Savannah-area hotels are expecting to be 99% full for Memorial Day weekend.
Caption Trolley tour riders disembark in downtown Savannah on Thursday, May 27, 2021. The city is expected to be full of tourists for Memorial Day weekend. Credit: Emily Jones / GPB
About one million Georgians are expected to hit the road this Memorial Day weekend, according to auto club AAA. Including air, train and other forms of transit, some 1.16 million are planning to travel.
The numbers come despite high gas prices and in stark contrast to this time last year, when pandemic shutdowns were in effect in many places.
“People were not traveling, you know, by car, plane, train or cruise at that point last year,” said Montrae Waiters of AAA.
The largest container ship ever to visit the east coast called at the Port of Savannah today. GPB’s Emily Jones reports.
The Georgia Forestry Commission is tackling a large wildfire in Ware County, in Southeast Georgia.
Today, Atlanta's Shaky Knees music festival announced its lineup, hours before tickets went on sale this afternoon.
The Marco Polo is the largest container ship ever to call on the U.S. East Coast.
Caption People gathered at the Savannah riverfront Wednesday, May 26, 2021, to watch the CMA CGM Marco Polo, the largest container ship ever to call on the U.S. East Coast. Credit: Emily Jones
The largest container ship ever to visit the East Coast called at the Port of Savannah on Wednesday.
Huge cargo ships pass downtown Savannah on their way to the port every day but none as big as the CMA CGM Marco Polo. At 1,300 feet, it’s as long as nine Tybee Island Lighthouses or three Sanford Stadiums.
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) - With May being 'Asian American Pacific Islander' month, there's a story about a group of people who made significant contributions to the Mississippi Delta. Emily Jones, the curator of the Mississippi Chinese Heritage Museum at Delta State University in Cleveland, said, "The Chinese came to the Delta to kind of fill [.]
New clinic hits important Kentucky trends: vaccines, jobs
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MOUNT STERLING, Ky. (LEX 18) â As Kentucky settles into a post-COVID-19 world, the state has been pushing vaccines and economic rebound. Both of those aspects came together at the grand opening of the new First Care Clinic in Mt. Sterling on Thursday. Every single day feels a little bit better because every day more Kentuckians are stepping up getting vaccinated, protecting themselves, and their families, and the communities around them, said Gov. Andy Beshear at the grand opening. And nearly every day, we are seeing signs that Kentucky s economy isn t just coming back, it is truly roaring back.