Sunday, December 28, 2014
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police have filed charges against a Savannah man and are asking the public's help in locating him.
Detectives have charged Jarvis Giles, 26, with aggravated assault after shots were fired into a house and car on the 1100 block of Damon Street today about 2 p.m.
Giles is considered armed and dangerous and police advise anyone with knowledge of his location to not approach him, but to call 911 immediately.
Detectives have charged Jarvis Giles, 26, with aggravated assault after shots were fired into a house and car on the 1100 block of Damon Street today about 2 p.m.
Giles is considered armed and dangerous and police advise anyone with knowledge of his location to not approach him, but to call 911 immediately.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
The City of Savannah will mark its 225th anniversary of municipal incorporation with a special proclamation and celebration at today’s City Council meeting, 2 p.m. at City Hall.
On February 10, 1787, by act of the Georgia General Assembly, the Town of Savannah was placed under the authority of a Board of Wardens, elected by the lot holders of each ward.
The City of Savannah was incorporated by an amendment to the 1787 act passed by the Georgia General Assembly and signed by Governor Edward Telfair. The act of December 23, 1789 renamed the local government the City of Savannah and placed it under the administration of a Mayor and Aldermen.
On March 1, 1790, in accordance with the City’s charter, the owners and occupiers of lots and houses in Savannah voted for their first aldermen, one representing each ward for terms of one year, in the first City election held at the public market in Ellis Square.
The citizens elected as the first aldermen Joseph Clay, Jr., Joseph Habersham, John Houstoun, Edward Lloyd, Matthew McAllister, Justus H. Scheuber, and Samuel Stirk. On March 8, 1790, the new aldermen gathered in the Court House to elect Savannah’s first mayor from their own body, and having selected John Houstoun, proceeded to the first Council meeting.
Houstoun was an influential lawyer, one of the original “Sons of Liberty,” one of Georgia’s first delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775, and second Governor of the State of Georgia.
On February 10, 1787, by act of the Georgia General Assembly, the Town of Savannah was placed under the authority of a Board of Wardens, elected by the lot holders of each ward.
The City of Savannah was incorporated by an amendment to the 1787 act passed by the Georgia General Assembly and signed by Governor Edward Telfair. The act of December 23, 1789 renamed the local government the City of Savannah and placed it under the administration of a Mayor and Aldermen.
On March 1, 1790, in accordance with the City’s charter, the owners and occupiers of lots and houses in Savannah voted for their first aldermen, one representing each ward for terms of one year, in the first City election held at the public market in Ellis Square.
The citizens elected as the first aldermen Joseph Clay, Jr., Joseph Habersham, John Houstoun, Edward Lloyd, Matthew McAllister, Justus H. Scheuber, and Samuel Stirk. On March 8, 1790, the new aldermen gathered in the Court House to elect Savannah’s first mayor from their own body, and having selected John Houstoun, proceeded to the first Council meeting.
Houstoun was an influential lawyer, one of the original “Sons of Liberty,” one of Georgia’s first delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775, and second Governor of the State of Georgia.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Due to huge popular demand, just a few hours after his first popup show at the Johnny Mercer Theatre was announced this morning, a second Kevin Hart show has been added for later the same evening on New Year's Day.
The second show is 10 p.m. Jan. 1. Get tix and info at www.savannahcivic.com.
The second show is 10 p.m. Jan. 1. Get tix and info at www.savannahcivic.com.
Comedian and entertainer Kevin Hart brings his 'What Now' Tour to the Savannah Civic Center this Jan. 1 at 7 p.m.
Tickets are on sale now at www.savannahcivic.com.
Tickets are on sale now at www.savannahcivic.com.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
The Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus announces that Executive Director David Pratt has accepted a position as executive director with the Santa Barbara Symphony, effective March 1, 2015.
“David has done a wonderful job here in Savannah. We will miss his leadership but wish him every success on his new journey with the Santa Barbara Symphony,” said Savannah Philharmonic Board Chair Melissa Emery. “David has positioned the Philharmonic for its next phase of success and we will begin our search for a qualified executive director immediately.”
Pratt has served for the last four years as executive director of the Savannah Philharmonic and has grown the organization. Since 2010, the organization has built a subscription base of more than 400 subscribers from the ground up, doubled earned income and quadrupled contributed income, "making it the fastest growing cultural organization in Savannah," a spokesman for the group says.
“I am eternally grateful to the Savannah community for their tremendous support of the Savannah Philharmonic,” said David Pratt. “It has been incredibly rewarding for me over the last four years to grow this organization into one of Savannah’s most treasured cultural assets and I leave this organization in excellent financial shape.”
“David has done a wonderful job here in Savannah. We will miss his leadership but wish him every success on his new journey with the Santa Barbara Symphony,” said Savannah Philharmonic Board Chair Melissa Emery. “David has positioned the Philharmonic for its next phase of success and we will begin our search for a qualified executive director immediately.”
Pratt has served for the last four years as executive director of the Savannah Philharmonic and has grown the organization. Since 2010, the organization has built a subscription base of more than 400 subscribers from the ground up, doubled earned income and quadrupled contributed income, "making it the fastest growing cultural organization in Savannah," a spokesman for the group says.
“I am eternally grateful to the Savannah community for their tremendous support of the Savannah Philharmonic,” said David Pratt. “It has been incredibly rewarding for me over the last four years to grow this organization into one of Savannah’s most treasured cultural assets and I leave this organization in excellent financial shape.”
Tags: Savannah Philharmonic , David Pratt , Peter Shannon
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Catherine Edwards is "part of a research team that has received an $18.8 million grant to continue studies of natural oil seeps and track the impacts of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem," a UGA SkIO spokesman says.
Known as ECOGIG-2 or “Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf,” the project is a collaborative, multi-institutional effort involving biological, chemical, geological and chemical oceanographers led by the University of Georgia’s Samantha Joye. The research team has worked in the Gulf since the weeks following the 2010 Macondo well blowout.
The three-year, $18.8 million ECOGIG-2 program was funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, or GoMRI.
“Our goal is to better understand the processes that have affected the oil spill since 2010,” Edwards said. “How the droplets were dispersed? Where the oil went? How it was taken up by small microbes and also the effects on animals further up the food chain?”
Edwards’ role in the project is to use autonomous underwater vehicles, also called “gliders,” to collect data on conditions around the spill site. Equipped with sensors to measure characteristics such as depth, water temperature, salinity and density, the gliders can cruise the submarine environment for weeks at a time, collecting data and transmitting it back to a ship or a shore station.
“We want to understand the ocean currents—how they change over time and how they change in depth,” Edwards said. “Surface measurements give us a two-dimensional picture of the ocean. Glider data in the vertical provides more valuable information for more fully understanding ocean currents and how they arise.”
The gliders will operate both in conjunction with shipboard instruments and also independently. One advantage of using the gliders is they can operate during storms and rough weather, when it may not be possible to use ships. Edwards said shipboard work doesn’t always give a full picture of ocean dynamics simply by the fact that they can only go out when the weather is reasonably clear.
When working in conjunction with research ships, the gliders can provide additional observations, significantly improving the quality of the data set. The gliders also report dissolved oxygen concentrations and optical measurements of chlorophyll and organic matter, and may also be used as a test vehicle for new instruments in development.
Edwards will use “GENIoS,” a new software package, to help navigate the gliders. GENIoS uses high-resolution forecast models of wind and oce an currents, along with information from the glider itself, to calculate the optimal path for the gliders. This will improve the quality of the scientific data collected.
GENIoS is a collaboration among Edwards, Fumin Zhang from the Georgia Institute of Technology and their two Georgia Tech Ph.D. students, Dongsik Chang and Sungjin Cho. GENIos has been tested for more than 210 glider-days on the continental shelf off Georgia and South Carolina. This experiment will be its first test in the Gulf of Mexico.
Skidaway Institute scientist Catherine Edwards adjusts a glider’s buoyancy with graduate students Sungjin Cho and Dongsik Chan.
Known as ECOGIG-2 or “Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf,” the project is a collaborative, multi-institutional effort involving biological, chemical, geological and chemical oceanographers led by the University of Georgia’s Samantha Joye. The research team has worked in the Gulf since the weeks following the 2010 Macondo well blowout.
The three-year, $18.8 million ECOGIG-2 program was funded by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, or GoMRI.
“Our goal is to better understand the processes that have affected the oil spill since 2010,” Edwards said. “How the droplets were dispersed? Where the oil went? How it was taken up by small microbes and also the effects on animals further up the food chain?”
Edwards’ role in the project is to use autonomous underwater vehicles, also called “gliders,” to collect data on conditions around the spill site. Equipped with sensors to measure characteristics such as depth, water temperature, salinity and density, the gliders can cruise the submarine environment for weeks at a time, collecting data and transmitting it back to a ship or a shore station.
“We want to understand the ocean currents—how they change over time and how they change in depth,” Edwards said. “Surface measurements give us a two-dimensional picture of the ocean. Glider data in the vertical provides more valuable information for more fully understanding ocean currents and how they arise.”
The gliders will operate both in conjunction with shipboard instruments and also independently. One advantage of using the gliders is they can operate during storms and rough weather, when it may not be possible to use ships. Edwards said shipboard work doesn’t always give a full picture of ocean dynamics simply by the fact that they can only go out when the weather is reasonably clear.
When working in conjunction with research ships, the gliders can provide additional observations, significantly improving the quality of the data set. The gliders also report dissolved oxygen concentrations and optical measurements of chlorophyll and organic matter, and may also be used as a test vehicle for new instruments in development.
Edwards will use “GENIoS,” a new software package, to help navigate the gliders. GENIoS uses high-resolution forecast models of wind and oce an currents, along with information from the glider itself, to calculate the optimal path for the gliders. This will improve the quality of the scientific data collected.
GENIoS is a collaboration among Edwards, Fumin Zhang from the Georgia Institute of Technology and their two Georgia Tech Ph.D. students, Dongsik Chang and Sungjin Cho. GENIos has been tested for more than 210 glider-days on the continental shelf off Georgia and South Carolina. This experiment will be its first test in the Gulf of Mexico.
Tags: University of Georgia , Skidaway Institute of Oceanography , environment
Art Rise Savannah has been awarded a $5,000 Cultural Project Investment Program from the City of Savannah’s Department of Cultural Affairs to develop their program, the First Friday Art March.
The awarded grant will be used to increase the capacity, awareness, and depth of the First Friday Art March in 2015.
“We couldn’t be more excited to have the city’s support for this fantastic project,” said Clinton Edminster, Executive Director of Art Rise Savannah. “The support from our community, all the participating businesses, and so many incredible artists sets the stage for another incredible year of programming.”
The First Friday Art March is a monthly art walk and arts market featuring a free trolley, many unique local businesses, workshops, exhibition openings and more. Visit artmarchsavannah.com for info.
The awarded grant will be used to increase the capacity, awareness, and depth of the First Friday Art March in 2015.
“We couldn’t be more excited to have the city’s support for this fantastic project,” said Clinton Edminster, Executive Director of Art Rise Savannah. “The support from our community, all the participating businesses, and so many incredible artists sets the stage for another incredible year of programming.”
The First Friday Art March is a monthly art walk and arts market featuring a free trolley, many unique local businesses, workshops, exhibition openings and more. Visit artmarchsavannah.com for info.
Tags: Art Rise Savannah , Cultural Affairs
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
The season’s first sighting of North Atlantic right whales on the Georgia coast "underscores the fact that Georgia and north Florida are the only known calving grounds for these endangered whales," says the Ga. Dept. of Natural Resources.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission survey plane spotted a right whale mother and her new calf 16 miles off Cumberland Island Saturday.
"The mom, cataloged as right whale number 2145, is 24 years old and has been documented with five calves, the previous one in 2009," the department says.
Each winter, pregnant right whales and small numbers of non-breeding whales swim more than 1,000 miles from their feeding grounds off Canada and New England to the warmer waters of Georgia and northeastern Florida. Here, from late November through March, they give birth and nurse their young.
The first sighting is usually earlier. But biologist Clay George, right whale research leader for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, isn’t worried about the timing.
“It’s still too early to tell how many calves will be born this season,” said George, who works with DNR’s Nongame Conservation Section. “January and February are the peak months for calving.”
Once ravaged by whaling and now threatened by ship strikes and entanglement in commercial fishing gear, North Atlantic right whales are one of the world’s most imperiled whales. Their numbers are estimated at about 450. While that population is increasing 2.8 percent a year, there are fewer than 100 breeding females and calving varies year to year, with only 10 calves documented last winter.
In February, biologists from the wildlife agencies cut away more than 480 feet of rope from a 4-year-old whale off Wolf Island in Georgia, an effort posted on YouTube (http://goo.gl/7eOvbl). Entanglement in commercial fishing gear is one of the leading causes of death and injury for North Atlantic right whales. More than 75 percent of right whales bear scars from entanglements.
The public is encouraged to report sightings of dead, injured or entangled whales at 1-800-2-SAVE-ME (1-800-272-8363) in Georgia or 1-877-WHALE-HELP (877-942-5343) region-wide. NOAA’s Dolphin & Whale 911 app, http://1.usa.gov/1b1kqfv, can also be used to report marine mammals in trouble.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission survey plane spotted a right whale mother and her new calf 16 miles off Cumberland Island Saturday.
"The mom, cataloged as right whale number 2145, is 24 years old and has been documented with five calves, the previous one in 2009," the department says.
Each winter, pregnant right whales and small numbers of non-breeding whales swim more than 1,000 miles from their feeding grounds off Canada and New England to the warmer waters of Georgia and northeastern Florida. Here, from late November through March, they give birth and nurse their young.
The first sighting is usually earlier. But biologist Clay George, right whale research leader for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, isn’t worried about the timing.
“It’s still too early to tell how many calves will be born this season,” said George, who works with DNR’s Nongame Conservation Section. “January and February are the peak months for calving.”
Once ravaged by whaling and now threatened by ship strikes and entanglement in commercial fishing gear, North Atlantic right whales are one of the world’s most imperiled whales. Their numbers are estimated at about 450. While that population is increasing 2.8 percent a year, there are fewer than 100 breeding females and calving varies year to year, with only 10 calves documented last winter.
In February, biologists from the wildlife agencies cut away more than 480 feet of rope from a 4-year-old whale off Wolf Island in Georgia, an effort posted on YouTube (http://goo.gl/7eOvbl). Entanglement in commercial fishing gear is one of the leading causes of death and injury for North Atlantic right whales. More than 75 percent of right whales bear scars from entanglements.
The public is encouraged to report sightings of dead, injured or entangled whales at 1-800-2-SAVE-ME (1-800-272-8363) in Georgia or 1-877-WHALE-HELP (877-942-5343) region-wide. NOAA’s Dolphin & Whale 911 app, http://1.usa.gov/1b1kqfv, can also be used to report marine mammals in trouble.
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are trying to identify and locate a "man in an unusual van who was reported to have attempted to pull a child into his truck this morning," a spokesman says.
The 12-year-old Coastal Middle School student reported the man "grabbed his shirt and tried to capture him after offering him ice cream near Mapmaker and Ropemaker lanes about 7:30 a.m. The boy bit the man on the arm to get away and reported the incident to a teacher."
The white van resembles "an ice cream truck with purple windows but without advertising decals and was being driven by a possibly Latino male appearing to be in his 40s and wearing a dark hooded jacket obscuring portions of his face," police say.
The boy was riding his bicycle to school when the van began following him. He at first confused the van with that of a family acquaintance who actually has an ice cream van.
Islands Precinct Patrol and Metro Special Victims Unit officers have alerted schools in the area and are asking the public to help locate the van and its driver by calling Emergency 911 immediately.
The 12-year-old Coastal Middle School student reported the man "grabbed his shirt and tried to capture him after offering him ice cream near Mapmaker and Ropemaker lanes about 7:30 a.m. The boy bit the man on the arm to get away and reported the incident to a teacher."
The white van resembles "an ice cream truck with purple windows but without advertising decals and was being driven by a possibly Latino male appearing to be in his 40s and wearing a dark hooded jacket obscuring portions of his face," police say.
The boy was riding his bicycle to school when the van began following him. He at first confused the van with that of a family acquaintance who actually has an ice cream van.
Islands Precinct Patrol and Metro Special Victims Unit officers have alerted schools in the area and are asking the public to help locate the van and its driver by calling Emergency 911 immediately.
Tags: crime
Monday, December 15, 2014
Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police are investigating the shooting of a man at a bus stop this morning.
Juan Ulmer, 39, of the 1000 block of Porter Street said "he was sitting at the bus stop at East 35th and East Broad Street about 6:30 a.m. when a male approached, yelled at him and began firing at him," a police spokesperson says.
He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637) using the keyword CSTOP2020. Tipsters remain anonymous and may qualify for a cash reward.
A Tip Line also is open directly to investigators at (912) 525-3124 and most area clergy have agreed to serve as liaisons for anyone who would like to share information with anonymously.
Juan Ulmer, 39, of the 1000 block of Porter Street said "he was sitting at the bus stop at East 35th and East Broad Street about 6:30 a.m. when a male approached, yelled at him and began firing at him," a police spokesperson says.
He was transported to Memorial University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crimestoppers at (912) 234-2020 or text CRIMES (274637) using the keyword CSTOP2020. Tipsters remain anonymous and may qualify for a cash reward.
A Tip Line also is open directly to investigators at (912) 525-3124 and most area clergy have agreed to serve as liaisons for anyone who would like to share information with anonymously.
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