by JMO Staff | Jul 14, 2020 | Georgia Pines
Last week U.S. Sens. David Perdue (R-Ga.) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) announced that seven Georgia cities would be receiving federal aid as part of the CARES Act, which seeks to help small businesses hurt by COVID-19. One of those cities is Valdosta, in South Georgia,...
by JMO Staff | Jul 7, 2020 | Georgia Pines
While some of the most prominent film festivals in the world, including Cannes and Tribeca, have been cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus, one of Georgia’s biggest events will go on, at least in some form. Organizers of the Macon Film Festival, scheduled...
by JMO Staff | Jun 30, 2020 | Georgia Pines
Sea turtles didn’t seem to get the memo that things were shutting down during coronavirus, so neither did the work of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center (GSTC) on Jekyll Island, the only sea turtle center in the state. The GSTC is responsible for education,...
by JMO Staff | Jun 23, 2020 | Georgia Pines
With protests still raging throughout much of the state, (and country) over racial injustice and police brutality, Rome residents are taking a different approach and “backing the blue.” Around 100 individuals gathered in downtown Rome last weekend to show...
by JMO Staff | Jun 16, 2020 | Georgia Pines
It has been a hectic three years since Savannah’s Plant Riverside District first broke ground, and the past few months the most hectic of all. But the new downtown hospitality project, the largest in city history, is slated to open up to the public on July...
by JMO Staff | Jun 10, 2020 | Georgia Pines
The Masters may have been delayed (until November 12–15) but that hasn’t stopped Augusta National from making headlines, most recently the announcement that the club has purchased the National Hills shopping center in Augusta for $26 million. The real estate...
