Dr. Melvin Pender Jr. is a bona fide American hero: An Olympic gold medalist (4x100 relay in the 1968 Mexico City Games at 31 years of age); a Bronze Star recipient with two tours of duty in Vietnam, retiring as a captain after having joined the Army at 17; a college graduate; a member of 11 halls of fame; a coach; an author and motivational speaker; a cancer survivor and a devout Christian. A list of remarkable achievements to which many of us would aspire but which few, if any of us, could ever equal. He has.
But what makes Pender a real hero is the obstacles he had to overcome to attain that success. He grew up in the separate-but-unequal South of the 1950s. “It was a time when blacks sat in the back of the bus and in the days of ‘white only’ water fountains,” he says.
A device designed to keep crews safe while working on railroad tracks did its job Friday and derailed a locomotive that was slowly chugging south along the tracks parallel to Newcastle Street in Brunswick.
Fifteen members of a Georgia Air and Army National Guard team were at the historic Lissner House in Brunswick Thursday conducting a drill to test their capabilities in identifying potentially hazardous substances.
It wasn’t long after John Meyer began his welding classes at Golden Isles College and Career Academy that he decided against pursuing a four-year college degree.
The state Department of Natural Resources sunk the 40-foot tugboat Miss Laci about 15 miles off the coast of Little St. Simons Island last week, adding it to Artificial Reef DRH.
A recently penned 20-year agreement between the Georgia Ports Authority and shipping and logistics giant Wallenius Wilhelmsen will give the company space at the Port of Brunswick to customize industrial vehicles and equipment coming into port before delivering them to dealers and customers, …
