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A meeting two police offcers had with two individuals hanging out at the Circle K on Baker Highway at 12:25 a.m. on May 18 sent one of them to jail. A Douglas Police Department incident report states that an officer saw the two men, identified as Derek Porter, 26, and Shawn Taylor, 22, sitting on the east side of the Circle K. The officer pulled up and asked if he could speak with them. They both agreed. The officer allowed Porter to conduct a search; the officer found a digital scale and an unused capped syringe. …

A meeting two police offcers had with two individuals hanging out at the Circle K on Baker Highway at 12:25 a.m. on May 18 sent one of them to jail. A Douglas Police Department incident report states that an officer saw the two men, identified as Derek Porter, 26, and Shawn Taylor, 22, sitting on the east side of the Circle K. The officer pulled up and asked if he could speak with them. They both agreed. The officer allowed Porter to conduct a search; the officer found a digital scale and an unused capped syringe. …

A meeting two police offcers had with two individuals hanging out at the Circle K on Baker Highway at 12:25 a.m. on May 18 sent one of them to jail. A Douglas Police Department incident report states that an officer saw the two men, identified as Derek Porter, 26, and Shawn Taylor, 22, sitting on the east side of the Circle K. The officer pulled up and asked if he could speak with them. They both agreed. The officer allowed Porter to conduct a search; the officer found a digital scale and an unused capped syringe. …

May 26, 2023 Dear Coffee County Voters: Coalition for Good Governance (“CGG”) represents many Georgia voter members concerned about the security and reliability of the state’s touchscreen voting system in upcoming 2024 elections. Our fears have grown because of the state’s voting system security breach that had its roots in Coffee County putting all Georgia voters’ votes at greatly elevated risk. Our goal is to see the 2024 elections protected against electronic manipulation as well as false claims of vote rigging. CGG and some of our Georgia members have been suing Sec. Raffensperger and…

May 26, 2023 Dear Coffee County Voters: Coalition for Good Governance (“CGG”) represents many Georgia voter members concerned about the security and reliability of the state’s touchscreen voting system in upcoming 2024 elections. Our fears have grown because of the state’s voting system security breach that had its roots in Coffee County putting all Georgia voters’ votes at greatly elevated risk. Our goal is to see the 2024 elections protected against electronic manipulation as well as false claims of vote rigging. CGG and some of our Georgia members have been suing Sec. Raffensperger and…

May 26, 2023 Dear Coffee County Voters: Coalition for Good Governance (“CGG”) represents many Georgia voter members concerned about the security and reliability of the state’s touchscreen voting system in upcoming 2024 elections. Our fears have grown because of the state’s voting system security breach that had its roots in Coffee County putting all Georgia voters’ votes at greatly elevated risk. Our goal is to see the 2024 elections protected against electronic manipulation as well as false claims of vote rigging. CGG and some of our Georgia members have been suing Sec. Raffensperger and…

Wiregrass Georgia Technical College has been awarded a Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce Grant in the amount of $407,000. This grant will allow the college to increase the number of nurse graduates. The college announced earlier this year that the Associate of Science in Nursing Program will expand to the Coffee and Ben Hill-Irwin Campuses. The ASN Program will begin on the Coffee Campus in Fall 2023 and will start in Fall 2024 on the Ben Hill-Irwin Campus. Each cohort will accept 30 students, and students will complete the program in four semesters after program entry. This…

Wiregrass Georgia Technical College has been awarded a Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce Grant in the amount of $407,000. This grant will allow the college to increase the number of nurse graduates. The college announced earlier this year that the Associate of Science in Nursing Program will expand to the Coffee and Ben Hill-Irwin Campuses. The ASN Program will begin on the Coffee Campus in Fall 2023 and will start in Fall 2024 on the Ben Hill-Irwin Campus. Each cohort will accept 30 students, and students will complete the program in four semesters after program entry. This…

Wiregrass Georgia Technical College has been awarded a Georgia Board of Health Care Workforce Grant in the amount of $407,000. This grant will allow the college to increase the number of nurse graduates. The college announced earlier this year that the Associate of Science in Nursing Program will expand to the Coffee and Ben Hill-Irwin Campuses. The ASN Program will begin on the Coffee Campus in Fall 2023 and will start in Fall 2024 on the Ben Hill-Irwin Campus. Each cohort will accept 30 students, and students will complete the program in four semesters after program entry. This…

A high school umpire as well as a couple of people from Coffee County were among several individuals who were arrested on various drug charges in Jeff Davis County this week. On Sunday, May 14, 2023, Hazlehurst law enforcement and emergency services responded to a residence reference to overdose. Emergency services arrived to a non-responsive male in the kitchen of a home. He was transported to the ER where he was given Narcan several times before responding. Law enforcement discovered that the subject had ingested a quantity of drugs that he had just purchased a dealer. A statement…