Classic City News

10/12/2025

Cam Newton was given grief about wanting to tear down Georgia flags after an Auburn win on Saturday night.

10/11/2025

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THE CHAIR ON THE VERANDA DOES NOT ROCK ITSELF!

HALLOWEEN IN ATHENS TRUMPS HAJOS ONCE AGAIN.

A specter haunts the front lawn of the Augustus Longstree Hull home, once on Dearing at the SE corner with Milledge. The home was later rotated to face Milledge, leaving our disoriented spirit appearing in the moonlight, sometimes staring across Milledge towards the Phi Mu house, sometimes staring out to Dearing towards the Sylvanus Morris house. Might Morris have suspected that she channeled some malevolence from his deceased rival in Athens history writing, A.L. Hull? Sadly the home was demolished and now she manifests herself in the Morgan Stanley parking lot on moonlit nights, forever seeking her chair.

For many years the replacing structure was called "The Medical Arts Building" - leading my late brother Rob to ask: is that where they make those little wooden statues of doctors in lab coats or playing golf that you see in waiting rooms?

Real life (almost) horror. Milton Leathers told me that he was in high school when the Hull house was being demolished and he asked about the magnificent wooden columns laying on the ground. The demolition team leader said he could have them if he wanted them, so Milton set about to organize a truck and team of friends to haul some of them (there were 12) to his parents' house. That without consulting his parents, of course. As Milton commented, fortunately for him and his parents the truck was not available.

10/11/2025

Another scene from pre-unification Athens

10/11/2025

***For Immediate Release | 10/09/2025 | Athens, Georgia, USA***WILD RUMPUS XVII 2025 Parade & Spectacle“SUPERNOVA!”Saturday, October 25, 2025Downtown Athens, GA USAALL DETAILS:www.wildrumpus.orgHalloween Parade Creates Magic in AthensThe Wild Rumpus is Athens, GA's 'Halloween Mardi Gras', in its...

10/11/2025

The following was released by the Athens-Clarke County Police Department On October 8, 2025, ACCPD investigated a shooting around 10:40 A.M. in the area of the ClarkeCounty Courthouse in downtown Athens. A Clarke County Sheriff’s Office Deputy heard a gunshot andobserved individuals running from t...

10/11/2025

Firefighters on Friday afternoon responded to a fire at the Serene at Northside apartment complex on Old Hull Road.“The main fire damage was in the first and second floor units on the west side of the B building,” said Adam Gardner, spokesman for the Athens-Clarke County Fire and Emergency Servi...

10/11/2025

By Joe Johnson An Athens man is facing an armed robbery charge for holding an up an Athens convenience store clerk while using a staple gun as his weapon.According to court records, the incident happened in August at the Citgo Food Mart on Hawthorne Avenue where 45-year-old Arthur Russell Suber of S...

10/11/2025

By Joe Johnson They might have been called the Railroad Track Crowd or known as the Trestle Gang, but however folks knew them these particular Georgia fans knew that the best way to watch Bulldogs football was from outside of Sanford Stadium, on a hill along East Campus Road that overlooked the east...

10/11/2025

By Joe Johnson A 17- year-old student caused what is described by police “a major disruption to the school environment” after threatening to shoot students and staff at Clarke Central High School.According to police and court records obtained by Classic City News the incident happened during lun...

10/11/2025

By Joe Johnson The police department has lately been making more arrests with the assistance of surveillance cameras.A recent incident report shows how the cameras are being used by police to identify crime as it is happening and swiftly move in to make arrests.Late in the night of September 19th of...

10/11/2025

By Joe Johnson A University of Georgia student recently went downtown with friends during a night of drinking and now wonders what might have happened to her prior to waking up in some bushes.The 19-year-old was fully clothed when found in bushes in front of the Classic Center, but still “she was ...

10/11/2025

While recording “RAM” in Los Angeles, Paul & Linda McCartney dropped by the 13th Annual Grammy Awards and walked away with a Grammy for “Let It Be”—handed ov...