Augusta, GA
Historic school to bring affordable housing to Augusta, officials say
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Dozens of residents near Lamar Elementary School paid a visit to the Richmond County Board of Education during its meeting on Tuesday night.
This comes after the board’s last meeting when they added last minute item onto its agenda to sell the Lamar School.
City leaders confirm the Lamar School is part of a development plan to bring affordable housing and market-rate housing to the area with more than half of the units going to relocate residents from Allen Homes, a public housing project built in the 1960s.
Neighbors are concerned with the sudden increase in population on neighborhood streets and a decrease in their green space.
Another concern is the future impact on the Academy of Richmond County, which sits across from the Lamar site.
“Our first concern is the Academy of Richmond County, which celebrates its 241st birthday this year. The presence of the more prominent provides options for future growth and development to serve the needs of the students of the bestselling property lives, RC Landlord, with no available space for future development,” said Beth Meagher, neighbor.
Neither city nor school leaders will say who is behind the purchase of the Lamar property.
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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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