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Features, Health Care

Surgery Goes Robotic

Mary Anne Dunkin,

When Ken Baxley was diagnosed with a mitral valve defect last January, he wasn’t sure which frightened him more: the prospect of having his chest opened on the operating table to repair the leaking valve in his heart or the…
Environment, Features

Water Lessons, Water Plans

Jerry Grillo,

Last April a group of 100 or so Metro Atlanta leaders went to school in Denver, where they saw a thriving metro region confronting familiar challenges of rapid growth. These Atlantans, part of the 12th annual LINK (Leadership, Innovation, Networking,…
Business Industry, Features

Creative Strategy

Ed Lightsey,

When Irwin County vintner Chris Paulk was facing a few difficulties in converting the byproducts of his muscadine grapes into a saleable commodity, he turned to the Agribusiness Innovation Center (AgIC) in nearby Tifton. “He needed a way to add…

Features, Sports Leisure

Wildcat Standout

Gene Asher,

Langdale, Bazemore, McCrary, Grant, Bennett, Schrorer. These are a few of the Wildcats in the Valdosta-Lowndes County Sports Hall of Fame. Though there are too many to name individually, one standout is William Barrowman (Barry) Phillips, who made his mark…
Business Industry, Features

Fields And Yields

Ed Lightsey,

It’s just after dawn on a Thursday morning and South Georgia farmer Brian Robinson is standing in a field of waist-high wheat pulling the grain off the top of one of the shafts. He tosses the kernels in his mouth…
Features, Sports Leisure

The Soccer Explosion

Jerry Grillo,

The seeds of a national revolution were planted 40 years ago in Atlanta, when Phil Woosnam guided a soccer team stocked with foreigners to the city’s first major league sports championship. Throughout that summer of 1968 the Atlanta Chiefs played…