Today is a deadline day at UGA: this is the last day for drop-add for the spring semester classes that began earlier this week. It is also the last day of classes before a long weekend: the University will observe Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr holiday.
Longtime Clarke County School Board member Vernon Payne will be remembered with a Saturday graveside service in Athens: Payne, who served on the school board from 1979 through 2018, will be laid to rest after an 11 o’clock service at the East Lawn Cemetery on Winterville Road. Payne died earlier this week at the age of 89.
The City Council in Winder is looking at an ordinance that would allow off-premises consumption of alcohol in what would be an entertainment district in downtown Winder.
The City Council in Hoschton is set to vote on a water sharing agreement with Barrow County. The proposal was on the agenda for last night’s Council meeting in Hoschton; a final Council vote could come next week.
A Hall County man gets an 8-year prison sentence, his punishment for his conviction on child porn charges: Joshua Rivers is 40 years old, from Flowery Branch.
Atlanta Police say Anthony Hightower, the 47 year-old Riverdale man arrested earlier this week in Gainesville, is charged in a murder that happened December 28 on Atlanta’s south side. Hightower was arrested after a traffic stop in Gainesville.