West Central

  Workforce education and development starting practically at birth characterize Carroll County, whose holistic approach helped make it the only county in the state invited to join the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 18-month-long Pathways to Prosperity project. The project…

  The river has always been the lifeblood   of Columbus and Muscogee County. The waters of the Chattahoochee powered its mills for more than a century and turned this small West Georgia city into a major industrial center. Its location…

  The very qualities that attracted people – including a great president – to Meriwether County have also stymied its development. First, there’s its vast size: more than 500 square miles of mostly rural land in West Central Georgia. Towns…

  Once a community is hit by recession, it can sometimes be hard to know when the recovery is under way. For Douglas County residents, the evidence can be found in bricks and mortar and a business climate that is…

  Beckoned by the iconic “Follow Me” statue that stands before the entrance to the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center, more than one million visitors have gone through the front doors and back in time to learn the stories…

  Showing a visitor around the Wilkes County Court-house in downtown Washington, Sam Moore finds himself standing on the trap door of the old gallows adjacent to the jail. Like just about everything else in this county, the gallows have…

For many reasons, there is an air of anticipation in Colum-bus these days, expectations of a continuing prosperity thanks in large part to the 2005 Pentagon decision to keep the community’s Fort Benning army post not only open but with…

It would take a good old-fashioned Southern word like “bodacious” to describe the reaction of leaders in LaGrange and Troup County to their good fortune. It starts with location. The county sits at the northern end of a 45-mile corridor…

This swath of Central Georgia west of Macon is a hard land that has been plagued by disappearing textile mills and record high unemployment. Yet these days folks in Thomaston and Upson County are talking about resurrected and revitalized communities…

The rumble coming from the south side of Columbus – to the tune of $2 million a day in construction work at Fort Benning – makes it seem as though the city is humming like a jet getting ready for…