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Weekend preview: Live music, drive-in movie and more
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A look ahead: UGA and Athens events this week
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People didn’t stop going to the movies during the COVID-19 pandemic. With indoor theatres closed, drive-ins experienced an unexpected surge in attendance due to the already socially-distanced nature of the business, and accounted for the entire U.S. box office take for months.
Naturally, Ciné began thinking about how they could set up one of their own, but the logistics of doing so while maintaining the quality experience patrons of the downtown Athens nonprofit theatre had come to expect over the past 14 years presented a challenge.
Beginning Tuesday, June 1, the public will be able to pull into the parking lot of the old General Time/Westclox building at 100 Newton Bridge Road and safely enjoy the Ciné Drive-In, a weekly event that will feature food trucks, refreshments and the familiar faces of Ciné staff running the show.
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.
Recent smokey air in Athens due to prescribed forest burns
Wind shifts sent the smoke over Clarke and neighboring counties.
“This week has been like the Super Bowl week for prescribed burning,” Wendy Burnett, public relations director for the Georgia Forestry Commission, said Friday. “The weather has been perfect. There has been a lot of prescribed burning going on and we can expect that to continue for the next few days.
But rain next week could slow or halt the activity, she said.
The smoke from those fires was easy to detect in Athens.
“We had one burn (Thursday) for a couple of hours at the Sandy Creek Nature Center, but it was small. It was not the source of the smoke we’ve been encountering,” Athens-Clarke County Fire Capt. Nate Moss said Friday. The recent smoke “covered almost all of the county when the winds changed direction.”
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