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Off-season training tips for boaters
Special to the Courier By Hank Parker Whether you just got a new boat or your old one spent the winter months parked in the garage, you've got to be excited about the fact that the calendar now says it's March. Regardless of what the weather is like at your place right now (I thought the groundhog didn't see his shadow this year), we're only a few weeks away from spring. And if you're like ...
Fishing hole cleared of lines
Sumter Utilities' Gary Davis (front) and his crew, David Smith, Jami Johnson, Michael Waters and Calvin Thomas, replace a fishing-line-entangled power line over Riceboro Creek at Highway 17. The Sumter employees, who work in the area under a contract with Georgia Power, got the job after Dot Moss and county Commissioners Eddie Walden and Pat Bowen contacted Robert Stokes, Georgia Power's area director. Stokes arranged the details.
Ossabaw topic of lecture
Magnolia Manor on the Coast in Richmond Hill will welcome Paul Moffatt Pressly as guest speaker in their Renaissance Lecture Series. Pressly will enlighten guests to facts about Ossabaw Island as well as give a snapshot of the Island's activities today.
Wanna go hunting?
Commentary As the Courier hopes to increase its coverage of hunting in the area, I knew I had to familiarize myself with the topic, while coming to grips with the embarrassing fact that I had never shot a gun. That changed two days ago. While spending the last 23 years of my life in Ohio, one would justly assume that a deer head would hang above my stove where a fresh pot of venison stew ...
Tight line
Our fishing has been real slow; however it looks like it is starting to improve. I received some reports of good catches of sheephead this week from Rayburn Goodman of Yellow Bluff Fishing Camp and he has live fiddlers and live minnows. These are the catches from the past weekend: Mike Bell fishing with Tony Bell and Billy and Allen Myrick, landed 30 sheephead, 20 pumpie and 50 black sea bass; Tony Phillips and party ...
Meeting covers coastal issues
The Georgia Coastal Management Program's (GCMP) Coastal Advisory Council's winter quarterly meeting is set for 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Feb. 26 at the conference room of the Coastal EMC in Midway. The Coastal EMC is on Highway 17 about two miles south of Midway (off exit 76, west of 1-95). Council meetings are held quarterly and are open to the public. Council meetings offer members and the public the ability to remain informed on ...
Georgia's Golden Isles
CUMBERLAND ISLAND - Drops of moisture fall from the Spanish moss that hangs from live oaks onto the fan-shaped palmetto fronds below. A hungry armadillo busily scavenges under vines and ferns. A breeze off the teal Atlantic plays with the mane of a sturdy feral horse trotting on the ivory sand dunes.
It's purple martin time
Submitted Most bird watchers have a favorite, which for many in Georgia is the brown thrasher, the state bird. But another species, the purple martin, generates enormous excitement and passion. Georgians have a long tradition of hosting purple martins, a swallow species. Because martins are totally dependent on humans for housing, landlords anxiously await their return each year and post reports of scouts on an online data base at purplemartin.org - maintained by the Purple ...
Legislation would hold boat owners accountable
ATLANTA - State Sen. Eric Johnson (R-Savannah) has filed legislation to crack down on boat owners who leave their boats and barges in the water to rot and pollute Georgia's marshes, lakes and rivers.
Racing starts in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK - The roar of high speed racing drama kicks off the stock car season when Golden Isles Speedway opens its gates on Wednesday for the Super Bowl of Racing III.
RDC hopes to put in trail south of Riceboro
The Coastal Georgia Regional Development Center is working with the Georgia Department of Transportation to conduct a Rails-to-Trails feasibility study from north of Kingsland to south of Riceboro.
Marsh buffer likely will be 50 feet
ATLANTA - Georgia's top environmental officials retreated from a plan last week that would ban developers from building within 25 feet of the tidal marsh after a stream of environmentalists complained the measure didn't go far enough.
Sea turtle center has new director
Special to the Courier JEKYLL ISLAND - The Jekyll Island Authority announced Monday that it has hired William P. Irwin, Ph.D. as director of the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. The Center, scheduled to open June 16, will offer medical treatment, rehabilitation and research facilities for sea turtles as well as offer a comprehensive, interactive museum component to educate the public. "We are excited to welcome Bill to Jekyll Island and the Sea Turtle Center," said ...
New year for speedway
Special to the Courier POOLER - With the ringing in of the New Year comes some new changes for the half-century old Oglethorpe Speedway Park. In a letter sent to NASCAR, the speedway after a 22-year history with NASCAR declined to renew their sanction for the 2007 season. "In an ongoing effort to keep stock car racing affordable for both the competitors and fans in this area, we will now focus our efforts in a ...
Fishing improves along coast
Coastal fishing improved in the past two weeks; we had more fishing activity this past week, and the fisherman landed trout, bass, and sheephead.
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Give beach birds plenty of space to nest
BRUNSWICK - Those getting ready for a summer vacation on Georgia's coast need to remember many wildlife species depend on the beach.
Start park lodges under new management
Four of Georgia State Parks' lodges and resorts are or soon will be under new management, according to State Parks Director Becky Kelley.
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