The current Salvation Army shelter site on Montgomery Street in Savannah.
A SAVANNAH City Council discussion on a Salvation Army proposal to establish a new transitional-housing shelter led to a sometimes-heated conversation about balancing community needs in a traditionally underprivileged neighborhood.
When meeting on Dec. 10, Savannah’s City Council discussed the authorization of a special-use permit for the placement of a new Salvation Army shelter at 2305 Augusta Ave.
The request was for the former Francis Bartow Homes building, a 12-acre site, to be used as a shelter for emergency and transitional use by men, women, and children.
“Our need is to build a new Center of Hope that will be a place for us to provide social services and sheltering for men, and especially women and children,” said Paul Egan, Corps Officer of the Salvation Armies of Savannah.
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Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop wished everyone a Happy Hanukkah at the city s 40th Menorah lighting at City Hall this week.
Jersey City fatal shooting under investigation
The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit is investigating a Dec. 10 fatal shooting.
On Dec. 10, Jersey City police officers responded to the area of Martin Luther King Drive and Wilkinson Ave., where they found an unconscious 35-year-old Jersey City man, later identified as Niles Holmes, with apparent multiple gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m.
A Jersey city man, 24, sustained two graze wounds to the arm.
No arrests have been made at this time.