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Reporter’s Notebook: CAU professor named on 40 Under 40 by higher ed magazine, Cook Park receives $180,000 grant, “Save the Swamp” fundraiser

by Hannah E. Jones February 2, 2023 4:31 pmFebruary 17, 2023 4:11 pm

The week in local news.

Georgia River Network encourages residents to explore local waterways with 2023 Paddle-A-Thon

by Hannah E. Jones January 5, 2023 3:37 pmFebruary 17, 2023 4:11 pm

The Paddle-A-Thon includes over a dozen challenges and 220 miles of paddling adventures throughout the state’s water trail system.

Federal government gets involved with mining proposals near Okefenokee Swamp, making approval less likely

by Hannah E. Jones June 9, 2022 3:49 pmFebruary 17, 2023 4:03 pm

South Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp — the largest blackwater swamp in North America — is one of the last true wildernesses left in the country. That wilderness has been at-risk for quite some time due to mining, but a recent federal decision might help preserve the swamp for generations to come. The swamp lost federal protections […]

Columns

Earth Day 2021: Hope springs eternal, even with threat to Okefenokee Swamp,

by Joe Cook April 18, 2021 4:49 pmFebruary 17, 2023 3:56 pm

By GUEST COLUMNIST JOE COOK, Paddle Georgia coordinator and guidebook series author

In the spring of 1970, Georgia’s then comptroller general and Republican gubernatorial hopeful, Jimmy Bentley, dispatched 65 telegrams to state and national leaders – including President Richard Nixon – all in an attempt to have the date of the country’s first Earth Day celebration changed.