Way to go CC planning and zoning, we all know there is a shortage of strip centers in CC.....
Columbia County OKs two rezoning requests
Columbia County planning commissioners approved two rezoning requests Thursday that will allow for a new shopping center on Furys Ferry Road and a senior citizens' community on Evans to Locks Road.
About three acres on Furys Ferry Road was rezoned to neighborhood commercial, which limits the anchor store in the shopping center to no more than 35,000 square feet.
The property owner, Andrew Allgood, said he hopes to attract such tenants as a deli, beauty salon or brokerage firm to the retail center.
The retirement community might be built on 16 acres as part of a planned unit development. Three acres of the property facing Furys Ferry Road will keep a neighborhood commercial zoning. The community would include three four-story apartment buildings, independent living facilities and a memory care unit.
Area man promoted to Clemson ecology chief
Clemson University has named Gene W. Eidson director of the Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science in Georgetown, S.C.
Dr. Eidson, a native of Aiken County, founded the Southeastern Natural Sciences Academy, an Augusta private-public partnership that supports watershed management and ecological education. His appointment is effective today.
He currently serves as director of the Clemson University Center for Watershed Excellence, the Center for Applied Ecology and the restoration ecology focus area of the Restoration Institute.
Men plead guilty to robbing Athens bank
A traveling beef jerky salesman and former bank manager formally pleaded guilty Thursday to taking $7,000 from an Oconee County bank in December robbery.
Tony Alan Bell, 46, already pleaded guilty in April to robbing two other banks: one on Jan. 8 in Kingsland and the other on Dec. 3 in Thomson, just hours before sticking up the Athens First Bank & Trust branch on Epps Bridge Parkway in Oconee County.
Attorneys in two Georgia federal court districts took months before charging Mr. Bell this month in the Oconee County case and combining it with the others.
He'll be sentenced for all of the crimes together at a later hearing, U.S. Attorney Brian McEvoy said.
Mr. Bell, who's from Florida, was living in Greensboro at the time of the December robberies.
Man stabbed to death at his home in Millen
A Millen, Ga., man was fatally stabbed Wednesday at his home.
Joseph Walton, 45, of Buckhead Road, died about 11:30 p.m. after an argument, according to Jenkins County Coroner Henry Young.
Mr. Walton's body was sent to the Augusta GBI Crime Lab for an autopsy, he said. No information was available late Thursday concerning a suspect.
2 men held in jail on armed robbery charges
Two Augusta men remained in jail late Thursday facing armed robbery charges.
Alajuwon Singleton, 22, and David Milam, 19, also were charged with possession of a firearm, according to Richmond County jail records.
Rogers Shelton, a construction supervisor at Olmstead Apartments near Broad Street, told police two men entered his office at 9:40 a.m. Thursday and took $240 cash from his wallet and his Shell gas card.
Richmond County sheriff's Investigator Tess Alexander-Brunson said Mr. Singleton and Mr. Milam were arrested shortly after the robbery.
Charleston man killed after fight at a hotel
A Charleston, S.C., man was stabbed to death early Thursday at the America Best Value Hotel on Washington Road, and police have a suspect in custody.
Seth Taylor, 35, was stabbed multiple times and was pronounced dead at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital at 4:46 a.m., according to a news release from Richmond County Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Bowen.
Police arrested Arthur Lane Sr., 46, of Langley, S.C., Thursday morning and charged him with murder, police said.
The stabbing occurred after a fight outside the hotel, police said.
Teenager reports man stole car at gunpoint
An 18-year-old Augusta woman was forced from her car at gunpoint at the intersection of Vanessa Dive and Knollcrest Road on Wednesday.
The victim said she was yielding to turn when a man entered the back seat of her car, pointed a gun to her head and told her to get out of the vehicle, according to a Richmond County Sheriff's Office report. The man then hopped into the front seat and drove away.
Man dies from crash into oncoming traffic
A 36-year-old Martinez man was killed Wednesday night on Hereford Farm Road after he drove into oncoming traffic, police said.
Officials identified the victim Thursday morning as Vernon Ashley. The accident occurred about 9:30 p.m. near the road's intersection with Lawrence Street, according to Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris.
The driver of a 1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass crossed into the opposite lane and struck a car head on. Mr. Ashley was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two people in the oncoming car were taken to the hospital for treatment.
Three arrested on drug charges in two cases
Three people were arrested on drug possession in Columbia County in two separate cases Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
An Atlanta man was arrested after eight pounds of marijuana was found in the trunk of his car about 1:30 a.m. Thursday during a traffic stop on Interstate 20, said Columbia County sheriff's Capt. Steve Morris.
Fabion Dione Askew, 20, was charged with following too closely and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
An Evans couple was arrested Wednesday evening after police say they found three marijuana plants on their property.
Michael Terry Krasselt, 53, and Elizabeth Marie Krasselt, 48, both of the 1000 block of Waltons Pass, were arrested on a drug possession charge.
TRAFFIC BRIEF
The closure of the 2300 block of Walton Way from Johns Road to Katherine Street has been extended until 1 p.m. today as workers remove a large tree that is leaning over into the street, according to an Augusta Engineering Department news release.
Motorists can detour around the area of the work by using Wrightsboro Road, Wheeler Road, Monte Sano Avenue, Henry Street, Fleming Avenue, Central Avenue, Johns Road or Highland Avenue.
-- From staff and wire reports
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Way to go CC planning and zoning, we all know there is a shortage of strip centers in CC.....
Memory Care Unit...a more pallatible term for Alzheimer's Unit. Dress it up any way you like, it's a horrible thing.
Following too closely??? Another term for they look suspicious let's pull em over and say they they were following too closely... Seen it happen too many times.
Not a surprise about the wreck on Hereford Farm Road, last Friday I was coming home on that road as usual and a Navy guy in a small blue car had been riding my bumper since Grovetown, of course there were other cars in front of me. Further down the road this idiot decides to pass myself and the two other cars in front of me on a double yellow line in a curve. If I had been able to get his plate number I would have contacted the sheriff although I doubt they would have done anything. There is really no safe place on that road to pass anyone and the area in which this guy went around us was in a 45mph speed zone, which meant absolutely nothing to this idiot who had no respect for his life or the lives of others.
So forget the fact that they are dope dealers right freeshy........
Reckon there was not enough money to be had as a traveling beef jerky salesman...
Those navy guys are better on the water.
I don't know about that John but this one was certainly a nut.....maybe he had been a sea to long...
There is a bunch out there. Glad you are safe. I have to go through a 4 way stop on wheeler and aumond every day and its like taking my life in my hands every time. There is always one fool who doesnt get "wait your turn"
I know ecactly what you mean, you be safe also and have a great weekend...
It was only a matter of time before something like that happened on Hereford farm road. I avoid that road like the plague it truly creeps me out to drive down it with my family.
Dang if they keep arresting everyone, where is the jail they're gonna be put into? Already on TV the news said inmates are housed on mats on the floors...so let 'em smoke weed and put all the molesters, bank robbers, and killers in there and let the poor pot heads alone dang it.
We wouldn't need much Alzheimer's treatment if everyone knew about using alpha lipoic acid. It stops the process and is now showing ability to turn the patient around. Dr David Williams has the info on the internet. It worked 100% of time in German research. It has worked for people in the Augusta area too.
These armed robbers make me sick.. they should be tortured to feel the way their victims feel when they get a gun put to their head becuase some sorry lowlife [filtered word] wont get a real job!!!
tas, can't do that!!!! you would violate THEIR rights!
I know right. lol So I think those who think that should be done the same!!!! lol If it was not for these people these criminals would be doing hard labor to pay for their crimes, not watching tv all day. It's no wonder jail is not a threat to criminals. They are way more scared of hard work than jail, so why not actually "punish" them for thier crimes? Confinement means nothing to these lowlife [filtered word]'s!!!
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