April 2020 News

April 30, 2020

• Northeast Georgia Drive-in Movie Theater Open — But You Better Get There Early

• Piedmont Athens Promotes Organ Donation in Nationwide Effort to Save Lives

• Engineering Student Wins UGA FABricate Entrepreneurial Contest with Alcohol Percentage Detector

• State Offers Free System for Entities to Decontaminate 80,000 N95 Masks Per Day

• Why Waffle House Is Opening Dining Rooms and Chick-fil-A Is Staying Closed as Georgia Loosens State Shutdown

• Batter Up Foods Invests $34M in Fulton Co. Waffle Plant, Creates 162 Jobs

• Senator David Perdue, Army Secretary McCarthy Visit Fort Benning

• Large Georgia Businesses Working Together to Help Smaller Ones

• Need Help For A Small Business? COVID-19 Relief Coaching Available

• US GDP Contracts by 4.8% in Q1, but the Real Damage Won't Be Seen until Q2

• Deloitte: As Pandemic Spreads, Most Consumers Retreat

April 29, 2020

• Piedmont Athens Partners with Red Cross to Host May Blood Drives

• UGA Offers 10 Free Continuing Education Courses through June 30th

• Two CAES Faculty Members Named Distinguished Research Professors

• Georgia Sees Record Testing Day

• Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Hosts Small Business Relief and Resources Tele-Town Hall

• UPS Releases 1Q 2020 Earnings

• Governor Kemp Congratulates 2020 Governor's Honors Program Finalists

• A 'New Normal', as Georgia Restaurants Allowed to Reopen

• UGA: Tips for Small Businesses and Consumers

• Cox Reaffirms Commitment to FCC’s Keep America Connected Initiative

• 79% of Businesses Have Rejected a Job Candidate Based on Social Media Content; Job Seekers Should Post Online Carefully

• COVID-19 Crisis Provides 'Burning Platform' for Accelerating the Data Agenda in Health Care, EY Report Finds

April 28, 2020

• Athens Works Pairs Local Businesses, Rallies Community Support

• ACCGov Planning Department & Building Inspections Department Launch Citizen Self-Service Portal