{"id":12705,"date":"2025-06-22T18:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=12705"},"modified":"2025-06-23T09:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T14:58:13","slug":"new-courthouse-gazebo-officially-dedicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/12705-new-courthouse-gazebo-officially-dedicated\/","title":{"rendered":"New Courthouse Gazebo Officially Dedicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>(IN THE PHOTO, LEFT TO RIGHT: COUNTY TREASURER DEB RUHOLL WITH COUNTY BOARD ADMINISTRATOR ANGELA THOMPSON BEHIND HER, DOUG MURRELL, JAROD CARLEN OF F AND C CONCRETE, CHAMBER AMBASSADOR MICHAEL WALL, EFFINGHAM MAYOR MIKE SCHUTZBACH, EFFINGHAM COUNTY BOARD CHAIRMAN JOSH DOUTHIT, EFFINGHAM COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT AND C-E-O KATIE KOESTER, CHAMBER AMBASSADOR TONYA SINER, COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER MICHELLE KOLLMANN, COUNTY BOARD MEMBER DOUG McCAIN, COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT DELAINE DONALDSON, AND COUNTY GENEALOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICER LoELLA BAKER)<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Effingham County, the City of Effingham, the Effingham County Chamber of Commerce, and the Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum Association were all represented at the ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday evening officially opening the new Effingham County Courthouse Gazebo.<\/p>\n<p>The new gazebo was patterned after the historical Courthouse Museum and was built at ground level, making it handicapped accessible. Both Effingham County and the City of Effingham contributed toward the cost of the project. Both Douthit and Schutzbach discussed the cooperative effort between the County and City to make the project possible.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(IN THE PHOTO, LEFT TO RIGHT: COUNTY TREASURER DEB RUHOLL WITH COUNTY BOARD ADMINISTRATOR ANGELA THOMPSON BEHIND HER, DOUG MURRELL, JAROD CARLEN OF F AND C CONCRETE, CHAMBER AMBASSADOR MICHAEL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Courthouse Gazebo Officially Dedicated - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/12705-new-courthouse-gazebo-officially-dedicated\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Courthouse Gazebo Officially Dedicated - 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