New amusement park for south Georgia

A new amusement park is coming to Georgia. "Charlie's Town" will be like Cordele's own Wild Adventures, according to the Cordele Dispatch. The south Georgia park will employ 450 people when it opens some time next spring.

Theme park sold at auction

A Georgia theme park and its sister park in Florida are under new ownership. Today Valdosta’s Wild Adventure Theme Park and Cypress Gardens Adventure Park were sold at auction in Macon for more than 50-million dollars. Missouri-based Herschend Family Entertainment bought them. Herschend co-operates Atlanta's Stone Mountain Park.