Recycling Revolution
Every time she arrives at the grocery store checkout counter Judy Gordon is given the same choice we all get: paper or plastic. And she always chooses neither. “If I had to choose, I guess I’d go with paper because…
Features
Reviving Jekyll
When the Jekyll Island Authority (JIA) announced last year that it had formed a partnership with Linger Longer Commun-ities, a Georgia resort developer, to revitalize the island’s aging infrastructure and tourist attractions, a cacophony of protests arose. From public meetings…
All Real Estate Is Local
Despite some tough times, brought on by the subprime mortgage crisis, residential real estate is strong in Columbus, on the coast and in Atlanta’s high-end market – and looking better in north Georgia. Georgia Trend invited six industry representatives to…
Liquid Gold
The path to enlightenment for Freddy Bensch and Kevin McNerney began with 10 cases of liquid gold. The two were students at the University of Colorado at the time, studying environmental conservation and accounting, and working part time at a…
The Albany Outlook
Assuming that the U.S. economic recession is mild and that Georgia’s economy manages to keep its head above water, the Albany MSA will add about 400 new jobs in 2008. As always, there are headwinds and tailwinds. Albany’s economy will…
Trend Radar: May 2008
Bee Malady: Some 165 billion members of Georgia’s most critical workforce are without badly needed healthcare and their numbers are diminishing. This is the estimated number of bees in Georgia’s 100 or so commercial colonies who, every year, work their…
Standing Tall
Jolene Mary Ammons has had the time of her life. Can you imagine coming out of Homerville (Ga.), where her biggest thrill was fixing a chocolate malted milk shake at Doc Harper’s drug store, and vaulting to the basketball Hall…
Food, Glorious Food
Will Harris is a proud fifth-generation cattleman standing astride three centuries. His great-grandfather bought White Oak Pastures farm in Early County, near Bluffton, in 1866, after what he called the “Northern invasion.” Some of Harris’ cows are descendants of his…
2008 Family Business Awards
Combining family and business successfully is more art than science, and even under the best of circumstances it can be tricky. Yet this year’s group of Family Business Awards winners shows how well the combination can work. The 2008 recipients…
Hallowed Grounds
There’s only one place in the state where you can have a wedding ceremony conducted in the presence of Georgia golfing legend Bobby Jones and Gone With The Wind author Margaret Mitchell – Atlanta’s Oakland Cemetery. A cemetery wedding may…
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