Teri Schell honored by Georgia Organics
Georgia’s organic agriculture community honored Savannah’s Teri Schell at the 17th annual Georgia Organics conference this weekend, which brought over 1,000 attendees to Jekyll Island. Schell received the Barbara Petit Pollinator Award, which honors an individual or organization for outstanding community leadership in Georgia’s sustainable farming and food movement. Teri Schell As a founding member…
Recycle your electronics Saturday
This Saturday, March 1, residents can recycle their old TVs, computers and other electronics and help clean up a neighborhood during the kick off to the four-month-long Great Savannah Cleanup. Events include: 9 a.m.: Great Savannah Cleanup Kickoff begins in Wells Park at 39th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Cuyler-Brownville. Residents from…
Project DeRenne public meeting Tuesday
The public is invited to join City of Savannah Citizen Office staff and members of City Council for a meeting regarding Project DeRenne at 6 p.m., Tuesday, February 25, in the Eckburg Auditorium, Goodman Hall, Savannah Technical College-Savannah Campus, 5717 White Bluff Road. The public is encouraged to attend. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
Train accident victim identified
UPDATE (1:30 p.m.): Sarah Elizabeth Jones, 27, has been identified by the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department as the person killed in Thursday afternoon’s train accident on the set of the Gregg Allman biographical film Midnight Rider. A resident of Atlanta, Jones was the Second Camera Assistant on the film, which is being produced by Los…
Crew member killed on ‘Midnight Rider’ film shoot
Variety is reporting that a female member of the “Midnight Rider” movie crew was killed Thursday afternoon in Wayne County. Three people were on the train trestle, over the Altamaha River, when they were struck by a freight train. John Carter of the Wayne County Sheriff’s Departmen said that one injured woman was airlifted to…
5 charged in Southside car dealership burglary
Two of three stolen cars have been recovered and five men have been arrested after the burglary of a Southside automobile dealership late Monday night. Officers were called to Volvo of Savannah on the 8300 block of White Bluff Road about 11:38 p.m. after employees discovered the burglary. Taken were three customer-owned vehicles. Nakeem Squila…
Sen. Isakson to hold public meeting at AASU
U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., will host a town hall meeting in Savannah, Ga., on Friday, Feb. 21. Isakson will give a brief update from Washington, D.C., and then will spend the rest of the hour taking questions from constituents. The public is invited to attend. The meeting is at Armstrong Atlantic State University’s Armstrong…
Young right whale partially freed from fishing rope
A young North Atlantic right whale is swimming easier after wildlife biologists cut away most of the 100-plus yards of heavy fishing rope the animal was dragging, says a Ga. Department of Natural Resources spokesman. The disentanglement effort, much of which occurred 40 miles off Georgia’s Wolf Island Monday, “was relatively quick for the 4-year-old…
Game-changer on Broughton Street?
‘What we’re doing is not easy,” developer Ben Carter said. “If it was it would have been done before.’
Savannah Squeeze: a juicy new venture
‘It’s a great way to give your digestive system a break and flush toxins from the system. The idea is that if your body is not digesting food for a little while, it frees up energy to heal other things.’
Lulu’s, Maison de Macarons branch out
‘Now all the people who wish they can stop by the bar to take a cake to a party or make a special order, you can just drive up and voila!, it’s ready.’
‘I love the human body and all its shapes’
Her subjects seem to be captured in motion, even when they’re just sitting or standing.
Anthony Laciura’s boardwalk opera
“I spoke with a heavy German accent. I kissed their hands, because they’re both ladies, and they said ‘Mr. Laciura, what part of Germany are you from?’ I said ‘The South Bronx.'”
Steel & soul: The Lee Boys at A-Town
Pedal steel guitar brings a fiery tear, perfect for discovering the holy spirit
Randall Bramblett bringshis A-game to A-Town
‘I love the energy in the funk and the improvisation that you get when you play off each other. That’s more fun.’
Review: Pompeii
While imitation can indeed be the sincerest form of flattery, that’s not the case when the results are as ham-fisted as those here.
Midnight Rider tragedy: Still no answers
A representative for CSX corporate communications told Connect they could not comment one way or the other “because of the ongoing investigation.”
Two shot on Broughton
Detectives continue to “sort out the details of a shooting in downtown Savannah Sunday morning that left two victims with non-life threatening wounds,” a police spokesman says. A 25-year-old male and a 19-year-old female were transported to Memorial University Medical Center after the 1:09 a.m. shooting in the 200 block of East Broughton St. Patrol…
Room for listening: Sarah Tollerson
‘I took my time after graduation. And I realized that no structure at all is not good for Sarah!’
Mao: Dirty Old Chairman?
Mao ‘was happiest and most satisfied with several young women simultaneously sharing his bed,’ Li writes. ‘He encouraged his sexual partners to introduce him to others for shared orgies, allegedly in the interest of his longevity and strength.’
Have you seen this sexual assault suspect?
He approached a woman who was parking her car at Candler Hospital about 7:30 a.m.
Stopover ’14 starts March 6
Bigger, longer and uncut. That’s the 2014 Savannah Stopover Music Festival, which is of course three days jam-packed with cross-country indie bands, most of them hitting Savannah on their way to the ol’ South By Southwest conference in Austin. That’s where the word Stopover comes from. It’s kinda like a big rock ‘n’ roll sleepover…
If we win the parking war, we lose the city
Entertaining unreasonable expectations of suburban-style parking in a historic city is potentially disastrous.
Question (Ports) Authority?
The Great Port Rubber Fire of ’14 represented a cautionary memo that our port comes with plenty of potential hazards.
Report: Film company was denied access to track
According to an incident report released Monday, railway owner CSX has e-mails in which it denies the production company access to its tracks.
Through Troy Wandzel’s looking glass
‘Troy has been painting his own portrait for 18 years, reapproaching the same subject in a new way every day. That became a catalyst for me.’
Editor’s Note: Ben Carter’s Buckhead story
With all the bullet-point lists of Carter’s previous projects, the local media has made virtually no mention of his activity in Buckhead.
Mayor’s State of the City address is tonight
Members of the public are encouraged to join City Council and Mayor Edna Jackson as the Mayor gives the annual State of the City address at 7 pm. Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the 3rd Floor Ballroom of the Savannah Civic Center.
