Author: John Higgs

As the national debate over the Confederate flag rages, one South Georgia man took it a step further Wednesday. Chris Adams, a member of the 12th Georgia Company C of the Confederate States Army of Irwinville, Ga., stood next to the Confederate monument at the Coffee County Courthouse holding the Georgia flag. Adams said the South Carolina flag controversy being debated was only scratching the surface of the issues. He said he was concerned that Governor Nathan Deal was going to head up an effort to ban the sale of car tags with the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ themes. Also,…

Douglas resident Francis Lott was honored at Coffee High School Tuesday for his $500,000 endowment to the Georgia Institute of Technology, an endowment which will be used by Coffee County students now and in the future. Four Coffee High students who will receive scholarships this year from the endowment and attend Georgia Tech were on hand to thank Lott personally for his gift. Dr. Wayne Clough, former President of Georgia Tech and former Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, was the guest speaker for the occasion. Clough, a Coffee County native, applauded Lott and his wife Diane for their generous gift…

Perhaps many of us dream of having an adventure in life, but not so many of us follow through on it. In Coffee County, we have but to look within our own ranks to find someone who has followed his dreams for adventure and has done so in a really big way. Ron Morris came to Douglas in 1972 as a student and baseball player at South Georgia College. He came here from the Atlanta area, where his father worked with Delta Airlines. After excelling on Clyde Miller’s South Georgia College teams, Ron moved on to Georgia Southern, where he…