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Milledgeville pedestrian safety change... As you’ve noticed, the equipment and look of Hancock Street/Clarke Street at main Georgia College campus is not the s...ame. MAJOR to follow... Push the PED call buttons at the new Ped Hybrid signal that replaced the old just walk across anytime crosswalk. The signal rules PED and vehicles now. wait patiently for the signal to move across. Drivers: When you see the red light above...STOP. Once that light flashes, you may move past if no walkers are present. You ARE NOT required to stop for peds when the signal is dark. A lot of people are still doing the old way. We’ve discussed the Ped Scramble at the Hancock/Clarke intersection. No right turns on Red now signed. Peds press the button and be patient. When signaled, you can walk across the center diagonally & any of the four crosswalks. Teaser...GDOT approved a permit allowing the college to install the same Ped Hybrid Beacon at the Montgomery/Liberty Street crosswalk on the opposite side! Given major delays on pole equipment, this will be up and running by April 2021 (tentative). #pedestrian #safetyfirst #trafficengineering #trafficsignal #georgiacollege #milledgeville #gdot

Open House at Sinclair Marina next Saturday from 11-3

Lake Country Today Weather - Morning Update: January 15, 2021

HAPPENING NOW: Georgia State Senate Minority Leader Gloria Butler delivers the Democratic Response to Governor Brian Kemp's State of the State Address. http://bit.ly/3nKsehh

HAPPENING NOW: Governor Brian Kemp is delivering his State of the State Address to a joint session of the Georgia General Assembly. We will bring you the Democratic response this afternoon. https://www.gpb.org/lawmakers/2021/state-of-the-state

Lake Joy Trails of Terror presents Outbreak 2020 at the old Putnam County Prison THIS WEEKEND Tickets available at the box office and at www.lakejoytrailsofterror.com

Morning Weather Update - October 30, 2020

LAKE SINCLAIR DRAWDOWN UPDATE: There will not be an extension of the drawdown because of the severe weather caused by Zeta.

Milledgeville Mall

LOADED GUN FOUND IN THREE-YEAR-OLD’S BACKPACK: MOTHER BEING CHARGED A loaded handgun was found today in a student’s backpack at the Baldwin Early Learning Center. The Baldwin County Sheriff's Office tells us a teacher found the gun while getting other items out of the student’s bookbag.... The Smith & Wesson .357 had four live rounds in it. An arrest warrant for reckless conduct is being issued for the mother of the three-year-old. 33-year-old Bridgette Harrison told deputies that she put the gun in the bookbag yesterday at a car wash and forgot to remove it. Baldwin County Sheriff's Major Scott Deason says the school staff handled the situation properly and secured the gun until deputies arrived. Here is the statement from the Baldwin County School District:

BALDWIN COUNTY EARLY VOTING Baldwin County Manager Carlos Tobar shares a video showing no line for early voting at the new County Government Building on North Columbia Street. Early voting goes til 5 p.m. today, then tomorrow 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

LAKE AREA EARLY VOTING: THE GOOD AND THE BAD 47% of registered voters in Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Morgan & Putnam Counties have voted, according to GeorgiaVotes.com Greene County has already passed the number of votes cast in November 2016.... 7,683 absentee ballots still out there. Baldwin and Hancock Counties are in the bottom six of Georgia counties when it comes to number of votes in November 2016 versus number of votes already cast for next week's election. See more data at http://www.georgiavotes.com/

Click the link below to listen to the ‘Coaches Corner Show’ interview with BHS Braves Football head football coach, Coach Jesse Hicks. Thank you to Adams, Jordan & Herrington, PC for sponsoring this program.

POWER OUTAGES (as of 10:35 a.m.) 3,327 Lake Area power customers are in the dark. That is an improvement from nearly 5,000 this morning. PowerOutage.US reports outages in Baldwin County (21), Greene (690), Hancock (513), Morgan (1,036) and Putnam (1,067). The largest power outage is in Putnam County, along Lake Oconee, north of Highway 16. More the 800 Georgia Power customers are affected there.... Walton EMC is reporting 700 outages in Morgan County. Tri-County EMC is reporting 400 outages in Jones County.

President Trump To Campaign in Georgia This Weekend The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Rome on Sunday.

8 am Update on Tropical Storm Zeta: Zeta continues to quickly move ENE, now centered over the Western North Carolina mountains. Scattered showers are still possible throughout the day here in the Lake Area. Also a strong flow of southerly air will move over us, from the Gulf toward the storm. While the peak wind will end at around 11 am, wind with strong gusts (up to 35 mph) will stay with us through the late evening hours tonight.

POWER OUTAGES (as of 7:10 a.m.) More than 4,300 in the dark in the Lake Area. Baldwin (57) Greene (1,084), Hancock (477), Morgan (1,323), Putnam (1,446), according to PowerOutage.US See the latest by county and power company here: https://bit.ly/3dEmYXe

Morning Weather Update - October 29, 2020: - The center of Tropical Storm Zeta is moving into Northwest Georgia this morning. Windy conditions will continue for Middle Georgia through the day today. Expect peak sustained winds between 15-20 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph through noon. Still gusty after noon up to around 6 pm. The gusty wind has and will continue to bring down trees and powerlines. Expect widespread power outages.... Scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue throughout the day, with the possibility of a brief spin up tornado on the leading edge of the storms.