Augusta, GA
Augusta’s St. Patrick’s Day parade still a fun celebration amid new construction route
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Due to construction in downtown Augusta, the St. Patrick’s Day parade took a different route from its normal track on Broad Street.
But hundreds of people still gathered to celebrate and enjoy the parade that lasted several hours.
“Happy St. Patrick’s Day!” said the Ryan family, who attended the parade.
People were excited to put on their green and cheer from the sidelines, “Its always fun,” said Kaleia Cunningham.
It was a day filled with parade floats, bands, candy, and lots of celebrating.
Kids and adults were filling their bags with candy, dancing to the music and putting on beads, “They throw out candy,” said Harmonee Boyd.
“I liked the motorcycles but they were really loud,” said Ella Wilson, who attended the parade. “Yeah I like the motorcycle that had the dog,” said Brianna Mcdonald, who also attended.
And some people make sure to never miss the parade, “It gets better every year because of like, because like more people come out,” said Kaleia Cunningham.
This year people were cheering along the sides of Greene Street and Telfair Street rather than on Broad Street, “They were doing construction on Broad Street. So they moved it back here but I don’t mind it. I think it’s still I actually liked the shade,” said Mcdonald.
But change can be good.
“It was cool. It was great. And I liked it. It’s nice down here on Greene street you got the shade, I like that. You know normally its on Broad street. It turned out nice,” said the Ryan family.
Regardless of what street it’s on, people still plan on coming back.
News 12/26 asked: “Would you come back next year?”
“Of course, every year,” said Cunningham.
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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.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Richmond County Coroner’s Office said a person has died after a shooting on Division Street Saturday afternoon.
Officials say the shooting happened at the 2100 block around 4 p.m.
The victim was shot at least one time and taken to Wellstar MCG, where he later died, the coroner’s office says.
The sheriff’s office also went to Division Street at approximately 4 p.m. in reference to the incident, deputies say.
An autopsy has been scheduled.
No further information is available at this time.
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