Clean Green

Clean Green

Havird Usry feels pretty comfortable in races by now. He’s run seven triathlons in Augusta alone. But opening a new restaurant is a marathon in its own right, especially when you’re building everything from the salad dressings to the restaurant’s interior from...
Slaying It Downtown

Slaying It Downtown

Third generation tech firm plants corporate flag in city center   Like most good business leaders, TaxSlayer CEO Brian Rhodes prefers making decisions quickly. “Maybe a little too quickly,” he acknowledges. “I like to meet things head-on and say, ‘Let’s go.’ “ If...
Modern Renaissance

Modern Renaissance

Photo by Amy J. Owen   The historic Summerville neighborhood is home to some of Augusta’s oldest and most stunning architecture, from Southern style farmhouses with wrap-around porches to quaint bungalow cottages, columned plantation homes, and Spanish colonial...
Very Vera

Very Vera

Photo by Peter Frank Edwards   Vera Stewart has been in the public eye her entire life. Especially here in her hometown of Augusta, she is a well-loved and well-known entrepreneur with a career spanning all the way back to the early 80s. Her 30-plus years of work...
Longleaf Forest

Longleaf Forest

If you live in the Augusta-Aiken area, your yard was once a piece of a forest. Your lawn and garden were the domain of the longleaf pine.  That longleaf forest covered 90 million acres. It ran all the way from the sand hills to the sea, down to Florida, up to...
A Tale of Tenacity

A Tale of Tenacity

I met Kat McCall when a mutual friend of ours put us in touch about donating some of her time and artistic talent to a fundraiser I was organizing. I made the call and within the first five minutes of our conversation, Kat had not only agreed to help with a complete...