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Local farm owners to host opening day event next weekend

Many organizations offer Easter egg hunts, but next weekend, owners of a local farm will host a major event with 2,000 eggs. Laura Russo and her husband, Jarett Acosta own the 70-acre Boondock Farms located at 755 Foreman St. in Jackson. The Easter egg hunt will be part of its Opening Day Vendor Festival on Saturday, April 8 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will also include live music, local vendors, and food provided by Que at the Shop Bar BQ located on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

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Josh Heath March 29, 2023 No Comments
Restaurants/Food

Business Lunch Review: Topgolf

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 the 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”.

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Wes Hennings March 29, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Eat a sub and make a difference!

Jersey Mike’s sandwich locations are wrapping up their 13th Annual Month of Giving fundraising campaign with the traditional Day of Giving today. All this month, patrons have been encouraged to make donations through the Jersey Mike’s mobile app or by stopping in a location to buy a sub. It culminates with this year’s Day of Giving today when 100% of sales in Jersey Mike’s nearly 2,500 locations in the United States go to help local charities. Beneficiaries include youth organizations and food banks. Eric Clark owns eight Jersey Mike’s locations

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 28, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Businesses support first-ever brunch festival

There’s nothing like sitting down to Saturday brunch, but next month, the Aiken Downtown Development Authority will give attendees a chance to enjoy it while visiting retail shops and restaurants located in that area. The ADDA will host the first-ever Aiken Brunch Festival on Saturday, April 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The non-profit organization’s Executive Director, Haley Knight said the free, family-friendly event will include food trucks, beer, and live music. Businesses participating in the festival include Cork and Cap and Neon Fig. Knight said most of the

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Josh Heath March 28, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local restaurant owners to open second CSRA location

People living and working in Augusta will no longer have to drive to Evans to enjoy fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and other Southern favorites. Today, Goolsby’s will celebrate the grand opening of its second location at 3122 Wrightsboro Road, across the street from Forest Hills Golf Club. The restaurant’s co-owner, Wilkes Goolsby, said, unlike other businesses, they won’t give away free items today. “I anticipate us being pretty busy, so we’re not going to do anything extra,” Goolsby said. He has a couple of reasons to be excited about

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Josh Heath March 28, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Boost in manufacturing and nursing development programs to benefit CSRA

The U.S. Department of Labor has selected three colleges including Aiken Tech to form a consortium to develop a virtual Workforce Innovation Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Nursing — two sectors the agency identified as priority workforce needs. This comes with a large grant from the DOL to accomplish the task. Piedmont Technical College (PTC) and Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College (OCtech) are also included in a grant to address the needs of those two sectors. Combined, the three technical colleges are expected to have a big impact on the CSRA and

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Staff Report March 27, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Technical college offers forklift training program to local inmates

A group of local inmates is now eligible for jobs in the logistics industry, thanks to a partnership between the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office and Augusta Technical College. The college recently offered a two-day continuing education forklift certification course to 12 men who were about to be released from jail in Augusta. The detention center paid for the program. The college’s President, Dr. Jermaine Whirl said they chose a program that could be taught at the jail. He said the inmates were very excited about completing that program, which combined

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Staff Report 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
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
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