WAYCROSS, Ga., May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Oglethorpe Power Corporation and the Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) this week celebrated the planting of nearly 150,000 seedlings in a partnership to reforest about 400 acres of hardwood forestland burned in wildfires near the Okefenokee Swamp in 2007.

By Anna Ferguson, The Brunswick News, Ga. Jul. 19--Gray clouds and scattered rain hung over the Golden Isles this week, putting a damper on beach-going vacation plans but easing significantly the area's dry conditions. Between a 24-hour period beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday and ending 8 a.m.

By GORDON JACKSON WAYCROSS - Nobody expected a small brush fire to make history when winds toppled a tree into a power line near Waycross a year ago today.

By TERESA STEPZINSKI BRUNSWICK - Tree farmers who lost timber to the wildfires that destroyed almost half-million acres in Southeast Georgia may get some help replanting.

By GORDON JACKSON FOLKSTON - After five years of work to secure federal funding, ground was broken Friday for the Okefenokee Environmental Education/ Concession Building.