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Sno-cone company expands business into hotter water

You could say the Christie family of the CSRA now has a hot and cold business (model). The Christie family recently added a coffee trailer in front of their Pelican Snowball shop on Edgefield Road in North Augusta. Christie’s Coffee Co. opened in late March selling locally roasted coffee from Buona Caffe, based on Central Avenue in Augusta. They are open until late afternoon throughout the week. The Christie family opened Pelican’s SnoBalls several years ago on 3644 Walton Way Extension and added a stand in Grovetown and North Augusta

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Neil Gordon April 7, 2022 No Comments
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Business Lunch Review: TBonz

Editor’s Note: Wes Hennings never met a meal he walked away from and is an opinionated eater! Each Thursday he shares the results of a business lunch he’s had with a colleague as a way to advise our business community on the good, bad, and tasty across the CSRA. He doesn’t let ABD or the restaurant know where he is going and his opinions are his own. He grades the restaurants he visits on a 1-5 scale with “5” being outstanding. We call this our “Real Business Lunch Review”. Food

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Wes Hennings April 7, 2022 No Comments
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Condoleezza Rice helps kick off a new non-profit collaborative

Creating paths to good outcomes is the goal of the HUB Augusta Collaborative, a joint effort between the Community Foundation for the CSRA, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Augusta, and the Medical College of Georgia Foundation. Former U.S. Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice spoke about the HUB and the potential impact of the collaborative project on the surrounding communities at a preview event at the site on Tuesday. “You can’t guarantee outcomes, but you can guarantee paths to outcomes,” she said. The event included tours of the two

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Josh Heath April 6, 2022 No Comments
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The Book Tavern turns the page to a new, larger location

In the age of digital books and Amazon, a bookstore may seem quaint and old-fashioned. But bookstores remain popular, enough so that The Book Tavern recently relocated to a more spacious location at 978 Broad Street, about half a block from its previous location in the J.B. White’s Building. The Book Tavern opened in its new location on April 1 but a Grand Opening with special events is planned for April 30 in conjunction with Independent Bookstore Day. The move is the culmination of several years of seeking a new

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Gary Kauffman April 6, 2022 No Comments
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Local mother-daughter team to brew second coffee shop location

Columbia County residents will soon have a new place to pick up a cup of Joe before heading to work. The owners of Rooted Coffeehouse, Alison Kocher and Heather Needles plan to open a second location at 380 West Milledgeville Road, near IGA, in Harlem this summer. The original coffee shop is located at 3116 William Few Parkway, Suite 1 in the Market at Riverwood shopping center in Evans. “We’re excited about having a new community to reach,” said Needles, Kocher’s mother. “It’s a small town, so we’re excited about

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Josh Heath April 6, 2022 No Comments
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Aiken is one of the South’s top towns according to Southern Living

Whether you were born and raised in Aiken or you’re a transplant, Southern Living magazine has just put a big feather in your cap. In the March issue, Aiken was named as one of the Top 10 Best Small Towns in the South. This is Southern Living editors’ description of Aiken: This equestrian town looks like something from a postcard. Home to the Aiken Horse Show, which has been running for over a century, it’s a place where you can saddle up and go for a trail ride, get cozy

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Mitzi Oxford April 6, 2022 No Comments
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Simon Says: Tour caddies beat tradition, help pro golfers lower their scores

The Masters Golf Tournament required the use of local caddies from the Augusta National Golf Club from 1934 through 1982. Since 1983, golfers at the Masters Tournament have been able to use their tour caddies. An economic paper in 2014 by Douglas Coate and Michael Toomey asked if professional golf caddies improve player scoring. They compared player scoring for the three years before the change (1980-1982) to the three years after the rule change (’83-‘85). They also took into account player quality (by position on the PGA Tour money list),

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe, AU Economics Professor April 6, 2022 No Comments
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Georgia and Augusta roll out the red carpet for potential business

It’s not Hollywood stars, but business stars who receive the red carpet treatment each year as part of Georgia’s Red Carpet Tour. And a major component of that tour is a few days in Augusta watching The Masters. The Red Carpet Tour, hosted by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and Georgia Department of Economic Development, is the longest-running economic development event in the United States. This year, the Tour will celebrate its 60th anniversary. The Tour began in 1960. You may wonder why those numbers don’t add up. It was

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Josh Heath April 5, 2022 No Comments
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Retracing Masters Footsteps

  Don MacNeil is the former Marketing Director of Windsor Jewelers and long-time on-air radio professional.   Is it just me, or… Retracing Masters Footsteps When I was young, my dad made a habit of pulling off the highway if a Civil War battlefield were anywhere around. It’s not that I wasn’t interested, it was more that I couldn’t see the point. There was no way, I thought, that any of this looked the way it did a hundred years earlier, so why bother? Still, I could tell that Dad

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Don MacNeil April 5, 2022 No Comments
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