Sep. 23—Juliana Germano had been discussing selling one of the two businesses in the Jekyll Island Historic District that her company, Past Times Inc., owns.
She built both, The Commissary and Island House, over the past 26 years, pouring many thousands of dollars of her own money into them in the process.
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