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Pooler The future of trucking can soon be seen in
south Georgia, where fueling company HydroFleet is
building a $33 million hydrogen fueling station that
will power the next generation of hydrogen fuel cell
trucks. Hydrogen is seen as a game changer in green
energy shipping and logistics, and state economic
development officials are hoping to build out a “hydrogen highway” through the state to ensure its place as a
key transit hub for generations to come. Pooler marks
the perfect starting point because trucks begin their
journeys out across the state and country there after
picking up goods from the Port of Savannah.
Augusta Parking decks aren’t exactly the sexiest addi-
St. Marys The state Department of Natural Re-
tions to a city’s downtown streetscape, but for Augusta residents it’s an idea worth getting excited about.
Augusta University has finished a new $36.5 million
parking garage that AU President Russell Keen calls
“part of that vibrant college campus that we’ve been
trying to create here.” It will ease some of the street
parking battles that have been a headache for locals
and students alike for years, offer electric vehicle
charging stations and reduce traffic downtown.
sources’ Coastal Resources Division has added two
new structures to its artificial reef program. They
are retired tugboat “Megan,” about 12 miles east of
Cumberland Island, as well as a 100-foot barge loaded with rubble and reef balls. Artificial reefs are an
important way to preserve the state’s reef structure—
note Georgia does not have coral reefs off its coast—
to enhance marine biodiversity and support coastal
economies via fishing and diving.
Dawson County In the 1970s Atlanta bought two tracts
Warner Robins More than a hundred veterans and
of land north of the city in Paulding and Dawson
counties. At 10,000 acres each, the properties were
set aside to potentially be the site of a second commercial airport. Those plans never came to fruition,
and now Atlanta is looking to sell the land back to
the state for nearly $100 million and put it into permanent conservation. Such large pieces of forest are
becoming increasingly rare in the sprawling Atlanta
metro, and state Department of Natural Resources officials say they’d love to protect these pristine parcels
for public recreation.
their families, as well as local and state leaders gathered here for a land tribute for the planned Vietnam
Veterans Memorial. The property was donated
to the city of Warner Robins by Vietnam vet Mike
Driggers and will host a memorial wall featuring the
names of the 1,584 Georgians who did not return
home from the Vietnam War. Some $300,000 has
been set aside for the first phase of the memorial’s
construction, and a planned second phase will include a building to be a welcome center for the city.
Peach County Commission Chairman Martin Moseley
said the memorial will provide “a great place of reflection and to just honor those people who gave their
lives for this country.”
Plains The tiny post office here is now named after—
who else?— the late former President Jimmy Carter
and the late First Lady Rosalynn. The “Jimmy and
Rosalynn Carter Post Office” sits squarely on Main
Street in Plains, the hometown of both Carters, and
the resolution sponsoring it was unanimously backed
by Georgia’s 14-member congressional delegation and
both senators. U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff called the gesture a
“a small but fitting tribute to their legacy.”
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