Earlier this year, the Newton County Water and Sewerage Authority finished a $14-million sprint. They installed about 89,000 linear feet of pipe, creating a 14-mile sewer line to serve the $1-billion Baxter International manufacturing facility being developed at Stanton Springs,…
At a time when going it alone often means going under, many Georgia hospitals are finding strength in numbers.
Boom, Boom, BOOM! I was describing the Civil War Battle of Kennesaw Mountain – fought 150 years ago this month – to my 5-year-old grandson, Holden Young, on a recent beautiful summer day. We were standing at the site of…
I’ve walked in the footsteps of George Pickett’s doomed division and stood my ground on Little Round Top at Gettysburg, driven miles out of my way to hear the ticking clock that marked Stonewall Jackson’s last breath, walked along the…
Laura Turner Seydel is chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation, which was inspired by the groundbreaking Captain Planet and the Planeteers cartoon series and provides funds for learning gardens and other environmental projects in schools. Like her father, media mogul…
When Matthew Reese began an MBA program as a way to advance his business career, the last place he expected to find himself was on a rooftop, nailing on shingles, while his classmates hauled lumber and installed siding. Reese’s work…
Don’t get the wrong idea. It’s not like there were tumbleweeds rolling on a whistling wind down 3rd Avenue, the main drag in downtown West Point, a little Georgia town in the southwest corner of Troup County just this side…
Will Harris calls his farmland in Bluffton, along Highway 27 in Southwest Georgia, “a magic place.” Not in a mystical sense, he’ll tell you quickly, but in more elemental terms of weather and soil. “It’s where meteorology meets geology,” he…
These are the clear signs of economic momentum in Metro Atlanta: consecutive years of solid job growth driven by a mix of growing industries, especially those clustered around technology. Well, it’s that and also a stubborn reluctance to accept “no”…
Lumber and Wood Production of lumber and wood products is poised to grow much faster than GDP. Surging production will be due to the nation’s housing market recovery, supply constraints related to the mountain pine beetle in Canada and higher…
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