The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the economic sector hard. Among the things that have been caught up in the economic fallout are projects that were in motion before the pandemic began. That includes a local project that hopefully is on its way to getting back on track.
At Wednesday’s Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce meeting, Coastal Pines President Lonnie Roberts told the group that funding for the planning and design of a new training lab at the technical college’s Brunswick campus is a top priority for the state board of technical colleges. In fact, spending $2.9 million for the building’s design is the No. 1 recommendation the board will send to the state legislature and governor’s office in its 2022 budget.
A device designed to keep crews safe while working on railroad tracks did its job Friday and derailed a locomotive that was slowly chugging south along the tracks parallel to Newcastle Street in Brunswick.
Fifteen members of a Georgia Air and Army National Guard team were at the historic Lissner House in Brunswick Thursday conducting a drill to test their capabilities in identifying potentially hazardous substances.
It wasn’t long after John Meyer began his welding classes at Golden Isles College and Career Academy that he decided against pursuing a four-year college degree.
The state Department of Natural Resources sunk the 40-foot tugboat Miss Laci about 15 miles off the coast of Little St. Simons Island last week, adding it to Artificial Reef DRH.
A recently penned 20-year agreement between the Georgia Ports Authority and shipping and logistics giant Wallenius Wilhelmsen will give the company space at the Port of Brunswick to customize industrial vehicles and equipment coming into port before delivering them to dealers and customers, …