Augusta, GA

Augusta community comes together to clean up the county

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5 months ago

October 19, 2025

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Augusta community comes together to clean up the county

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – People in Augusta came together to clean up parts of the city on Saturday.

City Serve Augusta is an organization that’s been around for about 10 years.

It puts projects in motion to help beautify Augusta, and there were six projects to choose from on Saturday.

For example, painting over graffiti in the Saint Sebastian tunnel to cutting back bushes around the nature walk.

The director of City Serve spoke about what makes this community service so important.

“It’s always exciting work to be out in the community. You always meet a lot of people that you might not have met before who come out and volunteer. You also get to see a lot of people who love our city, and get to love all the things about our city,” said Luke Niday.

Augusta mayor Garnett Johnson took part in the clean-up.

He said it takes a village to keep a city clean, and he doesn’t mind joining in to help.

“It brings a sense of community for our area, especially on a fall weekend like today, where there’s so many events going on and there’s so many other places a lot of these volunteers can be. But to be here today putting on gloves, doing heavy lifting, doing dirty work to clean up this city, and so that others can truly enjoy it is truly, truly heartwarming,” said Johnson.

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From Augusta roots to Nighthawks leader: Nolan Belcher comes home

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6 hours ago

March 29, 2026

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From Augusta roots to Nighthawks leader: Nolan Belcher comes home

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF)- Augusta University baseball is in a three-game series matchup against the University of North Georgia.

AU is currently down in the series 0-2 after a close loss Friday and a loss Saturday.

But we aren’t focusing on the Jags, we’re going to take a look at North Georgia’s head coach, Nolan Belcher.

He is an Augusta native who began his career at Greenbrier and Augusta Christian.

He won three state championships, which then led him to play for the South Carolina Gamecocks.

There he won back-to-back national championships and finished runner up in 2012.

His coaching career began after that where he eventually joined the Peach belt Confrence, coaching at USCA and GCSU.

Now in his first season as head coach for the Nighthawks, he is happy to come home and coach in front of his friends and family.

“I’m very fortunate that I got family that, one is still around and they can come watch me do what I love. And, they’ve shown me, nothing but support throughout my whole coaching career and even back on my playing dates are very thankful and appreciative for everything they’ve done for me.”

AU and UNG will have their final series match on Sunday.

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