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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.
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Health officials are working to contain a new Ebola outbreak in the DRC of a virus strain with no known vaccine.
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The splashy nighttime phenomenon will be best observed on Saturday and Sunday nights
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A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany's Baltic Sea coast, Danish authorities said Saturday.
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In Sri Lanka, the islanders revere elephants. But for farmers, there's rising tension that's leading to more fatal encounters — for both humans and hungry pachyderms.
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