Starting this week, Southeast Georgia Health System will be offering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for anyone 12 years old and older at its Brunswick and St. Marys vaccine clinics.

What a week. With the Colonial Pipeline shut down by ransomware, motorists formed long and unruly lines at gas stations to fill up their tanks, gas cans and Yeti cups. (Caution: If you resort to using drinking cups, affix a label and clearly note the octane and whether it’s diesel or gasoline.)

If Memorial Day weekend is the start of the summer travel season, best stand clear of the gate when it swings open in the closing days of May.

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Among reports filed with police:

ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp Friday extended through May 22 an executive order he issued last Monday to address the gasoline shortage that began with the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline.

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

A student in Camden County is one of two high school students in Georgia earning the prestigious designation as a U.S. Presidential Scholar.

Georgia is joining a growing number of Republican-led states in cutting off federal unemployment benefits to incentivize out-of-work employees to return to their jobs.

Defense attorneys for the three men charged with murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery argued Wednesday that a jury should hear of Arbery’s past, saying previous run-ins with the law suggest mental instability and a disregard for authority.

Its numbers are down, but COVID-19 continues to be a serious issue in Georgia’s coastal counties.

Among reports filed with police:

A food giveaway will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Roosevelt Harris Jr. Senior Center, 2007 I St., in Brunswick.

ATLANTA — Georgians rushing to gas stations to fill their tanks are worsening fuel shortages that began after a cyberattack shut down the Colonial Pipeline, Gov. Brian Kemp said Wednesday.

Glynn County Schools will continue to mandate that all students, staff and visitors wear masks inside campus buildings for the remaining two weeks of the academic year.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given a greenlight to the construction of a fourth berth for cargo ships calling on Colonel’s Island.

The Glynn County Commission voted unanimously to approve the purchase of land on Atlantic Drive and Palmetto Street on St. Simons Island, the former site of Glynn Haven Baptist Church, at a called meeting Tuesday.

Grant funding will soon provide transportation to help residents in Glynn, Camden and McIntosh counties get to COVID-19 vaccination appointments.

The state is now accepting applications for a lottery that will determine the recipients of three subtidal water bottom leases for exclusive commercial shellfish production.