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Over 30 Teams Pack Athens Regional Park Turf Fields For Weekend Baseball Tournament
More than 30 teams are taking part in a weekend baseball tournament at Athens Regional Park in Athens, Tennessee. The city’s announcement said the games are being played on the park’s turf fields. The city said the tournament was underway in a post shared on Sunday by City...
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Athens officials open new park beside library, dub it Oostanaula Commons
A park sponsored by both the City of Athens and Mayfield Dairy Farms is now open to the public. Work has been ongoing to the area beside E.G. Fisher Public Library on Ingleside Avenue in Athens and city officials recently held a ribbon cutting for the new area. Officials dubbed Oostanaula Commons, it features a walking trail and signage informing people of the importance of dairy. Athens Public Works Director Ben Burchfield noted that this has been a “coordinated effort” between the city and Mayfield to create the new area. “I said, ‘man, if we could talk to Mayfield and get them to buy in to doing a project on those five acres, that’d be such a cool project. I wonder if we could do it?’ And we did it,” Burchfield said. Burchfield added that this project isn’t just about giving the community a nice area to spend time in, though it does that. He noted it also helps the city’s stormwater situation as well. “Stormwater is a thing we think about every single day,” he said. “A lot of people think about the built environment — you think about pipes, ditches, boring stuff that’s really not exciting. When you
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Communities near Georgia-Tennessee line brace for long road to recovery after flooding
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Major flooding recovery in East Tennessee
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Cleanup still underway in Tennessee and Georgia after serious flooding