AUGUSTA, Ga. – On Wednesday, Dec. 18, Augusta men’s basketball will welcome fifth graders from Columbia County schools for the Columbia County Education Day Game, which also serves as the Jaguars’ Peach Belt Conference opener. The Jaguars will face USC Beaufort for another special 11:00 a.m. tipoff.

WRDW and its affiliate Peachtree Sports Network will air the game on Wednesday. This will mark the second game televised by Peachtree Sports Network, which also aired the Paine College game. Peachtree Sports Network can be found in the Augusta area on Xfinitiy, Channel 23 and 252, and Direct TV Channel 27. Wow! Channel 7 and over the air at 12.3. Gray Television, owner of WRDW-TV, also owns Peachtree Sports Network, a regional sports network in Georgia. 

**Seating is extremely limited and most will be reserved for Columbia County students. Standing room is available for additional spectators.**
Please note that the main entrance (Gate 1) will be closed for the duration of the basketball season. Fans are asked to use Gate 3 to enter the arena.

TICKET INFO

• $10 – General Admission
• $5 – Children (Ages 7-17), non-AU students, senior citizens (65 & over), and military personnel with valid ID
• FREE w/ ID – AU students, faculty, staff
• FREE – Kids 6 years & under

 
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — A National Guard solider appeared in federal court Monday charged with murder in a weekend shooting that left a man dead and triggered a lockdown at a Georgia military base.

Natravien Landry, 25, made an initial court appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Augusta, according to U.S. District Court records. He’s charged with a killing Saturday morning at a home on Fort Eisenhower, where Landry served in a Georgia National Guard transportation unit.

Commanders at Fort Eisenhower, home to the U.S. Army Cyber Command, ordered a two-hour lockdown because of the shooting. Afterward they gave few details, saying a person had been arrested in an “isolated” fatal shooting at the Army post adjoining Augusta.

An Army investigator’s affidavit filed in court gave further details.

Landry was on duty Saturday and was taking a break when he went to the on-base home of a former girlfriend, and he confronted and fatally shot another man who had spent the night there, according to the affidavit.

Fort Eisenhower officials have not released the victim’s name. He was identified only by initials in the investigator’s affidavit.

David Stewart, listed in court records as Landry’s attorney, did not immediately return phone and email messages Monday.

Landry fled in a car and was arrested later Saturday by sheriff’s deputies in Meriwether County, about 180 miles (290 kilometers) from the base. The affidavit said Landry threw a 9mm handgun from the car’s window after being pulled over and admitted to the shooting when questioned by an Army investigator.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Gates are locked at Augusta city cemeteries nearly three months after Hurricane Helene hit our area.

Families have not been able to visit the final resting places of their loved ones because of the devastation.

However, the process for cleaning these cemeteries is a very delicate thing.

City leaders are dealing with large amounts of debris inside Augusta’s city-owned cemeteries including Magnolia, Cedar Grove and Westview.

Leaders want you to know they are working to clean things up as delicately as they can.

Beyond the locked gates at Magnolia Cemetery, the place looks anything but peaceful.

“Cemeteries and historic properties have a different process,” said Steve Cassell, ISM Engineering. “They have to go through a review first.”

Which comes from FEMA and the state historic preservation office.

“What we’ve gotten approval to do right now is just remove the debris off of the graves without disturbing the root balls, you know, the uprooted trees,” said Cassell.

The next step is where things can get tricky.

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“We have to then come in with an archaeologist to come in and sift through that stuff and figure out what’s been there and how to rebury it,” said Cassell.

A delicate process for all involved.

“We don’t want to actually pull up any remains or anything else that could be under there, but so far it looks like there are some underground bricks and stuff like that, but we haven’t discovered anything yet,” he said.

Because the last thing workers want is to disrupt these final resting spots even more.

“The last thing we want to do is do more damage,” said Cassell. “It’s already been done. The cemetery is over 200 years old and we want to at least get it back to as close to normal as it was.”

And as far as costs go –

“All this is reimbursable from my standpoint, but you know, to be reimbursable, you have to follow the process to make sure that you do everything that you know within the guidelines,” he said.

Doing so with the goal of preserving and protecting.

“They had to do the evaluation before we could even come in here,” said Cassell.”So letting the general public in here before the officials that come in here and see it would have been not proper.”

Cassell says they don’t have a date right now as to when the cemeteries will open, but they are working with FEMA on the clean-up.

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