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More large-scale development headed to North Augusta

A more than 1,700-acre development is reportedly coming to the North Augusta area. Information surfaced with a post on the Twitter feed of Eureka Earth, an Augusta-based company specializing in “shared robotics and autonomous systems.” Its social media and website feature aerial photos, primarily of the Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters tournament. The tweet included a name for the development, Cypress Shoals, and a link to the developer’s website. The website for Cypress Shoals said it will be a multi-generational, mixed-use development that will include residential lots, condominiums

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 27, 2023 No Comments
ABD Extra

Economic Update: Charged and ready to “A.C.E.” business

Ready to “ace” it this week? Coach Dave Holdeman from The Alternative Board of the CSRA and Augusta Business Daily publisher Neil Gordon look at how a local hotel is preparing for Masters Week in the latest economic update. Holdeman also shares his A.C.E. acronym for business owners to help their employees.

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Neil Gordon with Dave Holdeman March 27, 2023 No Comments
ABD Extra

Georgia Business Minute: Georgia’s “Focus” on Jobs

The Peach State made the Forbes annual list of America’s best large employers. See which companies landed a spot on the list and catch up on the status on the state’s banks in this week’s Georgia Business Minute from Atlanta reporter Mike Petchenik.

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Mike Petchenik March 27, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Will Artificial Intelligence take your job?

In case you missed Richard Brashear’s column last week, here is the link. How GPT-4 can boost your business marketing. Read it and read it again. He has done several columns about AI capabilities and the impact on marketing your business, but this article sent me down a research rabbit hole. As Brashear has reported, AI has revolutionized the digital marketing industry. In simple terms GPT-4 is an artificial intelligence model that is used to generate text, most of which comes from absorbing the internet, all of it. “From a

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Mitzi Oxford March 26, 2023 No Comments
Cyber Security

Tech Alert: Is public Wi-Fi safe?

People often wonder, should you use public Wi-Fi? Commonly, folks will use VPN tools, but I want to make sure you know that these tools can often be a source of malware and breaches. Beware of using these options when looking to protect your computer from attacks using public Wi-Fi. Here is what I recommend watching out for: First, if you are entering passwords or interacting with your bank, be sure that you are only interacting on sites that begin with HTTPS. If the website does not have HTTPS in

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Patrick Reynolds March 26, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local company hosts book drive to benefit students

For many children, reading over the summer sounds like punishment, but one local business owner hopes to change that with help from the business community. Tim Cox, the owner of Leisure Time Pressure Wash & Restoration located on Columbia Road in Martinez, is hosting a book drive this month and next month with the goal of providing one book to every student at Warren Road Elementary School in Augusta, where his wife, Tiffany teaches. He said the school’s enrollment is about 600 students. “We figured we have to come up

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Josh Heath March 26, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local business owners honor father’s legacy by establishing entrepreneurial scholarship fund

Wilkes Goolsby is honoring his father’s legacy by helping local high school students achieve the dream of business ownership. Goolsby is co-owner of Goolsby’s, a popular family restaurant that specializes in Southern cuisine located at 4460 Washington Road, Suite 9 in Evans. Every year on March 24, the restaurant hosts Richard Goolsby Day, which honors his father, the restaurant’s founder who died in a car accident on Feb. 10, 2021. March 24 was his birthday. On Friday, Goolsby’s celebrated the second annual Richard Goolsby Day. All sales and donations collected

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Josh Heath March 26, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Local college addresses nursing shortage with new building

Out with the old, in with the new. The demolition of one of Aiken Technical College’s oldest buildings has begun, marking a significant time in the College’s history. It also marks the future as one of the building projects includes the construction of a new Nursing Education Center. As ABD has previously reported, the nursing shortage is a concern in the CSRA. Aiken Tech has added evening nursing classes and now plans to address the growing need for nurses in the CSRA through new construction. In the next few months,

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Staff Report March 26, 2023 No Comments
B2B Stories

Local business services company helps business owners take a break

Occasionally, business owners need a vacation, but they often wonder if they’ll still have a business when they get back. A local business services firm can help. Richardson Professional Solutions provides a variety of services for small businesses and non-profit organizations, including project management, bookkeeping, and marketing. But they can also keep your business running, even in your absence by offering virtual assistance, according to its Marketing and Sales Director, Payton Prather. Prather said their team can perform various tasks based on a business’s needs. “We can help return phone

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Josh Heath March 23, 2023 No Comments
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