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For as long as a lot of people can remember, former Bryan County Commission Chairman Jimmy Burnsed championed an I-95 interchange at Belfast Keller Road. At a critical time, former Richmond Hill Mayor Harold Fowler threw much needed city support into the project.
Officials say that’s why the Exit 82 interchange will be named the Jimmy Burnsed Interchange, and the bridge spanning I-95 will be named the Fowler-Burnsed Bridge, honoring both men for their work in turning the project into reality.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. BCSO reports: Man known as Nose sought for theft
Theft: A man reported Jan. 19 some guy he only knows as Nose stole his 4-wheeler.
The suspect lives in Bulloch County, the report said, and “(victim) only knows the subject by his street moniker, Nose.”
Police are investigating.
Matter of record: Deputies were sent Jan. 17 to Highway 204 near Toni Branch Road after a man saw a man and woman walking down the side of the road, “and that (the witness) observed the male striking the female in the face.”
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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.
Bryan County News Jeff Whitten: Cheerful times ahead
Predictions that probably won’t might will could maybe shouldn’t ought to never always come true, depending on what side of the bed you we I they get up on next week yesterday or tomorrow.
Christmas 2030: The Belfast Keller interchange on I-95 has become the next Pooler, only upscalier. Yep, now that it’s 2030, that 5,000 acre slice of pine trees, live oaks and Spanish moss has everything a modern American with disposable income could possibly want. That includes upscale Hardie board and faux brick homes, townhomes, condominiums and apartments, an upscale Hooters – it’s spelled Hootres Chic– an upscale outlet mall with 370 stores, and a store that sells nothing but upscale cheese (and another one that features upscale goats if you want to make your own cheese) and, of course, an upscale Super Walmart and upscalier Lowes and Home Depot, as well as upscale places to wash your upscale boat and upscale
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Richmond Hill’s city council passed its $9.95 million general fund budget for the 2021 fiscal year by a unanimous vote, but not without reservations from one council member.
First year councilman Mark Ott said at the council’s Dec. 1 meeting he was concerned the budget doesn’t provide money to staff a temporary fire station near the Belfast Keller interchange, which could be open within weeks.
“We have this new temporary fire station and we’re not going to be able to use it for six months in an area where the interchange is going to open up pretty soon,” Ott said.