Business in Savannah in brief
Food and wine festival seeks partners, volunteersThe Savannah Food & Wine Festival, which will be held Nov. 10-16, will hold two informational meetings for potential restaurant partners and...
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Savannah ammunition manufacturer re-enters market
On a partially paved road at the end of a field in an industrial park sits what appears to be just another small Savannah manufacturing facility.After turning onto the unmarked driveway, passing...
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Pooler picked as third best place to live in GeorgiaCreditDonkey.com rates Pooler as the third best city to live in Georgia, the only community not near the Atlanta metro area on the website’s top 10...
View ArticleFlying Monk Noodle looks like a hit on Savannah's Broughton Street
Since 2011, two restaurants have opened and closed at 5 West Broughton St., but it looks as if the new Flying Monk Noodle Bar is going to stick around for a long time.And that’s a good thing.Flying...
View ArticleMedient Studios touts progress, but uncertainty looms
More than a week after Savannah-based Medient Studios ousted its CEO and founder Manu Kumaran, questions remain as to whether the movie company can maneuver its way out of the murky financial depths...
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BETH BOCKNew job title: HOA manager assistantCompany: Lanier RealtyDuties: Bock handles the daily operations and maintains resident relations with homeowners association clients on Wilmington Island....
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NAWIC’s June chapter meetingDate: June 23Time: 5:30-7 p.m.Location: Exchange Tavern, Waters Ave.Speaker: Cristy Llewellyn Lawrence, City of SavannahSubject: Cristy Llewellyn Lawrence is a licensed...
View ArticleThe Savannah Bank name change effective June 30
Effective June 30, First Financial Holdings Inc., parent company of The Savannah Bank, will change its name to South State Corporation. The ticker symbol, which is currently SCBT, will change to...
View ArticleGa. ports continue moving record cargo volumes
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Georgia's busy seaports have continued to handle record cargo volumes in 2014 as the U.S. economy recovers, putting the Port of Savannah within close reach of a big milestone when the...
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Habitat Savannah to dedicate its 127th homeSavannah’s Habitat for Humanity — along with its homeowner families, partners and volunteers — will dedicate a Habitat Savannah home at 808 W. 42nd St. at 11...
View ArticleCity Talk: Feeling nostalgic for downtown's dive bars, video stores
Satchel, which specializes in handcrafted bags and other accessories, moved recently from Broughton Street to 4 E. Liberty St. I’ll have more in an upcoming column about Satchel’s successful history...
View ArticleGPA shatters records for cargo volumes
With the end of the fiscal year just a week away, Georgia Ports Authority is poised to pass a number that has just eluded it in the last few years — 3 million 20-foot containers moved.GPA executive...
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Justices rap EPA, but uphold global warming rules
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration’s only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a...
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Wells Fargo employees volunteer in community
Local Wells Fargo employees spent Saturday working as volunteers as part of Community Service Super Saturday. Savannah volunteers spent the day laying sod and painting the interior and exterior of a...
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Three months left for USDA rural home loan program in west Chatham County
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s rural home loan program is winding down in Chatham County’s smaller municipalities, giving potential homebuyers just three more months to snag a house on its...
View ArticleCourt raises bar for securities class action cases
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday made it tougher for investors to join together to sue corporations for securities fraud, a decision that could curb the number of multimillion-dollar legal...
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Golfing for a Cure raises more than $66,000 The 10th Landings Women’s Golf Association “Golfing for a Cure” event raised $66,327 for the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial...
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Enmark raises $76,000 for charity
During the month of May, Enmark Stations, Inc. raised $76,097 by selling paper balloon icons in all 59 of its retail stores in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina, and holding two “Full-Service...
View ArticleIsakson, Chambliss call proposed federal water rule a power grab
ATLANTA — Georgia’s U.S. senators are fighting a proposed rule on water regulation that they say amounts to a federal power grab, yet environmentalists say it only clarifies existing regulations.Sens....
View ArticleTired truckers and commercial vehicle safety
The recent New Jersey six-vehicle highway accident that killed one person and severely injured actor and comedian Tracy Morgan and three others has put driver safety front and center.According to a...
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