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Midway looks at work to improve fire station

2 weeks ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

MIDWAY — Midway City Council got its first look at plans to rehabilitate its fire station. Keith Causeway of Trent Long Engineering laid out what the firm has in mind to bring the station back to operation. One of the primary goals is to get bigger doors because one of the two current trucks is too big for the station’s current doors. At least one of the bays, Causeway said, has to be 13 feet in height. Plans call for two bays to be 13 feet tall by 12 feet wide. A third bay can be 12 feet by 12 feet.
Literacy grant program ends, but officials laud its lasting impact

2 weeks ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

The L4GA grant program is ending, but school system officials said its impact will have long-lasting effects. The Liberty County School System received $3 million under L4GA — Literacy for Learning, Living and Leading — over five years, beginning in 2020.
County OKs rezoning for handful of warehouses off 17

2 weeks ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

A local industry is expanding and bringing more of its capacity to Liberty County, though residents living nearby expressed their concerns and some voiced opposition. County commissioners approved the rezoning of 88 acres off Highway 17 and Oak Creek Road from A-1 and AR-1 to light industrial, allowing SNF to put warehouses on the property. The concept plan calls for five warehouses to store material made at its Riceboro plant and an administrative office, meaning there will be several new jobs.
Liberty County Athletic Hall of Fame welcomes its class of 2025

2 weeks ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

MIDWAY – The annual Liberty County Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony had a family feel to it, with actual sisters, those who grew up together as if they were brothers and a father figure getting honored. Delisha Milton-Jones, a member of the Hall of Fame’s inaugural class, introduced her sister Charmaine Milton Gatlin as the newest member of the Hall of Fame at the ceremony, held Thursday at the Liberty County East End Complex’s John McIver Auditorium.
Regents OK East Georgia-GSU merger

4 weeks ago | coastalcourier.com | Al Hackle

By Al Hackle, Statesboro HeraldSTATESBORO — Meeting in the same building on the Georgia Southern University campus that houses East Georgia State College’s Statesboro program, the state Board of Regents on Tuesday unanimously approved University System Chancellor Sonny Perdue’s recommendation to make the Swainsboro-based college a part of the university.
Regents eye GSU, EGSC merger

1 month ago | coastalcourier.com | Al Hackle

By Al Hackle, Statesboro HeraldSTATESBORO — Seven and a quarter years after Armstrong State University was absorbed into Georgia Southern University, the University System of Georgia, or USG, is considering another consolidation involving Georgia Southern, this time with East Georgia State College, which is based in Swainsboro but also has a Statesboro program.
Schools salute military-connected kids, nearly a quarter of all students

1 month ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

The Month of the Military Child is taking on new meaning throughout the Liberty County School System. The school system and Bradwell Institute celebrated the Month of the Military Child during a ceremony April 1 at Bradwell, with children of soldiers donning purple — the color of the military child — and reflecting on the symbol of the military child, the dandelion. Dandelions are chosen since those plants can thrive wherever they are planted.
More than 30 apply to be next superintendent

1 month ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

Liberty County school board members and their search firm are going through the list of applicants for the school system’s top job. Applications to be the next superintendent of Liberty County schools closed March 2, and board Chair Verdell Jones said the system received more than 30 applications. The Georgia School Boards Association is helping with the search. “Board members are in the process of reviewing a great amount of applicants,” she said at Thursday’s town hall.
Hinesville council OKs 22-acre annexation

1 month ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

Hinesville is growing this time with another 22 acres and possibly another 100 homes. Council members approved the annexation request from RTS Home to annex 22 acres of land off Ruben Wells Road and to rezone the land from agricultural to planned unit development. The tract is between Griffin Park and Fort Stewart and is the last undeveloped piece in that area, Liberty Consolidated Planning Commission director Jeff Ricketson told council members.
Students aren’t using pouches, but not using phones in class, either

1 month ago | coastalcourier.com | Pat Donahue

Students aren’t using the Yondr cell phone pouches — but cell phone use in schools is down. Several students who took part in a town hall meeting, put together by school board member Dr. Marcus Scott, said they and their fellow students don’t use the pouches the school system purchased to keep cell phones out of students’ hands during the school day.