AUGUSTA, Ga. (Augusta Chronicle) – What’s ahead this weekend? A COVID-19-friendly scaled-down version of Arts in the Heart, two football rivals clash once again and several different live shows will be held. Continue Reading…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Augusta Press) – Augusta Commissioners have given tentative approval for the Augusta Convention and Visitor Bureau to create an annual international soul music festival in honor of the late Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Continue Reading…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Augusta Chronicle) – A coworking office space in downtown Augusta has rebranded and reopened under a new business model more than a year-and-a-half after it closed. Continue Reading… Learn more about SharedSpace here.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) – Huge accomplishment for some local students: Jessye Norman School of the Arts just won a national award for a podcast they made on the Augusta Riot. Continue Reading…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – It’s been a year since the Arts in the Heart festival was canceled due to the pandemic and now in just under a month the popular event looks to make a return, but under a different name. Continue Reading…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) – A new program in Augusta will help entrepreneurs get a head start with their businesses. Continue Reading…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Augusta Chronicle) – What’s five stories tall, has three legs and hasn’t stopped growing? The Georgia Cyber Center. Continue Reading…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Augusta Chronicle) – In 2019, Eric Kinlaw was depressed. When the pandemic struck in 2020, he wasn’t feeling any better. “It was a dark night of the soul,” the owner of The Bee’s Knees restaurant said. “Learned some things about myself. Did some real soul searching and thought about what I really wanted to do, ’cause […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Augusta Press) – Deanna Brown Thomas had a few misty-eyed moments Saturday during the 10th anniversary celebration of the James Brown Academy of Musik Pupils. Continue Reading…
AUGUSTA, Ga. (Augusta Chronicle) – Developers planning upscale housing on the site of Augusta’s old charter bus terminal are also refurbishing a nearby pre-Civil War house. Continue Reading…
NORCROSS, Ga. (Georgia Trend) – In March 2020, business predictions were grim. “You had all these experts, the National Main Street Center and the Small Business Association, doing nationwide statistics and saying that 30% to 35% of small businesses would not survive the pandemic,” says Margaret Woodard, executive director of Augusta’s Downtown Development Authority. “And […]
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The pandemic took a big hit on our local economy and the major events we see every year in the CSRA. But now that things slowly get back to normal, those events are back. Even though some of the big ones like Border Bash and the mini Arts in the Heart […]
