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Savannah Tech introduces funding campaign for Liberty Campus
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Dr. Kathy Love, the president of Savannah Technical College, speaks about the colleges impact on the region at the Hinesville Rotary Club meeting at the colleges Liberty Campus Tuesday. - photo by Cailtin Kenney
Hinesville Rotarians were given an up-close look at the new fundraising campaign for Savannah Technical College at their meeting Tuesday at the college’s Liberty Campus.Dr. Kathy Love, the president of Savannah Tech, introduced the college to the Rotary members and spoke of its impact in the community, including the 116 students who are dual-enrolled, meaning they earn college credit while still attending high school.Then Gail Eubanks, the college’s executive director of institutional advancement and communications, introduced the “Where Excellence Meets Opportunity” major-gifts campaign at the institution. Of the $10 million the campaign seeks to raise, $1.5 million will go toward a precision-manufacturing center on the Liberty Campus.Since the college announced the campaign last month, it already has raised $5 million, Eubanks said.The Liberty Campus is the only Savannah Tech site built in part from Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax funding, Love said. She credited the continued support of the county, local industry and manufacturers with the college’s growth and for seeing Savannah Tech’s importance to job growth in the community.
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Early morning accident in McIntosh County kills five
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Five people were killed and another one was injured following a two-vehicle accident in McIntosh County on Sunday morning.

Witnesses told Georgia State Patrol Trooper Christopher Ashdown that a Jeep Cherokee was traveling south on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended an Infiniti. The Cherokee hit a guard rail, bursting into flames. The crash and ensuing fire killed one adult and four children.

The driver of the Jeep Cherokee has been identified a Reagan Dougan, 27. GSP troopers have learned she rented the vehicle in Raleigh, N.C., and was heading to Florida to meet her husband. The children were a 9-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy, a 2-year-old girl and a 3-month-old boy.

Ashdown said the Cherokee was a rental and authorities are in the process of identifying the victims.  The driver of the Infiniti, from Long County, was transported to Southeast Regional Health System in Brunswick with non-life-threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at mile marker 62 around 6 a.m.

 

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