“Old Florida Orange Grove”
From left, state Rep. Rick Townsend, Dean of the School of Nursing and Health Sciences Lydia Watkins, University System of Georgia Chancellor Sonny Perdue, College of Coastal Georgia President Johnny L. Evans Jr. and Vice President of Advancement Jamie Bessette break ground on the expansion to Miriam and Hugh Nunnally Hall.
A Seafarers Memorial is planned in downtown St. Marys. The memorial will honor all lost at sea, but is being resurrected in response to the loss of Dalton Conway, Caleb Wilkerson and Christopher Tyler Barlow, who went missing in October 2023 and were never found.
“The Day That Shook Georgia,” a documentary about the Thiokol Plant explosion in 1971, recently won a Southeast Emmy. From left are Thiokol Memorial Project’s Beatrice Hall, Emma Lou Gibbs, Angela Myers, executive producer Anne Longstreth, director Patrick Longstreth, and Thiokol Memorial Project’s Hattie Fogle, Melissa Jackson and Henrietta Lee.
The USS Georgia
The Tribune & Georgian won eight awards at the Georgia Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest banquet. From left are Marketing Director Laurie Levine, Assistant/Sports Editor Andy Diffenderfer, Editor and Publisher Scott J. Bryan and Production Director Denese Proctor.
Richard Gilley