MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Middle Georgia’s premier garden event is happening this weekend.Macon Gardens and Historic Interiors has been named one of the top 20 events in the Southeast and it is in it’s 20th year. Starting Friday, May 3rd some of the most beautiful gardens and historic homes will be available to tour with an opportunity to check out…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Flames are coming from the roof of a packaging plant near the Middle Georgia Regional Airport. Pactiv, a paper plant which primarily makes recycled egg cartons caught fire. Workers say the fire started around 6 o’clock Wednesday morning. Workers started to fight the fire, but couldn’t contain it. Firefighters showed up and tried to contain the…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Another Middle Georgia community is considering consolidation. Milledgeville and Baldwin county leaders are getting a first look at a plan to combine the two governments. “It’s been talked about for years, debated about, starts and stops, stops and starts,” Ken Vance, chairman of the Milledgeville-Baldwin County, Georgia Unified Government Charter Writing Committee, said. But now it…
VALDOSTA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Bibb County’s new interim school superintendent tells us he feels he was called to come back to the community that gave him his start. 41NBC spoke with Dr. Steve Smith at his home Tuesday. Monday night, board members approved Smith for the job. Smith served as principal at Central High School in Macon from 1995 to…
BOLINGBROKE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – After a six hour search, Monroe County deputies arrested three people who tried to flee the cops during a traffic stop. Jonathan Irving, Racheal Gerald and Christopher A. Snelson are all behind bars after deputies say they were speeding on I-75 heading south around 11am. They say Gerald was driving and she refused to stop, reaching…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) – Officers from the Macon Police Department and members of the Macon community met for a training session on racial profiling and cultural professionalism on Tuesday. Walter Atkinson of the community relations service for the U.S. Department of Justice opened the meeting and made a point to address that he and his colleague Suzanne Buchanan were invited…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) – Warner Robins and its Police Department have completed its new law enforcement center. The project has taken years to complete and hundreds of city officials took part in Tuesday’s ribbon cutting ceremony. Warner Robins Mayor Chuck Shaheen spoke on the process that was taken to complete the project and why the city appreciates its police…
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — The city of Forsyth is trying to figure out a way to get out of debt. As of today, the city owes about $430,000 in unpaid bills, but right now, the mayor and council say, there’s not enough cash coming in to break even. “I think we need to make some tough decisions that nobody wants…
MONTEZUMA, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Montezuma City Councilman Bobby Lewis has filed a lawsuit against the city and the mayor over a letter; claiming it was used to ruin his character. Lewis’s attorney David Bowers states his client was falsely accused of “undermining a narcotics investigation, videotaping a property under surveillance, and having and exhibiting ‘deep seated racism’”. The suit filed…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – This week, you’ll be able to watch something that happens only once every three years. Several Warner Robins High School students wrote a play — script, songs and casting — to be performed this week. This opportunity for the students occurs once every three years. The play will hit the stage May 2, 3 and 4 at 7 PM at…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – More than two months after former Bibb County Schools’ superintendent Romain Dallemand left the district, the school board has selected its interim superintendent. The board met Monday night behind closed doors for more than two hours before voting 8-0 to approve Steven Smith for the job. Smith served as superintendent of Lowndes County Schools in Valdosta…
WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – This Friday, an entertainment megaplex is set to open in Warner Robins. The Rigby Entertainment Center is a full restaurant equipped with a bowling alley, skating rink, laser tag center and conference rooms. Developer Steve Rigby said multi-million dollar fun center is far from child’s play. “If we can get the adults here to have…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) – After the U.S. House of Representatives voted to suspend all FAA furloughs, officials at Middle Georgia Regional Airport had hopes that they were in the clear from avoiding the upcoming closure of their air traffic control tower this summer. 41 NBC spoke with officials there who aren’t quite sure what all is included in that…
PERRY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The former corrections officer facing a murder conviction for killing his girlfriend plead guilty to lesser charges in court Monday. Russell Holt is charged with voluntary manslaughter for shooting Jessica Wolfe last March. Wolfe’s family is not happy with this decision and believes justice was not served. “He took everything away from us,” Melanie Robinson, Jessica…
ABBEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Dressed in glorious ball gowns and tuxedos, Wilcox County seniors slipped into limousines headed off to senior prom; it’s a celebration of the school’s year end and the beginning of a new era. “I feel like we are living Martin Luther King’s dream,” said Alexis Miller. Miller, a Caucasian student at Wilcox County High School, dates…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – If you are unfamiliar with the processes and life-changing experiences foster care children go through, let Central Georgia CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) show you what these children go through. Susanna Patterson of Central Georgia CASA sat down with us in our Daybreak studio to shed some light on the topic, and the importance of having…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Lace up your running shoes for this weekend’s 5k at Stone Edge Church in Macon! The event will have something for everyone, even activities for the kids. If that’s not enough to convince you to join in, the 5k is a fundraiser to help dig wells for people living in desolate areas in Africa so they…
HAWKINSVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Move over peaches and pecans, olives may soon start to grow into Georgia’s number one cash crop. Just ask Bob Krueger in Hawkinsville. He saw Georgia’s potential about a year ago when he planted a farm of olive trees. More specifically, he’s planting olive trees to produce olive oil. “I’ve got 22 acres here, and I’ve…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – As part of a Reduction in Force plan approved by the Bibb County School Board Thursday night, 101 school employees could be laid off. The board voted 6-2 to approve the plan, with board members Lester Miller and Jason Downey voting against it. 74 of the 101 are teacher positions. 13 are other employees like janitors…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A local band from Warner Robins is doing their part to raise money for a good cause. The Alex Tjoland Band will be playing two concerts to raise funds for the Middle Georgia Food Bank.It’s going on as part of the “Attorney General’s Legal Food Frenzy,” a statewide program for the legal community to donate money…
MACON, Georgia (41 NBC/WMGT) – The office of the District Attorney for the Macon Judicial Circuit opened the Vernon R. Beinke Child Witness Room with a ribbon cutting on Thursday. According to a news release sent from the District Attorney’s Office, the room will “provide child witnesses with their very own space before court proceedings.” The child witness room was…
FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) — Pharmacist Jep Castleberry says there are a slew of side effects that could become reality when prescription drugs fall into the wrong hands. “There’s so many things that could go wrong by these people some of them taking advantage of other people’s medication that they can get their hands on,” said Castleberry. In September, Castleberry Drug…
MILLEDGEVILLE, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – A pedestrian has been killed early this morning near West Campus Drive, at U.S. Highway 441, according to a news release sent out by the Georgia State Patrol. The victim, 22-year-old Victor Chatfield of Milledgeville, was hit by a Hyundai Sonata at around 5:20am. The Sonata was being driven by 45-year-old Jeffery Ledbetter of Eatonton, Georgia,…
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Each year, a group of hard-working student athletes in Bibb Countyis rewarded scholarships in memory of a fallen Macon native. Al Lucas, son of Georgia State Senator David Lucas and Macon City Councilwoman Elaine Lucas, played football at Northeast High. He went on to play in college at Troy University and then in the National Football…