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Every Halloween, the Wild Rumpus parade floods downtown Athens with wacky costumes and spooky spirit. This year, the people behind the Wild Rumpus have launched a new initiative to make sure Athens kids have access to great costumes.
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Amber Newberry has never lived in Athens, but she has a pretty good idea of what Normaltown was like in the mid to late 1900s. That’s thanks to a suitcase full of poetry she inherited from her grandmother, Bernice Newberry, who lived in Athens.
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The Athens-Clarke County Library’s Heritage Room serves as the headquarters of the Archives and Special Collections Department. The tucked-away space doesn’t get many visitors—but it may have a resident ghost.
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Athens-Clarke County officials have announced approximately $2.3 million in local and anticipated federal funding for community development and housing programs for fiscal year 2028.
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With early voting just over a week away, the campaigns are picking up. And for Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is running for governor, the campaign takes her to Athens for a little tailgating.
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Lambert started out as a scrappy country singer with a me-against-the-world attitude. How did she end up making lush disco songs and writing one of the biggest pop hits of the year?
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Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
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HBO's War is intended to be an anthology series about two dueling London law firms. The first season stars Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a high-profile couple in the midst of a very nasty divorce.
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The famed Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.
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