by JMO Staff | Aug 22, 2023 | Georgia Pines
The Hostess City of the South is playing host to one of the country’s premier tourism marketing events as it welcomes the U.S. Travel Association’s 39th annual Educational Seminar for Tourism Organizations this week. The event will bring in more than 1,300...
by JMO Staff | Aug 15, 2023 | Georgia Pines
On Monday local officials and executives from Hyundai America gathered to mark one of the first major milestones for Bryan County’s Metaplant America, the $5.5 billion electric vehicle battery facility. The occasion was the arrival of the first shipment of...
by JMO Staff | Aug 8, 2023 | Georgia Pines
The Firefly Trail is an ongoing project to build a trail on an abandoned Georgia Railroad line from Athens down to Union Point, about 40 miles to the south. Now partially constructed, the trail faces many of the same concerns to similar projects – funding,...
by JMO Staff | Aug 1, 2023 | Georgia Pines
Augusta, Georgia, is home to one of the oldest Chinese communities in the eastern U.S., with an immigrant population arriving in 1873 by way of California to work on the Augusta Canal. In 1920 the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association was founded, serving as a...
by JMO Staff | Jul 25, 2023 | Georgia Pines
Savannah’s version of the Atlanta BeltLine, Tide-to-Town, is set to embark on an aggressive expansion plan – and it’s all thanks to out-of-towners. A 2% hotel/motel tax passed by the General Assembly earlier this year has already yielded $10 million...
by JMO Staff | Jul 18, 2023 | Georgia Pines
You’ve heard about Marietta’s Big Chicken, but what about the Big Peanut in Turner County? Originally erected in 1975, the 20-foot tall sculpture of Georgia’s most prominent legume stood just outside of Ashburn, a small town in south Georgia. In...
