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Vandals flip signs, create road hazards
Vandals who turned 35 road signs -- including warning signs -- upside down earlier this week created a dangerous situation for motorists along Ruth Jackson Road in Bogart, Oconee County Roads Superintendent Michael Weathers said Wednesday.

Banner opener for Butler
INDIANAPOLIS - No. 17 Butler had a banner time Saturday.

Banner-Herald wins 11 awards
The Athens Banner-Herald won 11 first-place awards in its circulation category in the Georgia Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest, and placed second in General Excellence, the GPA's top award.

Athens Banner-Herald Best & Brightest Scholarship finalists
The finalists and nominees for the 2009 Athens Banner-Herald Best & Brightest scholarship winner.

Cleveland, longtime director at ABH, dies
Gary Cleveland, the man responsible for producing the Athens Banner-Herald for the past 29 years, died Sunday morning after succumbing to a brain tumor discovered in May. He was 63.

Banner-Herald All-Area softball team
The 2009 Athens Banner-Herald All-Area softball team.

Forum: Advice to the Banner-Herald: Be the watchdog
Executive Editor Melissa Hanna's recent column on the Banner-Herald's quest for reinvention prompted me to provide some historical context that reveals change has been the constant in Athens newspaper journalism (Column, "Reinvention is newspapers' challenge," Aug. 16). What's missing today is competition.

Plum Voice Has Banner Year in 2011
NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and survey utility leader Plum Voice experienced record growth again in 2011—the company's best year ever. In 2011, Plum's cloud-based (hosted) IVR service, premise-based systems and telephone survey platform fueled record sales.