A 52-year old Savannah man has been charged with murder in the death of a another man found dead on Dec. 7.
Savannah-Chatham police detectives have charged John Cope of the 800 block of East Anderson Street in the death of 57-year-old Moses Mack. Mack was found deceased inside of 827 E. Anderson St.
Cope was arrested Monday night, taken to the Chatham County jail and was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Recorder’s Court.
CAT has special holiday schedule
Chatham Area Transit announced it will operate a holiday schedule for Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday.
The holiday schedule is included on printed route schedules. The Savannah Belles Ferry will operate on a regular schedule.
Telephone schedule information, bus passes and Teleride tickets will all not be available, CAT announced.
CAT’s administrative office will be closed for business on Monday. Normal route schedules will resume on Tuesday.
For more information on bus rerouting during the holiday parade, visit www.catchacat.org.
LaRoache Avenue closure and culvert replacement
Beginning Jan. 27, LaRoache Avenue will be closed between Neva and Lansing avenues to begin the LaRoache Avenue Culvert Replacement Project, Chatham County announced.
The LaRoche Avenue Culvert Replacement Project consists of the demolition and construction of a stormwater culvert at 7008 LaRoche Ave. to address the deteriorating brick arch culvert. The proposed culvert will widen LaRoche Avenue and realign the intersection of Neva Avenue at LaRoche Avenue.
For the next nine months officials say LaRoche Avenue will be closed from Lansing Avenue to Skinner Place. LaRoche Avenue will be closed to traffic north of Norwood Avenue (local traffic only). LaRoche will also be closed to traffic south of Nottingham Drive (local traffic only). And Neva Avenue will be closed from the intersection of Arline Drive to LaRoche Avenue.
The county says the primary reason for the replacement concerns safety and drainage improvements. The proposed culvert will be twice as wide as the existing one, decreasing the flow rate and therefore decreasing the rate of erosion, according to the county.
Officials hope the realigning of Neva Avenue will bring it into LaRoche Avenue more perpendicular and increase the sight visibility and thereby improve safety.
Tree trimming to slow westbound I-16 traffic this morning
Tree trimming at 10 a.m. is set to slow westbound traffic on Interstate 16 in Chatham County for about 10 minutes.
Starting at 10 a.m., police and state Department of Transportation workers will institute a 20-mph traffic pace from Dean Forest Road/Exit 160 to the Interstate 95 interchange.
Compiled by Josh Rayburn, Marcus E. Howard and Dash Coleman