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Kohl's donates to Memorial Medical Center
Kohl’s department stores have presented The Children’s Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center with $6,458 as part of the Kohl’s Cares Hospital Partnership Program. The money was raised with the...
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Seamen's House a refuge for mariners
It may be one of the city’s best-kept secrets, although not by design. For more than 170 years, chaplains of the Savannah Port Society have quietly followed their calling to visit ships docked in...
View ArticleCITY TALK: Starbucks to open soon in downtown Kroger
Starbucks already has a presence inside several area Kroger stores, so I guess it’s not surprising that Starbucks will be opening soon in the downtown Kroger.Still, at least to this Kroger shopper, the...
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Duo see Savannah as fashon destination
Andy Shearer looked across the coffee shop table at his business partner and questioned their working relationship.“Was it business love at first sight?” he said with a laugh.Since meeting Brianne...
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CCDS finds jobs for 30-plus peopleThe Coastal Center for Developmental Services (CCDS), which provides services to adults with developmental disabilities, and its Community Employment Services team...
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Savannah Toastmasters announce Speechcraft course for womenThe four-session Speechcraft course will meet each Tuesday morning in March to boost professional women’s skills for communicating...
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Newsmakers
SAVANNAH DOZIER New job title: Marketing intern Company: Hospice Savannah Inc. Duties: Dozier will assist director in copy and design of collateral materials, ads and social media to help distinguish...
View ArticleGas prices stable in metro Savannah
Average retail gasoline prices in Savannah have not moved in the past week, averaging $3.33 gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets in Savannah. The national average has...
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Bill would make tax exemption on plane parts permanent
ATLANTA — An exemption from sales taxes on parts to repair airplanes would become permanent under legislation passed Monday by the House of Representatives 163-10.Only the owners of planes registered...
View ArticleBiS in brief: Gasoline prices in Savannah hold steady
Gasoline prices in Savannah hold steadyAverage retail gasoline prices in Savannah have not moved in the past week, averaging $3.33 gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 262 gas outlets...
View ArticleDawers: A weekend getaway for Mardi Gras at Tybee
No one is going to confuse Tybee Island with New Orleans, but a couple of friends and I had a pretty good time during Mardi Gras festivities on the island last weekend.We had won a weekend’s use of a...
View ArticleMore Georgia banks profitable in 2013
Georgia’s state-based banks continued their post-recession recovery in 2013, posting a third year in the black and doling out more loans, according to year-end data from the Federal Deposit Insurance...
View ArticleLNG tax case sent back to lower court
The Supreme Court of Georgia on Monday ruled in favor of Southern LNG, which had sued the Georgia Commissioner of Revenue over a tax-related issue.The 6-1 decision sent the issue of who should assess...
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Coastal Empire Fairgrounds for sale
The future of the Coastal Empire Fair is up in the air as the Exchange Club of Savannah has the nearly 70-acre fairgrounds tract near Montgomery Street and DeRenne Avenue up for sale.The decision to...
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Deal: State will start Savannah harbor deepening after president's budget...
An update from The Associated Press:Gov. Nathan Deal says he plans to start deepening the shipping channel to the Port of Savannah without financial help from Washington after the Obama...
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Project to 'reboot' old power plant on Savannah's River Street
Hotel magnate and Savannah native Richard Kessler is preparing to reboot West River Street in a $200 million project that will give the decommissioned Georgia Power plant a glamorous new life.The first...
View ArticleMinimum wage push is a lot about a little
So now President Obama has decreed that henceforth the minimum wage for all federal contractors shall be $10.10.Since I doubt there are any fast food outlets littering the White House or the halls of...
View ArticleCarry-on crackdown: United enforces bag size limit
NEW YORK — United Airlines is getting tough on passengers with oversized carry-on bags.The Chicago-based airline has installed new bag-sizers at most airports. It also emailed its frequent fliers,...
View ArticleBiS in brief: Home prices in Savannah increase
Home prices in Savannah increaseAccording to CoreLogic, a property financial information firm, Savannah home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 3.8 percent in January 2014 compared to...
View ArticleObama budget snubs harbor deepening
Last fall, Vice President Joe Biden stood on the docks at Georgia Ports Authority’s Garden City Terminal — the fourth largest and fastest-growing container facility in the country — and vowed the...
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