Food as tourism: Buffalo now has a “brewery district”
It’s not all fracking shutdowns in Buffalo; now for some good news: food and drink as tourism. We could do that! Don Postles wrote for WIVB yesterday, Brewery district” now open for tours, Downtown...
View ArticleInternet speeds into jobs
Something good out of Chattanooga? The city with the fastest metropolitan Internet access plans to turn that into jobs. Elizabeth Prann wrote for Fox 26 January 2013, City turns Internet speeds into...
View ArticleAzalea Festival in Drexel Park, Valdosta, GA 2103-03-09
Men, women, children, babies in strollers, old folks with walkers, dogs, and a large yellow chicken in a time-lapse movie from the wildlife camera Gretchen set up at the Thirteenth Annual Azalea...
View ArticleVideos: Solar Dublin High School groundbreaking @ DHS Solar 2013-03-11
Groundbreaking for solar power to save Dublin High 40%, thus reducing teacher furloughs, financed by municipal bonds, made possible by cooperation among a wide range of government officials, private...
View ArticleToday: VSU SAVE Earth Day
Students Against Violating the Environment (SAVE) is having an Earth Day event 5:00pm until 8:00pm today, Friday 26 April 2013 on the VSU front lawn. Come celebrate Earth Day with us! The event is...
View ArticleSo popular it’s every Saturday and a street is closed: Valdosta Farm Days
Demand has ramped up in only a few years so that already Valdosta Farm Days has expanded its days and pedestrianized a street. City of Valdosta PR 15 May 2013, City Announces Road Closure for Downtown...
View ArticleHahira Third Thursday and Village Market today
Today is the first Hahira Southern Village Market Day, Vendors, food, and live music, 5-8PM! This happens every Third Thursday in downtown Hahira. If you come in from I-75 or Valdosta, you’ll see...
View ArticleSPLOST VII Resolution and mystery proclamation and appointment @ LCC 2013-09-09
Presumably the SPLOST VII Resolution is to put it on the ballot in November. So much for those town halls that never happened. I’m guessing the ZBOA appointment is for the finally-expired term of Dave...
View ArticleVideos: SPLOST VII Resolution and mystery proclamation and appointment @ LCC...
The big surprise in the eleven-minute meeting was they called up former County Engineer Charlie Clark to explain the Utility Director’s comment about making a profit on wastewater to Lake Park...
View Article64th Annual Ham and Eggs Show
The 64th Annual Ham and Eggs show is this week. The only one left in Georgia, it is not to be missed. Here’s video from last year. Where: Lowndes County Civic Center 2102 E Hill Ave. Valdosta, GA...
View ArticleHahira Honeybee Festival
Once again time for the Hahira Honeybee Festival, 29 September through 4 October 2014. Starting this morning with the “Kick-Off Breakfast 7-9 a.m. Community Center- Randall St. Everyone Welcome” This...
View ArticleHahira Honeybee Breakfast
Gretchen reports it was congenial but poorly attended, presumably because there are no local political races undecided that affect Hahira: both County Commission Districts 2 and 5 are already done,...
View ArticleFlatlanders Arts & Crafts Show in Lakeland, GA
Flatlanders Arts & Crafts Show The Flatlanders Arts & Crafts Show features a variety of antiques, collectibles, food and beverages. It is one of the oldest annual arts and crafts shows, and is...
View ArticleVideos: Project Max and more at Development Authority @ VLCIA 2016-02-16
They said almost nothing last month about Project Max, so we don’t know for sure if for example it is really a glass container company. They meet again tonight. Actually, that one is cancelled; they...
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