Georgia Trend Daily – June 5, 2024
June 5, 2024 11 Alive
Small earthquake hits north Georgia on Monday
Reeves Jackson reports that you may have felt the ground shake if you were up in north Georgia near the Tennessee border on Monday afternoon. That’s because a 2.2 magnitude earthquake hit just northwest of Dalton, Georgia, at 4:49 p.m. on Monday, according to data from the United States Geological Survey.
June 5, 2024 Georgia Trend – Exclusive!
Taste of the Scenic Route
Sucheta Rawal reports, if you are dreaming of getting outside and creating gratifying memories in nature, the Georgia Grown Trails are waiting for you. In a world full of distractions, this innovative agritourism initiative aims to bring people back to their roots and enable them to experience a slow-paced, close-to-nature lifestyle.
June 5, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta launches entrepreneurship training program for college students
Mirtha Donastorg reports that in January, at a splashy event in Midtown, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens laid out his vision for making Atlanta a major technology ecosystem. To do that, about 2,000 tech startups would have to be launched in Atlanta annually for the city to become one of the top five tech ecosystems in the nation as measured by venture capital funding.
June 5, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Five Georgia school districts land grants for electric buses
Dave Williams reports that five Georgia school districts have been awarded federal grants to buy electric school buses. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will allocate $29.4 million in grant funding to the school districts in Brooks, Clayton, DeKalb, Douglas, and Jeff Davis counties through the agency’s Clean School Bus Rebate Program.
June 5, 2024 Clayton News-Daily
GlassesUSA Holds Ribbon-Cutting And Tour
Staff reports that GlassesUSA, one of the nation’s largest online prescription retailers, held a ribbon-cutting and tour for its U.S. Headquarters and Optical Lab and Fulfillment Center in College Park. The $10 million facility is expected to bring 75 jobs.
June 5, 2024 Capitol Beat News
Grants to help schools match technical education with industry needs
Dave Williams reports that the state is awarding more than $200,000 in grants to help 15 school districts improve the alignment of their technical education programs with local industry needs. The districts will use the one-time-only grants to conduct in-depth reviews of workforce needs in their communities, working with the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, and work to address gaps between those needs and their Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education (CTAE) programs.
June 5, 2024 GlobalAtlanta.com
Italy Chamber’s Georgia Chapter Revamps Executive Team
Trevor Williams reports that the Georgia chapter of the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast has changed up its executive nearly five years after its founding, yet many familiar faces remain. Nicola Vidali, a three-decade Atlanta resident and marketing leader with more than 35 years of experience leading campaigns for major brands, has been appointed as the chapter’s managing director.
June 5, 2024 Savannah Morning News
Tybee Island Historical Society secures $20,000 grant to help lighthouse restoration
Destini Ambus reports that the Tybee Island Historical Society just secured a $20,000 grant to assist in the restoration of the iconic lighthouse, which is currently in its third phase. THIS announced in a press release that it had been chosen as a recipient of the Georgia Power Foundation Grant.
June 5, 2024 GPB
Georgia’s opting out of a federal food program this summer. Here’s what’s available for kids in need
Sofi Gratas reports, Georgia is opting out of a federal program that would give families extra money to feed their kids this summer. The so-called Summer EBT program is an extension of the Pandemic EBT program model, which had near national enrollment and ended last year.
June 5, 2024 Rome News-Tribune
Ga. AG Urges FCC To Allow Jamming Of Contraband Prison Cellphones
John Bailey reports that a letter sent by Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr on Tuesday urges the Federal Communications Commission to take immediate action to allow cellphone jamming devices to be used inside state prisons and local jails. There are multiple ongoing issues including scams perpetrated by prison gangs using contraband cellphones.
June 5, 2024 State Affairs
Georgia farmland is disappearing. Sen. Billy Hickman wants to preserve it
Tammy Joyner reports that over the past 50 years, Georgia has lost over 2.6 million acres of farmland to development and industry. The new $8 billion Hyundai plant, anchored between Bryant and Bulloch counties, with its promise of 8,000 jobs, only adds to Georgia farmers’’ concerns.
June 5, 2024 Macon Telegraph
‘Unconvinced … that politicians care.’ Why Hispanic voter turnout was low in Macon primary
Jesse Fraga reports, Daniel Figueroa stands behind the bar counter on a slow Thursday afternoon at Three Countries restaurant in Macon, he’s honest about why he doesn’t vote, and he’s not alone among the city’s Hispanic population. For one, he’s too busy working. “In the morning time I’m a mechanic Monday to Friday, and after that I come here (to Three Countries) to help my mom out,” said the Georgia native.
June 5, 2024 Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Meet the Georgia judges who will hear appeal of challenge to DA Fani Willis
Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman report that the three state appeals court jurists who will decide whether District Attorney Fani Willis should remain on Fulton County’s high-profile election interference case are all appointees of Republican governors and have honed reputations as being conservative yet fair-minded. Judges Trenton Brown, Benjamin Land and Todd Markle are now in the national spotlight in one of the four criminal cases brought against former President Donald Trump.
