Terry Dickson
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Early morning launch draws observers
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com Although not as spectacular as last week's jellyfish in the sky, the show from SpaceX's predawn launch of a Falcon 9 rocket still provided a show for those who got up early to watch. Had the launch gone off at the planned 6:30 a.m., the sky would have been darker, providing a better backdrop, but the launch was delayed until 7:04.
Save money by not spending any whenever possible
I admit it. I don't like to spend my money, mine or anyone else's. Even the government's. I've bought shirts that the only thing I found desirable was the price. I've bought shoes that hurt a little and borne the pain until they became grass-cutting shoes.
Churches team up to Rise Against Hunger
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com Members of two other congregations joined members of St. Simons First Baptist Church in its gym Sunday to feed 93 families of six for 36 weeks. They measured out soy, rice and dehydrated vegetables and added a vitamin pack before checking the measure and sealing the plastic bags for boxing turning over to Rise Against Hunger, an organization that provides nutritious meals for impoverished people around the world.
DDA to distribute federal grant to promote historic building renovations
By Terry Dickson/The Brunswick News,By TAYLOR COOPER tcooper@thebrunswicknews.com Historic building renovation projects in Downtown Brunswick will soon be eligible for preservation funding from the Downtown Development Authority. Earlier this week, the DDA announced that it received a $750,000 federal grant from the National Park Service through its Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grant program.
PAC defers bulk rezoning of Perry Park properties
Brunswick's Planning and Appeals Commission deferred a proposal to rezone three blocks in the Perry Park neighborhood from commercial to residential due to concerns about shutting out economic development in the community. The proposal covered the three blocks bounded by Johnston and Stonewall streets to the east and west, and M and L streets to the north and south. It included the 2200 block of Stonewall, Lee, Gordon and Johnston streets.
JWSC cuts ribbon on new water tower, drinking water plant
By Terry Dickson/The Brunswick News,By TAYLOR COOPER tcooper@thebrunswicknews.com The Brunswick-Glynn County Joint Water and Sewer Commission formally opened a new drinking water plant and water tower Thursday to serve homes and businesses around Exit 29 of I-95. The new water production facility is one part of a larger three-part project that totaled about $13 million, JWSC Executive Director Andrew Burroughs said at a ribbon-cutting event Thursday morning.
We need to find better leaders, but they don't grow on trees
My grandma never threw anything away. Actually she did, some tin cans, jars of sizes that weren't useful, really, really old clothes and the like. But when she died, my mother, aunts and uncles found a trove of stuff that should have already gone to the gully at the end of the pasture. They found gallon size Valleydale lard cans, all washed and stacked, quart mayonnaise jars, never used towels at a time she was hanging some worn to cheesecloth and so on.
Anglers deal with high tides at redfish tournament
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com The Saturday and Sunday Running of the Bulls surf fishing tournament launched with the running of a high tide. The two-day redfish tournament on the beaches of St. Simons and Jekyll opened just before an unusually high tide. Soon after the fishing started the waves, pushed by the trailing winds of Hurricane Isiais, were washing over the beach. The angles took it in stride because many wade out up to their waists to cast.
Surfers take advantage of high waves on St. Simons
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com The sea wasn't very angry Friday morning just after high tide, but as Hurricane Isaias churned north in the Gulf brought enough wind to at least perturb the water. Some local surfers took advantage of the conditions as did some walkers who had the borderline fury as a backdrop.
Gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson makes stop in Isles
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson told a crowd Wednesday that he would support law enforcement, audits of public spending to eliminate fraud and lower property taxes and putrestrictions on data centers if elected. Jackson, a self-made billionaire, is challenging Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms, former mayor of Atlanta, to be the next governor of Georgia.
St. Simons Literary Guild book sale begins
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com The St. Simons Literary Guild book sale began at 3 p.m. Thursday with a whistle followed by a hush fitting a library. The buyers during the members-only sale in the Casino atrium quietly went through tables loaded with books standing spine up. Those there to find something to read took their time. Those looking for books to resell were in a rush.
Annual pumpkin patch returns to SSI church
The youth of St. Simons United Methodist Church unloaded a couple of thousand pumpkins Saturday morning that will be sold in its annual pumpkin patch. Matched by a near equal number of adults, the youth began unloading the trailer of pumpkins about 8 a.m. Help came early on from a forklift that lifted big boxes of small pumpkins. When the big ones came off, however, the workers went to their usual pumpkin brigade, forming lines and passing them hand-to-hand.
A lifetime of reading, and working for, newspapers
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com My earliest memory of a newspaper was in 1956 or 1957 - I didn't keep a journal - at my grandma's and grandpa's house. I was on the floor with the comics pages of our hometown paper, the Anderson Independent. I was fascinated by Dick Tracy, a detective who wore a yellow hat and had the squared off features of a geometry problem. He battled hardcore criminals such as Prune Face, Flat Top and Pear-Shape.
Commissioners to consider former ILA hall rezoning on Wednesday
City commissioners will revisit a request to rezone the old International Longshoremen's Association union hall when they meet on Wednesday. The request to rezone 1208 London St. came from Glorietta James, who has a five-year lease with the local ILA affiliate to use the former hall.
Churches offer blessings for pets
On Sunday afternoon, some local believers sought God's blessings on the creatures that bless them. Brunswick First United Methodist Church and Christ Church Frederica held pet blessings on their grounds.
Temple Beth Tefilloh holds annual Simchat Torah ceremony
Temple Beth Tefilloh invited people of all faiths to partake in the annual tradition of unrolling and re-rolling the Torah scrolls, called Simchat Torah, on Friday afternoon. It takes the form of joyful celebration in which the synagogue's congregation marches around the sanctuary seven times with the Torah and then works together to unroll many feet of parchment and reroll it anew. It comes shortly after the High Holy Days, and marks the beginning of a new Torah reading cycle.
My iPhone may be old, but it still does more than I need
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com I am often astonished at this little 3 1/4-by-6 inch device I carry in my left front pocket. It's called an iPhone and as usual with cameras, cars and fashion, I'm several years behind. It's an iPhone 11, which means it's about seven models behind, but I don't care. It does everything I could ask for, and also a lot of things I know better than to ask. I'm also 11 years behind my grandson, a sixth-grader, on technology.
JROTC squads compete at Raider Invitational on Jekyll
A junior ROTC cadet running to a safety lecture summed up the difference in the 2025 and 2026 versions of the Coastal Georgia Raider Invitational. "It feels a lot better than last year,'' he told a uniformed comrade. "I don't think I'm going to die."
Exchange Club fair returns next month
The Brunswick Exchange Club's annual fair will mark 75 years of bringing family fun to the Golden Isles when it returns next month.
Can't those of us who live here just catch our breaths?
The tourist season is on hiatus until the next round gets here, usually the weekend of the Georgia-Florida game and the accompanying knee-walking extravaganza called Frat Beach. This year, they may or may not come because the game will be in Hotlanta, the place some of the revelers live. One year, I saw five women having breakfast at Sweet Mama's about 7:30 a.m. on Frat Beach Thursday.
C.B. Greer celebrates grandparents
Students at C.B. Greer Elementary School honored their grandparents during a special event Friday. That included a chorus of kindergartners. So how do you conduct a chorus of kindergartners? By acting out the lyrics as Heath Holdsworth did.
Satilla Marsh students play Games with Grands
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com Satilla Marsh Elementary dusted off old board games and brought in some new ones for Games and Grands, two days of play by students and their grandparents and in a few cases great-grandparents. The students were taken to the gym by grade level where they met their grandparents and other adults at tables for some plays.
Town hall planned to address dust from port in Brunswick's South End
A group of residents in Brunswick's South End neighborhood hope a town hall meeting scheduled for October will be the first step toward stopping the dust and noise they say comes from the nearby port terminal on Newcastle Street. The neighborhood is flanked on the west side by the Georgia Ports Authority terminal, which is leased and operated by Logistec, 225 Newcastle Street. It houses and ships biomass products like wood pellets, peanut pellets and perlite, among other things.
County hosts Drool at the Pool
About 60 dogs got wet Saturday at the annual Drool at the Pool at the Neptune Park Fun Zone.
Community church hosts open-water baptism at Massengale Park
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com The Community Church's Brunswick and St. Simons Island congregations got together on the sand Saturday for a mass baptism, a Christian rite that symbolizes new birth. Bug unlike Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River, the water was salty and rough as about 40 people were immersed.
The generosity after 9/11 has never been forgotten
"Never forget," we say. And we haven't. There were thousands of ceremonies around the country on Friday and other days to honor and remember the nearly 3,000 people murdered by 19 terrorists who took over planes and flew them into the twin towers at the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon. There would have likely been more deaths had not the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 overpowered the Muslim terrorists resulting in its crash into the ground in Pennsylvania killing all aboard.
Memorial Stair Climb honors 25th anniversary of 9/11
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com Firefighters in full gear, regular citizens and cadets from the U.S. Capitol Police were among the hundreds Saturday morning who climbed the concrete steps at Glynn County Stadium to honor those who died 25 years ago attempting rescues from the towers of the World Trade Centers. It was the second year of the Brunswick Fire Foundations Memorial Stair Climb.
City tears down blighted home on F Street
The city tore down an old two-story house at 1504 F Street Thursday morning as part of an initiative to remove blight. The owner of the property approached the Brunswick Department of Neighborhood and Community Services requesting help in demolishing the house.
9/11 changed the way airports operate
It's no exaggeration to say that the terrorist attacks that toppled the World Trade Center towers in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, changed the world. Perhaps more than any other sector, it changed the aviation industry.
Governor appoints Braun as Alantic Circuit District Attorney
Richard E. "Richy" Braun Jr. is the new Atlantic Judicial Circuit district attorney. Gov. Brian Kemp announced his appointment to replace Billy Joe Nelson, who Kemp appointed to a Superior Court judgeship.
Sidewalk coming along on Old Jesup Road
A drainage project on Old Jesup Road will make life safer for drivers and pedestrians. Curb and Gutter Professionals Construction of Jesup is about a week away from installing the underground pipe, catch basins and junctions that will carry stormwater that once flowed through a narrow ditch a few feet from the roadway. As for pedestrians, they had only a narrow dirt path between the roadway and the ditch.
Polite family members reunite in Golden Isles
Members of the Polite family came from Georgia and around the country this weekend for a homecoming at a place they had never lived. First on Saturday, a few of them visited Hofwyl-Broadfield Planation State Historic Site where their ancestors from West Africa were enslaved on the rice plantation. They then stopped at a Gullah-Geechee museum and, last, had a family meal at Selden Park.
What's in a name? Foster's connection to the Okefenokee
This column was a mistake. Some of you might think most of them are, but I've got a self-inflicted issue with this one. I've got this song, "Old Kentucky Home," stuck in my head. It's the song the crowd sings at the Kentucky Derby before the race. There was an article last week on the state's decision to rename Stephen C. Foster State park to Okefenokee State Park. I can see some of the reasoning.
Paddleboarders, kayakers hit the water for FLOW SSI 26
About 85 paddleboarders and kayakers took to the water at Gould's Inlet on Sunday afternoon for FLOW SSI 26, a nearly 5-mile trip to Village Creek landing. Sponsored by For the Love of Water, or FLOW, the annual Sunday afternoon trip benefits S.O.A.R, an organization that provides social, athletic and recreational opportunities for those with developmental disabilities in Glynn and McIntosh Counties. The proceeds go toward providing swimming lessons and some may go toward lifeguard training.
Salvation Army gets $30,000 donation to help reopen shelter
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com A family real estate company gave a large gift Friday that will help the Salvation Army reopen its homeless shelter and sustain its operations in Brunswick. The ABCO Initiative, the benevolent arm of the Al Brown Co., handed over a $30,000 check openly. Al Brown's daughter, Jordan Brown Byer, gave the check to Maj. Angel Hernandez and Maj. Maria Hernandez, the husband and wife team that leads the Salvation Army's Brunswick office.
A harrowing tale of theft direct from Pond Scoggin, Georgia
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com Terry Dickson was so busy looking for his "Trio" CD that he forgot to write a column. "Trio," he said, was a wonderful collaboration of Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. We understand and offer instead this correspondence from Bubba Gene Hightower, mayor of Pond Scoggin, Ga.
County to host town hall focused on strategic goals
An update on Glynn County's strategic goals and major capital projects on St. Simons Island and throughout the county will held held Sept. 9 during a town hall meeting. The meeting, hosted by District 2 Glynn County Commissioner Bob Duncan at the Casino Building on St. Simons Island, will update the audience on current initiatives, learn about upcoming improvements, and have an opportunity to ask questions and provide feedback to county representatives.
Red states, blue states, maybe its time we find some new colors
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com If siblings don't have real reasons to fight, something will appear. At some point, my grandchildren Isabelle and Benjamin both adopted blue as their favorite color. So if they had to share one of those little packets of restaurant crayons, woe unto the adults if someone didn't get a blue.
Red states, blue states, maybe its time we find sone new colors
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com If siblings don't have real reasons to fight, something will appear. At some point, my grandchildren Isabelle and Benjamin both adopted blue as their favorite color. So if they had to share one of those little packets of restaurant crayons, woe unto the adults if someone didn't get a blue.
Rev. Strickland takes new role at Epworth
E pworth by the Sea's director of faith formation is a somewhat niche role at the St. Simons Island-based Methodist retreat that nevertheless has a big impact on the organization and its mission. When seeking a replacement for former director, the Rev. Wayne Racz, Epworth's President and CEO Carlos Cantu said it's got to be a specific kind of person. It must be someone who's community minded, and who's able to connect with both the campus staff and the 160,000 guests who visit Epworth annually.
Former county police chief honored at meeting
Thursday was Robert William "Bob" Pittman Day in Glynn County, but it was more than that to the former Glynn County police chief.
Library group hosting its summer book sale
The Friends of the Brunswick-Glynn County Library's Summer Book Sale opened Wednesday with more than 15,000 volumes standing spine up on tables or in boxes underneath. As usual, the first day was for members only and, also as usual, the friends picked up some new members willing to pay the $10 fee for the first crack at the books.
Democratic socialists, weeds, trees, South Korea and 'Duuuuvaaal'
I talked with a fisherman the other day whose catch resemble this column; it's a mixed bag.
CCGA students move in ahead of fall semester
By By TERRY DICKSON terryldickson50@gmail.com Hundreds of students found new homes - albeit temporary - Friday at College of Coastal Georgia on move in day for the fall semester. Upperclassmen helped the freshman get into their digs as parents and grandparents unloaded U-Haul trailers, pickups and sometimes hatchback cars stuffed with belongings,
Literacy and spirituality inseparable
At first blush, there may seem little connection between a new book vending machine at Burroughs-Molette Elementary School and spirituality, but they really can't be separated, say some local ministers. Glynn Episcopal Ministries (GEM) has, as one of its main goals, increasing literacy. Most of its early childhood literacy efforts are focused at Burroughs-Molette, Dwala Nobles, a member of GEM and pastor at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in North Glynn County, said.
Brunswick Mercantile to celebrate all that's local
Zach Siler's concept for Brunswick Mercantile, a new shop in the city's downtown slated to open early next month, is something of a mix between his past, present and future. By looking at the back of the building at 1312 Newcastle St., one can see a little of Siler's food service experience brought to bear.
PAC recommends against applications to allow store in old ILA hall
Brunswick's Planning and Appeals Commission recommended that City Commissioners deny a requested rezoning and a conditional-use permit (CUP) for a convenience store in the old International Longshoremen's Association hall at the corner of London and Albany streets. Glorietta James, who brought the application before the PAC, said she wanted to see the building used to benefit the Dixville neighborhood.
School board approves mental health support program
By Terry Dickson/The Brunswick News,By TAYLOR COOPER tcooper@thebrunswicknews.com The Glynn County School Board voted to use a mental health support grant to pay for clinical telehealth counseling services for students. Using a $98,000 grant from the Georgia Department of Education, the board signed an agreement with ESE Mental Health LLC of Ray City.
Let immigrants who have paid debts for mistakes live their lives
It was a New York Times headline that caught my eye instantly.
Commissioners speak to Republican Women
By Terry Dickson/The Brunswick News,By TAYLOR COOPER tcooper@thebrunswicknews.com Motorists on St. Simons Island can expect to see more roundabouts on the island, District 2 Commissioner Bob Duncan says. Duncan talked about traffic and development on the island when he and other Glynn County commissioners attended the Golden Isles Republican Women's meeting Monday.
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