Douglasville News

The Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority has received $300,000 in federal stimulus money to continue its already popular rebate program for water efficient toilets.

Going on a job interview? Giving a business presentation? Need a leadership boost? The Toastmasters of West Georgia are here to help.

The Douglasville Downtown Development Authority is planning a busy holiday season, with a celebration titled a oeOld Fashioned Holidays,a according to Jack Tysor, authority chairman.

A Douglasville teacher has been shut out of the classroom following an off-campus scuffle with her on-again off-again boyfriend.

Author Elaine Bailey talks about her new book , a Explosion in Villa Rica,a which she will sell Dec.

The health and dental insurance program for city employees was supposed to meet easy approval, since it was one of seven items on the city councila s consent agenda Monday night.

Operation Christmas Child is again collecting gift-filled shoe boxes in Douglas County for needy children overseas.

The Rev. Steven Saul, pastor of Trinity Anglican Church, is on a mission to make the local religious community aware of domestic violence and to help them recognize signs when it is happening.

Jere Oa Neal slideshow Several local officials Thursday praised the hard work of the Rev.

The Robert G. Hunter Memorial Chapter 935 of Vietnam Veterans of America participate Wednesday evening in the 12th annual Lighted Veterans Day Parade in downtown Douglasville.

Derek Brown enjoys a sunny day Thursday at Jessie Davis Park in Douglasville with Kamyrn Hudson.

The Patriot Guard Riders presented U.S. Army Spc. Casey T. Whitley with a surprise lunch Tuesday at Hudsona s restaurant on Broad Street in Douglasville.

Sgt. Randy Rider, of the Douglasville Police Department, has been named president of the National Internal Affairs Investigators Association for the fifth time.

Georgiaa s top military officer said Monday that the war in Iraq is going well, but the combat in Afghanistan is at a a oestrategic pausea while the president decides a oewhich way to go and what the strategy is going to be.a Major Gen.

Douglas County emergency officials are keeping a watchful eye on todaya s weather as Tropical Storm Ida is expected to drop up to five inches of participation on already rain-soaked Georgia.

Voters sign in Tuesday at the Old Courthouse precinct. Douglas County voters, by a 32-vote margin, cast their ballots Tuesday to build a new jail.

The Douglas County Board of Education will begin its search for a new school superintendent with a Monday called meeting.

Sanitation workers Clay Ware and Chris Noles empty recycling along Longview Street in Carrollton.

Residents in Douglasville have been on edge after a rise in coyote sightings. The coyotes have been spotted roaming a park west of town and in the neighborhoods along Interstate 20 in Douglas County.

The presence of coyotes in Douglasville was a topic for concern at the city councila s committee meetings Monday.