Last Saturday, the weekly Starland Farmers Market became the local epicenter of the effort to address climate change. For people (like me) who were not able to attend Greenfest on Oct. 13, event organizer Ryan Patterson, reported there were, “four terrific speakers at the event, all of whom called on Rep. (John) Barrow to stop […]

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According to a story in today’s Savannah Morning News, the Chatham County Commission has voted to explore the cost of securing LEED certification for a $109 million jail expansion. The funding source for the project is the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Christian Livermore reports that if the jail project does indeed go green, […]

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If Forsyth Park is located between your business or residence and Sonoco Recycling, you don’t have to haul your materials all the way down to the Gwinnett Street plant. According to The Chronicle, SCAD’s faculty/staff newspaper, the SCAD women’s Lacrosse team will accept donations of recyclable materials at Forysth Park on the first Saturday […]

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Via the always informative, Streetsblog, comes great news today, at least for residents of Illinois:
“In near-unanimous votes, the Illinois House and Senate have overridden a gubernatorial veto to adopt a statewide complete streets law.
The new law requires the Illinois Department of Transportation to include safe bicycling and walking facilities in all projects in urbanized areas, […]

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The complete inventory of mayoral candidates was available in the fellowship hall of Cokesbury United Methodist Church last night: Otis Johnson, Floyd Adams, Jerry Sammons, John McMasters, James Dewberry and Yusuf Shabazz. All three alderman at large Post 1 hopefuls Edna Jackson, James DeLorme and Clara Mae Curry were present along with at large Post […]

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