...recently being awarded the HUD Secretary's Opportunity and Empowerment Award for efforts in the Laney Walker/Bethlehem district, he said.But he also said the city has issues."We've got a 22 percent poverty rate that I want to see us...

...work last year, records show.The firm also was paid $174,096 for land acquisition in the Laney-Walker and Bethlehem districts, although a portion of that payment may include the price of land purchased in the blighted area now being redeveloped...

...they are doing. A RANT TO THE Augusta Commission: There is so much that needs to be done in town. One is the Bethlehem district. These people are elderly. Is there any reason why you can't make their last days happy ones? They are the...

...would sell the house she inherited from her mother and leave the neighborhood. To some residents in Augusta's Bethlehem district, which is speckled with vacant and dilapidated homes, the history isn't worth saving. "What's the use of...

...recommendation to retain, with some modifications, the local historic designation for the Bethlehem neighborhood. The Bethlehem district - a 480-acre area bordered by Wrightsboro Road, Railroad Avenue, Old Savannah Road, and McCauley, Poplar and...

...among city officials, primarily, to rescind the Bethlehem District designation under the local ordinance," Mr. Montgomery...goal of some city officials. The history of the Bethlehem District, a 480-acre area bordered by Wrightsboro Road...

...you'll never check a record that will say I haven't paid them." In 2000, a home Mr. McIntyre owns in the Bethlehem district had a lien placed against it by the city's Department of License and Inspection for unpaid cleanup charges. City...

...place from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Beulah Grove Baptist Church. The church is in the historic Bethlehem district at 1434 Poplar St. Airport will undergo security assessment Representatives from Lockheed Martin Corp. are scheduled...

...lived in the back of his parents' Chinese grocery store in the predominantly black neighborhood in Augusta's Bethlehem district. Now a retired electrical systems engineer who lives in Sunnyvale, Calif., Mr. Wong also remembers the sounds...

During the past 38 years, Tommy Phillips has lived in seven different homes on six different streets in the Bethlehem residential district. A historically black neighborhood, Bethlehem has been designated as a local historic district since April 1993, something Mr. Phillips said that, along with the neighborhood's name, he never knew. "I haven't called it by nothin' except the streets in here," Mr. Phillips, 63, said recently from the front porch of his cornflower-blue Linden Street home as he smoked a hand-rolled cigarette.