Barbara Prosser sees a bright red chassis in the automotive learning amphitheater of the Effingham College and Career Academy and envisions a Model A Roadster emblazoned with the school emblem. “It can be used for parades or to advertise out…
When Dr. David Pickrell was looking for a new location to house the manufacturing unit of Omega Piezo Technologies, Screven County, in Georgia's mid-coastal region, was not initially on his radar. Fortunately for the county and its residents, a combination…
The nation’s fight against cyberterrorism is coming to Augusta. Everyone here knows that this East Georgia community is home to one of the nation’s top spy outfits – the National Security Agency at Fort Gordon. Now the sprawling military base…
A spreading euphoria can be found in just about every corner of Augusta and Richmond County, where government and economic development leaders not only came through the recent economic downturn without a scratch, but scored impressive growth in a…
Whence the Vidalia onion? That’s the question, and there seems to be a consensus that the famed local onion was not an indigenous vegetable, but one brought to Toombs County, where a combination of favorable climate and soil turned…
Georgia’s Lake Country began taking shape in 1953 when the waters of the Oconee River were dammed to create the 15,000-acre Lake Sinclair. The local citizens who turned out on weekends to watch the water rise were anticipating a…
Augusta in Richmond County may be Georgia’s second largest city, but it has long suffered from something of a stepchild syndrome among Georgia’s other cities. Located along Interstate 20 east right before it enters South Carolina, the city hasn’t…
It is mid-morning at the Great Dane trailers plant in Statesboro’s Gateway Regional Industrial Park. A workman is monitoring a programmable plasma cutter as it slices through steel. Nearby, aluminum sheets are being bent as another refrigerated semi-truck trailer takes…
In rural McDuffie County, things don’t work quite the same way they do in big cities like Atlanta. For example, city and county governments know how to get along – even when all the terms of an agreement aren’t…
On a Friday night in late October, Lady Ante-bellum performed for a crowd of more than 4,000 from a new pavilion named after the country music trio. The concert, part of the dedication of the Evans Towne Center Park,…
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