Entries by Chris Bridges

Even as recently hired superintendent Wanda Creel was officially introduced to school system employees, Board of Education members were given the news last week to begin preparing for another tough budget process, which is slated to begin later this month.

Assistant superintendent for financial services Ken Cato has been preparing board members for what will be a tough year ahead. Cato said at last Thursday’s meeting that $1.5 million in automobile taxes are still outstanding, noting the system should have collected $6 million by this point.

Cato said there was some encouraging news concerning the recent Education Special Local Option Sales Tax Collection, which was close to $700,000.

“Maybe the economic tide is turning a little,” Cato said. “We are still not where we need it to be to turn our debt.” [Full Story »] 

“I pledge my Head to clearer thinking,g my Heart to greater loyalty, my Hands to larger service and my Health to better living, for my club, my community, my country and my world.”
— 4-H motto [Full Story »] 

Granted, they face long odds, but DuBose and Carol Porter are hoping to make not only Georgia history but perhaps national history this year. [Full Story »] 

Photographer Jessica Brown and I attended Winder-Barrow High School’s fourth annual Black History Month celebration last week and while I was there, in theory, to cover the event for the paper, it also gave me time to reflect on the past four decades. [Full Story »] 

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all’s right with the world.”
— Ada Louise Huxtable

Summer, where art thou? [Full Story »] 

Our esteemed governor, who has set a record for bad decisions during his tenure in office, may have cooked up his “best” bad one yet in recent days. [Full Story »] 

The pool has been narrowed to four.

The Barrow County Board of Education has announced its four finalists for the superintendent’s position following a meeting Monday night, among them Westside Middle School principal Eli Welch. [Full Story »] 

“Flip a coin. There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.”

— 2008 Libertarian President candidate Bob Barr

In 1992 American voters were fed up with George Bush (the first one).
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