Smith: Name of game is serving others
Some of us are named for someone - usually a family member or friend, or some popular personality. The highest honor comes when someone is named for you - or some thing, which would include animals.

Serving up Mardi Gras
It's tough for local cook TJ Vesely to be away from his hometown for the biggest party of the year, but he ladled out some of that New Orleans feeling in Athens this Mardi Gras.

Serving Suggestions
Cats have a reputation for being notoriously finicky eaters. In reality, whether they eat or not doesn't always have to do with the food you feed them. While food choice is very important, the feline drive to chow down also can be affected by such factors as where you locate the food dish, if there are other pets in your house and whether the dining experience has simply become a bore.

Barrow finance director serving one-week suspension
Barrow County commissioners have suspended county Finance Director Beth Horacek without pay for a week for failing to keep them informed on how over budget the county was on certain expenditures.