Landings Association on Skidaway Island returns nearly $1 million in PPP funds
THE Landings Association of Skidaway Island has opted to give back $792,888 in funds it secured from the federal government through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), intended to throw a lifeline to small businesses and nonprofits during the COVID-19 pandemic. “After careful consideration and deliberation, the Board of Directors of The Landings Association (TLA) voted…
Homicide at President Street homeless camp
The Savannah Police Department is investigating the death of a 38-year-old man at a President Street homeless camp Thursday morning. “Officers responded to the camp at President Street and Truman Parkway just after midnight and discovered Christopher Johnson deceased as a result of an apparent cutting,” police report. Detectives have identified a possible suspect in…
Friday run to show solidarity after killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Outrage has built steadily over the past week about the Feb. 23 killing of Ahmaud Arbery, an African American man, by two white men who are seen on video tracking him down in their pickup truck and shooting him. Tomorrow morning, May 8, on what would have been Arbery’s 26th birthday, supporters of his family…
Salvation Army, Feed the Hungry partner to provide 3,000 meals
Savannah’s Salvation Army (TSA) has partnered with local agency, Feed The Hungry and Georgia State Representative Carl Gilliard from Garden City to host a ‘Feed Our City’ event this weekend. 3,000 meals will be available to those in need, as well as food for their animal companions, this Saturday, May 9 starting at noon at…
WRUU receives grant from Downtown Neighborhood Association
WRUU FM 107.5, Savannah’s community radio station, has received a Community Grant from the Savannah Downtown Neighborhood Association in the amount of $600. “Each year, the DNA makes grants to community organizations that have an impact on the greater downtown area. Each application goes through a review process overseen by the DNA Board of Directors,…
5 Questions with Sophie Funck
‘It’s nice for me to have variety in what I’m making because it keeps me on my toes’
Rooting down: Roots Up Gallery closes location, transitions to online
‘It’s a freaking miracle that it did make it six years. This one’s just taking me down now’
A chat with CAT
Chatham Authority Transit has been riding that line (pun intended) through the pandemic, working on solutions to keep the buses rolling while also keeping passengers and employees safe
Returning to ‘normal’ isn’t always a good idea
We must recognize that what was normal before — when it comes to the way we configure and use our streets — was not so good
DJ Serch goes for energy with Quarantine Concert
The best part about what he does, he says, is the healing that he sees music provide for people
Editor’s Note: Did we learn anything at all?
The endless mixed messages from Gov. Kemp — first proclaiming the importance of public health, then signing orders directly undermining it — set the tone.
Brighter Days ahead: A visual tribute
After the shock, confusion, and disappointment of all the cancellations and closures, there didn’t seem to be a good reason to NOT go ahead with creating a new set of pieces.
Community News
Loggerhead nesting season officially underway Nesting season for loggerhead sea turtles has begun, with first clutch of loggerhead eggs found the morning of April 27 buried in the sand on a Cumberland Island beach . The nest, apparently made the previous Saturday night, marked Georgia’s 32st year of comprehensive marine turtle nest monitoring and the seventh…
Quarantine Chronicles come to an end
We cannot be a community unless we listen to, and care about, every single person in it, even—and especially—the ones whose story might make us uncomfortable
Remember When @Telfair Square, 1995
Way back in 1995, when Wild was 11 years old, she attended a production of Romeo & Juliet in Telfair Square, as part of City Lights’ Shakespeare in the Park
Album Reviews
Lulu The Giant and Dope KNife!
For music venues, the future’s still a question mark
Will big tours resume and arenas begin flooding with attendees once again? And if so, when?
