Tim Guidera
Anchor/Features Reporter
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For 15 years, Tim Guidera told Savannah's stories to Savannah in the local paper, winning more than 100 state and national writing awards for his features, profiles, commentary and analysis.
In August 2007, he brought his storytelling style and identity in the community to WTOC as a feature reporter and online columnist. In that role, he will move beyond a sports background, in which he covered every sport at every level, including Super Bowls, World Series, college bowl games and four Olympics on three continents.
A native of Staten Island, NY, Tim moved to Savannah "for six months,'' in 1992. Since then, he has become the worst kind of Yankee, the kind that doesn't leave and marries a Savannah girl.
He and his wife Anne have three children, twins Brian and Grace, and Isabella.
Tim's occasional free moments are spent pursuing passions for golf, cooking and more golf.
Updated: Mar. 27, 2023 at 3:31 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
Law enforcement is often considered a thankless job but it wasn’t today for several Chatham County Police Department officers.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 3:21 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
They are headed to the weekend at the Club Car Championship and some high-level tournament golf but the experience around the course figures to be elevated as well.
Updated: Mar. 24, 2023 at 3:20 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
Every golf course has doglegs. They’re just usually not as cute or as popular as those at The Landings when the world’s most famous bulldog made a visit to the Club Car Championship.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 5:02 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
Building relationships through golf is part of the game at the professional level.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 4:46 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
It is Savannah fare on the fairways at Savannah’s professional golf tournament this week, whether fans are teeing off on some tacos or grabbing a burger for the back 9.
Updated: Mar. 23, 2023 at 10:10 AM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
The gates are open at the Landings, fans are on the grounds and professional golf has returned to Savannah with the first round of the Club Car Championship.
Updated: Mar. 22, 2023 at 4:03 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
Competition in the Club Car Championship begins Thursday at The Landings but Wednesday, they got the tournament going with an opening ceremony at the Deer Creek course.
Updated: Mar. 21, 2023 at 6:27 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
It was only the second day of practice rounds at the Club Car Championship, but players already were excited to be back at The Landings Golf and Athletic Club and at a tournament that has become a favorite among Korn Ferry Tour players.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 5:44 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
The pros were on the course early for Club Car Championship Week. And the only other people there on a quiet Monday at The Landings were getting a look at - and inside - golf.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 4:07 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
The Savannah Music Festival’s “Explorer Pass’' is a new community initiative designed to give local students even greater access to music and the artists who travel here for the festival.
Updated: Mar. 20, 2023 at 4:01 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
Saint Vincent’s Academy is heading into the streets of Savannah to help preserve and maintain the history of their 180-year old convent that was once home to the Sisters of Mercy at the school with the inaugural Nun Run 5K this weekend.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 5:39 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
There will be more than 300 units in Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade this year.
Updated: Mar. 13, 2023 at 2:51 PM EDT
|By Tim Guidera
One local Savannah non-profit organization has been bringing the community together for nine years.
Updated: Mar. 7, 2023 at 11:22 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
In six years, the Club Car Championship has established itself as Savannah’s professional golf tournament. Now drawing as many fans from all across the area as from the host club at The Landings.
Updated: Mar. 6, 2023 at 1:42 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
The congregation at Montgomery Presbyterian Church fought for five years to save an historic oak tree adjacent to the church.
Updated: Feb. 27, 2023 at 3:25 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
New voices. New stories. The same sense of giving all across the Coastal Empire.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2023 at 9:54 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
You might be planning your weekend menu already. You can add a dish that works for a big family meal but is easy enough to make any time of the week: chicken marsala.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 5:39 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
People from in and around Yamacraw Village have been gathering, worshiping and finding a sense of community at First Bryan Baptist Church.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2023 at 10:43 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
There is some serious food coming out of the Okan food truck in Bluffton. So delicious, that its chef and owner, Bernard Bennett, has been nominated for one of the highest culinary awards in the country.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 3:11 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Soon, people will be getting their hands dirty again at Employability, some of them on their way to life-enriching employment.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2023 at 11:54 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Chelsea and Cory Henneman are dog people. They have always had their own dogs and have always taken care of friends’ dogs.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2023 at 3:27 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
If soul food is food that touches your soul - peach cobbler certainly falls under that definition.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2023 at 7:54 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
With many of its activities tied to the beach, winter was once a traditional shoulder season on Jekyll Island.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 12:01 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Keeping a clean house can be too much for anyone going though cancer treatments or caring for a loved one who has cancer.
Updated: Feb. 6, 2023 at 11:53 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Valentine’s Day is next week and people might choose to celebrate early with a Galentine’s Day brunch at Bar Julian in the Thomson Hotel.
Updated: Jan. 30, 2023 at 7:33 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
The Champions Tour was created in 1980 to extend the careers of professional golfers in their 50s, but it will be a brand new start for Savannah’s Tim O’Neal.
Updated: Jan. 26, 2023 at 3:51 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
B. Matthews was at the forefront of Savannah’s culinary revolution. Opening 20 years ago and helping take the local food scene in a new direction.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 11:33 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Some new pizza options are coming into the local food scene.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 5:39 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
The United Way of the Coastal Empire and WTOC are hosting a telethon to help get books in kids hands.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 1:33 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
If the thought of making a mistake on your taxes is already becoming a concern, the Neighborhood Association can help with free tax assistance.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 1:18 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
So, where does Georgia go after back-to-back national championships?
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 7:44 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
A reserved parking spot at work was a pretty good prize for Georgia’s 2022 State Teacher of the Year. But for Cherie Goldman, of Savannah’s Hesse School, the perks of the past year keep getting better.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 4:30 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera and Chad Maxwell
The Georgia Bulldogs are looking to secure back-to-back national titles in the final game of the College Football Playoff on Monday.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 4:29 PM EST
|By Paige Phillips, Chad Maxwell and Tim Guidera
It’s game day for the Georgia Bulldogs as they attempt to win a college football national championship for the second year in a row.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 4:16 PM EST
|By Chad Maxwell and Tim Guidera
The Georgia Bulldogs are trying to win their second consecutive national championship.
Updated: Jan. 8, 2023 at 11:52 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera and Chad Maxwell
The big city of Los Angeles took on a college-town feel Sunday as more Georgia and TCU fans arrived for the National Championship Game and school spirit made itself known at Playoff Fan Central inside the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Updated: Dec. 19, 2022 at 5:56 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Rusty Hunter wasn’t waiting for a car crash to take place outside his Thunderbolt home. But he knew what to do when one did.
Updated: Dec. 14, 2022 at 9:58 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
St. Thomas Episcopal Church on Isle of Hope has been a place of worship, a place of gathering and a place of fellowship for 100 years.
Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 at 8:41 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Supplies kept coming in to Oliver Maner throughout November. And last week, it also took time and effort to get them where they were intended to go.
Updated: Dec. 5, 2022 at 8:14 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
The Oglethorpe Driving Club is always a key contributor to WTOC’s toy drive campaign.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2022 at 8:04 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
When the cold weather arrives, a lot of children in our area will not be prepared for it because they don’t have coats.
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 at 3:32 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
America’s Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia will help more than 135,000 people deal with food insecurity this year.
Updated: Nov. 17, 2022 at 10:24 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
At it’s most recent graduation ceremony, more than 4,000 Georgia Southern students received diplomas for Associate, Baccalaureate, Masters and Doctoral studies, and some of those students were never on any of the university’s three campuses.
Updated: Nov. 16, 2022 at 10:20 AM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Thanksgiving is the most planned meal of the year with menus and grocery lists made out weeks in advance, but there still are often last-minute changes.
Updated: Nov. 14, 2022 at 7:26 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
The Elks Lodge 183 on Savannah’s Southside has been involved with schools in its neighborhood for many years.
Updated: Nov. 9, 2022 at 4:10 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Broken Wings has already had one encore performance and this week the 100 Black Men of Savannah have been asked to put on the play about kids in the court system one more time.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 7:44 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Every town loves its sports heroes.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 2:32 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Veterans Day is Friday, but paying tribute to our veterans doesn’t have to end there.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 12:09 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
Whether you are in full holiday-shopping mode or haven’t yet started, you can find unique gifts this weekend at the 6th Annual Savannah Local Artists Market.
Updated: Nov. 7, 2022 at 12:09 PM EST
|By Tim Guidera
The Oliver Maner Law Firm were one of the first and biggest supporters of Savannah’s new emergency housing facility for women and they are once again operating a donation drive in recognition of National Homeless Awareness Month in November.
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