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Brenau Cancels All Friday Classes
Brenau University has canceled all Friday classes in Gainesville, but employees have been asked to report at 10 a.m. Friday...
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Brenau Closed on Wednesday
Classes on Brenau´s Gainesville, Norcross, Fairburn and Augusta campuses have been canceled for Wednesday, January 12, due to continuing hazardous winter weather conditions...
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Brenau's North Georgia Campuses Closed on Tuesday
Campus will be closed and all classes canceled on Tuesday, Jan. 11, due to anticipated hazardous conditions caused by winter weather...
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Brenau Closed Today
Brenau University’s North Georgia campuses will be closed and all classes canceled on Monday, Jan. 10, due to hazardous conditions caused by winter weather...
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Students Serve 13 Organizations During Apostolic Blitz Day
Middle School students at Pinecrest Academy, a Catholic school in Cumming, spent a day away from campus to to go out and serve others in the local community...
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Pinecrest Students Receive Recognition at Regional Scholastic Art Exhibition
Pinecrest high school students Yeo Song Lee, Caitlin Nelson and Nico Sanchez, recently received awards at the most competitive art competition in the State of Georgia. The students will be honored at a ceremony at Georgia State on December 4...
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Pinecrest Middle School Cross Country Team Completes Strong Season
Logan Hamilton, an 8th grader and first time runner, consistently came in the top 3, earning the silver medal in the NAML Championship.  Bronze medal winners were Jack Frain and Andy Rodriguez, also 8th graders, who consistently ran in the top 10...
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Save Lives with Heart Screens For Teens
Imagine watching your child collapsing to the ground while playing football or soccer or any other sport. If your young athlete has a heart condition called Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, it will be too late to save your child's life...
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Pinecrest Academy Seniors Hold Mock Election
Students voted using a state-of-the-art online system as they participated in a mock election program sponsored by the Youth Leadership Initiative...
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DCHS Interact Club Kicks Off Season with Environmental Clean Up
The clean-up kicks off the club’s 2010-2011 project schedule according to participant Selina LeMoon.  Past projects include filling shoeboxes for needy children, volunteering at a soup kitchen and more...
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Pinecrest to Host Open House
Pinecrest Academy, a private Catholic school in Forsyth County is hosting an Open House for grades 6-12 in early November...
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Eric Pfiel Named Educator of the Year for Pinecrest Academy
Pfiel has been recognized at Pinecrest for his work over the last six years in the formation of students, academically and humanly...
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Pinecrest Academy Offers Family Life Programs
Open to all, the fall schedule includes workshops and classes such as Boundaries in Marriage, MomSense, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, Band of Brothers and several others...
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Pinecrest Volleyball Player Named All American at 2010 AAU National Volleyball Championships
Haley Ojeda, outside hitter and co-captain of the 2010 Lady Paladin Varsity Volleyball team at the private Catholic school in Cumming, has played club volleyball since 7th grade and has been part of the A5 Club since 2008... 
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Pinecrest Students Achieve 100% Pass Rate in Five AP Courses
The overall pass rate was 85% for all Pinecrest students.  The top state scores for 2009 (the last year that all national scores have been published) were New Hampshire and Massachusetts with a 72% pass rate. The pass rate for all Georgia schools was 54%...
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Online Test-Creation Site Takes Teachers ‘To Infinity and Beyond…’
Educators are all a-buzz about the power of Quiz Infinity, an online test creation site designed exclusively for teachers and tutors by Cumming business woman, Julie Wilson...

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Dawson County Republican Party Meets on August 26
School is back in session - let's talk education reform.  Chris Perkins, Deputy Outreach Coordinator for The Center for an Education Georgia is the guest speaker...
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Ditch the Caffeine and the All-Nighters by Studying with Cram Stoppers

An online test creation site that launches on August 1, 2010, helps high school and college students with test preparation.  Developed by Cumming business woman, Julie Wilson, Cram Stoppers is an affiliate site to Qwizzy's World...

 

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Pinecrest Academy Students Choose Mission Work for Senior Trip
Twenty-one boys, including four former Pinecrest graduates, and twenty girls, along with parents, a priest, and consecrated women, traveled to Nicaragua, setting out to transform society with the words of Mother Teresa, “We can do no great things, only small things with great love”... 
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Pinecrest Academy Student Wins “Best of Show” in Art Competition
Tesi Saker's 24” X 32” water color of her baby brother, entitled Looking into a Child’s Eyes, won Best of Show in the Inspire Life Art Competition out of all local high school work submitted...
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