Douglas Now LIVE! – with Robert Preston Jr. Topics include railroad track closures, runoff election information, and a gas tax update. (video appears below ads) https://youtu.be/6bgHKzdCHnU
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Following one of the best baseball seasons in recent history, the Coffee Trojans placed six players on the All-Region team, including the Co-Offensive Player of the Year and Co-Freshman of the Year. Sophomore infielder Jimmy Timothy, last year’s region Freshman of the Year, ascended to the top of the region offensive heap, bringing home Co-Offensive Player of the Year honors. Timothy, who played in 30 games, hit .416 with 22 RBI. He also amassed 10 doubles, three triples, and a .475 on-base percentage. Catcher/designated hitter Conley McDaniel was named Co-Freshman of the Year. McDaniel played in 15 games, hitting .458…
How many times have CCA Patriot fans watched Blake Bryant throw a gem of a game then witnessed Thomas Gentry nearly duplicate that feat in the next game? It’s happened more often than not. And it happened again Friday morning at J.I. Clements Field on the Georgia Southern University campus in Statesboro. With Gentry on the mound, the Patriots defeated the David Emanuel Academy Eagles 5-2 in the GIAA Class A state finals. With the win came CCA’s second consecutive state championship and the fourth in school history. Though there were a couple of tense moments, the Patriots were never…
Douglas Now LIVE! – with Robert Preston Jr. Topics include another CCA state title, drones on campus, and a big award for Douglas. (video appears below ads) https://youtu.be/6Efi9PP5X6Q
Coffee High School has been selected as one of five Georgia schools that will utilize drones to stop mass shootings, WABE is reporting. This fall, Coffee High School, along with Forsyth Central High School (Cumming), Gainesville High School, River Ridge High School (Woodstock), and Statesboro High School, will launch the program. Campus Guardian Angel, a Texas-based program, deploys drones that are housed on campus in the event of an active shooter. Operators fly the drones from Texas and have the capability to put the drones in the air seconds after an alarm is sounded. The drones go into action well…
It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t particularly efficient. But it was very, very effective. The CCA Patriots, behind another double-digit strikeout performance from starter Blake Bryant on a rainy and dreary day, defeated the David Emanuel Academy Eagles 5-0 at J.I. Clements Field on the Georgia Southern University campus in Statesboro in game one of the GIAA Class A state championship series. Bryant never found himself in serious trouble though the Eagles did accomplish a rare feat – they recorded two hits and three walks off the righty, whose fastball hovered between 92-95 mph all day long. In the top of…
Douglas Now LIVE! – with Robert Preston Jr. Topics include another championship watch, a dog in need, and the upcoming runoff. (video appears below ads)https://youtu.be/pRdtwEXd_Zw
This week’s GIAA Class A state championship series is set. It took a couple of days and some creativity – including using a helicopter to dry the field for the David Emanuel-Vidalia Heritage series in Stillmore – to get the final series in. Beginning Thursday, the #1-ranked CCA Patriots will face the #2-ranked David Emanuel Eagles at Georgia Southern for the GIAA Class A state championship series. The two teams will play a best-of-three format, with game one taking place on Thursday, game two on Friday, and game three – if necessary – on Saturday. Games will be played at…
A 28-year-old Douglas man was arrested on theft by conversion charges after he allegedly told someone he would fix her PlayStation 5 but did not perform the work. An incident report from the sheriff’s office states that on Thursday, April 24, 2026, a deputy met with the victim at the sheriff’s office. The victim said that she made a post on Facebook about needing a PlayStation 5 repaired. She ended up corresponding with Shane Lawson Tanner, Jr., 28, of Douglas, who said he could fix the PlayStation but she would need to pay $60 up front, the report says. She…
CCA starter Blake Bryant put an exclamation point on the final home start of his high school baseball career Wednesday afternoon, throwing his second consecutive no-hitter and striking out 13 out of 17 batters in game one of the Patriots’ doubleheader sweep over the Thomas Jefferson Christian Academy Jaguars in the semifinals of the state playoffs. CCA won game one 10-0 in five innings behind another dominating Bryant performance. Thomas Gentry took the mound in game two and was equally overpowering, throwing a one-hit shutout of his own — striking out 17 while walking just one. The Patriots took game…