ATHENS, Ga.
UGA may ease tailgating rules
The University of Georgia Student Government Association has asked the UGA administration to drop some restrictions on campus tailgating at football games.
The SGA wants the university to drop some restrictions imposed before last season for North Campus. The rules ban tents and tables longer than 4 feet and don’t permit tailgating until four hours before kickoff.
The prohibitions were announced last March after a 2009 football season in which thousands of fans jammed North Campus before home games and repeatedly trashed the area. Officials heard the student government request last week.
Meanwhile, officials say they’re concerned about behavior of football fans on South Campus, but they say they haven’t discussed imposing new rules there.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.
ETSU celebrates railroad heritage
Displays at the Carter Railroad Museum at East Tennessee State University are honoring the heritage of both 20th century and modern rail technology.
The Mountain Empire Model Railroaders, in conjunction with the museum, have set the final Saturday of each month as “Railroad Heritage Days.”
The first free Heritage Day focused on regional Appalachian lines, such as the Interstate, the Clinchfield, the Louisville & Nashville, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, the Norfolk & Western, the Southern and others.
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ATLANTA
Passenger traffic up at airport
Passenger traffic at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta rose to around 89.3 million passengers in 2010 — but that still is below its peak of around 90 million reached two years ago.
New airport general manager Louis Miller said he expects growth from Southwest Airlines. Southwest is buying AirTran Airways, the Atlanta airport’s No. 2 carrier behind Delta Air Lines.
The FAA, which projects that Hartsfield-Jackson will reach capacity by 2025, is funding a study that raises the possibility of another runway or a second commercial airport for metro Atlanta.
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Rhea County, Tenn.
Fundraisers push cancer fight
The DK’s Defeaters team with the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Rhea County will host a scrapbooking fundraiser, called “Crop for the Cure,” on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Rhea Central Elementary off Highway 30 in Dayton.
The cost is $20, and lunch will be provided for participants.
The Bosom Buddies team is accepting names for its survivors brunch in late May, with a date yet to be determined. To add or remove someone’s name or to make donations of makeup, lotions, notepads and pens, candles and like items for gift bags at the brunch, call Darlene Bryson at 423-570-0221.
For more information about this year’s race, log on to www.relayforlife.org/rhea.