Recapping Baldwin County’s third tornado in four years

Baldwin County recorded its third documented tornado in four years last Thursday morning, as a 100-yard-wide twister developed somewhere in the vicinity of State Dairy Farm Road before barrelling across Blandy Road.

NO WARNING

It was a very tense few minutes around Midway Hills Primary last Thursday morning, when the school was in the direct path of an EF0 tornado.The sun was still coming up, which only added to the tension. Students were crying, and the trauma was real.

Mayor calls for unity

The Milledgeville City Council held a brief meeting March 10 at City Hall to discuss community updates and announcements.Mayor Mary Parham-Copelan mentioned she had received several threatening emails during the past week and encouraged the community to stick together.“We are one Milly.

What now in Buffalo Wild Wings shootout investigation?

A Baldwin County grand jury recently declined to indict Micah Brown, the man accused of fatally shooting a Buffalo Wild Wings manager in the Milledgeville Mall parking lot last year. The grand jury “no billed” the case, basically meaning that Brown’s legal troubles from the case are behind him.

Married couples arrested in separate animal cruelty cases

A pair of animal cruelty cases currently are making its way through the legal system.Gregory James Howell and Allison Sherrill Howell were arrested outside of their home on Southern Walk Drive earlier this month and charged with one count of animal cruelty.

Woman causes big scene at The Manor Mall

The Family Store on the Vinson Highway, frequently referred to by people in the immediate area as “The Manor Mall,” was the scene of a dispute between a customer and a cashier.

Manning Brothers: More than half a century of innovative food service

Great people meet challenges with innovative solutions, and we’ve been there. Whatever your food service opportunity, we’ve likely seen it—and solved it—before. At Manning Brothers, you are served by people with real-world, frontline experience.

Deputy hospitalized after music festival scuffle

Here in Georgia, a conviction for aggravated battery against a law enforcement officer equals a minimum three-year prison sentence, which is the possibility one Milledgeville man is facing following an incident earlier this month at the County Line Music Festival on Corral Road.

THE GREAT WALL OF SOUTH ANDREWS STREET

Traffic finally is beginning to open back up around the Wayne Street/Andrews Street intersection, just south of the Georgia Department of Transportation’s Harry G. Bone Bridge replacement.

Two million tons of coal ash trucking this direction

Georgia Power is preparing to remove more than two million tons of potentially dangerous coal ash from storage ponds at its former Plant Arkwright site in Macon and then transfer it by road to its decommissioned Plant Branch site in Putnam County, near Lake Sinclair.