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Holidays 2011

Monday, January 2, 2012

PatchCast: Another Syringe; Sunday Sales; New Laws; Legislative Agenda

Here's your roundup of top stories from Patches in Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas, Bartow and Paulding counties for Jan. 2.

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Friday, December 30, 2011

PatchCast: Murder Arrest; Fake Cop; Jorelys Probe; Deck the House Winner

Here's your roundup of top stories from Cobb, Cherokee, Paulding, Douglas and Bartow counties for Dec. 30.

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

PatchCast: Home Invasion Arrests; One Kmart Axed; Superschool Dreams

Here's your roundup of top stories from Cobb, Cherokee, Bartow, Paulding and Douglas counties for Dec. 29.

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Updated: Girls Basketball Scoreboard

Here's your Dec. 28 roundup of high school girls basketball action for Bartow, Douglas, Paulding, Cherokee and Cobb counties.

It's all about holiday tournaments today, so much so that we're breaking the boys and girls scoreboards into separate files. Check out the scores and schedules for the boys here. If you have photos or videos from any of these matchups, we'd love to see them; just click on "Submit Photo & Video." You can post scores in the comments below, email them to GaPatchSports@gmail.com or send them to us on Twitter (@GaPatchSports). Come back Friday for the most complete results we can gather from Thursday's action. We're pulling in scores from Georgia Prep Country, Score Atlanta, Twitter, Facebook, school websites and the other media outlets cited below.  

Updated: Boys Basketball Scoreboard

Here's your Dec. 28 roundup of high school boys basketball action for Bartow, Douglas, Paulding, Cherokee and Cobb counties.

It's all about holiday tournaments today, so much so that we're breaking the boys and girls scoreboards into separate files. Check out the scores and schedules for the girls here. If you have photos or videos from any of these matchups, we'd love to see them; just click on "Submit Photo & Video." You can post scores in the comments below, email them to GaPatchSports@gmail.com or send them to us on Twitter (@GaPatchSports). Come back Friday for the most complete results we can gather from Thursday's action. We're pulling in scores from Georgia Prep Country, Score Atlanta, Twitter, Facebook, school websites and the other media outlets cited below.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

PatchCast: Trooper Mourned; Animal Rescue at Risk; Holiday Highlights

Here's your roundup of some of the top stories from Cobb, Cherokee, Bartow, Paulding and Douglas counties for Dec. 27.

For more on these stories, click on the following links:

Congrats to Tara Scofield, Our Winner

Here's the house you voted as the best decked in town in our Deck the House contest.

Congratulations to Tara Scofield with 91 votes, the Douglasville Patch winner in our national Deck the House contest. Will Lowe be judged among the top 24 in the nation, winning $500 and giving local schools a chance at $100,000? Visit deckthehouse.patch.com Friday to find out, then vote on your favorite among the finalists that day and every day through Jan. 8. Meanwhile, you can check out all the winners from hundreds of Patches to see what the national competition offers.

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Enter, Vote in Deck the House

There's still time to enter your decked-out house for a chance to win $500 for you and to vote for Tara Scofield's house to win $100,000 for Douglas County schools.

Selling a More Walton Mountain Christmas

We're a couple of thousand years from Christmas being a celebration of the birth of a Jewish boy in Bethlehem, but maybe we can get back to a simpler, less violent holiday commercialism.

Christmas Wishes: Pfc. Younger

The Douglasville soldier sends his holiday greetings home to Georgia from Afghanistan.

Army Pfc. Lee Younger is serving at Forward Operating Base Salerno in Afghanistan. He sends this Christmas greeting home to Douglasville through the Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System. To see all of the holiday wishes sent home to Georgia from military personnel, visit http://patch.com/bvaGD.

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