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Job Corps students, supporters call to save the program from federal budget cuts

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

By By MICHAEL HALL [email protected] Kamau Dickerson says he would not be where he is today without the Brunswick Job Corps Center. The 1999 graduate is a pastor, an entrepreneur, a Brunswick Housing Authority commissioner and a staunch supporter of the program that began in 1964 as part of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.
Life rings installed at Mary Ross as part of safer city initiative

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall
Unruly parties keep police busy Monday night

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

Brunswick police were busy Monday night when two separate parties turned unruly. A party in the 2600 block of Johnston Street erupted in a fight, an injured police officer and a child being hit with a firearm, a daily log of police activity said.
Georgia lawmakers to study chronic student absenteeism

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

By By MICHAEL HALL [email protected] ATLANTA - More students have been skipping school since the COVID-19 pandemic, and Georgia lawmakers are looking into the problem. A leading state Senate Republican announced Tuesday that he is forming a committee on the issue. Sen. John F. Kennedy, R-Macon, will also chair the new Study Committee on Combating Chronic Absenteeism in Schools.
Fatal crash claims life of SSI man

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

A St. Simons Island man died in a crash on the island Tuesday morning, prompting a road closure that snarled traffic for hours. A preliminary investigation of the crash by the Georgia State Patrol showed that Jason William Brown, 47, of St. Simons Island, was traveling southbound on Sea Island Road in a Lexus GS350 at around 7 a.m. when the vehicle crossed into the northbound lane and collided with an International flatbed truck.
Woman wounded, man arrested after Friday shooting

2 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

By By MICHAEL HALL [email protected] A woman was wounded and a man was arrested Friday night after a shooting near exit 36 of Interstate 95 in Glynn County. Glynn County Police officers responded to a call of a shooting at around 9:45 p.m. on Friday in the area near Mulligan's Bar and Night Club and the Royal Inn, a release from the police department said.
Faithworks, nonprofits feeling strain of uncertain economy

2 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

By By MICHAEL HALL [email protected] A woman came into The Well recently in tears. She had transitioned out of homelessness and moved into a Brunswick Housing Authority apartment, but she was still sleeping on an air mattress. She didn't have the furniture she needed to make the Department of Family and Children Services comfortable allowing her child to live with her.
Bodies found under Sidney Lanier Bridge

2 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

The bodies of two individuals were discovered Thursday afternoon under the Sidney Lanier Bridge. Interim Brunswick Police Chief Angela Smith said kayakers noticed the bodies on the rocks under the bridge supports and called the authorities to report them.
County fire department welcomes new assistant chief

3 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

By By MICHAEL HALL [email protected] Vera Morrison stepped into her new role as assistant chief of Glynn County Fire and Rescue and had no choice but to hit the ground running. Morrison started Monday, the same week the department is coordinating public safety efforts to prepare for the Golden Isles Airshow on Saturday.
First responders honored at second annual awards luncheon

3 weeks ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Michael Hall

By By MICHAEL HALL [email protected] Glynn County Police Officer William Duggan knew he was risking his life when he climbed through the window of a burning house on Blythe Island in February 2024 to help get a bedridden woman out. With the help of a neighbor, Aaron Knowlton, who climbed in first and handed a stool out to Duggan so he could get inside, the pair saved the woman's life.