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Coffee High School Drama is celebrating Theatre In Our Schools month with a lighthearted, “countrified” adaption of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Peggy May Leon, A Country Tale will be presented by the CHS Spring Semester Intermediate Drama Class, Act Two, at CHS on March 18 and 19. Peggy May Leon is a teenager living on the family farm. Her looks, manners, and attire are a far cry from a teen queen, but a bet made between two groups of girls turn her from a dirty pig farm girl into the most popular and pretty girl on campus, but at a…

Coffee Middle School’s Read 180 and System 44 students have been hard at work! Each student was recently required to create a book project of their choice about a book the class read as a group and had an option to do a number of different project ideas. Some chosen were ghostly graveyard scenes from the book The Incredibly Revolting Ghost, hamster models and classroom scenes from Adventures According to Humphrey, and headstone markers, ship models and bookmarks from the series Titanic. Students were allowed to work on their projects in class and at home. Ms. Donna D. Davis,…

With the recent heavy rains, warmer weather, and dangers of the Zika virus, the City of Douglas has plans to start spraying earlier this year for mosquitoes. Citizens are also encouraged to take measures to “fight the bite” in their own backyards. “Wetter than normal conditions, combined with our warm temperatures, help to increase the mosquito population,” says Jacob Lott, Public Works Director. “With the new threat of the Zika virus, we are going to start spraying for mosquitoes earlier this year. We are also hopeful that residents will take the initiative to protect their families and remove mosquito breeding…

Shirley Jean Burke, age 80, of Broxton, GA passed away on Friday, March 11, 2016, at Coffee Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Burke was born on August 30, 1935, in Glen Saint Mary, FL to the late Rev. Luther Alford and Mary Williams Alford. Survivors include: her four sons, Billy (Leisha) Burke, Curtis Ferrell (Shari) Burke, Ezra (Kim) Burke and Matthew (Serena) Burke all of Broxton, GA; three daughters, Sharon Burke (Tony) Anderson of Fernandina Beach, FL, Elizabeth B. (Johnny) Batten of Douglas, GA and Mary Lou Burke of Savannah, GA; brother, Earl (Suzanne) of Glen Saint Mary, FL; sixteen grandchildren;…

South Georgia State College (SGSC) walked away with several awards at the Phi Theta Kappa Georgia Region Spring Regional Convention held recently in Atlanta, Ga. Six SGSC students and two advisors, Amy Hancock and Ame Wilkerson, from the Douglas and Waycross Campuses, attended this year’s convention. Both SGSC chapters were again designated as Five Star Chapters, the highest level a chapter can achieve. The SGSC chapters include Kappa Sigma on the Douglas Campus and Alpha Rho Omega on the Waycross Campus. Each year, Phi Theta Kappa chapters are required to complete two projects: a College Project to be completed in…

South Georgia State College (SGSC) students Charles Pridgen of Broxton, Susana Rojas Mandujano of Douglas, Courtney Falvo of Waycross, and Kolby Kicklighter of Blackshear were named to the All-Georgia Academic Team, a program sponsored by two-year college presidents, the national honor society for two-year colleges Phi Theta Kappa, and community college state associations. Pridgen and Rojas Mandujano attend the Douglas Campus, and Falvo and Kicklighter attend classes at the Waycross Campus. They recently attended a recognition luncheon in Atlanta at the Sloppy Floyd Building Empire Room. SGSC President Dr. Virginia Carson comments, “I commend these students on their academic achievements…

Mrs. Rosa Lee Spivey Amerson Hester, age 79, of Douglas passed away Wednesday, March 9, 2016, at the Mayo Health Clinic in Waycross, following an extended illness. She was born November 7, 1936 to the late Tilmon Spivey and the late Linnie Mae Davis Spivey. Survivors include – Her Husband, George Raymond Hester, Sr. of Douglas, GA; 9 Daughters: Charlene (Randy) Adams, Theresa Kirkland, Sheila Cooper, Wanda (Rev. Joey) Copeland, and Lounell Burkes all of Douglas, GA, Talena (Barry) Spivey of Willacoochee, GA, Nell (Darryl) Davis of Nicholls, GA, Peggy (Bobby Joe) Pritchard of West Green, GA, and Dianne (Howard)…

Arlene Allen Cook, age 84, of Douglas, GA passed away on Thursday, March 10, 2016, at her residence following an extended illness. Mrs. Cook was born on February 24, 1932, in Telfair County, GA to the late Oscar Allen and Elizabeth Buchanan Allen. Survivors include: her two daughters, Rose Mary (Van) Strickland of Douglas, GA and Elizabeth Ann Davis of Douglas, GA; three grandchildren, Joey (Tiffany) Strickland of Hazlehurst, GA, Lisa (Daren) Folsom of Douglas, GA and Jessica (John) Smith of Axson, GA; seven great grandchildren, Sarah Kate Hall, Kellylynn Hall, Kelton Hall, Donavan Folsom, Rayleigh Strickland, Kyla Smith and…

Jessie Charles Brown, age 70, of Nahunta, GA passed away on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Mr. Brown was born on September 27, 1945, in Douglas, GA to the late Frederick Joshua Brown and Laura Smith Brown. Survivors include: his daughter: Cylinda Brown (Phil) Price of Nahunta, GA, son: Jessie Charles (Amanda) Brown, III of Nahunta, GA; three grandchildren: Kory Price, Dustin Price, and Bailey Lynn Brown; two brothers, Hansel (Audrey) Brown of Douglas, GA and Paul Brown of Douglas, GA; two sisters, Katherine Rohn of Douglas, GA and Patricia McKinnon of , FL; four sisters-in-law, Sharon (Hugh) Johns of Jacksonville,…