Oglethorpe News

Maggie Ellison leaned over a map that showed Hampstead Avenue recreated as a multi-lane, tree-lined boulevard that would help move cars more efficiently from Hunter Army Airfield and White Bluff Road to Interstate 516.

A 57-acre tract of land the city of Savannah is counting on increasing in value took a $13 million step backward Tuesday.

When the volunteer firefighters became paid-on-response employees in August, it was a temporary answer to a staffing problem that needs a permanent solution.

Jamie Roberts of Oglethorpe, a marketing management student at South Georgia Technical College , has been selected as the first recipient of the Leonard and Marie Waitsman Marketing Scholarship, which was established and endowed recently by the Waitsman family in honor of Marie Waitsman and in memory of the late Leonard Waitsman.

The Fort Oglethorpe Christmas parade will be on Saturday, Dec. 5, at 6 p.m. Entry forms are available at the Fort Oglethorpe Fire Department.

She was born Nov. 5, 1905, on a cotton farm in Fayette County, GA, to G. and Nancy Wilkins, and learned to count helping her mother pay workers for picking cotton.A At 14, she was sent to Georgia State Normal School in Athens, a boarding school that soon became part of the University of Georgia.A After World War II, she obtained a teachera s degree ...

The Georgia Recovery Corps is asking for your help to feed less fortunate families for Thanksgiving.

Faced with likely tax hikes and possible layoffs next year, Athens-Clarke officials are shuffling money around to avoid making a projected $1.4 million budget shortfall even larger.

Boy scouts and girl scouts hiked through the squares in downtown Savannah Saturday afternoon to learn more about the Hostess City.

In his many years fighting fires in Chatham County, Thunderbolt Fire Chief Carl Smith has responded to hundreds of scenes.

Staff Photo by Matt Fields-Johnson Mike Morell, co-owner of Flicko's Video Workshop in Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., converts 8mm film from 1968 into a digital file that will be burned onto a dvd.

The Athens-Clarke Commission gave the final go-ahead to a new downtown parking deck Tuesday night over the objections of some residents who said it will be too big and is not needed.

Sometimes, living in a small town really astounds me. As most of you may know, I have been working at Sumter Humane Society since January 2009.

Well, 66 years ago that is. Eileen Lentz of Walton shares what everyday life was like serving in the Women's Army Corps as one of the 150,000 WACs in World War II.

The Beaver Creek Festival is Montezuma's annual heritage observation. It was first celebrated in 1994.

Savannah was founded in 1733 and was one of America's first planned cities, with a series of squares and parks that can still be enjoyed today.

Evangelistic 2 night meeting, October 26th and 27th at 6:30 pm each night, Battlefield Baptist Church.

It has become Savannah's highest honor, induction into the Junior Achievement Savannah Business Hall of Fame.

Children balancing school desks on their heads. Roofless houses. Residents plagued by parasites.

In his short presidency Lincoln seized an excessive amount of extra-constitutional power and wielded it ruthlessly without check.