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College, Career, Community Night Nov. 19 at Newnan High
November 15 | 4:27 AM
Newnan High School will host the annual College, Career and Community Night for all Coweta high school students Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Students' signatures headed into space
Posted 11/16/2009 | Comments (0)
Signatures of students from Canongate Elementary School are scheduled to blast off for outer space today.
Coweta residents reflect as 'Sesame Street' turns 40
Posted 11/15/2009 | Comments (0)
The PBS children's show "Sesame Steet" turned 40 this month.
East Coweta earns Governor's Cup for SAT test scores
Posted 11/18/2009 | Comments (8)
East Coweta High School Principal Rick Waggoner was given the "Governor's Cup" at the Tuesday night meeting of the Coweta County Board of Education in recognition of his school's high achievement on SAT test scores.
Speaker talks about Ft. Hood tragedy
Posted 11/18/2009 | Comments (10)
The keynote speaker at the Arnall Middle School Veterans Day program on Tuesday made a brief reference to the recent tragedy at Ft. Hood.
Arnall Veterans Day program honors heroes
Posted 11/18/2009 | Comments (2)
"What's sitting before you, students, are heroes."
Pilkington, Werner honored at 30th marching festival
Posted 11/17/2009
The Old South Marching Festival marked its 30th anniversary on Saturday with tributes to Darry Pilkington, who started the festival, and June Werner, who has worked with it every year.
School board will get reports on construction
Posted 11/17/2009 | Comments (0)
Brooks Elementary School is now complete and the Coweta County School System has made a request from the state for final payment.
MOH recipients focus at Lee Veterans Day program
Posted 11/13/2009 | Comments (8)
Coweta County's Medal of Honor recipients will be honored next week, and the two -- Col. Joe M. Jackson and the late Maj. Stephen W. Pless -- were also a focus at the Veterans Day program held at Lee Middle School.
Bennett finalist for GASSPA award
Posted 11/13/2009
Cindy Bennett, assistant principal at Lee Middle School, is a finalist for the Bennett finalist for 2010 Georgia Secondary Assistant Principal of the Year award.
Small shipment H1N1 vaccine in Coweta
Posted 11/10/2009 | Comments (3)
A new shipment of 200 doses of injectable H1N1 or "swine flu" vaccine has arrived at the Coweta County Health Department, but District 4 is limiting its availability.
Schools: cutting classes not an option
Posted 11/1/2009 | Comments (15)
Although school systems around Georgia are looking for every possible way they can to save a dollar, including trimming the school calendar, Coweta County school officials say there likely won't be any reason to do that here.
Georgia 8th grade scores up in math
Posted 10/27/2009 | Comments (2)
Georgia eighth graders showed marked improvement in mathematics on the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, but Coweta County students were not among those tested for NAEP last year.
Screaming balloons help Civitans see GYSTC purpose
Posted 10/25/2009
Debbie Stuckey pretty quickly got a roomful of adults busy swirling hex nuts inside inflated balloons so that they made an eery, whirring sound.
Georgia's youth tell flu to 'shoo'
Posted 10/25/2009
Coweta County students in kindergarten through eighth grade are eligible to enter a statewide contest encouraging people to stay healthy in flu season.