Best known for his runaway bestseller, “The Juror,” which was also made into a movie, Green grew up in many places in the North, but he moved to Savannah when […]
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Union Mission, Parker’s unveil plans for Parker’s House: A Home for Women
Union Mission and Parker’s unveiled plans today for the new Parker’s House: A Home for Women, which will be Savannah, and coastal Georgia’s only facility solely dedicated to providing emergency […]
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Savannah leader Michael Traynor named President and CEO of Union Mission
The Union Mission Board of Directors has announced that Michael C. Traynor has been named as President and CEO of the Savannah organization that strives to help the homeless, effective […]
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Proposal for new Salvation Army shelter leads to heated City Council discussion
A SAVANNAH City Council discussion on a Salvation Army proposal to establish a new transitional-housing shelter led to a sometimes-heated conversation about balancing community needs in a traditionally underprivileged neighborhood. […]
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Shelter of last resort: The Civic Center and Hurricane Dorian
Just like every other hurricane, there will be a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking. But the people that I met at the Civic Center on Wednesday evening were grateful to have the soon-to-be demolished roof of the MLK Arena over their heads.
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Homeless churches helping homeless people: Part Two
Pastor Candace Hardnett, Father Michael Chaney, and Reverend Kevin Veitinger all work with some of the 4,200 people who are homeless in our community
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Armed robber sought
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are requesting the public’s help in identifying the gunman who shot a homeless man during a reported robbery attempt May 5. Carl Whipple, 51, has been hospitalized […]
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Death of homeless man investigated
Detectives from the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department are investigating the death of a homeless man found near railroad tracks in West Savannah earlier this week. The body of the 65-year-old […]
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Review: City Lights’ ‘Sleeping Indoors’
Savannah playwright Jim Holt has directed three of his own works since September, each with varying degrees of charm and magnetism, under the banner of his resurrected City Lights Theatre […]
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Hope for the holidays
The Coastal Georgia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Atlanta-based nonprofit Hosea Feed the Hungry join forces this holiday season to help the working poor and homeless […]