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• A Laroche Avenue man told police a neighbor who was jet-skiing ran over the batter boards of a boat dock he is building. The man advised the woman that she was too close to the marshland, but said she just laughed at him. He told police the woman and several other neighbors do not…

Stop by, hook up, Cop-Out

What do you get when you cross two actors, seven characters, six scene changes, and the Sentient Bean? Savannah’s newest theatrical group, the Fowl Brick Theatre Company, and their debut performance of John Guare’s Cop-Out. The author of such plays as The House of Blue Leaves and award-winning play-turned-movie Six Degrees of Separation, John Guare…

The forgotten invasion

In today’s world, where media coverage of wars is instant, it’s hard to imagine battles fought after a war is over. But that’s exactly what happened along coastal Georgia during the War of 1812. Under the direction of Gen. George Washington, a fort was built in 1776 at Point Peter, near St. Marys in present-day…

Taking ‘casual’ seriously

I’ve lived in the Savannah area my entire life, and I’ve been to Tybee Island more times than I can count, but I’ve never actually dined there. Why not? I use “local” logic: If I know that I will be there during lunch, I bring my own. As for dinner, I am usually well on…

Vacant talk for a vacancy

I have to admit. It was a relief last week to plop down in the Johnson High School auditorium to listen to the four candidates vie for our vacant school superintendent job. I didn’t have to go to the meeting. I could have read about it the next morning. I could have caught the highlights…

City Notebook

World’s largest cranes arrive at port of Savannah Towering almost 200 feet above water level, two massive new Super Post-Panamax cranes for local port facilities arrived at the Port of Savannah’s Ocean Terminal last week. Ê Ê To get here, the cranes made a 47-day journey aboard a custom-made ship, the 505-foot Dock Express 10,…


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