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In today’s Scoop:
🚶 Old Monroe Road could get sidewalks, crossings and slower traffic.
💰 Two Stonehenge Way sidewalk stretches depend on bids and funding.
Which Athens Restaurant do you take out-of-town guests to first? |
🍽️ Cornbread-Crusted Trout on Clayton Street
On West Clayton Street, Last Resort Grill opens for dinner at 5 p.m. daily and takes limited reservations as well as walk-ins. The kitchen serves Southwestern-leaning Southern food.
The menu lists cornbread-crusted trout with creamed corn grits and chargrilled okra, along with maple-smoked tofu with black beans, squash and kale. Weekend brunch and lunch run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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🪷 Lotus Movement Is Coming to Baxter Street, and Your First Month Is $79
Most studios make you pick a lane: yoga here, Pilates there, a cycle class across town. Lotus Movement was built on the opposite idea, and it's bringing that idea into Athens with a new studio at 1068 Baxter Street, opening this October.
Lauren Heusner started it in 2023 as Lotus Yoga at Wire Park in Watkinsville. It has since grown into a full movement studio with hot yoga, Reformer Pilates, cycle, strength, sculpt and HIIT on one schedule. The Baxter Street studio adds recovery, too, with an infrared sauna and cold plunge on the way.
So one morning you can sweat through Hot Power Flow in a room heated to 92 degrees. The next, you can squeeze in a 30-minute Express Ride before work. And on the weekend you can try Reformer for the first time without paying for a second membership somewhere else.
The easiest way to find out what you love is to try all of it. Your first month is $79, with unlimited classes across the full lineup and no contract. After that it renews at $269 a month unless you switch to a smaller plan or cancel, and you can change plans anytime.
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🚶 Stonehenge Way sidewalks could wait for more funding
The Gist: Athens-Clarke County staff proposed sidewalks, accessible ramps, crossings and traffic calming on Old Monroe Road from Couplet Drive to The Avenue and from Athens Collision Center to Atlanta Highway. After revising construction costs, staff made two Stonehenge Way stretches, from Old Monroe Road to Marlborough Downs Road, optional parts of the project.
Why It Matters: The county says Stonehenge residents now walk along loose gravel and debris beside roads with poor visibility. The Old Monroe Road work would give them a safer route toward Creekside Manor and Atlanta Highway. The two Stonehenge Way stretches cover about 850 feet; staff estimates roughly $800,000 in additional sales-tax funds may be needed to build both.
What's Next: The commission is scheduled to consider the plans Oct. 6. If approved, staff expects to seek construction bids in spring 2027 and begin work in summer 2027.
Read more here.
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🕵️ Family Day: Museum Mystery | Georgia Museum of Art | Athens | Sat, Oct. 10, 10 a.m.–noon | More | Follow clues through the galleries to solve a mystery hidden in the art.
🎻 North Georgia Folk Festival | Sandy Creek Park | Athens | Sat, Oct. 10, 11 a.m.–9 p.m. | More | Hear folk music, browse crafts, and bring kids under 12 for free.
🌶️ Market Day & Chili Cookoff | Historic Athens Welcome Center | Athens | Sat, Oct. 10, 3–5 p.m. | More | Sample chili, vote for a favorite, and browse local food vendors.
🎬 Sandy Creek Park Open House and Movies by Moonlight | Sandy Creek Park | Athens | Sun, Oct. 11, 3–9 p.m.; movie at 7 p.m. | More | Crafts and inflatables precede a 7 p.m. screening of Harry and the Hendersons.
🤸 Ten Thousand Hours | Hodgson Concert Hall | Athens | Thu, Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m. | More | Eight acrobats perform flips, balances and other feats.
🎤 The Heavy Hitters of Comedy | The Classic Center Theatre | Athens | Thu, Oct. 8, 8 p.m. | More | Earthquake and Adele Givens headline, with Bishop and MC Lightfoot.
🌿 15th Annual Native Plant Sale | Mimsie Lanier Center for Native Plant Studies | Athens | Fri, Oct. 9, 2–6 p.m. | More | Shop native plants and ask garden staff what grows well in pots.
🎶 Cantrip | Hodgson Concert Hall | Athens | Tue, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. | More | Cantrip plays Scottish folk music on fiddles, border pipes and guitar.
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