Area briefs: food distribution in east Athens, burglary probe in Arcade

Today is a food distribution day for the East Athens Development Corporation, with food handed out between 10 and 2 at Corporation headquarters on McKinley Drive in Athens.

The committee that is looking at plans for a tax allocation district for the West Broad Street-Hawthorne Avenue area of Athens meets this afternoon: it’s a 2:30 session at Athens City Hall.

Today is an early release day for high school students in Athens: the students at Clarke Central and Cedar Shoals high schools are out of class at 12:45 this afternoon. Tomorrow is the last day of class in schools across the Clarke County School District, with the holiday break beginning Thursday.

It is a top honor for a Jefferson-based utility provider: Jackson EMC is ranked highest in customer satisfaction among electric cooperatives in the latest JD Power Survey.

Police in Arcade were, at last report, searching for suspects in a robbery attempt at a convenience store in Jackson County. Store surveillance video shows two men breaking a glass door at a store on Athens Highway in Arcade. They fled the scene after being confronted by store employees.

A wrong-way driver gets the blame for a deadly crash in Lumpkin County: the Georgia State Patrol says William Lingerfelt was killed in the wreck. He was 22 years old, from Dawsonville. State Troopers say he was driving west in the east-bound lanes of a road near Dahlonega. Two other people in a second vehicle were injured and were, at last report, hospitalized in Gainesville.

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