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Chattooga lays off teachers; shortens school week
7/13/2010by Daniel Bell
The Chattooga County Board of Education decided Monday night in front of a standing-room-only crowd to start the 2010-2011 school year using a four-day work week and to preserve the job of a beloved teacher, if only on a part-time basis.
7 educators on chopping block in Chattooga County
7/12/2010Seven educators in Chattooga County
The Chattooga County Board of Education is scheduled to vote tonight at 7 p.m. on the superintendent’s cost-cutting “personnel reduction in force plan” for the 2010-2011 school year. The board is meeting at Pennville School.
Rhonda Ledbetter, the current Chattooga High School choral teacher and one of the seven potentially out of a job, said she fears her program might suffer if her position in the school system is eliminated, because she teaches at multiple schools.
“A lot of students in three or four different schools will be affected,” she said.
Spill's extent and the effects surprising those studying it
7/7/2010
Scientists knew weeks ago that much of the oil gushing from a blown-out oil well deep in the Gulf of Mexico remained below the surface, suspended in deep, cold water.
Graves' personal financial report overdue
6/29/2010By Ashley Fielding
afielding@gainesvilletimes.com
POSTED June 29, 2010 12:11 a.m.
U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ranger, is more than a month late filing reports detailing his personal finances, according to officials with the clerk’s office of the U.S. House of Representatives.
The reports, required of all congressional candidates, were due May 15.
As oil spews from the depths, UGA researchers measure the impact
6/28/2010
Dozens of clear glass bottles in a near-freezing room in the University of Georgia's Marine Sciences Building hold nothing more than seawater.
Chattahoochee brings life, conflict to 3 states
6/21/2010GAINESVILLE — Bending over the backs of the North Georgia mountains, before sinking down the eastern edge of Alabama through Florida's spring-fed swamps, the Chattahoochee River forms the spine of three Southern states.
Along its 550-mile path, the river's waters bind and bitterly divide the people who built their lives on its banks.
The river powers the economic engine that is metropolitan Atlanta. It supports the growth of thousands of acres of row crops that grow near its banks. And the Chattahoochee's arrival in the swamps of South Georgia is essential to the endurance of an ecological system found nowhere else in the Northern Hemisphere.
And still, there is even more weight to bear.
Dalton Civil War driving tour receives achievement award
6/17/2010The program “A Civil War Driving Tour of Dalton-Whitfield County” was recently awarded the NACo (National Association of Counties) Achievement Award.
Many of the 3,000 counties across the country submit applications for the award.
“It feels good to be a winner” said County Administrator Bob McLeod. “Commissioner Mike Cowan and I are invited to attend the award ceremony during the upcoming annual conference.”
A summary of the program will be included in the NACo Model Programs database and highlights of the program will be presented in an upcoming issue of County News, Focus on Achievement.
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