https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316358411.html https://img.thecontentserver.com/b2b15d99-da48-48b2-87bb-4eb4f82ab039/1_th.jpg Columbus has voted. Go inside readers' favorite, local brewery The votes are in: Chattabrewchee Southern Brewhouse is the city’s best brewery. The veteran-owned taproom beat out Scofflaw Brewing Co. and The Cannon Brew Pub in the final round of reader voting to claim the crown, and we went to see for ourselves why Columbus loves it so much. Chattabrewchee Southern Brewhouse on 6th Avenue built its win on the kind of low-key, community-first vibe that’s hard to fake. https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316358411.html/video-embed 51 2026-07-02T13:49:09Z no https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living/travel/article316335543.html https://img.thecontentserver.com/4f0f770d-5d14-4beb-97c7-077688e27734/4_th.jpg Go inside the Columbus, GA coffee shop that inspired The Chalice in "Theo of Golden" Book clubs and fans of Allen Levi’s “Theo of Golden” are coming to Columbus, Georgia, to visit places like Fountain City Coffee, Broadway and the Riverwalk. “This is the first time I’ve come to Fountain City, and I’ve lived here many years,” Midland resident Cheryl Buttler told the Ledger-Enquirer during her June 25 visit. “I thought it was really quaint, and I was happy to see that the way that I pictured it in my mind is the way it looks.” https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/living/travel/article316335543.html/video-embed 65 2026-07-01T09:00:00Z no https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316337359.html https://img.thecontentserver.com/3881e5bf-39a1-4a38-b03e-d18558449ebd/1_th.jpg Columbus, GA artist talks about drawings that helped inspire 'Theo of Golden' What started a decade ago as a simple request to decorate a Columbus coffee shop’s walls with portraits has snowballed, thrusting an already well-known local artist into a much brighter spotlight. This surge in popularity has brought fans of Harris County resident Allen Levi’s best-selling novel “Theo of Golden” to Columbus artist Garry Pound’s doorstep, an in-person visit from a movie production company and calls from Oprah Winfrey’s podcast producers requesting his help. The sudden attention for the artist whose “Fountain City Faces” portraits helped inspire Levi’s uplifting story was built one drawing at a time. Learn more here. https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article316337359.html/video-embed 83 2026-06-02T09:00:00Z no