Looking for a family-friendly weekend – or weekday – getaway, where you and the kids will find so much to look at, experience and enjoy that you won’t pick up your phone even once? Oh, and you can also try delicious, grass-fed beef and pork – from happy cows and pigs, who are not fed antibiotics, hormones or steroids. Hunter Cattle is just such a place. It’s a sustainable family farm outside Savannah, in Brooklet, where 18 family members co-exist with chickens, pigs, cows, goats, turkeys and dogs. The farm started in 2003 as a way to raise healthy meat

Who do you think is the state’s most effective lawyer? Now through Friday, July 12, 2019, you can tell us. Georgia Trend magazine’s annual Legal Elite listing will highlight the state’s most effective lawyers in 16 different practice areas. The list of the state’s Legal Elite, as chosen by their peers, will appear in the December 2019 issue. Any attorney who lives and works in Georgia and is a member of the Georgia bar is eligible to nominate a peer. You cannot nominate yourself, but you can nominate attorneys in your own firm, as long as you put forward an equal or greater number of

Multiple transportation and infrastructure projects will take place throughout the Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District (GPCID) this summer. (The GPCID is a district where businesses use self-imposed taxes to fund improvements.) The Georgia Department of Transportation and the Gwinnett County Department of Transportation will be implementing the projects, which are funded by GPCID, a Gwinnett County special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) and a State Road and Tollway Authority grant. In late June, the Venture Drive at Day Drive roundabout project will begin with completion anticipated by February of next year. The project includes installation of roundabout lighting, curbs,

Columbus State University (CSU) recently received a $1 million gift from The Coca-Cola Foundation to establish the William B. Turner Center for Servant Leadership. The donation, which honors the late Columbus businessman and civic leader who served on The Coca-Cola Company’s board of directors, will allow CSU’s undergraduate Servant Leadership program to continue with an enriched academic and service curriculum. Turner was instrumental in initiating and financially supporting CSU’s early servant leadership initiatives. Today the center offers an annual stipend and leadership development opportunities for undergraduates, leadership development for CSU faculty and staff and a food pantry serving CSU students.

Summer’s here, and we all know what that means – mosquitos, heat, humidity and Vidalia onions. It’s the time of year when the mild, sweet, yellow onions that only grow in Georgia are fresh, tasty and available at your local grocery store. But there is so much more to Vidalia onions than onion rings, burger toppings or salad dressing. Here are 11 things everyone in the Peach State should know about this Georgia Grown crop: The Vidalia onion was named Georgia’s official state vegetable in 1990. It generates an economic impact of more than $100 million annually, according to the