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🗳️ 1,154 Athens voters were sent a second absentee ballot.
📍 Early voting is scheduled to start Oct. 13 at the Costa Building.
Bring Your Fiber Projects to Lyndon House on Tuesdays
Athens Fibercraft Guild brings knitters, weavers, quilters and other fiber artists to Lyndon House Arts Center at 211 Hoyt Street. Members share their work and hear programs on the second Tuesday of each month from September through June at 12:30 p.m.; informal stitch-ins meet on fourth Tuesdays at 1 p.m. Amateurs and professionals at every skill level are welcome, and visitors can attend before joining. Annual dues are $25 for one person or $35 for a family.
🏡 Plan to Stay in Your Home for Good? Make These Changes Before You Need Them
Most people who plan to stay in their house for good don't think about the front steps, the narrow doorways or the tub they have to climb into until one of them becomes a problem. JOMA Construction has 3 Certified Aging-in-Place Specialists on staff whose job is to spot those problems early, while fixing them is still a choice and not an emergency.
The certification comes from a program the National Association of Home Builders created with AARP. It's built on universal design, hundreds of small details that make a home safer and easier to live in at every age: a step-free entry, a wider doorway, a shower you can walk straight into. JOMA uses those techniques in all of its projects, and they help a family pushing a stroller as much as a parent who's slowing down.
John and Marielle Newland started JOMA in Athens in 2005 (the name is John plus Marielle), and the team has worked on more than a thousand local remodeling projects since. It has also been 100% employee-owned since 2023, so the people planning your project own a stake in how it turns out.
The first step costs nothing. The consultation is free and zero-pressure, JOMA follows it with a cost range so you know what you're looking at, and all the planning is done before you sign a fixed-price contract. One 2025 client, Mike, put it this way: "JOMA has made a very overwhelming project easy!"
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🗳️ 1,154 Athens voters got a second absentee ballot
The Gist: A mailing-list error caused the Athens-Clarke County Elections Department to send duplicate absentee ballots to 1,154 voters who requested one for the November 3 election. The statewide system is designed to prevent more than one ballot from being counted per voter.
Why It Matters: Elections Director Pam Long says the department is tracking affected ballots and adding safeguards to ensure each voter has only one ballot accepted. Voters who receive two should complete only one and must not put the extra ballot in the same return envelope.
What's Next: Shred the blank extra ballot or bring it to the Elections Department at 155 E. Washington Street. Voters can track their ballot through Georgia's My Voter Page.
Read more here.
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🎃 Family Craft Nights: Pumpkin Painting Party | Lay Park & Community Center | Athens | Tue, Oct. 13, 6–7:30 p.m. | More | Each family paints one pumpkin; supplies are provided, and registration is required.
🪐 October Planetarium: Planet Trivia | Sandy Creek Nature Center | Athens | Sat, Oct. 17, 10–11 a.m. | More | Explore the night sky; ages 5 and up, preregistration required.
🎶 Sandy Creek Hootenanny | Sandy Creek Park | Athens | Sun, Oct. 18, 2–4 p.m. | More | Bring an instrument, sing or clap along to campfire songs.
🐕 Boo-le-Bark on the Boulevard | Boulevard Woods Park | Athens | Sun, Oct. 18, 3 p.m.; parade at 4:30 p.m. | More | Dogs compete in costume before parading through the Boulevard neighborhood.
🎷 UGA Jazz Ensembles | Ramsey Concert Hall | Athens | Wed, Oct. 14, 5:30–6:30 p.m. | More | UGA's jazz ensembles play a free hourlong concert.
🍷 Wine Tasting Takeover with The Lark | Georgia Museum of Art | Athens | Thu, Oct. 15, 5:30–7 p.m. | More | Taste four Italian wines from women winemakers and see Edmonia Lewis's work.
🏒 Athens Rock Lobsters vs. Macon Mayhem | Akins Ford Arena | Athens | Fri, Oct. 16, 7:05 p.m. | More | The Rock Lobsters open their season against Macon with pregame festivities.
🎸 Historic Athens Porchfest | Seven historic Athens neighborhoods | Athens | Sun, Oct. 18, 1–8 p.m. | More | More than 200 performances fill porches across seven historic neighborhoods.
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