Remember how in grade school we learned the name Roy G. Biv, the mnemonic device for the order of colors in the rainbow? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. I love them all, but I was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An early image shows the Torrey West House on Ossabaw Island. A century after her late parents bought a 26,000-acre Chatham County ...

The recent death of Sandy West, the onetime owner and lifelong advocate for the preservation of Ossabaw Island, raises questions about what’s in store for Georgia’s third-largest barrier isle. Could ...

“Ossabaw island represents the beauty that we are hoping our writers will connect with and be able to instill in their own works,” said Tony Morris, director of the Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat.

This is an op-ed by Elizabeth DuBose, executive director of the Ossabaw Island Foundation, which exists to inspire, promote and manage exceptional educational, cultural and scientific resources that ...

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources and the Ossabaw Island Foundation offer their deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West who died on January 17, 2021 at the ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Exposed by erosion at the edge of a crumbling bluff, the pit discovered beneath two feet of sandy dirt at first appeared to be a grave just long and deep enough to bury a human ...

Many locals and tourists, alike, enjoy visiting the Sea Islands of Georgia. Several of those Islands are known as barrier Islands because they protect the coastlines from erosion from the surrounding ...

Sandy West, the heiress-turned-conservationist who sold the 26,000-acre Ossabaw Island to Georgia so it could be preserved, died last month on her 108th birthday. Born Eleanor Ford Torrey but known to ...

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A century after her late parents bought a 26,000-acre Chatham County island that she would love and protect for nearly as long, the late Eleanor “Sandy” Torrey West’s former home is set for an ...