The Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) has launched its third annual social media photo contest to gather shots of locals’ and visitors’ favorite historic buildings or places throughout the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry. Aspiring photographers are invited to share their photos via Instagram, using the hashtag #SavFave and describing why the place is their favorite. All posted photos will be entered into the contest, which runs through this month. Along with bragging rights, first- through third-place winners will have their photos publicly displayed and included in the HSF annual report. Photos must have been shot within the past 12 months and

Who do you think is the state’s most effective lawyer? Now through tomorrow, Friday, July 10, 2020, 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 2020 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

Many questions surround the reopening of Georgia’s schools in the fall. Among them are the availability of remote learning options and how well students can access those options via the internet. To help school leaders get the clearest possible picture of internet connectivity across the state, the Georgia Broadband Deployment Initiative (GBDI) is launching the Speedtest® by Ookla® Pilot project. The project encourages Georgians to download the free Ookla Speedtest app for Android or iOS-Apple on the devices they use to connect to the internet and take several tests in the places where they typically connect to their phones, laptops

When it comes to growing olives, our state is giving Spain and Italy a run for the money. A new crop for Georgia within the last decade, olives are starting to take off with about 7,000 acres of trees growing in south-to-mid-Georgia and along the coast, according to Georgia Olive Growers Association executive director, Vicki Hughes. Curtis and Tracy Poling decided in 2014 to get into the olive game after doing extensive research that indicated the state would be a good environment in which to grow the crop. The trees they planted at Woodpecker Trail Olive Farm in Tattnall County

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