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For four years, a local historian tour guide who goes by the name of âOconee Joeâ has led ecology and history tours of Oconee waterways. People have the option of paddling canoes or kayaks for half a day, a whole day or even a weekend.
One of the half-day tour options is an eight-mile journey that lets paddlers see the last six miles of the Middle Oconee River and the first two miles of the converged Main Oconee rivers.Â
While paddlers, fish and fowl now use the Middle Oconee to traverse the region, Oconee Joe explained that indigenous people such as the Woodland, Mississippian and Creek tribes have used the corridor as a highway for over 10,000 years.Â
The Athens-Clarke County Commission passed a resolution that confirms the updates on the Clayton Street construction that were discussed in last weekâs work session during a special called session Tuesday.
The resolution will eliminate most plans to add planters, except at sidewalk bump-outs and corners. It would also add motorcycle parking spaces and include stairs in needed areas.Â
The planters are being removed from the project plan in order to create more sidewalk space for pedestrians, due to the recent extension of the countyâs parklet program.
The Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission discussed adjusted plans for construction on Clayton Street that would provide more pedestrian sidewalk space, a new river access point and eliminating hostile architecture downtown.
The Athens-Clarke County Mayor and Commission discussed adjusted plans for construction on Clayton Street that would provide more pedestrian sidewalk space, a new river access point and eliminating hostile architecture downtown during a work session Tuesday evening.
Two ACC Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax program administrators, Keith Sanders and Diana Jackson, presented the commission with the newly updated plans that the commission is set to vote on during their next voting session.
The adjustment would eliminate most plans to add planters, except at sidewalk bump-outs and corners. It would also add motorcycle parking spaces and include stairs in needed areas, among other things.
Head to Athens on a weekday between September and May, and students will likely be flowing down Baxter Street from high-rise dormitories at the top of the hill toward the University of Georgia campus.
Young people have lived in each of the three nine- or 10-story towers on the hill Creswell Hall, Brumby Hall and Russell Hall for decades.
When Hattie Thomas Whitehead was young, she lived here, too.
“When I was a little girl, this was dirt,” Thomas Whitehead said while giving a tour of her old neighborhood recently, referring to Finley Street, which runs between Creswell and Russell. “It was not paved.”