It’s already been a very busy year for Cameron Jay, creator and producer of the “Classic City Crime” podcast, and the 26-year-old Jay has no immediate plans to slow down.
Jay, who last year introduced his podcast with a 25-episode series on the 2001 unsolved murder of UGA law student Tara Baker, has more recently utilized his podcast to delve into the 1977 murder of Athens bar owner T.K. Harty and the March shooting death of Oconee County resident Elijah Wood while he worked an overnight shift at the RaceTrac on U.S. 441 in Watkinsville.
With the assistance of a local attorney, Jay has also been able to find office space in town, and he has gone back to college, enrolling at West Georgia University in Carrollton to study criminology.
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Owing to popular demand and a sense of history, Athens-based Terrapin Beer Co. recently announced the limited-release return of its first product, the celebrated Rye Pale Ale.
“For us, this is nostalgia, because this is what put us on the map,” said Spike Buckowski, brew master and co-founder of Terrapin, on Friday afternoon. “For us to bring it back is very special.”
Buckowski, who along with John Cochran established Terrapin in 2002, said Rye Pale Ale began life in his home, and the product turned out to be a hot commodity from the very beginning.
“I had been brewing Rye Pale Ale in my basement before I became a professional brewer, and after brewing school and working at a professional brewery and finally starting Terrapin back in 2002, that’s what we launched with,” he said.
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Athens Banner-Herald
Linda Phillips, who without ever playing a single note put an indelible mark on the iconic Athens music community, has died.
Phillips, the founder of Nuçi’s Space, died Wednesday evening in New York City after a yearlong bout with pancreatic cancer, Nuçi’s Space executive director Bob Sleppy confirmed Thursday afternoon.
“Linda was just an amazing lady,” Sleppy said Thursday evening. “For as open and kind and loving as she was, she was also somebody you just didn’t want to mess with. If she made up her mind she was going to do something, you’d better join her or just get the hell out of her way. That’s how Nuçi’s Space got open.
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Many college students regard their Winter Break as a time to relax, recreate and recharge over the Christmas holidays.
But Watkinsville resident Colton Kennedy isn’t like most college students. The Texas A&M sophomore – a member of Company H-1 in the school’s Corps of Cadets – is back home now, but prior to his return to Georgia he joined five other cadets in his unit to march a combined 1,000 miles to raise funds and awareness to a deserving foundation.
Kennedy, who graduated from Athens Academy in 2019, spent eight days in early December with his cadet colleagues as part of the Project Atlas Ruck March, now in its fourth year. The ruck march refers to the rucksack the cadets wear on their backs that holds extra clothing, food and water, and all four of the marches have collected money and raised awareness for the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF).