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• St. Mary’s Hospice Offers Bereavement Camp for Kids

  News, July 08, 2015

• St. Mary’s, Medical Partnership Welcome First Residents

  Features, July 06, 2015

  The Internal Medicine Residency Program, a joint effort of the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership and St. Mary’s Health Care System, is pleased to officially welcome its first class of Internal Medicine residents. The 10 residents, who began orientation on June 24, officially began work on July 1st.

• Zaxby's Partners with Buxton to Support Guest-Focused Growth

  Features, July 01, 2015

  Zaxby's, a Southeast fast casual restaurant known for chicken fingers and wings, has engaged Buxton to support the company's vision of guest-focused growth.

• Naitonal Bank of Georgia Announces Staff Promotions, Introduces New Banking Officer

  Features, June 29, 2015

  The Board of Directors of The National Bank of Georgia recently announced the promotion of Lisa Fincannon, Ashley Shaw and Lee Simmons to the position of banking officers.

• Hyundai of Athens Announces New General Manager

  News, June 29, 2015

• AT&T Gives Support of $25,000 to the Georgia 4-H Foundation

  Features, June 26, 2015

  AT&T has awarded the Georgia 4-H Foundation $25,000 to support marketing and outreach to underserved audiences as well as 4-H science and technology-related projects and programs.

• Athens Events this Weekend

  News, June 26, 2015

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Rate Rises to 5.8% in May

  Features, June 25, 2015

  The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Metro Athens’ unemployment rate for May was 5.8 percent, up five-tenths of a percentage point from 5.3 percent in April. The rate in May 2014 was 6.6 percent.

• Madison County School System Nominated for Statewide Education Award

  News, June 25, 2015

• UGA Foundation Appoints New Chair, Executive Team and Trustees

  News, June 25, 2015

• UGA Foundation Allocates Funding From Budget Surplus to Enhance UGA Academics

  Features, June 24, 2015

  The University of Georgia Foundation today announced that it is projecting a budget surplus of approximately $3.3 million for the 2015 fiscal year, which concludes June 30. At its recent annual meeting, the foundation’s board of trustees voted unanimously to allocate the budget surplus to support several important academic initiatives.

• St. Mary’s Acquires Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center

  News, June 08, 2015

• AthFest Educates Presents the 19th Annual AthFest Music & Arts Festival June 24th-28th

  Features, June 05, 2015

  The 19th annual AthFest Music and Arts Festival will take place June 24th to the 28th in historic downtown Athens, GA. AthFest is a multi-day festival that includes the three day AthFest Music and Arts Festival, with a showcase of musical acts on two outdoor stages, a juried outdoor artists market, KidsFest and a Club Crawl through some of Athens’ best clubs and music venues.

• Carol Parks Receives St. Mary’s Highest Employee Honor

  Features, June 04, 2015

  Carol Parks, a registered nurse who has provided patient care on the 5th Floor of St. Mary’s Hospital since 2006, was awarded St. Mary’s highest honor – the Catherine McAuley Award – at the system’s annual event to recognize tenured employees June 2 at the Classic Center.

• Athens Tech to Host Job Fair for Manufacturing

  Features, June 02, 2015

  A Manufacturing Job Fair is planned for Friday, June 5 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Athens Technical College. Nibco, Baldor, Caterpillar, Leggett and Platt, McCann Aerospace, Silgan Closures, Power Partners, Certainteed, and other area manufacturers are scheduled to participate.

• St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital Hosts Statewide Conference on Stroke Care

  Features, May 29, 2015

  St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital hosted more than 20 Georgia hospitals recently for a first-ever conference to enhance stroke care across the state, especially in rural communities, by showing attending hospital leaders how their facilities can become designated Remote Treatment Stroke Centers.

• Georgia's Antebellum Trail Unveils New Cycling Route

  Features, May 28, 2015

  Georgia's Antebellum Trail is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year with a new way to explore one of the most iconic trails in the state of Georgia.

• UGA Athletic Association Giving $1 Million for Experiential Learning

  Features, May 27, 2015

  The University of Georgia Athletic Association will establish a $1 million endowment to support the university’s new experiential learning initiative. The association’s board of directors approved the contribution during its spring meeting.

• St. Mary’s Announces New Name, Interim President for Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center

  Features, May 18, 2015

  St. Mary’s Health Care System announced that Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center will be renamed St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital and that Jeff English, St. Mary’s Vice President Human Resources and Support Services, will be its interim president when the acquisition process is completed on or around June 1st.

• St. Mary’s Auxiliary to Host Concert on the Lawn at Ashford Manor

  News, May 12, 2015

• LAD Truck Lines Launches Records Management Division

  Features, May 07, 2015

  LAD Truck Lines has formally launched a new division called LAD Records Management to help corporations, governments and not-for-profits store, manage and securely dispose of their documents.

• TAG Seeks Nominations from Athens for 2015 STEM Education Award

  Features, May 01, 2015

  The Technology Association of Georgia and the TAG Education Collaborative are excited to announce the 4th Annual STEM Education Awards, an event that will once again recognize and honor schools, programs and organizations for their outstanding effort and achievement in supporting and promoting STEM Education in Georgia.

• St. Mary's Among Top 5% in US for Patient Safety

  Features, April 30, 2015

  St. Mary’s Health Care System announced today that it has achieved Healthgrades’ Patient Safety Excellence Award for the fifth year in a row and is named among the nation’s top 5 percent of hospitals for patient safety for the third year in a row.

• Veterans Career and Resource Expo Set for May 14th in Athens

  Features, April 29, 2015

  The Georgia Department of Labor and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Ladies Auxiliary will co-sponsor a career and resource expo Thursday, May 14, in Athens. The expo will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 noon at the VFW Post No. 2872, 835 Sunset Drive.

• Lisa Rawls: Chamber Seeks to Empower Athens' Small Businesses

  Features, April 28, 2015

  Access to proven, successful resources can be empowering for any business, but at the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce, they are taking it to heart, especially for our area’s small businesses, says Lisa Rawls, principal of Evergreen CFO, a board member of the Athens Area Chamber of Commerce and who chairs the Chamber’s Small Business Committee.

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Dips to 5.4%

  News, April 23, 2015

• Athens Twilight Rides this Weekend

  Features, April 21, 2015

  80 fast-paced laps around the downtown city streets of Athens, Georgia – the 35th Athens Twilight Criterium takes place April 24-25, 2015.

• NORAMCO recognized as Athens-Clarke County’s 2015 Manufacturer of the Year

  Features, April 20, 2015

  Athens-Clarke County’s annual Industry Appreciation Dinner was held last week to celebrate the contributions that local manufacturers make to the Athens community. The event was attended by over 100 guests, including local, State and national elected officials, community leaders and the captains of industry throughout Athens.

• St. Mary’s Receives Chest Pain Center Accreditation

  Features, April 16, 2015

  St. Mary’s Health Care System has received full accreditation as a chest pain center with PCI – the technical term for emergency balloon angioplasty and stent implantation – from the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care.

• Athen's Carrier Transicold Celebrates Two Anniversaries

  Features, April 15, 2015

  Carrier Transicold is celebrating a double anniversary this year: 75 years of Carrier road transport refrigeration innovation and the 45th anniversary of the Carrier Transicold business. Carrier Transicold helps improve global transport and shipping of temperature controlled cargoes with a complete line of equipment for refrigerated trucks, trailers and containers, and is a part of UTC Building & Industrial Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp.

• Javy Lopez to Headline Golf Tourney for St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital

  Features, April 02, 2015

  Former Atlanta Braves catcher Javy Lopez will be the special honoree at the 2015 Bucky Dent Legends on the Links golf tournament to be held on Monday, Oct. 5, at the beautiful Reynolds Plantation National course. The tournament will again benefit St. Mary’s Good Samaritan Hospital.

• EITS Hosts Computer Health and Security Fair

  Features, March 31, 2015

  University of Georgia students, faculty and staff are invited to bring their personal laptops for free security checks at Enterprise Information Technology Services' Spring Computer Health and Security Fair.

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Rate Declines to 5.7% in February

  News, March 26, 2015

• St. Mary’s Announces First Medical Residents of GRU/UGA Partnership

  Features, March 23, 2015

  The Internal Medicine Residency Program, a joint effort of the GRU/UGA Medical Partnership and St. Mary’s Health Care System, is pleased to announce its first class of residents, who will begin their residency education on July 1, 2015.

• Yik Yak Founders to Headline Thinc. Entrepreneurial Week at UGA

  Features, March 18, 2015

  Thinc. Entrepreneurial Week, which will be March 23-27, will once again bring an array of innovators to the University of Georgia to stimulate entrepreneurial thinking. This is the third year that Thinc. has sponsored a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship with events organized by the university’s colleges and programs as well as community organizations.

• Athens SBDC to Present the StartSmart Series

  Features, March 17, 2015

  The Athens SBDC will present the StartSmart series for new entrepreneurs who want to start or have recently started a business. The series will begin on March 27th and consists of eight modules over five Fridays, ending on April 24th.

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Rate Rises to 5.7%

  News, March 12, 2015

• Italian Founded SaaS Software Company Docebo Invests in Athens

  Features, March 11, 2015

  Docebo has raised $3M in growth equity from Klass Capital to accelerate the growth of its SaaS enterprise E-Learning platform. This is Docebo’s second venture backed financing round, originally funded by a leading Italian Venture Capital firm Principia SGR.

• Athens Visitors Guide Wins Best Ideas Award

  Features, March 10, 2015

  The Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau's Athens Visitors Guide has won a Best Ideas Award from the Georgia Association of CVBs. The Best Ideas competition recognizes creative excellence and effectiveness in marketing, advertising, and promotional campaigns.

• First American Bank Hires New VP, Commercial Lender

  News, March 09, 2015

• Digital Marketing Boot Camp in Athens Scheduled for March 25th

  Features, March 09, 2015

  The University of Georgia Small Business Development Center, Athens Office, is sponsoring a one day “Digital Marketing Boot Camp” in Athens on Wednesday, March 25th.

• Stadion Announces Jud Doherty as CEO

  News, February 27, 2015

• St. Mary's Intends to Buy Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center

  News, February 26, 2015

• Athens Regional Announces New Head of Health System

  Features, February 25, 2015

  Dr. Charles Peck has been appointed CEO and President of Athens Regional Health System effective March 15, 2015. Dr. Peck has been serving as Interim CEO since September 2014. In December, the Board of Trustees appointed a CEO Steering Committee composed of physicians, nursing, administration, and board members, and engaged a national search firm to assist in the CEO selection process.

• Girl Scouts to Honor Dr. Carla Williams as 2015 Athens Woman of Distinction

  Features, February 18, 2015

  Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia is proud to announce that Dr. Carla Williams has been selected as the 2015 Athens Woman of Distinction honoree. The luncheon event in her honor will be held Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. at the Georgia Center. Tickets will be available for individual purchase for $75.

• ARMC Becomes 2nd Hospital in GA to Offer Innovative A-fib Treatment

  News, February 18, 2015

• Four Athens Launches TechEd Afterschool Programs

  Features, February 05, 2015

  In January, Four Athens launched the first of its afterschool tech education programs for area middle schools. In partnership with local education leaders and business owners, the first 8-week software development class began January 12th at Clarke Middle, introducing students to basic programming skills by building a simple game.

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Rate Unchanged at 4.9% in December

  Features, January 29, 2015

  The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Metro Athens’ unemployment rate for December was 4.9 percent, unchanged from November. The rate in December 2013 was 5.2 percent.

• UGA College of Veterinary Medicine to Host Veterinary Conference, Alumni Weekend

  Features, January 23, 2015

  The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine will host its 52nd Annual Veterinary Conference and Alumni Weekend on March 27-28 at the UGA Center for Continuing Education.

• Dr. Chisolm Named Medical Director of ARMC Palliative Care Program

  Features, January 22, 2015

  Athens Regional is pleased to announce that Lee Chisolm, M.D. will be joining the ARMC Palliative Care Program as Medical Director. Dr. Chisolm is Board Certified with the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine.

• The Red Dress Boutique Founder Dons New National Recognition

  Features, January 21, 2015

  Diana Harbour, owner and founder of The Red Dress Boutique, has been recognized as a leading female entrepreneur by Enterprising Women magazine, beating out hundreds of national and international business owners. She will be recognized in Orlando, Fl., in late March at the publication’s annual conference.

• Georgia Museum of Art to Host Biennial Fundraising Gala

  Features, January 19, 2015

  The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will host its most important fundraiser, Elegant Salute, Jan. 31 at 6:30 p.m. Elegant Salute XIV, "An Elegant Salute to Georgia," is the museum's biennial gala featuring a reception, dinner, dessert and dancing.

• Peterson Spring Celebrates 100 Years

  Features, December 12, 2014

  Peterson Spring, a division of Peterson American Corporation, has been in business in Athens, GA since 1963. On November 18, 2014, Peterson Spring was host to a celebration to commemorate their corporation’s 100 years of business.

• Regions Insurance Opens New Office in Athens

  Features, December 03, 2014

  Regions Insurance, an affiliate of Regions Bank, announced Tuesday it has opened a new office in Athens, Georgia. The office was established as a team of five principals and 29 associates joined Regions Insurance, Inc. from the former A.I. Insurance Group in Athens.

• UGA College of Environment & Design Ranked in the Top 10

  Features, November 18, 2014

  The University of Georgia College of Environment and Design’s landscape architecture programs were recently ranked in the top 10 in the nation by Design Intelligence magazine. The announcement was made this week in the 2015 edition of America’s Best Architecture & Design Schools.

• Holiday Events and Happenings in Athens

  Features, November 07, 2014

  The holiday season in Athens, Georgia, offers opportunity for endless celebration! Visitors can enjoy festive heritage events, artist markets for one-of-a-kind gifts and, as always in Athens, live music.

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.7% in September

  News, October 23, 2014

• TAG Athens Hosts Technology Town Hall

  Features, October 14, 2014

  The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG), the state’s leading association dedicated to the promotion and economic advancement of Georgia’s technology industry and the TAG Athens Chapter, will be hosting a Technology Town Hall meeting 3:30 PM Tuesday October 14th at FourAthens.

• Merial Celebrates 25 Years of Animal Health Innovations & Manufacturing in Athens

  Features, October 07, 2014

  Merial, the animal health division of Sanofi, is celebrating 25 years since opening its first U.S. facility in Athens, Georgia. The anniversary is an important milestone in the history of Merial in Athens and the state of Georgia – and of the company’s impact on global animal health and the local economy.

• Economic Impact of Athens Tourism & Hospitality Awards Celebrated at CVB Annual Meeting

  Features, October 03, 2014

  The Athens Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) held its annual meeting yesterday, highlighted by the release of new economic impact figures for Athens-Clarke County and the presentation of the annual Athens Hospitality Awards.

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Rate Declines to 6.4% in August

  Features, September 25, 2014

  The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that Metro Athens’ unemployment rate for August was 6.4 percent, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 6.6 percent in July. The rate in August of last year was 6.1 percent.

• Fall Festivals in Athens

  Features, September 19, 2014

  Football season is in full swing and the fall festivals are kicking off. The weather is cooling down and the beautiful colored leaves are starting to fall. It's finally Fall in the Classic City! The next month promises a full calendar of music, entertainment, art and fitness events for the whole family to enjoy. It's the perfect time of year to grab the kids, load up the car, and take a fun-filled weekend trip to Athens!

• St. Mary’s Health Care System Generates $355.6M for Local, State Economy

  Features, September 10, 2014

  St. Mary’s Health Care System generated more than $355.6 million in revenue for the local and state economy in 2012, the latest year for which data is available, according to a recent report by the Georgia Hospital Association (GHA), the state’s largest hospital trade association.

• St. Mary’s Hospital Places on Quality Honor Roll

  Features, July 25, 2014

  St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens has been named to the Georgia Hospital Association’s Partnership for Health and Accountability Core Measures Honor Roll. St. Mary’s is one of 26 hospitals in Georgia to be placed in the Trustee category, the second-highest on the list.

• Metro Athens’ Unemployment Rate Rises to 6.3% in June

  News, July 24, 2014

• UGA Launches Online Bachelor of Business Administration Program

  Features, July 02, 2014

  The University of Georgia Terry College of Business has launched an Online Bachelor of Business Administration Program aimed at full-time employees, military personnel and others looking to upgrade their business skills.

• University of Georgia Foundation Board Elects New Trustees

  Features, July 01, 2014

  The University of Georgia Foundation elected four new trustees and welcomed five new ex officio board members at their just concluded annual meeting on St. Simons Island. In addition, the board accorded emeritus trustee status to four outgoing members. The changes take effect on July 1st.

• St. Mary's, ARMC Commit to Explore Future Collaborations

  Features, June 30, 2014

  The Boards of St. Mary’s Health Care System, Athens Regional Health System and Athens Regional Medical Center have signed a Joint Resolution to explore the potential for future collaborations to better serve patients and the community.

• Athens Unemployment Rate Rises to 5.7% in May

  News, June 26, 2014

• St. Mary's Receives Healthgrades Patient Safety Award

  Features, June 25, 2014

  St. Mary’s Health Care System announced today that it has achieved Healthgrades’ Patient Safety Excellence Award for the fourth year in a row. Healthgrades is the nation’s leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

• Boards & Authority Positions Open in Athens-Clarke County

  News, June 03, 2014

• UGA SBDC Presents Digital Marketing Seminar

  News, May 30, 2014

• Athen's Unemployment Declines to 4.9% in April

  News, May 22, 2014

• Athens’ Unemployment Rate Rises to 5.4%

  News, March 13, 2014

• The Oaks Of Athens Now Open

  News, August 28, 2013

• UGA SBDC to Host Seminar on Small-Business Certification August 12th

  News, August 05, 2013

• Metro Athens' Unemployment Rate Remains Lowest in the State at 7.2%

  News, July 26, 2013

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