Lucille Lannigan

Growth is reshaping Southeast Georgia, and airports across the region are investing in new facilities, hangars and infrastructure to keep pace with rising demand from businesses, travelers and industry.

HINESVILLE – A standing-room-only crowd packed a public information meeting Tuesday night as stakeholders talked over a proposed Liberty County wastewater treatment project that could eventually discharge treated effluent water into a coastal river system.

After more than 80 years as part of the Live Oak Public Library system, Effingham County’s libraries are preparing for a new chapter.

RICHMOND HILL – Bryan County residents packed a Richmond Hill Planning and Zoning meeting Tuesday night to voice opposition to a proposed commercial rezoning near the historic Burnt Church Cemetery.

A proposed land sale between the Development Authority of Bulloch County and a Hyundai Motor Group supplier could bring a unique housing development to Bulloch County.

HINESVILLE — The Liberty County Development Authority (LCDA) approved several major initiatives during its June meeting between infrastructure projects and additional testing for potential discharge sites of its proposed water reclamation facility.

Lucille Lannigan is a third-year student at the University of Florida studying journalism. Her most recent bylines can be seen in The Independent Florida Alligator and on WUFT News. What began as a faint buzz on the news and fleeting, worried conversations about a virus, soon turned my and everyone’s world upside down. Within three days, I packed my entire dorm and had to face the hard truth: I would be losing my newfound freedom, returning home and leaving my friends and a campus that became my home. I couldn’t help feeling like something had been taken from me. That what I dreamed of for so long was dangled in front of me for the briefest moment, only to be snatched away like it was never meant to be there in the first place. It was as if I was reverting back to pre-adulthood. I was grateful to have a home to return to, but my homelife was tense before I moved out, and I feared returning to it. No longer would there be days waking up and studying with friends, days filled with choices that I was free to make, days of growing and learning and being on my own. While this feeling of immense upset has subsided into a dull pain, I still feel that I was robbed of my college experience.

For decades, drivers alongside Interstate 95 through Liberty County have passed thousands of acres of timberland, marsh and waterfront property without knowing what was in store for the miles of undeveloped coastline.

ELLABELL – As the area along Interstate 16 around the Hyundai Metaplant continues to surge with development – land clearing, mass grading and paving – a new industrial park will join the activity.

RICEBORO — As the Liberty County Development Authority weighs a new potential discharge point for its Tradeport East Water Reclamation Facility, Riceboro residents are asking: If people along the Laurel View River objected to treated wastewater entering their waterway, why should the North Newport River be any different?