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No arrests have been made in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Ernest Zachary Ruffle.

No arrests have been made in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Ernest Zachary Ruffle.

KPD investigation homicide

Johna Strickland Rush
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Kingsland police are investigating a homicide this week after a man was shot to death early Tuesday morning. No arrests have been made. Officers responded to a call about gunshots around 12:20 a.m. and found Ernest Zachary Ruffell, 34, in his house on Forest Ridge Drive in Kingsland.
Cabin Bluff | The Nature Conservancy

Cabin Bluff | The Nature Conservancy

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Georgia DNR votes to establish WMA in Camden

Jill Helton
Thursday, October 29, 2020
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources voted this week to purchase the remaining Cabin Bluff property in Camden County to establish a wildlife management area.
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Kingsland to hold special election for council seat

Johna Strickland Rush
Thursday, October 29, 2020
Kingsland City Council will be working a man down for the rest of the year and into 2021 until a special election can be called. “We will miss LaMar (Stokes). He did an excellent job here for the city and he was a valued member of council,” Mayor Grayson Day said Monday.
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Harbor Freight moving into old Kmart store

Johna Strickland Rush
Thursday, October 22, 2020
The old Kmart on Highway 40 in Kingsland is getting a new life as a Harbor Freight Tools store in the new year. The store is expected to create 25 to 30 new jobs.
Natalie Furr (center) is facing a second diagnosis of breast cancer this year with support from her husband, county deputy Jerry Furr, his K-9 partner Bella and her coworkers at New Hope Christian Academy.

Natalie Furr (center) is facing a second diagnosis of breast cancer this year with support from her husband, county deputy Jerry Furr, his K-9 partner Bella and her coworkers at New Hope Christian Academy.

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Breast cancer survivor finds herself back in the fight

Johna Strickland Rush
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Natalie Furr thought she was doing everything right. She has a family history of breast cancer but she was a healthy 36-year-old who’d had children, breastfed her children and did regular self checks. Then she felt a small lump in her breast that became a cancer diagnosis in January 2019.
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Judge sentences anti-nuke activists

Johna Strickland Rush
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Two more activists were sentenced last week for breaking into Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base to protest nuclear weapons in 2018. A third activist was sentenced this summer to time served and four more are awaiting sentencing.
The City of St. Marys is seeking requests for proposals to redevelop 220 acres of the old airport. The other runway — shown outside of the project area boundary — is slated to become an aquaponics farm.

The City of St. Marys is seeking requests for proposals to redevelop 220 acres of the old airport. The other runway — shown outside of the project area boundary — is slated to become an aquaponics farm.

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City seeks redevelopment proposals for old airport

News Staff
Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Three years after the airport closed, the City of St. Marys is seeking requests for proposals to redevelop the remaining 220 acres. An aquaponics farm is planned for the other roughly 160 acres.
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Church buys Cabin Bluff as retreat center

Jill Helton
Thursday, October 15, 2020
The Nature Conservancy recently sold a portion of the Cabin Bluff property at Harrietts Bluff to a mega-church in Jacksonville, Florida, for $12.75 million.  Church of Eleven22 purchased 3.2 acres of the 11,000-acre property and plans to use the land as a retreat center.