A few months ago, Macon City Councilman Richard Hutto spent a day driving around with a couple of Florida developers. The pair was looking at the area around the city’s Centreplex convention center for a new housing development site. The…
Bonita Williams has spent the last half of her 65 years painfully watching Dublin’s Southside neighborhood, where she grew up, slowly lose the businesses, shops and homes so prominent in her memories of childhood. “When I was growing up in…
Courting new businesses; cherishing history and chickens
If Lake Oconee is “the engine that has driven the whole economy” of the area, as Roddie Anne Blackwell, president of the Eatonton-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce says, then Reynolds Plantation is the key that cranks that engine.
Fast facts about Eastman/Dodge County: population, unemployment rate, per capita income, top employers.
Mario Matos was a young man in a hurry when he arrived in America in 1975. Fresh from high school in his native Peru, he rushed from job to job in restaurants and sewing factories, always looking for a way to get a toehold on the American Dream.
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