Lanier Tech Students Do Well at SkillsUSA Conference

SkillsUSA held its State Conference in Dublin, Georgia last weekend at Heart of Georgia Technical College, and several Lanier Tech students came home winners...
May 2, 2008

SAFE KIDS of Dawson County Performs Car Seat Safety Checks

EMS Chief Lanier Swafford reported over 60 safety checks were conducted...
May 1, 2008

Environmental Sustainability Demonstrated by NGCSU Students

A group of NGCSU students recently sifted through more than 100 lbs. of trash for an hour, retrieving aluminum cans, plastic containers, paper and cardboard.  The group weighed the trash bags before and after the recyclables were taken out, calculating that approximately 20 percent of the total trash was salvaged for recycling...
Apr 29, 2008

Robinson Elementary School May Events

Field Day, field trips, awards ceremonies and the fifth grade graduation celebration are some of the activities on May's busy agenda...
Apr 29, 2008

Riverview Middle Student Places 3rd in State Science Fair Competition

Amanda Cater advanced to the State Science Fair at The University of Georgia with her 'Optical Illusions' project...
Apr 24, 2008

Lanier Technical College Students Successful at State Competitions

Three Lanier Tech students from the Oakwood Campus qualified for the national competition: Shelia Carter won second place in Cyber Security and first place in Telecommunications.  Randall Pruitt won first place in Project Management, and Faye Humphries received third place in Management Analysis and Decision Making...
Apr 24, 2008

Black's Mill Elementary Students Compete in Young Georgia Authors' Competition

Students Maggie Wright and Bim Peacock will be competing in the Dawson County Young Georgia Authors’ Writing Competition... 
Apr 22, 2008

Inspiring 14 Cows for America's Storytellers Set for Brenau Appearance April 15

The Maasai warrior who initiated the touching gift from his remote village in Kenya to the United States following the Sept. 2001 terrorist attacks will appear at a public lecture...
Apr 8, 2008

NGCSU Provides Free Tax Preparation Assistance

Taxpayers in Lumpkin and surrounding counties may receive free income tax preparation assistance from North Georgia College & State University accounting students and faculty members on Friday and Saturday April 4 and 5 in the Newton Oakes Center on the NGCSU campus...
Mar 31, 2008

Coastal Shorebird Survey Results Show Gains for Some Species

Increases were seen in the number of several shorebirds including short-billed dowitchers, dunlins, western sandpipers and semipalmated plovers...
Mar 26, 2008

From Abu Ghraib to AIDS: Filmmaker Rory Kennedy to Tell Brenau Students ´The Camera Doesn´t Lie´

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy will appear on the Brenau Gainesville campus Thursday, March 27, for meetings with students and screening of one of her films, and lecture. The event, open to the public and free of charge, will be at 6 p.m. in historic Pearce Auditorium on Centennial Circle...
Mar 25, 2008

Booth Western Art Museum to Host Noted Western Authors and Artists during A True West Weekend

The Booth Western Art Museum will play host to Western authors and artists from across the nation during A True West Weekend, sponsored by True West magazine, April 10-12...
Mar 25, 2008

TumbleBooks Available Online at Dawson County Library

The TumbleBooks Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books created from existing picture books which have been licensed from children's book publishers and then converted to the TumbleBook format...
Mar 24, 2008

Riverview Middle Students to Represent School in Oratorical Contest

Riverview Middle School students Emily Stowers and Cody Hall were chosen to represent Riverview at the district competition on March 29, 2008 at Jasper Middle School...
Mar 13, 2008

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers Will Run Brenau University´s Campus Book Store

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers will provide Brenau students and faculty better services for getting books and others materials when they are needed - and better controls for helping contain the skyrocketing cost of textbooks...
Mar 12, 2008