Cotton prices may suffer during pandem…
March 27, 2020 by Submitted
By Yangxuan Liu for CAES News Along with the life-and-death struggle and the rising cases of COVID-19, financial markets worldwide have lurched lower. The selloff of the U.S. stock market started on Feb. 21, 2020. Since then, the great coronavirus crash has been frightening in its speed. Even U.S. Treasury bonds...
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Three arrested in connection with Rave…
March 26, 2020 by Submitted
Investigators with the Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner’s Office recently assisted with the arrest of Cameron Alls, 22, of Douglas, Georgia, for one count of Criminal Trespass; Kane Lynch, 17, of Ray City, Georgia, for one count of Criminal Trespass; and Ezra Forrest-Davies, 17, of Douglas, Georgia, for one count...
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Sheriff: 'No COVID-19 cases in Coffee …
March 25, 2020 by Submitted
The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office reports that neither employees nor inmates in the jail have tested positive for COVID-19. Two jail officers have been tested and are at home in self-quarantine. Tuesday, the sheriff’s office released the following statement: “As of today (Tuesday), there are no known cases of COVID-19 in...
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City declares local emergency, enacts …
March 24, 2020 by Submitted
At the regular Douglas City Commission meeting on Monday, March 23, 2020, Mayor Tony Paulk issued a Declaration of Local Emergency to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Beginning March 24, 2020, 8 am, the Declaration has put in place the following: A local emergency plan has been placed in effect...
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CHS, CMS art students assist Called to…
March 23, 2020 by Submitted
By Amanda Hayes Mother Teresa once said, “We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” (www.brainyquote.com/authors/mother-teresa-quotes) There is an organization and non-profit...
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CRMC reports first positive COVID-19 c…
March 22, 2020 by Robert Preston
COVID-19 has arrived in Coffee County. According to a statement posted this morning on Coffee Regional Medical Center’s Web site, there is one confirmed COVID-19 case in Coffee County. The statement reads as follows: “Today, the Georgia Department of Public Health will report that Coffee County has one confirmed COVID-19 positive individual...
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