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St. Marys City Hall

St. Marys City Council wants better deal for school officers

Thursday, March 21, 2024

St. Marys City Council was united in its desire to provide school resource officers to five schools located within the city limits. They just want a better deal. During Monday night’s Council meeting, council members tasked St.

Eugene Emile Desrosiers

76-year-old man charged with killing his wife

Scott J. Bryan

Thursday, March 21, 2024

A 76-year-old Kingsland man was charged with murder after law enforcement officials said he stabbed his wife multiple times during a domestic dispute, according to a news release from the Kingsland Police Department.

Camden County’s Two Rivers Gun Range has been a source of consternation for one local resident who says the range violates the county’s code of ordinances.

County commissioners eye solution for noise at county gun range

Scott J. Bryan

Thursday, March 21, 2024

After two-plus years of complaints from a resident who lives near the Two Rivers Gun Range, the Camden County Board of Commissioners took steps Tuesday night to potentially eradicate a noise problem. But the local resident, Ricky Manning, remains unhappy with the range remains open.

Camden County OKs freeport exemption

Wes Wolfe

Friday, March 15, 2024

Plans to extend tax breaks to e-commerce fulfillment centers received the thumbs-up from Camden County voters, with the freeport exemption taking 2,925 of the 5,023 votes cast, 58.23%, during the presidential preference primary this week.

Kingsland City Hall

10 police vehicles on tap for Kingsland

Wes Wolfe

Friday, March 15, 2024

The Kingsland City Council awarded a bid in its last meeting to purchase 10 replacement patrol vehicles for the city police department, along with bids accounting for more than $1.5 million in road resurfacing work.

A person clips off a small piece of red snapper fin for genetic analysis.

Federal red snapper event still unknown

Wes Wolfe

Friday, March 15, 2024

Georgia anglers looking to bring home a red snapper this year may have to fish in the Gulf of Mexico, because a federal recreational season for South Atlantic waters is very much up in the air.

Cassie Turpin

Turpin earns floodplain manager certification

News Staff

Friday, March 15, 2024

The Camden County Board of Commissioners announced that Cassie Turpin completed the necessary steps to become a Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM) through the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM).

Okefenokee Swamp Park environmental science education coordinator Katie Antczak visited Mary Lee Clark Elementary School to teach fourth-graders about the swamp’s ecosystem.

Fourth-graders get up close with swamp critters

News Staff

Friday, March 15, 2024

Students in Terrie Walker’s fourth grade science classes at Mary Lee Clark Elementary School recently had a visit from Katie Antczak, the environmental science education coordinator and Regional Education Services Agencies’ consultant from Okefenokee Swamp Park.

A UGA Marine Extension and UGA Sea Grant staff member holds a shrimp as they discuss issues with the Georgia shrimp fishery.

‘State crustacean’ recognition for Georgia white shrimp advances

Wes Wolfe

Friday, March 15, 2024

In a nod to the shrimping industry that brought so many to coastal Georgia, state Rep. Steven Sainz’s attempt to get the white shrimp named as the official state crustacean advanced this week in the Senate. The bill, HB 1341, previously cleared the House of Representatives on a 171-0 vote on Feb.

Southeast Georgia Health System adds obstetrician/gynecologist

News Staff

Friday, March 15, 2024

Southeast Georgia Health System has added obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Roxanne Mody to the Southeast Georgia Physician Associates–Obstetrics & Gynecology and to the Camden Campus medical staff. The practice is located at 2060 Dan Proctor Drive, Suite 1200, in St. Marys.