnegie Hall in New York City. Band director Michael Brewer and President Davis Clark sat down with Emma Auer to talk about this amazing milestone.
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Voters will decide this Spring whether Athens-Clarke County will have the option to levy a new Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax, or TSPLOST.
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The Clarke County Board of Education selected interim Superintendent Dr. Jennifer Scott as the sole finalist to permanently lead the Clarke County School District during its May 14 meeting.
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St. Mary’s Health Care System is getting a $35 million expansion. The new facility will be added to the Baxter Street campus and will be dedicated to heart health and cancer.
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Athens nonprofit The Cottage is hosting its annual fundraiser, Athens’s Got Talent this weekend.
NPR News
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Thousands of Uyghurs became key fighters against Syria's Assad regime. For the first time, they agreed to be interviewed. NPR spent weeks with some of them to understand why they fled China for Syria.
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Cambria CEO Marty Davis has successfully asked the U.S. government to put tariffs on quartz. His business competitors are crying foul.
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Firefighters say setting fires on purpose is one of the best ways to protect against massive wildfires later. But the Trump administration is banning or stalling preventative burning across the U.S.
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The high-profile writer, who has written a forthcoming book about New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is being investigated by the magazine after being called out for copying the work of other writers.
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