Monday: Partly sunny, with a high of 95 and low of 67 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
Tuesday: A t-storm around in the p.m., temps: high: 94, low: 70.
Wednesday: Heavy afternoon thunderstorms, with a high of 89 and low of 70 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Deputies: Driver leaves scene after pedestrian killed on Forsyth Road (41nbc.com) — A 30-year-old man was killed early Saturday in a hit-and-run on Forsyth Road in Macon, and deputies say the driver left without reporting the crash. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, and investigators are asking anyone with information to contact the Bibb County Sheriff's Office fatality investigator.
• Sheriff says teacher's actions helped save student shot at Warner Robins High School (wpganews.com) — From Macon, authorities are detailing how a Warner Robins High School teacher followed lockdown training to protect a wounded ninth grader after a campus shooting. Houston County's sheriff says the student's life was likely saved, and the district is now adding metal detectors at all middle and high schools while investigators continue their work.
5:30 pm - Youth Leadership Kick Off Reception Robins Regional Chamber Sonny Watson Health Sciences Building Central Georgia Technical College Warner Robins Campus 80 Cohen Walker Drive Warner Robins, GA 31088 5:30 pm
Tuesday August 25
11:00 am - Ribbon Cutting Sacred Journeys Wellness Center Robins Regional Chamber 109 Westcliff Blvd #2 Warner Robins, GA 31093 (They share a parking lot with National Exterminator. Please drive through their parking lot. Sacred Journeys is in the tan colored cape cod style building.) 11:00 am
McKenzie Reed → Hilton Garden Inn Warner Robins, 207 Willie Lee Pkwy, Warner Robins 5:30 pm
6:00 pm - Military Affairs Dinner Robins Regional Chamber Century of Flight Building Museum of Aviation 1942 Heritage Blvd. Robins AFB, GA 31098 6:00 pm
Wednesday August 26
8:30 am - Youth Leadership Robins Region Class Robins Regional Chamber 1228 Watson Blvd, Warner Robins, GA 31093 8:30 am
Thursday August 27
8:30 am - Board of Directors Meeting Robins Regional Chamber Chamber Office 8:30 am
Friday August 28
11:00 am - Ribbon Cutting Nora Dental Robins Regional Chamber 2762 Watson Blvd Centerville, GA 31028 11:00 am
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🗞 Nearby News
Warner Robins
Clemson DT Vic Burley Suspended Indefinitely After Early Morning Arrest (tvdelmarva.com)
Sterling Seacrest Pritchard selected for The Hanover Insurance Group's President's Club (macon.com)
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