Doerun News

ALBANY a ' Overall, it appears area retailers got the response they wanted for the start of the holiday shopping season.

Submitted Photo Two Colquitt County students win first and second place in 5th grade Showmanship at the 2009 Georgia National Fair State Goat Show in Perry Ga.

There will be a bake sale benefiting the Wellspring House for Ladies on Tuesday, Nov.

The Moultrie Police Department arrested 21 people who allegedly sold alcohol to a minor in a recent operation.

Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, include Clarence Wilbert Allen Sr., 80, of Doerun; Buford Harrell Alexander Watkins, 84, of Norman Park; Debra Gay Buchanon, 52, of Lakeland, Fla.; Allie King McMillan Wiseman, 92, of St.

Friday, officers in one small department got a lesson in how to handle a crime scene.

A birthday party turned violent Friday night, and four people were charged after Moultrie police and Colquitt County deputies responded to the fight.

Six Colquitt County residents reported Tuesday they were victims of property theft.

The City of Moultrie/CNS recently received notification from the United States Department of Education that a grant in the amount of $94,690 has been awarded for the purpose of enhancing fiber connectivity to Doerun and Funston elementary schools.

The Norman Park City Council is in the process of deciding whether to continue to have a police department.

A Doerun man reported another man tried to get four dogs to get into a fight with each other Thursday morning.

Sheriff's Investigators found Johnny Sirmons standing in a yard on Mt. Sinai Church Road Tuesday covered in blood.

More than 300 farmers died on the job last year. That makes farming the seventh most dangerous job.

The following property transfers were recently recorded in the Colquitt County Clerk of Court office: Major Ned Adderton of Moultrie; to Rose Mary Corona of Moultrie; 2.08 acre property is located at 206 Magnolia Ave.

A South Georgia boy - raised in Doerun and Moultrie - Joe Smith joined the ministry in 1955.

TV was started by the Albany Herald , and its owner, James H. Gray, Sr., in 1954.

Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church, 318 West Central Ave., will be having it's Annual Family and Friends Day Program this Sunday, Sept.

There will be a benefit sing for the Rev. Scott Toon at Oak Grove Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

The students at Doerun Elementary recognized Patriots Day on September 11th with a special assembly program coordinated by Shari Dorminey.

Zell Banks-Daniels signs a copy of her new book, "A Cry for Help," recently. The book is available through Amazon.com, she said, and most bookstores can order it from the publisher, Author House.