Bloomingdale News

A slew of candidates are geared up for fights today in local elections. Residents of Bloomingdale, Pooler, Port Wentworth, Thunderbolt and Tybee Island in Chatham County will determine who should lead their cities.

Assistant poll manager Bob Tully for the 1st precinct, 5th district voting station assists voter Tom Newcomer.

There were a handful of municipal races taking place in our region November 3. It was a close one in Richmond Hill.

Areas like Bloomingdale have seen big voter turnouts Tuesday, where they have a mayor and council race to decide.

Bloomingdalea s city council will have some new faces next year, while Wayne Tipton will remain mayor as a result of todaya s election.

Voters will hit the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots for special and municipal elections.

Jerry Crosby is a candidate for Bloomingdale City Council. Ernest Grizzard is a candidate for Bloomingdale City Council.

Since the very first nationally coordinated breast cancer awareness efforts in 1985, the traditional colors that one normally associates with the fall season have expanded, and pink has become as much a part of the autumn palette as the brilliance of changing leaves.

Early voting in Chatham County begins Tuesday for the Nov. 3 municipal and special elections in two state legislative districts.

An Effingham County grand jury has returned indictments against a man accused in the June 28 death of an almost 3-year-old Springfield boy as well as the boy's mother.

Lee Deal Lee Mitchell Deal, 22, died Saturday, October 3, 2009. He was born in Chatham County, and was employed at B & D on Bay Street in Savannah.

Bloomingdale City Administrator Robert Brady, 62, died Thursday. Brady was the first city administrator for Bloomingdale and was hired in 2007.

City Administrator Robert Brady has died. Brady was the first city administrator for the city of Bloomingdale and was hired in 2007.

The Pooler PTA serve pizza while mom and dad fill out paperwork. Pre-K student Lolita Jolley and brother fifth-grader Edward Jolley are among the newcomers attending Pooler Elementary this year.

Two Bloomingdale teens are behind bars after they were caught on tape stealing from a convenience store and destroying the front door.

SPRINGFIELD a ' Two Bloomingdale teens are in the Effingham County jail after being arrested in connection with a convenience store burglary in the early morning hours today.

Thunderbolt Mayor Anna Maria Thomas has filed paperwork to seek another term, and so has Alderman David P. Crenshaw.

Effingham County teens are among 215 youth set to graduate for the Fort Gordon Youth Challenge program on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Bell Auditorium located in Augusta.

Basil Leopold and soda jerk Whatley Bragg stand behind the soda fountain in the Leopold's shop at the corner of Gwinnett and Habersham streets in the 1940s.

A Bloomingdale teen is behind bars today after an overnight burglary and entering auto spreed in southern Effingham County.