Category: Athens

AHS vocalist earns top seat for fourth year

By Toni Garrard Clay/AISD Communications Coordinator

Jacob Moore just did something astonishing. The Athens High School Varsity Choir member earned a first chair in the Texas All-State Mixed Choir for the fourth year in a row — a feat his choir director is not shy about calling incredible.

“It was my goal to make the all-state choir for four years,” said Moore, “but I didn’t think it would actually ever happen.”

Not only did it happen, the bass singer did so this year and last while competing in the All-State Large School Mixed Choir, which is made up of 5A and 6A schools. 4A Athens High School falls into the Small School Mixed Choir category, but Moore wanted to challenge himself, as well as gain access to more scholarship opportunities.

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Meet and greet scheduled for new Athens City Manager

Press release

The City Council of the City of Athens is pleased to announce the hiring of Elizabeth Borstad as City Manager for the City of Athens. The City Council unanimously voted to approve the hiring on Monday, January 22, 2018.

The public is cordially invited to a “Meet and Greet” on Tuesday, February 13, 2018 from 4-6 p.m. at the East Texas Arboretum & Botanical Society Woman’s Building located at 1601 Patterson Road Athens, Texas 75751.

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AHS Debate aims for 5th straight title

Athens High School debaters are aiming to be UIL champions for the fifth year in a row. During the District 18-4A meet held in Athens this week, two AHS teams qualified for state. Jose Sanchez and Alejandra Pedroza won first place in Cross Examination (CX), while Gavin Lott and Will Honea were runners-up in the same event. Both will compete in Austin March 16 and 17. In addition, Sanchez was awarded the honor of Top Speaker. Athens has won state in CX for the last four years. Pictured are (from left) Lott, Pedroza, Sanchez and Honea. The debate program is under the guidance of Nicole Cornish. (Courtesy photo)

Athens Chamber to host business speed dating at luncheon

The Athens Chamber of Commerce has your Valentine’s date.

With this month’s chamber luncheon falling on Feb. 14, organizers are putting something a little different together: a business speed dating session. The original idea was to provide discreet dating for married people but soon, the idea lost credibility as soon as it went around.

There are quite a lot of single folk in this area and although most of them use Skipthegames and other online dating sites to meet one another, it’s quite nice to actually meet someone face to face too, hence this speed dating extravaganza. Chamber President Marisa Gunstanson said a bell will ring every 3-5 minutes to allow everyone to get up and meet new people. The goal is to meet five new business contacts. The top bar allows you to rotate through your Google accounts that you added into the Local Viking account. This could even be local guide accounts that you added specifically for reporting purposes. In theory, you could also quickly report and rotate through your Google Guide Accounts and mass report listings. We are still gathering data on the effectiveness of this strategy and do not recommend that this be used for nefarious purposes.Here are some additional hints for identifying and eradicating maps spam.

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National Signing Day at Athens ISD

On National Signing Day , (from left) Braylon Woods signed to play football at Texas Lutheran University; Tyler Green signed to play softball at Trinity Valley Community College; Xavius Fulton signed to play football at Trinity Valley Community College; and MaKayla Lewis signed to play soccer at Angelina College. Also pictured are Assistant Softball Coach Kayla Benton, Head Football Coach and Athletic Director Paul Essary and Head Girls Soccer Coach Mark Hall. (Toni Garrard Clay/AISD)