Amanda is a producer and anchor for 41NBC News at Daybreak and 41Today. She comes to Macon from Watertown, NY where she was a reporter, fill in producer and anchor for three years at WWNY.
She covered everything from hundred year old birthdays to the shooting death of a New York State Trooper. She also earned a Syracuse Press Club Award for her feature story A Cheer for Keslie, about a young woman with down syndrome who joins her high school cheer team and is accepted and loved by her squad.
Amanda is originally from Brookfield, Connecticut, a small town in the western part of the state.
It all started with a newspaper ad and a dare.
Scott Johnson had worked for 20 years in residential construction, advancing to superintendent. Then the bottom fell out of the housing market in 1987 in Alaska. He went to work at an oilfield on the North Slope running heavy equipment, but he didn’t like it much.
Then in 1989, he saw the newspaper ad: a backhoe and dozer with only 400 hours each and a trailer and a dump truck for $65,000. For that price, the truck and trailer were essentially thrown in for free.
So he and his father, who had been a mechanic at the N C Machinery Caterpillar dealership, went out to take a look. On the way back, Scott began to have second thoughts.
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – With Christmas just two days away, many people have Christmas dinner figured out, but how about breakfast or dessert? Chef Scottie Johnson, a private chef in Houston County and winner of the Georgia Seafood Festival, has an idea for you. Click on the video to learn how to make his mixed […]