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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Fussell, Thompson tout love of city, desire to serve
Les Fussell and Marcus Thompson are running in the March 16 special election to fill the Richmond Hill Post 4 council seat vacated in January by Mark Ott.
The News sent questionnaires to both candidates and asked each to provide a brief biography. Both candidates are featured in this story,
Here’s how Fussell responded:(Thompson s answers will follow).
1. Why I am running for city council: I love this special city with its small town feel, the quality of life, its charm and the friendliness of our community. Richmond Hill is my home.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Henry and Clara Ford s impact here was one of a kind Richmond Hill Zoning Administrator Amanda Styer and Richmond Hill CVB Director Christy Sherman in front of the Martha-Mary Chapel. Photo by Jeff Whitten.
There are older stories here along Bryan County’s marshes and creeks and river, to be sure.
The Guale Indians were in this part of the world as recently as the 1600s, and the Spanish and English and Africans followed. There were rice plantations and slavery, and a bloody war that ultimately spelled the end of both.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Council looks to history, new interchange plans
Richmond Hill officials looked forward and back at city council’s first meeting of 2021, approving a preliminary plat for a residential neighborhood near the new I-95 interchange at Belfast Keller while also adding measures aimed at preserving the city’s historic association with Henry Ford.
The 65-acre, 114-lot subdivision, Raydient Places Phase 1A, is southeast of the new interchange and bordered by Belfast Keller and the new Great Ogeechee Parkway.
By Mike Brown
For Bryan County Now
It was two years in the planning but the Ford Avenue Historic District is now officially a designated area in the city of Richmond Hill.
City Council approved an amendment to an ordinance creating the city’s first historic district at its regularly scheduled Jan. 5 meeting which was a quick moving one lasting roughly 25 minutes with all items on the short agenda approved with minimal discussion.
Assistant City Manager Scott Allison, noting the ordinance had been discussed at two workshops, at a public hearing and had a first reading at the previous council meeting said the amendment was “primarily a house-cleaning exercise” as he explained the change was to repeal some conflicting ordinances.