East Central

Augusta/Richmond County: Going Strong

In May, when officials of Microsoft Corp. and Augusta’s Fort Gordon signed an agreement to open a Microsoft Academy on the military base, the announcement was hailed as further proof that the city’s boast of being a world-class information technology…

Statesboro/Bulloch County

Back in 2006, Bob Randall was talking with a few faculty members from Georgia Southern University’s (GSU) physics department when he got the idea they might be able to help fine-tune a manufacturing process at Viracon, a Statesboro glass fabrication…

Sandersville/Washington County

With the decline in the number of kaolin employees and in mineral output, county, city and business leaders have forged partnerships to further efforts to attract other industry to Sandersville and Washington County.