Update April 1, 3 p.m. "Amber is home. Found this morning !!!!!" reports the owener in an email to Douglasville Patch. Original story: A Douglasville Patch viewer reported her cat missing in the Ossabaw Court area of Douglasville, in the Brookmont development. "She is about six years old and declawed in the front. She is sweet and loves to eat," reports the owner. Editor's note: She may not still be wearing the Christmas hat. Please contact me if you see her at 770-924-7311 or john.barker@patch.com.
On March 6, I received an email from an avid Douglasville Patch viewer that said the Douglasville Diner was closing its doors. The subject line read: Douglasville Diner RIP. The Patch viewer said he was there the night they closed their doors and that movers were there cleaning the place out. I found it hard to believe because they had just opened the place on May 24 and had clearly spent a lot of money for the sign and the remodel of the former Ruby Tuesday building. However, this Patch viewer snapped a photo of the sign on the door (attached), with his cell phone. The sign read, "We would …
Douglasville Patch will be giving away free T-shirts on O'Neal Plaza today, while supplies last, so get there early! Patch will be on the plaza starting at noon. The Douglasville City Council decided to extend pouring hours for the holiday for all restaurants in Douglasville, until 2 a.m. Sunday morning, instead of midnight on Saturday, which is the regular ending pouring time. Irish Bred Pub will set up a pouring station in the middle of the plaza and event goers will be able to walk around the plaza with beer in a plastic cup or aluminum container. O'Neal Plaza will be gated off between …
A brand new West Cobb Patch now stands where the Powder Springs-Lithia Springs Patch once did. So our Douglasville Patch now covers everything Douglas County, including Lithia Springs. Normally a Patch covers a community of about 50,000 to 60,000 people. There are about 120,000 people in Douglas County so the Patch planners thought this community is just too large for a couple of people to cover. And they were right–it is! That's why it's more important than ever that we hear from our readers. We've added hundreds of Lithia Springs businesses to our directory and we want to hear from Lithia …
We received an email today from a member of Andrew Bain's church, Douglasville First United Methodist, saying that he passed away less than three hours ago. The email said June, his mother, "was doing about as well as could be expected. She had seen him really suffer a lot these last two weeks. A lot of relatives and friends are there right now." Andrew graduated from Douglas County High School in 1991. He went to Young Harris College on a tennis scholarship and Reinhardt College before attending and graduating from University of Georgia in Athens in 1996. His life was much like yours or …
We launched this baby 365 days ago, on Dec. 3 2010, at approximately 6:30 p.m., shortly before the first-ever Douglasville nighttime Christmas Parade began. We'd been feverishly working for months to get ready for this big moment; writing stories and gathering all kinds of photos and information about Douglasville. I remember standing in the middle of Church Street, in downtown Douglasville amidst all the Christmas floats, and getting a phone call from my boss. "Well, you've launched," he said. And I remember responding, "Okay, and now what?" I have worked for plenty of newspapers in the past…
Today Patch is giving a name to something at the core of who we are: “Dispatches: The Changing American Dream.” Douglasville Patch and nearly 900 other Patches in 22 states and the District of Columbia are embarking not on a short-term series, but on an enduring mission. That mission, Dispatches, is to bring you the stories that reveal how all of us are dealing with the realities of life in America today as we strive to achieve the American Dream. We don't think there's one American Dream, but a multitude of American Dreams. We hope you’ll share your vision of the American Dream, the ways it …
A couple of weeks ago, I asked on our Facebook page if Douglasville Patch viewers would be interested in getting together for a Patch-organized fitness program. Within 30 minutes, several people responded on the page, some Tweeted me and a couple emailed. It seems there is a lot of interest out there in Douglasville to get fit. I don't know about anyone else but I sit behind the computer much of the day and don't get the exercise I know I need. I sometimes miss the physical training I would get two or three times a week when I was in the military. Well, I don't know if I miss it that much but…
Attention fans of Facebook and free stuff.Douglasville Patch is giving away a prize package, and all you have to do for a chance to win is log in to Facebook, go to our Facebook page, and hit the “Like” button. Those who are already friends of our Facebook page are automatically entered. Once we have 200 friends of the page, we will randomly select one for the Patch prize package. We will notify the winner via Facebook.Thank you for participating in the contest and good luck!
