A man who beat a woman for 12-14 hours and tried to set her on fire in 2016 pleaded guilty Tuesday morning just before his trial was to begin in Glynn County Superior Court.

An appeal of the Islands Planning Commission’s decision to deny an event venue proposed for the north end of St. Simons Island is on the Glynn County Commission’s Thursday meeting agenda.

Instead of denying site plans and subdivision plats against development staff recommendations, it’s better to attack the root of the problem and push for ordinance changes, a consultant told planning commissioners at a meeting Tuesday.

Attorneys selected juries Monday that are to sit for Superior Court felony trials this week, including one scheduled to begin today, in which a man faces five counts of aggravated assault.

The St. Simons Land Trust has closed on the final chunk of a 258-acre chunk of land that will soon be a park adjacent to Musgrove plantation on the north end of St. Simons Island.

Another defendant pleaded guilty Monday in the federal case regarding an alleged crack, cocaine and marijuana distribution conspiracy centered around a backyard shed used as a stash location.

Among reports filed with police:

A webinar on the Terry Creek Superfund site — conducted by One Hundred Miles and the Glynn Environmental Coalition — will now occur in September instead of this evening, thanks to what OHM calls new developments in the matter.

A bridge over the Darien River on U.S. Highway 17 will remain open while the Georgia Department of Transportation works to replace it.

Camden County Administrator Steve Howard may be returning to Central Florida, where he spent much of his early career.

Milestones testing results that were recently released by the state education department highlighted many successes for Glynn County students, as well as some subject areas that will need continued focus moving forward.

Mainland and Islands planning commissions are scheduled to talk about reports produced by Glynn County Community Development Department staff at their Tuesday work session.

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Eight St. Simons Island residents and a Sea Island resident allege in a lawsuit that the Glynn County Commission violated state and local law in taking away planning commission authority in June.

As a multi-defendant federal drug trafficking case motors along regarding a Glynn County shed used as a stash house, two matters of consequence popped up this week.