Local Education News
Thornton Kennedy
Column: Middle school takeover case of history repeating
This summer Sutton Middle School will take over a Buckhead high school, repeating a scene that has played out once before. In the early 1970s, three public high schools served the community. North ...
May 22, 2013 02:44 PM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Column: Are propane powered police cars safe?
Is a propane powered police car safe? I hope so. It’s used to fuel my Sandy Springs Police car. The SSPD has received a federal grant to convert 50 of its vehicles to run on propane. With the co...
May 17, 2013 11:11 AM | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: Dalton mayor mulls primary run against Deal
David Pennington, the mayor of Dalton, is making noises about challenging incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal in the 2014 Republican primary. Say what? I visited the mayor a couple of weeks ago at his offic...
May 16, 2013 10:04 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lauretta Hannon
Column: Monsters-in-law and golf terror
Q: My mother-in-law hates me and mostly ignores me. The only time she acknowledges my existence is to send me ridiculously offensive email forwards which express her opinions on welfare, abortion...
May 16, 2013 09:57 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Officer Larry Jacobs
Guest column: Mobile banking: Is it safe?
Mobile banking can be a convenient way to take care of your banking needs on the run. Americans are very tech savvy and seemingly too busy to slow down. The new thing is using your smart phones for...
May 16, 2013 09:47 AM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Truck lanes,
not tolls, solution to I-75 traffic congestion

EDITOR: The Georgia Department of Transportation has bought an expensive sports car. The seller uttered the words “Toll Road” and GDOT was deafened by ka-ching, ka-ching!  It happened in Henry C...
May 16, 2013 09:43 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: Cycling a rite of spring we have to learn to live with
When I was younger I had zero interest in sharing the road when I was on my bike. It was mine, all mine. Cars were merely nuisances preventing Evel Knievel-inspired jumps off the particularly sev...
May 15, 2013 11:38 AM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: College senior triumphs over life-altering experience
This is the story of courage. This is a story of tenacity. This is the story of Hill Daniel. Daniel, a 21-year-old senior at LaGrange College, will be graduating next week with a degree in psycholo...
May 09, 2013 04:48 PM | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lauretta Hannon
Column: Grannies galore and gift giving
Q: A number of women in my granddaughter’s life want her to call them Grandma or Granny or Nanny. Is this a new quirk or a Southern thing of placing themselves into the family in this manner? I g...
May 09, 2013 04:37 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Wendell Willard
Guest column: New juvenile justice law positive, saves money
May 2, Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law House Bill 242, a historic reform in the way the state handles its children in trouble. For more than 40 years, Georgians have been coping with a complicated...
May 09, 2013 04:29 PM | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: E. Rivers Elementary fire drew thousands
E. Rivers Elementary School in Buckhead will be destroyed for the second time in its 96-year history this summer. This time, unlike the first, will be on purpose. Opened in 1917 as Peachtree Heigh...
May 08, 2013 06:10 PM | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
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Dick Yarbrough
Column: GPB deals with an unhappy Big Bird and talking frogs
RING! RING! “Hello, this is Teya Ryan, president of Georgia Public Broadcasting. I am calling to ask you to consider a donation to GPB. If you donate $250, we will send you a talking frog.” KNOCK! ...
May 02, 2013 04:26 PM | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
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Loran Smith
Column: All’s well that ends well
Never thought the title of a Shakespearean play would apply to me personally, but in the aftermath of the dastardly bombings in Boston, I have to conclude that all’s well that ends well. Not for ev...
May 02, 2013 04:16 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lauretta Hannon
Column: Kids gone bad and us doing good
Q: Why do children now feel the need to be rewarded for anything they do? An example is reading in school in order to receive games, computer tablets, etc. A: Why? Because we’ve created that ex...
May 02, 2013 04:09 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Thornton Kennedy
Column: ’20s office building example of early adaptive reuse
One of the oldest office buildings in Buckhead is a slightly askew, three-story, brick-and-stucco structure on Roswell Road just north of the triangle. It is also an early example of adaptive reuse...
May 01, 2013 12:37 PM | 0 0 comments | 4 4 recommendations | email to a friend
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Local Voices: ‘Who says we can't collaborate?’
A lot of policy makers give lip service to regionalism, but when it gets down to it, it can be very difficult to do. It is just plain hard to work together when it seems we are so busy trying to di...
April 29, 2013 08:45 PM | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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