The first county commission meeting of the year always features an agenda full of the standard resolutions, agreements, and appointments the county has to take care of the beginning of each calendar year. The first meeting of 2026 featured those items as well as few others that proved a little more interesting. Most notably, there were several rezoning requests the county considered, several of which resulted in significant discussion. Carlton Dorminey had three requests on the agenda, one of which was denied with the other being tabled. The first requestions was for 23.01 acres located at 4252 Highway 32 West…
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Douglas Now Live with Robert Preston Jr. Today’s topics include some brief county commission news, a Thursday afternoon fire, the lottery, and a short sports update (video appears below ad).
The Douglas-Coffee County Chamber of Commerce proudly celebrated the ribbon cutting for Force Jiu-Jitsu on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at its downtown location at 334 S. Peterson Avenue in Douglas. The event saw a great turnout of community members, local leaders, and supporters who gathered to welcome this new family-focused martial arts academy to downtown Douglas. Guests enjoyed refreshments while touring the facility and meeting the Force Jiu-Jitsu team. Force Jiu-Jitsu is a family-oriented Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu academy offering training for kids, teens, and adults. The academy focuses on real self-defense, confidence, fitness, and personal growth in a safe, structured environment.…
Another former Trojan will be playing football in a different location next season. Offensive lineman Jerzabeon Grant, a 6’2”, 290-pound offensive lineman who has been playing at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville, is now a member of the Edward Waters University Tigers in Jacksonville. Grant played in 10 games this season for the GMC Bulldogs. He and high school teammate Kyler Smith cleared the way for another former Trojan, running back Tyrese Woodgett, who burst on to the NJCAA football scene this season and made Second Team All-America. Edward Waters is a Division II school located in Jacksonville that plays…
A Friday night crash sent two people to Coffee Regional Medical Center and blocked a busy intersection just blocks from downtown. The accident took place around 9:45 p.m. at the intersection of Ward Street and Gaskin Avenue. A Pontiac G6 car traveling west on Ward Street collided with an older model Chevrolet S-10 pickup that was headed north on Gaskin Avenue. The impact damaged the passenger side of the pickup and knocked the truck onto the sidewalk on the northwest side of Gaskin facing north. The Pontiac suffered major front-end damage and spun around in the intersection facing east. The…
Sports coverage is a big part of what we do at DouglasNow. I’ve said many times and I’ll say it many more – what we publish on the front page often highlights people’s failures. But what we publish on the sports page often highlights people’s successes. I’m going to do the same thing here that I did with the news stories – I’m going to list the top sports stories by the number of views on the DouglasNow website. But there is another story, one that website analytics don’t tell, that I’ll discuss after the main list. I’ll list the…
Here are the top stories DouglasNow covered in 2025. There are a few different methods to determine what the top stories are. In the end, we decided to rank the stories in importance based on the number of times stories were read on the DouglasNow.com website. And while that is the simplest and easiest way to see which stories were the most important, it does have its flaws and it may not necessarily paint the entire picture. For example, there may be major issues that were covered in several different stories. Taken as individual stories, they may not have generated…
The Atlanta Falcons haven’t had much to celebrate this year. But one Falcon with ties to Douglas is having a pretty good season in spite of his team’s woes. Seven-year NFL veteran Kentavius Street, who was a Coffee Trojan before moving to North Carolina when he was in high school, is in his third year with the Falcons. He’s played in 84 games during his career, starting 10. This season, he’s played in six games and tallied 17 tackles – eight solo and nine assisted. He also has two tackles for loss, one sack, and one quarterback hit. In Atlanta’s…
At the last city commission meeting of the year, commissioners voted to close a city street for most of next year. A new apartment complex is being built along Andrew Street between North Daughtry Avenue and North Wheeler Avenue. The property has been cleared and trucks are bringing in dirt as work crews prep the site. Construction on the 48-unit complex will begin in early 2026. Andrew Street is a lightly traveled street, especially between Wheeler and Daughtry. The road is being closed so construction materials can be placed on the road. The commission did the same thing when Heritage…