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Runoffs set for Augusta mayor, commission seats
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – With 9 candidates operating for Augusta mayor, none of them gained the 50 p.c wanted to win the put up outright.
So the highest two vote-getters – Garnett Johnson and Steven Kendrick – will go right into a runoff.
With all precincts reporting, Kendrick received 14,058 votes, in comparison with Johnson’s 13,848 votes. Of the opposite candidates, Daniel Bradshaw received 987 votes, Charlie Hannah received 706, A.Okay. Hasan received 854, Robert Ingham received 344, Lucas Johnson received 453, Lori Myles received 1,262 and Marion Williams received 3,178.
As a result of advance voting had a record-breaking turnout, election officers had low expectations for Tuesday. However in-person Election Day turnout was fairly good, giving candidates an opportunity to see loads of faces as they toured polling websites.
Kendrick made his means throughout Richmond County on Tuesday to a number of polling places.
Kendrick is Augusta’s former tax commissioner, a task he served in for 13 years. He left that workplace a couple of months in the past to pursue the mayor’s workplace.
Kendrick says what separates him from different candidates is his expertise. He believes his years working in Augusta authorities make him prepared for the job.
He stated he is aware of the wants of the town, the problems and what residents need. He says that’s what’s going to assist him hit the bottom operating his first day in workplace.
Johnson visited a minimum of 21 polling websites Tuesday.
He says a variety of the voters he’s talked to are excited for change and a brand new perspective.
Johnson is the proprietor of Augusta Workplace Options, an organization he based and grew regionally.
“As mayor, I’ll work to make it simpler for companies to develop right here in Augusta and supply good-paying jobs,” he instructed Information 12 earlier. “My marketing campaign is targeted on a dialog no different candidate is having: ‘Who’s on the aspect of the taxpayer?’”
He stated too many neighborhoods in Augusta have been left behind.
“As mayor, I’ll prioritize bringing infrastructure in all elements of the town, with a spotlight for underserved and underrepresented elements of Augusta,” he stated.
He stated he has a observe report that focuses on doing as a substitute of speaking.
“Augusta’s subsequent mayor must be accountable to the taxpayer,” he stated. “I’ll just do that.”
Augusta Fee
Additionally up for grabs in Tuesday’s election had been Augusta Fee seats in Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Runoffs are possible in a number of of these races.
With all precincts reporting, listed below are the outcomes as of late Tuesday:
- District 2: Leroy ”Ray Montana” Crew, 191; Charles Cummings, 333; Cleveland Garrison, 321; Ralph Gunter Sr., 375; Von Pouncey, 438 (runoff); and Stacy Pulliam, 1,404 (runoff).
- District 4: Alvin Mason, 2,541 (winner); Betty Reece, 1,940.
- District 6: Jeremy Johnson, 1,385; Tony Lewis, 1,951 (winner); Mario Taylor Sr., 461.
- District 8: Brandon Garrett 4,329 (winner).
- District 10: John Clark, 9,070 (runoff); Robert Cooks, 3,526 (runoff); Wayne Guilfoyle, 5,865.
Different native races
- Newcomer Alison Sofa gained the Columbia County Fee District 4 seat over incumbent Dewey Galeas in a 2,161-1,928 vote.
- Kristi Baker gained the Columbia County Board of Schooling District 2 seat with 4,485 votes.
- Judy Teasley gained the Columbia County Board of Schooling District 2 seat with 4,271 votes.
- Ashley Wright gained her Augusta District Superior Court docket decide race with 24,830 votes.
- Jesse Stone gained his Augusta District Superior Court docket decide race with 17,092 votes.
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Deadly accident shuts down lanes on Deans Bridge Road
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – One person has died after a car crash on Deans Bridge Road on Saturday night, according to the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office.
Richmond County dispatchers said the call came in at 9:01 p.m. of a single-car accident with five passengers.
The driver was transported to a local hospital and later died due to their injuries, according to authorities.
The condition of the other passengers remains unknown.
The southbound lanes were shut down as of 10:15 p.m.
Drivers are encouraged to find an alternate route.
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The Dawg Days of summer hit the Junior Players with two (maybe) future UGA players leading
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Mason Howell birdies his last two holes, Hamilton Coleman posts the tournament’s low score on their way to the final group for Sunday’s final round at Players Stadium Course.
TPC Sawgrass, AJGA host the Junior Players Championship for the 18th year
The 18th Junior Players Championship is at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass. It has become a Labor Day Weekend tradition on the First Coast.
One of the players in the final threesome of the 18th Junior Players Championship on Sunday has already decided to play golf at the University of Georgia — despite having two more years until his high school class graduates.
The other, with the same amount of time left in junior golf, still has an open mind. But he’d be bucking family tradition if he didn’t become a Bulldog.
Either way, they have more immediate issues at hand: battling it out in the final threesome in the final round of the Junior Players Championship, at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass.
Mason Howell of Thomasville, Ga., birdied the hardest par-3 and the hardest par-5 holes on the course to polish off a 70 on Saturday, and at 5-under-par 139 has a one-shot lead over Hamilton Coleman of Augusta, Ga., (68, the tournament’s low round for the first two days), who birdied No. 17 and then made a gutsy par at the last to finish at 4-under.
Logan Reilly of Lovettsville, Va. (72), who held a share of the 18-hole lead, is in third at 3-under, Luke Colton of Frisco, Texas (72) is fourth at 2-under and Kailer Stone of Alameda, Calif. (71) is fifth at 1-under.
They are the only players who have broken par for the first 36 holes.
Reilly earned his spot in the final three some when he rallied from a stretch of three bogeys in four holes to birdie Nos. 8 and 9.
First Coast players lagging behind
After Miles Russell became the first resident of the First Coast to win the Junior Players last year — with Phillip Dunham of Ponte Vedra Beach finishing second and Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island in a tie for sixth — it will take an extraordinary final round for any of them to reach the top 10, much less contend.
Junior Players leaderboard
Junior Players final-round groups, tee times
Dunham (75) and Jackson Byrd of St. Simons Island, Ga., (73) are tied for 18th at 3-over. Dunham made only one birdie but it was at his final hole, the par-5 ninth.
Lucas Gimenez of Jacksonville had a wild ride over the Stadium Course, signing for a card that contained four pars, seven birdies, five bogeys and two double bogeys. It added up to a 74 and he’s tied for 31st at 5-over.
Russell got his score to even par through 13 holes and was only four off the lead at the time. But he bogeyed four of his last five holes and shot 76. He’s tied for 34th at 6-under with Mawhinney (77).
Ambrose Kinnare of St. Augustine (83) is tied for 68th at 15-over.
Junior Players leaders putt, scramble well
Both of the leaders said the course takes a mental toll on players, especially off the tee.
“The greens are in really good shape but you have to play really smart to get there,” said Howell, who hasn’t made a college decision yet but is from a Bulldog family — both his parents graduated from UGA. “If you have one lapse you’re in trouble. You can’t just walk up to a tee and whack at it.”
Coleman agreed with the sight lines off the Stadium Course tees.
“They are just so demanding,” he said. “There is not a breather hole off the tee. Every tee shot, you’re kind of stressing. Once you’re in the fairway and in the right position, you can kind of attack.”
Howell, Coleman get hot at different times
Howell is 14th on the AJGA Rolex Rankings and has five top-10 finishes this year in AGJA or national junior events, including a tie for fifth in the Western Junior.
He was 1-over for his first 10 holes after starting his round at the par-4 10th, then dropped birdie putts of 15 feet at No. 2 and 20 feet at No. 5. Howell capped his day when he drilled a 4-iron from 211 yards out to set up a 35-foot birdie putt at the par-3 eighth, then pitched onto the green of the par-5 ninth hole in three, and made a 3-footer.
Coleman, who verbally committed to Georgia last week, is 91st on the Rolex Rankings. He bounced back from a bogey at No. 2 with short birdie putts at Nos. 3, 4, 7 and 9, a stretch highlighted by a 6-iron against the wind from 176 yards out to within inches of the hole at the seventh.
Coleman birdied the 13th hole on a 15-foot putt at No. 13 and then chipped in from the right-front of the 14th green for birdie, negotiating a difficult angle to the front-left pin.
He almost holed out another short-game shot at the last. Coleman pushed his drive right and had to punch out from the trees. The ball rolled onto and over the green, settling into the left bunker. His sand shot tickled the edge of the hole before rolling 8 feet away, but he made the comebacker for par.
“I scrambled well, definitely,” Coleman said. “My irons have been really solid all week. I just need to tighten up the driver a little bit tomorrow.”
Howell, Coleman have played often
As South Georgia residents, Howell and Coleman know each other well and have played numerous times with and against each other and paired up for a practice round earlier in the week.
“He’s always fun to play with,” Coleman said. “Every time we play together we have fun.”
They also have a good track record on the First Coast. Howell is in his first Junior Players but he won the Billy Horschel Junior Championship on Oct. 5, 2023. Coleman tied for 18th in last year’s Junior Players and tied for third in the Horschel Junior Championship (which is played under a Stableford format), one point out of a playoff between Howell and Clark Van Gaalen.
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