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Coffee Middle School students in Mrs. Heather Stodghill’s class joined students around the world in The Hour of Code, a global event that takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week. This event held the first week in December, is known as the largest learning event in history. Over 600 million hours served by students from 180+ countries. The one-hour coding challenge gives students a fun first introduction to computer science and has helped to bring computer science into schools for students of all ages.

Coffee Middle FBLA receives a donation from the Modern Woodmen of the World Matching Fund Project. This project helped Coffee Middle FBLA raise a combined total of $2552, this includes $1276 matched by Modern Woodmen along with the funds raised in the sale of Coca-Cola products. Thank you to Kevin and Beth Wright of Modern Woodmen, Sherri Berry, Coffee Middle School Principal and Vette Lott, Assistant Principal, for your support to the Coffee Middle FBLA Chapter. These funds will help to continue learning in the business and computer science classroom and to develop student leaders for Coffee Middle FBLA.

4-H members need to start planning now for the upcoming summer camp season. Junior 4-H Camp will be June 17-21 at Camp Jekyll on Jekyll Island. The cost for the camp is $365 plus transportation. Junior 4-H members can also participate in Wilderness Challenge Camp at Wahsega 4-H Center the week of July 1-5. Cost is $380 plus transportation. Another option is Marine Resource Camp at the Burton 4-H Center on Tybee Island. It will be held two times, July 8-12, or July 15-19, and costs $335 plus transportation. Senior 4-H Camp will be the week after school gets out for the summer (May 27-31). It will be held at the Rock Eagle 4-H Center and cost for the camp is $365 plus transportation. …

In an effort to express their appreciation and to honor and recognize veterans from all branches of service, the CRMC Volunteers have installed special “Veteran Parking” for visiting veterans. There are a total of four parking spaces throughout the CRMC campus. Two parking spaces are located in front of the hospital on the front row in the visitor parking lot, and, the additional ones can be found at the medical buildings, adjacent to the hospital. Sherri Jenkins, CRMC Volunteers President, said, “This was a very special project and I was pleased the volunteers could do something for the many men…

The Wiregrass Georgia Technical College chapter of SkillsUSA hosted the Wiregrass Paladins Wars eSports Open Invitational Saturday, December 8. Gamers from across Georgia competed in the tournament which was live streamed to viewers over the Wiregrass YouTube channel and the college’s Facebook page. Eight teams from across the state competed in a single-elimination siege tournament playing Paladins: Champions of the Realm, which is a free-to-play online video game developed by Hi-Rez Studios in Alpharetta, Georgia. This gameplay focuses on two teams racing to capture a center point within a map, and then pushing a payload from that point to…

It was the middle of the fall 2018 semester. Hailey Furman was sitting in her car on South Georgia State College’s (SGSC) Waycross Campus checking email to make sure she hadn’t overlooked anything in her classes for the week. That’s when she noticed an email from Harvard University. It was an acceptance letter into Harvard’s Extension School, the university’s online campus. Furman was shocked. “I saw that email and didn’t know what to do,” she said while smiling. “Receiving that message was completely out of routine for me. I called my dad first to give him the news.”…

The Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) has named South Georgia State College’s (SGSC) Keyshaun Street as the Division I Men’s Basketball Player of the Week for the week of Dec. 3. Street, a 5’10” sophomore from Kingsland, averaged 19.5 points, three assists, 2.5 rebounds, and two steals in wins over Combine Academy – Atlanta (90-64) and Combine Academy – Charlotte (87-73). He is currently in the top five in the GCAA in the following categories: points per game (18.1), free throw percentage (76 percent), and total steals (27). Street leads the GCAA in total points scored with 217. …

Yesterday, a jury in Atkinson County convicted Roderick Bernard Brock in the May 2015 killing of Marlene Murray, 64, of Atkinson County. Roderick and Ansley Minkema, both of whom are from Douglas, had been arrested and charged with Murray’s murder. Minkema pled guilty and received 20 years in prison and 20 years on probation. Brock was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was convicted on charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault (three counts), and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Authorities arrested Minkema first then picked up Brock. His name was…

Coffee County sheriff’s detectives have arrested a 30-year-old man in relation to a shooting that occurred earlier this month in the Oak Park community. Deputies were dispatched to Coffee Regional Medical Center on Dec. 2, 2018, in reference to a male victim who had sustained gunshot wounds. The victim stated he had been shot by an unknown offender. Following an investigation, detectives were able to identify Reginald Recardo Powell as the assailant. Powell was apprehended Thursday, Dec. 13 by Coffee County sheriff’s detectives and officers with the Douglas Police Department. He has been charged with aggravated assault and…

By Gerald Harris Senior Editor, The Christian Index Reprinted from The Christian Index with permission CARTERSVILLE – On Sunday, Dec. 9, Don Hattaway, who has served as senior pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cartersville for almost 17 years, accepted the call to become the pastor of First Baptist Church of Douglas. In what would have been an almost unprecedented move ten years ago Hattaway announced his resignation to the Cartersville congregation a week earlier. Pastor search teams have often conducted their quest for a new pastor in a clandestine and surreptitious manner – mostly to protect the prospective…