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“Greatest honor ever,” says veteran realtor

Meybohm’s Ann Marie McManus has a stack of sales awards from her 40-plus year career as one of the “go-to” agents in the CSRA, specializing in the Summerville area. One of her more recent accolades, she said was her greatest honor ever. “Receiving the Good Neighbor Award is truly something special. This award, given for the first time ever in Augusta, recognizes my commitment to giving back to our amazing community. It goes beyond professional achievements and speaks to the heart of who I am,” said McManus. She was at

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Neil Gordon March 19, 2024 No Comments
Consumer Stories

10th location of refreshment café in Augusta

Kommatea is set to open soon between the Augusta Mall food court and the Macy’s on the upper level of the Mall. Kommatea’s brand of Boba teas, refreshers, and macarons is growing, thanks to its focus on opening at shopping malls mostly in Florida and Georgia, including one in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Kommatea uses fruit juices and milk to mix in various types of teas and flavors like Oreo, Ice Cream Sundae, Crème Brulee, Smores, Strawberry, Blueberry, Banana, and more. Main competition in the CSRA comes from established brands like: Lily

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Neil Gordon March 18, 2024 No Comments
B2B Stories

Financing for new hospital in place

Funding for the construction of the new Columbia County hospital in Grovetown has passed its last step. Attorney Jim Driver told members of the Columbia County Hospital Authority they successfully closed on the $375 million bond and construction is underway. Crews have been clearing the land in anticipation of the start of construction. “The main role is going to be for you to sit on their board, and also to get the quarterly financials. None of that is triggered until they have a certificate of occupancy,” he explained. The series

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 18, 2024 No Comments
Darin Myers

Is Being an Ethical Business Leader Really That Hard?

Business ethics is a tricky topic. First, very few owners or executives, even when acting outside of morality norms, actually believe they are conducting themselves unethically. To them, when faced with ethical ambiguity, they have been forced to make “some hard choices.” But does labeling an ethical challenge as difficult relieve the decision-maker of culpability in its aftermath? Hard to say, but what is clear is that business ethics is a great big grey area in which morality is almost always in the eye of the beholder. And that is

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Darin Myers March 18, 2024 No Comments
B2B Stories

Fastest growing CSRA counties

A couple of Georgia counties were the fastest growing of the 360 largest counties in the nation in the third quarter of 2023. Clayton County (Jonesboro) had the largest percentage increase in average weekly wages at 7.7% and Hall County (Gainesville) had the largest percentage increase in employment at 5.4%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the Augusta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), Lincoln County saw the largest increase in wages and employment. Wages increased 4.6% from the third quarter of 2022 and employment increased 6.6% in September 2023

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe March 18, 2024 No Comments
Cyber Security

Shared Space Tips

There are signs for you to know whether your data is separated out from other tenants in your building. Patrick Reynolds explains how your system should be set up in today’s edition of P.U.T.T.

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Patrick Reynolds March 18, 2024 No Comments
B2B Stories

Subdividing huge Augusta Building

WOW! Commercial Real Estate agent, Scott Brantley of the Beman Group recently placed an anchor tenant in the vacant, former WOW call center located at 3674 Wheeler Rd. Brantley executed a 10-year multi-option lease with Circle City ABA for the medical services provider to take about 1/3rd of the large office building. “We were able to work with our client (owner) to find a way to offer less space to multiple tenants instead of having to find someone willing to lease the entire 27,000 square feet. This company originated in

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Neil Gordon March 17, 2024 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Hospitality Masters style

Restaurants begin preparing months in advance by hiring and training extra wait staff. For the hospitality industry, it’s like gaining an extra month, because many do about 10% of their annual business in that one week. Vera Stewart starts preparing in May for the following April’s tournament! Augustans may think of “Very Vera” as a one-woman show. By the time April comes, she’ll have worked with a few hundred people on her Masters business. The Masters will mark 87 years at Augusta National. Vera Stewart has been catering for the

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Mitzi Oxford and Neil Gordon March 17, 2024 No Comments
Cyber Security

PUTT: Shared Space

Different companies and those employees may work in the same building. In today’s P.U.T.T. report, consultant, Patrick Reynolds explains how everyone can protect their data.

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Patrick Reynolds March 17, 2024 No Comments
B2B Stories

Flying high from Augusta to Augusta!

Two new partnerships connected to Augusta Regional Airport were announced during Thursday’s Fifth Annual Innovation XChange Forum, including one that will introduce air taxis. Bravo Air, the private air charter operator based at Augusta Regional, is working with SkyDrive, a Tokyo-based Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) company. The company builds a variety of drones, and recently began production of electric-powered aircraft. Bravo Air has signed a letter of intent to purchase up to five of the aircraft. “Stephanie Henson (Bravo Air Managing Partner) and I recently visited SkyDrive’s team in Japan

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 17, 2024 No Comments
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