Augusta, GA
Augusta interim administrator applied for job but didn’t make top 3
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Augusta’s interim city administrator was among those applying for the permanent job, according to the mayor’s office.
Takiyah Douse has been serving in the role for nearly two years now – twice as long as Odie Donald served as city administrator before she was named to the interim role.
She applied for the permanent job that’s open, and Mayor Garnett Johnson was tasked with narrowing down the list to three recommendations to give the Augusta Commission.
Johnson early this month submitted the top three names to the commission:
- Tameka N. Allen
- Richard D. Chess
- Robert J. Sivick
The three were chosen based on qualifications and experience, according to the mayor’s office.
Sivick soon removed his name from consideration.
“At that time, and at the recommendation of legal counsel, the Office of the Mayor and the Augusta-Richmond County Commission agreed to ask the remaining finalist candidates for approval to release their information,” a spokeswoman for Johnson said Friday.
Douse was the only candidate to agree. The remaining candidates withdrew their names for consideration, according to the spokeswoman.
Johnson will not be making any additional nominations or recommendations until the current candidates are voted on, the spokeswoman said.
News 12 filed an open-records request to get a copy of Douse’s cover letter and resume submitted with her application for the job.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Democratic candidate for Georgia governor Olu Brown visited Augusta on Friday evening, stopping near the Sand Hills Community Center as early voting continues.
Brown is one of six candidates in the Democratic primary.
Campaign priorities
Brown said his vision as governor would focus on three main areas.
“One, it’s affordability around health care and making sure we expand Medicaid and expand Peach Care and make sure we continue to make our rural health care systems healthy and vital,” Brown said. “Number two, we’ve got to address education in all of Georgia, making sure every kid in Georgia gets an excellent education, and we’re paying our teachers more. And number 3, we’re protecting the rights of all women. Folks in the Gold Dome shouldn’t be making decisions about their bodies or the choices that they make.”
Brown is running against Amanda Duffy, Derrick Jackson, Geoff Duncan, Jason Esteves, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mike Thurmond.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – An Augusta Prep student was arrested on a charge of terroristic threats over a picture of a LEGO gun he posted on social media.
It happened Wednesday, according to an incident report from the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.
Eric Hedinger, the principal of Augusta Preparatory Day School, told deputies a student had uploaded a picture to Snapchat of a “pistol” with the caption “shooting up the school so I don`t have to take the stats exam tomorrow. Don`t come yall!”
The principal said he spoke to the student and his father about the photo.
The principal also provided deputies with the student’s address in Grovetown.
A deputy went there and was told by the student that the “pistol” was a LEGO set that he had built.
He also said the comment he made was supposed to be a joke because he was not looking forward to taking his Advanced Placement statistics test this week.
The student showed the deputy the box that the LEGO set came in, and how the set was already disassembled.
The deputy also looked in the boy’s room to make sure he was not in possession of any weapons.
The mother advised that there was one firearm in the residence but it was locked up.
The deputy contacted Judge Leslie Morgan and she issued a warrant for terroristic threats.
The student, age 18, was taken into custody and transported to the Columbia County Detention Center.
News 12 is not reporting his name or publishing his photo since the LEGO gun could not have actually harmed anyone.
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