SAVANNAH’S CORNER STORE PROGRAM AWARDED $10K CITY GRANT AND EXPANDS TO OFFER MORE HEALTHY FOOD CHOICES (SAVANNAH, GA) Six local stores are now participating in the Corner Store Initiative to make healthy food choices the easy choice in small retail […]
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(SAVANNAH, GA) Six local stores are now participating in the Corner Store Initiative to make healthy food choices the easy choice in small retail stores that are often the only source of food in some of Savannah’s low-wealth neighborhoods. The program experienced challenges during the COVID pandemic, but is now beginning to thrive and new incentives are being introduced to entice more retailers and their customers to get on board.
(SAVANNAH, Ga.) Colonial Group Inc. has announced that Brett Giesick has been named chief operating officer for the Savannah-based group of companies. Giesick has served as president of Colonial Group’s retail division, Enmarket, since 2017. He is the first person to serve in the role of COO for Colonial.
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(SAVANNAH, GA) Dozens participated in a Healthy Walk on the Truman Linear Park Trail on March 22 to celebrate Healthy Savannah and YMCA’s two-year milestone of encouraging folks to get out and get active. Each week for the past two
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THE CURRENT (THE CURRENT) ProPublica has announced the addition of three new partner newsrooms and local reporters to its Local Reporting Network and The Current is among them. The editor in chief Margaret Coker will be working with ProPublica, a nonpartisan national investigative news organization, on an
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(SAVANNAH, Ga.) As Savannah’s largest convenience store chain and one that continues to grow, ribbon-cuttings are not that unusual for Enmarket. But earlier this month, the store observed a ribbon-cutting unlike any other in its history. The facility the ceremony opened was not a regular store, but instead was a storefront inside the Junior Achievement Colonial Group Discovery Center at the Armstrong campus of Georgia Southern University.
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(SAVANNAH, GA / JAPAN) Keitaro Harada, conductor for the Savannah Philharmonic, received the Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award last month in his native Japan.
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(SAVANNAH, GA) After one year of virtual staging and a COVID pause year the Lowcountry Down Syndrome’s Night of Champions returns April 14, 2022 as an in-person event at The Savannah Convention Center on Hutchinson Island. The multifaceted event includes recognition of some of the area’s outstanding differently abled employees and their employers.
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MARCH 14, 2022 THE SAVANNAH LOCAL NewsWIRE™ SAINT PATRICK’S DAY PARADE (SAVANNAH, GA) The BEST St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the world that steps off at 10:15 AM at the intersection of Abercorn and Gwinnett and ends
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PHIL THE SQUARES WITH SONG (SAVANNAH PHILHARMONIC) Join us on March 13 at 3 p.m. for another Phil the Squares concert in Savannah’s charming Chippewa Square. This one-hour concert will feature members of our Savannah Philharmonic Chorus. All are welcome
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