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Qualifying for partisan candidates hoping to take up local, state and federal offices in the Nov. 8 general election kicks off Monday in Georgia.
This year, the Senate seat held by U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., Chatham County’s local delegation in the Georgia Legislature and a number of Chatham County’s elected posts — including every county commission seat — will be up for grabs.

In addition to looking for a successor to Savannah City Manager Stephanie Cutter, who announced her pending retirement in January, the city is on the lookout for another upper-level administrator.
The city’s human resources director, Beth Robinson, has resigned, effective Tuesday, after 23 years with the city, including 17 years as the head of the department.

ATLANTA — The CEO of the Feed the Hungry charity became the second candidate Thursday in the special election to complete Rep. Bob Bryant’s term in the House of Representatives.
Bryant, D-Garden City, died Feb. 25. He had already announced he would not run for re-election this year.

Effingham County commissioners have granted conditional uses for two more solar farms, which means the county would have four such facilities in all.
Ryan Sanders of Beltline Energy said his company would like to build the solar farms by the end of the year, one on a 449-acre parcel on Old Louisville Road and the second on a 124-acre parcel on Clyo Kildare Road.
Each farm would have solar arrays that move to follow the sun, and each would use 15 to 20 acres of the tracts, he said.

Admission to this weekend’s GnomeCon is $45 for a three-day pass. Thursday’s Do Savannah had incorrect information.

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — An American adventurer said Thursday that he discovered part of an aircraft on a sandbar off the coast of Mozambique and initially thought it was from a small plane, and not from a Malaysia Airlines flight that disappeared two years ago with 239 people aboard.

Judge grants media request to unseal Bobbi Kristina autopsy
ATLANTA — A judge in Atlanta has issued an order to unseal the autopsy report for Bobbi Kristina Brown.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk on Thursday granted a motion filed by media organizations.

Organizers say TomorrowWorld won’t return in 2016
ATLANTA — Organizers say a massive electronic dance music festival held in suburban Atlanta the past three years will not return in 2016.
TomorrowWorld officials announced the cancellation of the three-day festival on their website Wednesday. The cancellation comes after TomorrowWorld fell under scrutiny last year for messy conditions at the sprawling farmland venue in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia.

WASHINGTON — Astronomers say they have discovered a hot, star-popping galaxy that is far, far away — farther than any previously detected, from a time when the universe was a mere toddler of about 400 million years old.

ATLANTA – The CEO of the Feed the Hungry charity became the second candidate Thursday in the special election to complete Rep. Bob Bryant’s term in the House of Representatives.Bryant, D-Garden City, died Feb. 25. He had already announced he would not run for re-election this year.