...WHILE RESTAURANTS and bars are garnering some success, the market for retail stores hasn't returned downtown, said Bonnie Ruben, the president of BR Investment group, which owns 114-year-old Ruben's at 914 Broad St., the Ra mada hotel...

...Rep. Earnie Smith; state Sen. Hardie Davis; Terri and Lynn Allgood; Dr. Chip and Nan Story; Brenda Williams; Bonnie Ruben and Jeff Gorelick; Cheryl and Whitney O'Keefe; Susan and Sam Nicholson; Franny and Jim Bennett; Robert Osborne...

...obtained from the finance commission revealed support for former District 1 candidate Lori Davis from Augusta hotelier Bonnie Ruben, who gave $1,000.Davis has withdrawn from the race and put her support behind Stanley Hawes. Hawes had filed...

...going. But after hours, it gets ugly.That has led some in the downtown area to call for the end of First Friday. Bonnie Ruben and Jeff Gorelick, owners of Ruben's Department Store and other downtown businesses, are adamant: First Friday...

...there, as well as Commissioner Alvin Mason; Donna Murray from the tax assessor's office; the queen of Broad Street Bonnie Ruben and her husband, Jeff Gorelick; State Court Judge John Flythe; and Superior Court Judge Cheryl Jolly and her assistant...

...greed.UNTIL AUGUSTA IS rid of the cabal, it will stay in the past.RAVES TO THE LADIES who prepare the food for Bonnie Ruben's Southern Cooking lunch buffet at the Broad Street hotel. The food ? barbecue chicken, shepherd's pie, rutabagas...

...centers.Ruben's, a 28,000-square-foot store at 914 Broad St., however, survived those market changes.Bonnie Ruben, the granddaughter of the store's founders, once told a Chronicle interviewer, "I always liked downtown the best...

Clearly the public would be looking for assurances that these members of the board and members of the committee have avoided a conflict of interest by not participating in the TEE center discussions and/or voting on any of the matters directly related to the center, its proposed location, its financing, its management contract, etc.

...into reality." Even more critical of the proposal was Bonnie Ruben, the owner of the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Ruben's...think whoever is proposing this is purely nuts." - Bonnie Ruben, owner of the Ramada Plaza hotel and Ruben's Department...

...existed under the shadow of a wrecking ball for a few years now. Former authority member and Broad Street businesswoman Bonnie Ruben's vision is for Mr. Brown to be buried at Augusta Common and for the Kress Building, which she owns, to be turned...