The Brunswick News

The Brunswick-Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce has a new director of membership services. Nigel Brown started his new position on June 21. As director of membership, his duties include providing membership customer service, leading the Chamber Ambassador Program and the Small Business Committee in charge of selecting the Small Business of the Month Awards.

Parker Cason sat casually in a patch of bare dirt Thursday morning, writing neatly into a notebook braced in his lap with grubby hands. Beside him a Ziplock bag contained chunks and chips and slivers that may appear as mere dustpan fodder to the untrained eye. But after a week of archaeology camp at Fort Frederica on St. Simons Island, Parker’s 10-year-old eyes knew better.

Like the sea turtles that return to the Golden Isles’ shorelines each summer, tourists in golf carts predictably flock to St. Simons Island’s roadways in large numbers this time of year. And for locals who work for a living or have a schedule to keep, it is often...

Nearing 30 years in ministry, the Rev. Rosemary Woods believes she’s come a long way, but that churches as a whole have grown as well. Her career in the church started with the Church of God in Christ, which has many branches across the state. Her father was a minister in the church and took her everywhere.

If Neal Boatright wanted to give one of his children land to build a home on his rural 80-acre tract in Glynn County, it would have to be at least one acre. His property is too far from municipal water and sewer, so a septic tank would be needed, the reason state law includes the minimum size requirement.