June 24, 2009 RSS feed / School & Sports

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FFA students attend summer leadership camp

Sixteen students from the Miller County FFA Chapter were part of more than 1600 students who attended FFA-FCCLA Summer Leadership Camp 2009 at the Georgia FFA-FCCLA Center. More...

Civil War tour

submitted by Jack Warner

A bus driver is conducting a tour of famous Civil War battle sites. "Here," he points out at one spot, "is where the Southern troops routed a whole regiment of Yankees. Over there, the Rebs wiped out a whole platoon of Yanks. More...

BC Receives Grant: Adult Students to Earn Credit for Experience

Part of Statewide Initiative

Adults who need to return to school for college studies will soon have greater options to earn credit for what they already know. More...

From the mouths

submitted by a friend

A first grade school teacher had 26 students in her class. She presented each child in her classroom the first half of a well-known proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. More...

Colquitt resident awarded scholarship at ABAC

TIFTON— Nicholas Rawlings from Colquitt has been awarded a scholarship from the ABAC Foundation to attend Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College during the 2009-10 academic year. Rawlings is an engineering major. More...

Backroads and Bobtails

THEY HAUNT ME, TOO, MR. McLEAN
by Bob Kornegay

Norman McLean, of "A River Runs Through It" fame, once wrote the simple, but fetching line, "I am haunted by waters." Thinking on that, doesn't that pretty much say it? It does for me, especially as a fisherman. Who among us can't relate? More...

Seminole Ramlins

by Jack Wingate

"Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate that I hate to make him wait, but I just got to have another cigarette", I sang this old "Phil Harris" tune to her many times in the past years. I'm speaking of Pam Martin-Wells. More...