SGMC Opens the Region’s First Free-standing Imaging Center and Women’s Imaging Center

PRESS RELEASE - The new Imaging Center and Women's Imaging Center at
South Georgia Medical Center opens for business on Monday, August 1,
2011. Services will cease at the former location of the SGMC Imaging
Center at North Oak on Friday, July 29 at 5 pm when that facility will
close.

SP Newsprint Inks Deal to Ensure Future Viability

PRESS RELEASE - SP Newsprint Co., LLC, which operates one of its two manufacturing facilities in Dublin, GA and has a subsidiary, SP Recycling Corp., which is based in Atlanta, announced that it has entered into a forbearance agreement with its revolving and term lenders. Under the terms of the agreement, SP will be provided with additional liquidity and the lenders will forebear from exercising any rights or remedies that might otherwise have been available to them. During the forbearance period, SP, its lenders and advisors will work to develop and implement a business plan for SP which will ensure its viability on a long-term basis.

Moultrie-Based Ameris Bank Acquires Two Failed Banks From FDIC

STAFF REPORT - Moultrie-based Ameris Bank announced today a definitive
agreement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to assume the
deposits and certain assets of One Georgia Bank in Midtown Atlanta,
Georgia, and High Trust Bank in Stockbridge with a branch location in
Leary, Georgia. The Georgia Department of Banking & Finance declared
One Georgia Bank and High Trust Bank closed as of Friday, and
appointed the FDIC as receiver for both financial institutions. The
FDIC entered into a loss-share transaction and sold the assets and
deposit liabilities of One Georgia Bank and High Trust Bank to Ameris
Bank.

Valdosta/Tifton: New Delicacy in South Georgia?

STAFF REPORT - The Tifton Gazette is reporting a surprising new delicacy that could become big business in South Georgia - truffles. Long one of fine dining's apex delicacies, the truffle is a fungus that is found just below the ground in forests throughout Europe. Now, a Tifton researcher has helped identify a local truffle that could open up a new domestic delicacy. Sometimes referred to as a Pecan Truffle, because it often appears in pecan orchards, these newly identified truffles had routinely been thrown away by South Georgia pecan harvesters as a nuisance! Click on the link below for the full article from the Tifton Gazette.

http://tiftongazette.com/local/x1277744797/S-Ga-truffles-Scientists-identify-valuable-new-crop

Atlanta: Proposed Expansion of PDK Airport May Mean More Hangars, Less Controversy

STAFF REPORT - The director of Atlanta's Peachtree-Dekalb Airport (PDK) has laid out a plan to both add hangars and revenue to the airport, while simultaneously limiting future controversial growth options. The Atlanta Journal Constitution is reporting the plan, which would allow the airport to house an additional 63 planes, would use only remaining possible location for a new terminal that could allow commercial passenger traffic. The possibility of future commercial traffic has been met by protest from local residents who fear the effects of additional noise, traffic, and pollution. Click the link below for more information on this issue from the AJC

Project may ease tensions at PDK | ajc.com