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Neenah. Wisc.—Jewelers Mutual Group (JM) has partnered with the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to support bench jeweler education through a $10 million donation and a 10-year alliance. The industry-academic collaboration will focus on developing the next generation of jewelry artisans and innovators...

For most people in Bryan County, Donald R. Payseur is the face and driving force behind Coastal Broadband, Inc., but beyond his work in telecommunications, Payseur carries another calling: storytelling. “Everyone has a story to tell,” Payseur says. “It took me 40 years to finally tell mine.”. Unlike...

The body of Richard "Dickie" Phelps, 63, a missing Daufuskie Island man, was located Feb. 24, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office said. Phelps had been reported missing Feb. 20 by his family. The body of a Daufuskie Island man who had been reported missing since Feb. 20 was discovered by...

Savannahians filed into the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center ballroom last October to have their say in future development at the site. There were a variety of options ranging from for-sale row homes and condos, to apartments, workforce housing and different scales of retail development. Now, city staff and...

Before Thanksgiving approximately a dozen of Savannah’s most dedicated arts patrons gathered for a crisis meeting about the Telfair Museums. Six months earlier, the fundraising staff had quit amid allegations of a toxic workplace. The longtime chief financial officer left soon after, and the director was suffering...

Health officials recommend a good diet, exercise and maintaining a healthy BMI to reduce the risk of heart disease.

Vincent Chapman, also known as the Savannah Bananas’ Dancing Umpire, will be a special guest at this year’s annual World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade March 17 in Hot Springs. Since joining the league in 2022, Chapman has made a name for himself as an entertaining...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - On Friday, the Chatham County Sheriff’s said its Special Investigations Unit executed warrants charging Jimmie Alexander Jr., 37, with party to a crime of aggravated assault in connection with a viral aggravated assault in Pooler. Alexander is the third person arrested in the case....

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Flags across Savannah will be flown at half-staff for one week in honor of Reverend Jesse Jackson. In a post on social media, Mayor Van Johnson issued an order directing that all United States flags and City of Savannah flags be lowered at all city buildings from sunrise on Sunday, March 1,...

Construction for Augusta University’s new dental college campus has begun in Savannah, where crews broke ground at the site on Armstrong’s former recreational athletic fields earlier this semester. In 2024, Governor Brian Kemp announced that $178 million of state funds were being allocated for the design and...