Joel Meyer, general manager of The Lodge on Little St. Simons Island, laughs while telling the story of how he came to be interested in the hospitality industry. “I remember watching an old movie when I was about 12 years…
Back in the mid 1950s through 1970, the population of Hinesville (about 45 miles southwest of Savannah) was approximately 3,000. Except on Friday nights during football season. When Coach Harold “Hokey” Jackson’s Bradwell Institute Lions were playing at home, the…
Last year my optimism for Columbus was based primarily on the fact that the area had so many projects in the economic development pipeline. That has not changed. Kia Motors has added a second shift to produce the Hyundai Santa…
As you may recall from days of yore, Robin Hood took from the rich and then gave to the poor. In those feudal days, the rich were very few and the poor were the masses, more like you and me.…
Brunswick and the Golden Isles of Glynn County have ample balm to soothe wounds from the current recession. The Port of Brunswick posted a 26.2 percent increase in tonnage from 2009 to 2010 and bolstered its standing as a major…
Realizing that you need a whole new approach to the way you do things can be a difficult idea to grasp at first. It can be even harder to implement. That’s the situation Paulding County finds itself in these days.…
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…
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