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Garden City awarded $3.1M Georgia Fund loan

GARDEN CITY, GA (WTOC)- Garden City has been
awarded a Georgia Fund loan of more than $3.14 million from the Georgia Environmental
Finance Authority. 

The city will also refinance
existing loans with a lower interest rate. Under the plan, the city will pay a
1.40 percent interest rate on the new 20-year GEFA loan for $3 million. 

The GEFA loan will be used
to finance new water and sewer related capital projects that Garden city will initiate
this year.  The projects include,
according to the city: 

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Guardrail repair scheduled for this week

CHATHAM CO., GA (WTOC)- Emergency guardrail repair work is scheduled to take place this week in Chatham, Glynn and Appling counties.

Work will be done from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, weather permitting. Work canceled due to bad weather will take place 24 hours later.

Crews will be repairing guardrails in these areas:

Chatham County

Women charged after child wanders from daycare

Edma Herrington and Shauna Rice (Source: Port Wentworth police)

PORT WENTWORTH, GA (WTOC)- Two women who run a daycare in Port Wentworth were arrested after a child was found walking down the street.

Port Wentworth police responded on Tuesday to a report of a young children walking in the street. A woman who found the child told police she saw the child walking down the middle of the street soaking wet.

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2013 Memorial Day events

2013 Memorial Day events

View a list of Memorial Day weekend events for the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry.

AAA: Little change in gas prices this week

SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC)- Drivers in
the Southeast won't see much of a change in gas prices this week, according to
the AAA.

State
averages for a gallon of regular retail gas moved less than a penny in Florida,
Georgia and Tennessee.

The current average price for gas is $3.649, that's
up only slightly from the previous week of $3.576. The price for regular
unleaded in Georgia is $3.447, that's up from $3.471, according to the AAA
Daily Fuel Gauge Report.

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