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Savannah River Site will resume normal operations beginning at 6:30 p.m. today.
All normal entrances to the nuclear facility will be open at that time, according to a news release.

Gates will open at 3:30 p.m. today for the 23rd Annual Border Bash at Augusta Golf & Gardens.
With threatening weather expected later this evening, the start time of this year’s event has beenmoved up, according to a news release.
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Hurricane Matthew’s howling wind and driving rain pummeled Florida early today, starting what’s expected to be a ruinous, dayslong battering of the Southeast coast. The strongest winds of 120 mph were just offshore, but Matthew’s wrath still menaced more than 500 miles of coastline.

As of 6 a.m. EDT today, the hurricane’s western eyewall was brushing Cape Canaveral, according to the National Hurricane Center. Matthew was centered about 25 miles east of Cape Canaveral and moving north-northwest around 14 mph.

City officials urged residents to show “southern hospitality” Thursday as thousands of Hurricane Matthew evacuees continued to arrive in Augusta, including an initial 30 buses from Savannah.
The 630 aboard the buses are the first of 5,000 Augusta has agreed to shelter under an evacuation contract with Chatham County, Fire Chief Chris James said at a Thursday news conference.
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Hearing his name announced as Co­lum­bia County’s Teacher of the Year was a surreal moment for Eric Leiden.
“I feel totally overwhelmed,” said Leiden, who teaches AP U.S. History and U.S. History Through Film at Evans High School.
The Columbia County Board of Educa­tion honored teachers of the year from 31 schools at a banquet Thursday at First Baptist Church of Augusta.
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After playing a difficult non-region schedule, Lakeside entered Thursday night’s rivalry contest with Greenbrier seeking its first win.
The Panthers scored their lone touchdown on a Nick Reid pass in the first half and held on for a 7-0 win over the Wolfpack on Homecoming Night.
Lakeside (1-5, 1-0 Region 3-AAAAAA) entered having lost to five opponents with a combined 21-5-1 record. The Panthers used that experience when it got the ball back with 3:58 remaining in the game, recording three first downs to run out the clock.

In the slight chaos at Trinity on the Hill United Methodist Church on Thursday afternoon and a good 100 miles from home, Caesar Garcia Servin was grateful.
“I think of the refugees in the Middle East and their struggles. We have it good here,’’ said the 17-year-old from Ridgeland, S.C.
Servin was one of the people who found shelter from Hurricane Matthew at the Red Cross shelter at Trinity United Methodist Church on Monte Sano.

A city committee trying to foster retail development in south Augusta brought in the experts Thursday.
Officials from the city Downtown Development Authority and Augusta Development Authority and development firms themselves weighed in on what each is doing and might bring to the area that residents say is underserved.
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Georgia and South Carolina will push their SEC football game in Columbia, S.C., back a day to Sunday as both states brace for Hurricane Matthew bearing down off the coastline Friday into Saturday.
That was what Gamecocks coach Will Muschamp announced on his radio show Thursday night after speaking with athletic director Ray Tanner.
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