🌱 Douglas pitcher earns coveted invite to 2026 MLB Draft Combine

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• Douglas pitcher earns coveted invite to 2026 MLB Draft Combine

Today's riddle: What has to be broken before you can use it? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: A heavy p.m. t-storm; humid, with a high of 86 and low of 73 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Cloudy, a couple of t-storms, temps: high: 83, low: 71.
• Saturday: Humid, with a high of 87 and low of 70 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• 5 Clemson baseball players, signees invited to 2026 MLB Draft Combine (greenvilleonline.com) — A Douglas standout is on Major League Baseball’s radar: pitcher Blake Bryant of Citizens Christian Academy has been invited to the 2026 MLB Draft Combine as a Clemson signee. He joins four other Clemson players and recruits headed to Phoenix, with all eyeing July’s draft and possible pro contracts.
   

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Friday June 19

• City Offices Closed - Holiday →
  City of Douglas Calendar Douglas, GA 31533
  8:00 am

Monday June 22

• Planning Commission Meeting →
  City of Douglas Calendar
  10:00 am
• City of Douglas Commission Meeting →
  City of Douglas Calendar, 302 S. Madison Avenue, Douglas
  6:00 pm

Wednesday June 24

• GICH - Douglas Team Meeting →
  City of Douglas Calendar, 302 S. Madison Avenue, Douglas
  3:00 pm

Thursday June 25

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  3:30 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday June 20

• Relihan Museum & Nature Center
  General Coffee State Park 46 John Coffee Road Nicholls, GA
  10:00 am
• Trivia Night at Cirillo's Pizzeria →
  Cirillo's Pizzeria, 113 S Main St, Fitzgerald
  7:00 pm

Friday June 26

• Karaoke Night at Your Pie →
  Your Pie Pizza, 2210 US Hwy 41, Tifton
  6:00 pm

Saturday July 4

• Tifton Fourth of July Fireworks →
  Fulwood Park, 817 Prince Ave, Tifton
  9:00 pm

Saturday July 11

• Dallas Rodgers →
  VFW Post 5978, 801 Tifton Rd, Nashville
  8:00 pm

Wednesday July 15

• Kiwanis Club Meeting →
  La Lomita Mexican Restaurant, 125 Bowens Mill Hwy, Fitzgerald
  12:00 pm

Tuesday July 21

• Fitzgerald Lions Club Meeting →
  La Lomita Mexican Restaurant, 125 Bowens Mill Hwy, Fitzgerald
  12:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Cavco Industries, Inc. posted a job opening for Production Home Assembler / Utility in Douglas. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Fitzgerald

• Georgia Tech's Aidan Birr earns preseason All-American nod (albanyherald.com)

Waycross

• Tanner is named new president for SGSC (theblacksheartimes.com)
• WorldAtlas names Florence one of the South's best towns for retirees (hvilleblast.com)
• Mary Elizabeth McCutchen Parr Murray (theblacksheartimes.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: An egg (Thank you LaJean D. for sending it in!)
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