Buzz: J.R. Cricket’s opening Thursday? Neslin named interim administrator at St. Mary’s Church. Garmon joins Dr. Miniyar’s Pediatrics.

Look for J.R. Crickets to open this Thursday, Jan. 7, eight months after word spread about the plan to move into Magretta Hall at 201 Broad St. (first story). Paul Juliano founded J.R. Crickets in 1982 at Spring Street in Atlanta and continues to run the company known for its “chicken is chicken but the wing is the thing” mantra. Drew Montgomery is behind the Rome location and is leasing the spot from Larry Martin’s team (which occupies some of the space above the restaurant). Click here to sample the J.R. Crickets’ menu. We’ll have additional details (hours, etc.) later today.

Deacon Stuart Neslin has been appointed interim administrator of Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in Rome: In announcements made at all masses this past Saturday and Sunday, Bishop David Talley told the congregation of Saint Mary’s Catholic Church at 911 Broad St. that Deacon Stuart Neslin has been named interim administrator. The appointment comes as the recent pastor, Father Patrick Kingery, begins a six-month sabbatical. Kingery will receive a new appointment when he returns. A new pastor at Saint Mary’s, home to more than 1,700 families, will be in place by July 1. Father Ed Danneker, also a former St. Mary’s pastor, will preside over weekend Masses in the interim, assisted by guest priests and the parish’s deacons.

Dr. Steven Garmon joins Dr. Miniyar’s Pediatrics. Media release: Dr. Steven Garmon, a board-certified general pediatrician and fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is joining Dr. Miniyar’s Pediatrics. Garmon completed his undergraduate work at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry. Dr. Garmon was an Ohio Board of Regents Fellow and went on to receive his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1992. Dr. Garmon’s pediatric internship and residency was completed at the University of Florida Health Science Center (University of Florida) in Jacksonville in 1995, where he was recognized as Best First Year Continuity Clinic Resident and received a Golden Apple Senior Resident Teaching Award. Dr. Garmon worked as an Urgent Care and Primary Care Pediatrician at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (formerly Egleston Children’s Hospital) from 1995 - 2000 and then worked as an attending physician in private practice with various Atlanta community physicians from 2000 to 2004. He worked as a clinical pediatric instructor and attending physician at a community healthcare center in Atlanta from 2004 – 2006. A desire to do more in the area of disease prevention and health promotion prompted Dr. Garmon to return to graduate school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Ryals School of Public Health from 2008- 2009. He completed a Master’s degree in Public Health in December 2009, in Maternal and Child Health with an emphasis on global studies, graduating with highest honors. Dr. Garmon next taught medical students at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences in St. Kitts, West Indies from 2010-2014 and returned to clinical pediatrics in Columbus, Ga., in 2015. He is excited about his move to Rome where he will work at Dr. Miniyar’s Pediatrics.