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Sights of the NCAA Hockey Tournament
I started photographing Michigan sports in Spring of 2012. I had just finished my Sophomore year of Undergrad in engineering and wanted to do something with my photography skills, so I joined the Michigan Daily. The 2011-2012 season was Michigan's 22nd consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament. Photographing this 2012-2013 team was obviously a very special opportunity for me and one that I was excited about.
But apparently I was a curse that led to a three year NCAA tournament drought. Or at least many have told me this. Sorry, guys.
But this weekend the curse was broken as Michigan played in the NCAA Tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Since most Michigan could not make the trip, I wanted to make a Diary that gives a feel for what the atmosphere was like. Away games/environements have always intrigued me. Unfortunately I chose the last game of the year to start one but better late than never, right?
The Notre Dame game was a fun preview of the years to come. Fans of both teams travelled well. When teams took the ice, it was a battle of the bands with the fight songs. "Let's Go Irish" chants were drowned out by "Let's Go Blue" chants, and vice versa.
Not every Michigan player dressed, but they did all travel. As a fan, it's tough watching your team go into overtime because there's really not much you can do. As a player though, it must be much worse. They looked far more nervous than any fan (as seen above).
Unlike the Big Ten Tournament, plenty of Michigan fans showed up to cheer on the team. This was to be expected, as Ann Arbor to Cincy is about 4 hours, versus 12 hours to St. Paul. The stadium still wasn't full and the upper deck was tarped off, but there were certainly enough there to create a decent atmosphere.
The hockey bands really gave the college sports atmosphere. The arena still played RAWK MUSIK (actually it was a lot of hip-hop mash-ups that they probably pulled from a YouTube playlist), but hearing Notre Dame and Michigan's fight songs back-to-back was a refreshing sound. Even the Northeastern band traveled quite well (as did their fans, though to a lesser extent than all the other teams).
Speaking of Northeastern, they were thoroughly handled by North Dakota. Despite scoring the first goal, they found themselves down 5-1 in the 2nd period to UND. The above photo pretty much sums up the game.
Steve Racine played lights out all weekend. This save above was a wrap-around by Notre Dame in overtime that was saved by the blade of Racine's skate.
Moments later, Michigan scored, players celebrated, and Notre Dame fans went home looking sad.
The next day, North Dakota fans arrived with strong energy. Though they are now officially the "Fighting Hawks", "Let's Go Sioux" chants echoed all game long.
Also in attendance: Michigan AD Warde Manuel. I don't think he changed facial expressions once all game.
Sioux Fighting Hawks had some supporters from Ohio, too, celebrating in front of some Miami (Oh) and OSU fans. Something tells me they were cheering more for not-Michigan rather than North Dakota.
"Fighting Hawks" doesn't appear to be catching on any time soon.
If you're looking for a moral victory, after the North Dakota player scored he got taken out by the ref. So there's that.
It took until the 3rd period for North Dakota to take a 4-2 lead in this game. They dominated most of the pace and you couldn't help but feel that it was only a matter of time until they went ahead. In the first period, shots were 22-5 in favor of North Dakota. The players received a lot of support as they left the ice, Racine especially.
Red Berenson gave no mention of retirement at his press conference. He did applauded the efforts of his seniors, and praised the efforts of North Dakota. Could this have been his last post-game press conference?
If you were unable to attend the tournament in Cincinnati, I hope this has helped give you a feel for what it was like! A thrilling overtime win over Notre Dame and 2.5 periods against one of the best teams in the country made for an exciting weekend of hockey. (This is also my first Diary post so go easy on me!) I'd like to make more of these when I travel to away games in the future.
See you in the Fall!
-Patrick Barron
Frank Beamer at the UM coaches clinic
About me: See the Art Briles post. TL;DNR summary. I am a doctor in Toledo who played center and LB in high school and safety at Cornell. I have been going to UM coaches clinics since RichRod as a "prepare to do something new" pre-retirement strategy and to be more of a football insider and a better fan.
About Frank Beamer: Beamer grew up in rural Virginia and spent most of his life coaching football within a few miles of where he grew up. He was a three sport star athlete in high school and started three years at cornerback for Virginia Tech. He went to grad school at Radford University a mere 15 miles from VaTech and became an assistant coach for the high school football team. He became a grad assistant at Maryland, the defensive coordinator for several years at The Citadel under Bobby Ross and then the DC and eventual head coach at Murray State. He was named head coach at Va Tech in in 1986 after NCAA violations led to the firing of Bill Dooley. His choice was controversial but he became one of the most successful coaches of all time, winning multiple conference championships in the Big East and ACC and coach of the year awards in both conferences. After going undefeated in 1999, his team played for a national championship with Michael Vick at QB but lost to Florida State in the Sugar Bowl. At the time of his retirement this year, his VaTech teams hold the current longest active streak with 23 straight bowl game appearances.
About that scar- he was keeping a trash fire contained with a push broom as a kid. When he put the broom back in the garage, he did not notice it was smoldering. He placed it too close to a can of gasoline that exploded. He required dozens of skin grafts to correct those injuries. Just my opinion, but I suspect that after living through that as a kid, you learn how to take the ups and downs of being a coach in perspective.
His presentation style is low key and friendly. He told a story about his first encounter with Harbaugh. They were meeting before the 2011 Orange Bowl. Harbaugh told Beamer how much he was looking forward to playing Georgia Tech. Beamer followed up by saying how happy he was to be playing Samford.
His advice on creating a winning program: As with Briles, I feel many of his comments are good advice for anyone leading a team or organization.
You must be able to relate to your players. They are the only ones who can get you through a crisis and you must prepare for crisis on and off the field. You do this with honest, respect and caring.
Big decisions need the entire staff to be involved. His experience is that this leads to better decisions and better support for those decisions when all feel involved.
Practice is key as it sets the tone for how you play. It should be fast, furious and fun and you have a better tempo when you hit the field for games. Short practices are better than long ones and fast furious and fun helps to make that happen.
If you are delegating an important job, give it to one person. That makes it possible to keep people accountable for performance.
Special teams need special preparation. Special teams play is the quickest way to win or lose a game.He then gave an excellent talk on special teams play. It was quite detailed and probably too long to cover in this format but he did give some good general advice.
He spot practices special teams during practice not at the beginning or the end because that is how it happens in games.
Kick off to one side as it makes for less field to cover. Structure coverage to make the kick receivers run sideways. The coverage must stay in their lanes until the ball takes a direction and then must keep the ball in front of them. Do not overrun the ball.
Practice and use pop up kicks once in a while as they force personnel changes by your opponents.
On kick off returns, the key is to stop the backside gunners away from your general return direction and then set up double teams blocks up the middle or on the return side at your chosen point of attack.
Spread punt protection (pro-style with gunners out wide and blockers in slot positions) makes it easier to cover kicks but harder to defend against blocked kicks. Shield protection (seven on the line and three blockers in front of the punter) makes it easier to protect the punter but harder to cover the kick. He would always be fine with high punts for 35+ yards with a fair catch.
If you can get good punting with two steps that is preferable to avoid blocks. You want your long snapper to be fast and an athlete. No one can hit him at the time of the snap, so he can function as one of your gunners down field. You punt protection blocks must be square to create a wall. Footwork is important. Stance with inside foot up and then first step is quick back with the outside foot then second step back brings feet square to form a wall.
Feel free to skip the following but here is an attempt to cover in more detail one part of his talk. Diagrams would help here but I have only hand drawn ones. I do not know how to digitize my drawings and embed. Anyone want to give me a lesson?
Punt blocks and returns: Against a shield formation, put 10 on the line of scrimmage and one receiver deep. For a return right, attack the L end with two players one is to force the kick and contain the kicker and the other maintains a block on the end.
The kick rushers are the next two players inside on the left. They attack the outside gaps of the blockers over them and rush the kick. They slow those linemen in front of them and occupy the shield blockers so there is no reason to block the shield players or punter. Punt blockers must keep their eyes open and avoid any collision course. Block punts with one hand reaching out with the left hand if attempting to block from the left and the reverse on the right. So for a return R, your punt block attempt comes from the L and the reverse.
Once the long snapper leaves the LOS, the man over him pops him once to slow him down then drops quickly back to set the first part of a wall facing left. The right side of the line blocks and maintains the blocks on the men they are covering with a double team on the end. The receiver returns the punt right. You flip all this to return left. He did not have time to discuss the punt block and return against a spread pro-style protection.
Michigan Hockey 15-16, Game #38: North Dakota 5, Michigan 2
If this is Goodbye, then thank you for our program [Patrick Barron]
Michigan Hockey 15-16, Game #37: Michigan 3, Notre Dame 2 (OT)
Random Musings About NCAA Tournament Seeding
It occurred to me that it might be interesting to do a high-level survey of the seeding of both the Final Four as well as the tournament champions and then look at ways we can check expectations (i.e., that the higher seeds should go to the better teams overall) versus results (i.e., the actual seed of the champion).
As some of you may be aware, seeding as only been a thing since 1978, so this was a constraining factor in the data collection, but there is definitely enough there to see some interesting phenomena in the data. A couple things that I did not know, just as examples:
- As much as we talk about 5-12 matchups in the tournament, a #12 has never made it to the Four. An #11 seed has made it, however (three times).
- Only once since the tournament was seeded did all the #1 teams survive to the Final Four (2008)
- Only three times since the tournament was seeded did no #1 teams make it to the Final Four (1980, 2006 & 2011)
There are other interesting tidbits you can glean from it, of course, but something that is just as interesting, or so I believe, is some of the other trends buried in the data.
First, here's the seed count for all 152 teams which have graced seeded Final Fours in the NCAA tournament:
It should look exactly like you might expect, which is the point here. Indeed, by the time you get out to the 4-seed, you are at 82.24% of all teams that have played in a Final Four game, which in 152 games leaves only 27 instances where a team has been lower than the 4-seed (in the case of some years, multiple seeds were lower than that, of course)
Days later, as we know, three of these teams are gone – two in the Final Four and one in the NCAA Championship Game. Here's the seeding frequency of those that won it all:
As you can see, truly quizzical endings to the NCAA Tournament have been a sparse exception statistically, with only four of them ending with a champion that was seeded as lower than a #4, and of course, one of them is that Villanova team (at #8) that made what some have argued is the quintessential Cinderella run some 30 years ago.
What about any sort of performance metric though? I wasn't sure how to approach it – we're just talking about the seeding, after all, so we have to make an assumption that one of the four #1 seeds is the best of the best, or at least that they are deemed such by how they are seeded and what they actually do in the tournament. The expectation then might be that all four of them should make it to the Final Four, but that only happened once to date for as we also know, there are far too many variables in a basketball game, human and technical – the countless upsets in tournament history are a testament to that.
Something that I thought was interesting was to look at the average seeding of the Final Four teams through the years and then build a frequency chart with those averages:
There you see the sole time all participants at this stage of the tournament were #1 seeds, but look at how many times the average has been less than 2.00 – only 10 times. Here's part of the reason:
In 30 of the tournaments since seeding began, the Final Four has seen only one or two of the #1 seeds make it, although as you saw earlier, a #1 seed has won on 21 occasions.
Another assumption we have to consider is seeding as an indicator of projected performance, which is one that we all make typically when doing brackets, but team performance is taken into consideration as well when the committee does lays out the 64 and 4 as well. Taking a shot in the dark regarding how we can use this to look at the performance of the committee as well as the winners versus their seeding, I subtracted the champion's seed from the average of the corresponding year and got this frequency chart:
The overall results are interesting – we find that in 26 of the 38 tournaments which have employed seeding, the champion's seed has fallen above the average seed of the Final Four, which I would argue is "overperforming" in that, well, a higher seed beat the average quite simply. This includes all 21 occurrences of a #1 winning the tournament, but also some outliers – 5 instances where a non-#1 seed won and still outperformed the average seed of the Final Four – 1979, 1980 and 1997, where a #2 won, and 2006 and 2011, where a #3 won.
Here's another chart where you can see how rare the Cinderella story is as well – that -5 belongs to 1985's Villanova team, with an average seed in the Final Four of #3 and Villanova winning it all at #8. It happened again in the 1980s, however – the value -3.5 is 1988's result, where the average seed was 2.50 and the tournament was won by a #6. Of course, there's 1983 as well and that improbable run by North Carolina State at a value of -3.00. These are the examples of the unlikely becoming possible, where a team was probably seeded below their actual potential – misjudged, if you will. Other interesting note – only twice has the average seed of the Final Four matched the seed of the champion – in 2004 (#2 won) and in 2008 (#1 won).
You will note, however, that 22 of these 38 results fall between 0 and 2, meaning that in nearly 60% of the tournaments – at least this is how I read it – the Final Four results versus the champion seed fall fairly close or almost right on the default expectation. In other words, slightly more than half the time, they appear to get it right in the end despite all the chaos that seems to happen in earlier rounds in some years.
A moment of Zen, courtesy of the movie "Crazy People":
My Father's Journey To Michigan Fandom
This story begins with my great grandfather. For the sake of privacy, I will refer to him as "Bill". Bill was born in a extremely strict and discipline orienented household. Bill's father was a WWII veteran, and basically treated Bill like he was in the Marine Corp once he was around the age of 7. This made my great grandfather the person he still is today. For good and bad.
At a young age, Bill was interested in playing football. His father would always talk about the days of Don Hudson, Bronco Nagurski, George Halas, etc... So eventually, Bill took up in playing football. As it turns out, Bill was really good, and really fast. My grandmother still has newspaper clippings of Bill breaking track records at his high school that still stand today! Back then, people usually played 2 positions. Bill played Fullback and Middle Linebacker for his high school varsity team for two years. Bill got calls from Michigan and Michigan St as a senior. In his own words, "It was one of the easiest decisions of my life." Bill decided to attend Michigan St University.
Bill used his upbringing to his advantage. He was never intimidated, scared, or nervous. Whatever Bill went through at home was worse than what he experienced on the football field and he even wanted to be on the field so he could take out some of his built up anger towards his father. Bill exceled at Moo U..uh...I mean MSU. He played 4 years there and lets just say, he enjoyed beating the shit out of Michigan. When he played, MSU was dominating Michigan (Early 50's). To make a long story a little less long, he graduated from Msu and was drafted by the Detroit Lions as a late round pick. Unfortunatley, during the second practice of the season, Bill had his knee blown out. Technology wasn't what it is today, so he couldn't play ever again.
When my dad was a wee lad, he idolized my great grandfather. And why wouldn't he? Bill taught my dad how to hunt, fish, skin deer, change oil, fight, and all of the other things a man is supposed to know how to do. This also included telling him stories about the glory days when he played for MSU. He told my father how their biggest rival, were nothing but spoiled little shits who couldn't even sniff MSU's jockstrap in man's greatest sport. This was worrisome to my dad, who loved watching Bo coach Michigan in the 70's, and didn't want to make his idol and grandad dislike him. Eventually, Bill conditioned my father to become a sparty fan. My dad still respected Michigan and rooted for them when they didn't play Michigan St, but he knew better to tell his family that.
My dad of course wanted to play football like his grandpa before him. My dad played halfback as a starter for three years at his high school. He was 5'9 and 180lbs and averged 20 y.p.c. Bill wanted my dad to play for Michigan St more than anything in the world. My dad didn't have the grades and barely passed his senoir year because he was chasing girls, being popular, and doing all the things you would expect a teenage boy would do. He couldn't even finish the rest of his senoir season because his grades got so bad (oddly enough, he did really well on the SAT) that he had to go to school 6 times a week for the last semester just so he could pass. Bill was enraged at this, and my father told him how he didn't want to play football anymore because he felt like he was just doing it so Bill would get self gratification out of it. Thats when my father and Bill's realationship started to erode.
My dad never played organized football again. The fallout he had with his idol and best friend made him dislike football for a while. It wasn't until his thirties when he saw a replay of Michigan vs Ohio St 1986. Bo was tearing a ref a new one. As my dad told me, "I felt happy about football for the first time in a long time." My dad started watching more replays, read more about Michigan, feeling as if he had missed out on something very special that he didn't witness. My dad said that he officially became a "full on" Meechigan fan in the mid 90's. One day, my family on my dad's side held a game day party. It was Meechigan vs Msu. No one knew he was a Michigan fan. That is until he showed up wearing a Michigan Football t-shirt. He told me their faces were priceless. At first, he said some people thought it was a joke, and some people were snickering. That is when he finally told them that he was a Michigan fan. They laughed at him. Everyone except my grandma. Literally. Every. Single. Person. Laughed. Well, at the end of the day he was laughing because Michigan won 40-20.
Later on my father and my great grandfather mended their realtionship, but not to the full extent to what it used to be. My great grandfather still holds grudges about my dad not doing well enough in school to go on and play college ball, and my dad still hates the fact that Bill only cared if he was going to choose to play for MSU. They still love each other for sure, but when there is a holiday and we are over at a family member's house people can still feel slight tension in the air when they talk to each other.
Football has always been a big deal in my family. Half of us are Michigan fans, and half of us are Sparty fans. My dad was almost brainwashed and basically had no choice to pick which team he supported until he was a grown man. I am forever grateful that my dad let me choose which team I liked, without his opinion mixed in. I am happy my father and I choose the good guys, and not the stupid ass clowns from East Landfill. GO BLUE!!!!!


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Since I raised the possibility two weeks ago that sewage sludge fertilizer could have contaminated the Obamas' White House vegetable garden with lead, there has been a flurry of press on the subject. Various food and gardening blogs and dueling Huffington Posters weighed in, followed by the AP, Reuters, and the New York Times after a White House spokeswoman publicly addressed the lead issue on Thursday. Much of the coverage has sought to quell misperceptions that produce from the White House garden is unsafe to eat. Indeed, as I pointed out in my original post, the levels of lead in the garden are still well below those that the EPA says can cause health impacts. But in obsessing over whether the Obamas are poisoning themselves and their guests--and there's no proof that they are--most of the media missed the more interesting question: Is it really a good idea to grow vegetables on land that has been fertilized with sewage sludge?
The EPA thinks so, and has promoted the practice for decades as an alternative to landfilling sludge or dumping it in the ocean. In what was probably the single most effective component of a vast marketing campaign for sludge fertilizer, the National Park Service tilled it into the White House's South Lawn through much of the 1990s. Interest in the President's preferred brand of sludge spiked to the point that its makers had a hard time meeting the demand. Today, more than half the poop flushed in America ends up as fertilizer.
The safety of sludge might not be such a concern when it's spread your lawn and covered in a layer of grass, but chew on this: Food companies such as H.J. Heinz and Del Monte won't accept produce grown on sludge-treated land. The Netherlands and Switzerland effectively ban the use of sludge on farmland, and the practice is expressly prohibited by the USDA's organics standards. If sludge has been spread on the South Lawn anytime since about 2006, the Obamas' pesticide-free garden could not be certified as organic.
The human poop in sludge isn't necessarily the problem. Sludge can contain traces of anything that gets poured down the drain, from Prozac flushed down toilets to lead hosed off factory floors. The EPA sets concentration limits for several heavy metals found in sludge, including lead, but the limits are higher than what is deemed safe in some European countries. For example, the EPA permits sludge to contain up to 300 parts per million of lead, but the Netherlands raises concerns about soil with more than 40 ppm of lead.
In the case of the Obama garden, I would be less concerned about lead--which turned up at about 93 ppm, a fairly normal level for urban areas--than with a host of other potential contaminants. Substances like PBDEs, which are highly bioaccumulative and being phased out, and PFOA, a probable human carcinogen, have turned up at high levels in sludge yet are not regulated by the EPA. When I investigated the EPA's sludge policies recently, I turned up this example:
In 1979, a Georgia dairyman named Andy McElmurray started applying locally produced sludge fertilizer to his fields. Over the next several years, nearly half his 700 cows died from severe diarrhea. The EPA didn't test his soil, but McElmurray hired his own experts, who concluded that his sludge had contained high levels of thallium. A toxic metal that is the active ingredient in rat poison, thallium rarely turns up in sewage, but it was used as a catalyst by a nearby NutraSweet factory. When McElmurray's experts sampled a local milk brand, they detected thallium at levels more than 11 times above the legal limit for drinking water.
McElmurray sued the federal government for disaster relief, claiming sludge had destroyed his farm. He finally won the case last year. "I believe that if the farmer knew the truth, he would never put sludge on his farmland," he says. "It's all a smoke-and-mirrors game that the EPA has played." His view was echoed by the federal judge who ruled in his favor, finding that "senior EPA officials took extraordinary steps to quash scientific dissent and any questioning of the EPA's biosolids program."
And lest you think the EPA has cleaned up its act, check out this extremely recent scandal:
In May 2007, the EPA learned that sludge had contaminated as many as 5,000 acres of grazing land [in Lawrence County, Alabama] with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a probable carcinogen used in Teflon. The chemical was traced back to a local manufacturer that had dumped contaminated wastewater straight into the sewer. The case prompted the EPA to issue its first-ever advisory on PFOA in drinking water, but it did not ban the dumping of the chemical into sewers or require sludge to be tested for it. Even though the exceedingly high PFOA concentrations in the Lawrence County fields could pose a health threat to animals or humans, as of press time, the Department of Agriculture hadn't tested local cattle for the chemical.
For context, it's important to keep in mind that sludge is widely used in US agriculture and hasn't been shown to make people sick (though there are many anecdotal cases). For a full exploration of the debate over sludge, I highly suggest you read our feature story in the May/June issue, "Sludge Happens."
UPDATE: Response to the New York Times.

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Crouch as a defender
can you imagine a team of 11 crouch'sSort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
If you have 11 Crouchs in team, you may have to wait 264 hours (11 x 24 hours) before scoring a goal.
But seriously, tall players are slower on the ground. They can take care of the high balls, but they need to be fast on the turn to deal with speedy players. I don't fancy Crouch as a central defender.
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adding to what you are saying SohCK, apart from speed on the floor and turning, crouch doesn't really have a physical presence that a defender needs.
if he was stronger and used his body more, he would score far more goals than he does now.
unfortunately, he is a gentle giant in every sense of the word. you can't really teach someone to be more aggressive, you either are or arn't aggressive. and crouch isn't.


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You'll be heading for fun and lots of laughter with Headbanz--the best guessing game you'll ever play! Each player puts on a Headbanz band, then places a picture card into their band. You can see what all the other players have in their headbands, but you've got to find out--by asking questions--what's in YOUR headband! Try to guess before time runs out because, if you do, you get rid of one of your three tokens. The first player to get rid of their three tokens... wins!
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text: public schools Snyder urges calm, cites 'misperception' on school closures By The Associated Press • Aug 26, 2016 steve carmody / Michigan Radio LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder is urging calm ahead of Michigan's release of the lowest-performing public schools, saying there is a "misperception" that schools will be closed. He said Friday that Michigan is required to publish the bottom 5 percent list by next week, but he told The Associated Press it is wrong to assume listed schools will receive closure notices. Charter high school abruptly shuts down, just weeks before school starts By Kate Wells • Aug 23, 2016 Brett Levin / Creative Commons http://michrad.io/1LXrdJM Tregan Bradley, a rising senior at University YES Academy in Detroit, had been hearing rumors from his teachers over the summer. "One of my favorite teachers, she told me that they're not sure if they're going to be opening up the high school, like around July or June," he says. "I called her, I was checking in with her, because I was missing her and stuff." Just seven new charter schools are opening in Mich. this fall By Kate Wells • Aug 22, 2016 flickr This is an unusually slow year for new charter schools, according to the state charter association, which says the seven charters opening this fall are "among the fewest in history." "Only six schools opened last year," the Michigan Association of Public Schools Academies said in its release today. "That was the fewest since 2008, when seven schools opened under the charter cap. (The cap on university-authorized schools was lifted by the Legislature and Governor Snyder in 2011.)" After 20 years, has school choice just made self-segregation easier? By Ryan Grimes • Apr 8, 2016 wikimedia user motown31 / http://michrad.io/1LXrdJM Listen Listening... / 11:01 Our conversation with Brian Davis Michigan's Schools of Choice program is now 20 years old. In some parts of the state, the competition for students can be intense. Public school districts put up yard signs, families are sometimes offered gifts to sign up for a school out of district, and the number of publicly funded, privately run charter schools has increased. State superintendent wants to see Michigan education lead the nation within the next decade By Ryan Grimes • Feb 26, 2016 Michigan Department of Education Listen Listening... / 10:40 Our conversation with Brian Whiston Across the state, many Michigan schools are struggling to keep pace with national averages. The U.S. as a whole is struggling to keep up with other advanced countries. It's a major challenge, and in response, Michigan Superintendent Brian Whiston has announced the Top 10 in 10 Years plan. He aims to make Michigan one of the top 10 states for education within the next decade. Several Michigan schools close due to social media threats By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jan 25, 2016 flickr user Motown31 / http://michrad.io/1LXrdJM Several schools around the state closed Monday in response to threats made on social media over the weekend. Four schools closed for the day, and one school has heightened security as a result. University Prep Academy, University Prep Science and Math, Lake Orion High School, and Lincoln High School all closed Monday as a result of threats. Cass Technical High School in Detroit received a threat, but remained open as officials investigate. Teachers tell us class sizes are getting bigger in Michigan By Mark Brush & Jennifer Guerra • Dec 3, 2015 Michigan Radio We're going to go out on a limb here and say most parents want to know how their child's school measures up in terms of standardized test scores, graduation rates, demographics and so on. Another big question parents ask when looking at a school: "How many kids are in a typical classroom?" When you hear people talk about ineffective school systems, you'll often hear something like, "there aren't enough desks or books," or "there are more than 30 kids in that classroom." In Detroit, Lots Of Options For Turning Fs Into Cs By Jennifer Guerra • Jun 8, 2015 The US high school graduation rate is at an all-time high. But why? NPR Ed partnered with 14 member stations around the country to bring you the stories behind that number. Check out the whole story here. And find out what's happening in your state. Legislative report offers recommendations to increase third-grade reading levels By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jun 4, 2015 Phil Dowsing Creative / Flickr A legislative workgroup has released a report outlining ways to help Michigan students struggling with early literacy. The Third Grade Reading Workgroup, which was created by Gov. Rick Snyder in March, recommends at least 90 minutes of diagnostic-driven, individualized reading instruction per day. Michigan Radio/PSC poll finds no strong support for Snyder's DPS funding plan By Michigan Radio Newsroom • May 27, 2015 Sarah Cwiek / Michigan Radio Voters believe providing education for Detroit students is the state's duty, but don't think Governor Snyder's recent proposal is the way to do it, according a recent poll conducted by Public Sector Consultants and Michigan Radio. Of the 600 likely voters polled, 82% agreed the state has an obligation to provide a quality education to all kids in Detroit, but answers varied when it came down to how to fund that education. For some student teachers, a 5th year just for classroom management By Kate Wells • Apr 2, 2015 Kate Wells / Michigan Radio All this week we're talking about teacher training. But there's one thing that's almost impossible to teach students in college: how to manage a classroom. At this elementary school, even professors sit in the little chairs By Tracy Samilton • Mar 31, 2015 Auburn Elementary Listen Listening... / 3:33 A new partnership between Oakland University's School of Education and Avondale School District places education students in courses at an elementary school rather than the college campus. In many undergraduate education programs, students spend a lot of time in the university classroom to prepare them for their student teaching in the final year. Until that placement, theory sometimes has little chance to meet up with practice. Thoughts on how to improve teacher evaluations in Michigan By Stateside Staff • Mar 30, 2015 user Wonderlane / Flickr Listen Listening... / 9:29 Listen to our interview with Michelle Richard, an education specialist with Public Sector Consultants. There's wide agreement among education experts that teacher quality is the most important school-based factor in how students do in school. Here's what you remember your teachers saying to you By Kimberly Springer • Mar 30, 2015 The Teachable Moment Project collected remembrances from you of the teachers in your life. By intentionally leaving "memorable words" open to your interpretation, we heard from you about teachers who inspired you, as well as teachers who derailed dreams. If you aren't worried about education in Michigan, you just flunked the common sense test By Jack Lessenberry • Mar 20, 2015 Virtually everyone who doesn't have a political reason to pretend otherwise would agree that the Detroit public schools are a dreadful failure. More than three-quarters of its students have fled the district in the last 14 years. Test scores remain appallingly low, and a succession of emergency managers has failed to stabilize the finances. Most children in the district now go to charters, private schools or schools in the suburbs, a clear vote of no confidence by Detroit parents. What's the most memorable thing a teacher has said to you? By Kimberly Springer • Mar 2, 2015 Wikipedia / National Archives & Records Administration Most of us can remember an influential teacher, or a significant moment we had with a former teacher. Whether they were words of advice or words that put you in your place, these teachable moments can ring in your ears from school days gone by. Poll finds only 35% give Michigan schools an A or a B By Mark Brush • Feb 16, 2015 Matt Katzenberger / Flickr Most people in a Michigan Radio/Public Sector Consultants poll would give Michigan a "C" when it comes to the state's education system. Six-hundred likely voters in Michigan were polled from February 2 through February 5, 2015. Thirty-five percent gave Michigan's school system an A or a B - 49% gave Michigan a C, D, or an F (16% were unsure or didn't offer an answer). Ann Arbor considering later high school start time By Stateside Staff • Dec 16, 2014 Nicolae Gerasim / Flickr Listen Listening... / 5:23 Our interview with Andy Thomas The American Academy of Pediatrics says teens need to sleep later. The Academy is challenging America's schools to not start high school classes until at least 8:30 a.m. The future of standardized testing in Michigan By Stateside Staff • Nov 17, 2014 user alkruse24 / flickr http://michrad.io/1LXrdJM What might the lame-duck legislative session hold for Michigan schools? This is the time lawmakers often make a big push to pass pet bills and there are several in play right now that could mean big changes for students and teachers. Chastity Pratt Dawsey, reporter for Bridge Magazine, and Michelle Richard, senior consultant for Public Sector Consultants, joined us today. You can listen to our conversation with them below: Listen Listening... / 13:04 Has public education funding gone up or down under Gov. Snyder's watch? By Mark Brush • Oct 16, 2014 Gov. Snyder's office, and Schauer campaign. Update 11:20 a.m. As predicted, the debate rages on. Tons of people have written about this issue over the last year, and today the Citizens Research Council released some more analysis on this question, so we thought we'd add their findings to this post we published last May. (Our investigative reporter, Lester Graham, is also looking into this question and will have more for us in the coming weeks.) What did the Citizens Research Council find? You can read the full-report here, but in short they tackled these three questions: Michigan schools get $3 million in federal grants to improve schools' learning environments By Mark Brush • Sep 24, 2014 DPS / Flickr The Michigan Education Department and four of the state's school districts have been awarded nearly $3 million in federal grants to improve school safety and learning conditions. The U.S. Education Department announced the grants as part of its effort to improve school safety around, reduce gun violence, and improve mental health services. More from the U.S. Department of Education's press release: To help keep students safe and improve their learning environments, the U.S. Department of Education awarded more than $70 million to 130 grantees in 38 states… "If we can't help protect kids and staff, and make them feel safe at school, then everything else that we do is secondary," said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. "If kids don't feel safe, they can't learn. It's that simple. Through these grants of more than $70 million, we are continuing our commitment to ensure that kids have access to the best learning experience possible." Here are the grants awarded in Michigan: State superintendent backs "early warning system" for districts in financial trouble By Jake Neher • Sep 11, 2014 Sharon Drummond / Flickr Michigan's top education official says he supports legislation designed to prevent schools from getting into financial trouble. State Superintendent Mike Flanagan today released a report showing the number of districts with budget deficits has not improved in recent months. He says the legislation would create an "early warning system" so the state can intervene before districts fall into deficit. But Flanagan says the legislation should not be so broad that hundreds of schools get flagged. "I think right now they have to reduce the number of factors so that you don't have 250 on call. You want a reasonable number that you're watching that are potentially deficit, not so many that you can't really do justice to it." The bills would free up money in state loans and bonds for schools that show signs of budget problems. Republican state Senator Howard Walker is sponsoring the legislation. He says it would also make it easier for the state to appoint an emergency manager if districts don't cooperate. "Let's identify them early. Let's help them. And if districts are willing to blow through those red flags, well, then there's going to be consequences. And I think those consequences being out there will serve as a deterrent." Schools groups worry it would be too easy for the state to put districts under an emergency manager. They also say hundreds of districts would be flagged the way the legislation is currently written. New alliance seeks to restore public education funding through political action By Tracy Samilton • Aug 28, 2014 Tracy Samilton A new political alliance says it will try to help elect Mark Schauer as Michigan Governor in November, along with other politicians who want to restore public education funding. Michigan Teachers and Allies for Change held its first rally in Ann Arbor Thursday evening. About 250 people, many of them teachers, attended. Most were from Ann Arbor. But one teacher drove all the way from Marquette to support the cause. Michigan's superintendent predicts institutions will lose authority to create charter schools By Jake Neher • Jul 9, 2014 user LizMarie_AK / Wikimedia Commons The statement comes a day after state Superintendent of Schools Mike Flanagan said he's ready to use his authority to revoke that ability from charter school authorizers. That's if they fail to meet new standards for transparency set by state education officials. Flanagan says he met with authorizers in February about issues involving charters. He says he's not convinced all of them will be able to meet the new, tougher standards. "If I had to guess, just because of the candor at the February meeting, there's probably some that we won't extend their ability," Flanagan said Tuesday. "But I don't want to pre-judge that too much. That's only hearing the anecdotal stuff." Michigan's program for troubled schools has a new leader By Stateside Staff • Jun 24, 2014 Jane M Sawyer / morgue file Listen Listening... / 7:19 Michigan's Education Achievement Authority, formed in 2011, was created to help failing schools. It currently operates 15 schools in Detroit. EAA Chancellor John Covington stepped down with one year left on his contract. What does this mean for the EAA and the students in its 15 schools? Bridge Magazine education writer Chastity Pratt Dawsey covers the EAA extensively. She said there had been talk for months that Covington was going to resign. Veronica Conforme was named the interim replacement. She's from New York City, where she was Chief Operating Officer for New York City public schools. Pratt said it's unclear if they are going to keep Conforme at the helm or if they are going to hire someone new. Pratt added that the EAA had to do damage control in the media and let everyone know that they are trying to do better. "There were some misgivings about [Covington's] leadership and whether or not the EAA was going in the right direction," Pratt said. Pratt added that the EAA had problems since it was put together hastily in 2011. In its first year, it was supposed to be funded by donations, which has not been done for any school in the United States. "The first year, the donations did not come in as expected. They get the kids the second year of operations, they don't get the Title I money that they think they are going to get," Pratt said. The EAA had to borrow money, using the Detroit Public Schools as a conduit. They started to lose students. MEAP scores were lower than promised. Their online individualized education plan did not see the success people thought it would. State legislators even complained about a lack of transparency in the system, and that Covington had a lucrative contract. Pratt said that the EAA needs to turn around their academics. Parents and teachers are saying they want results, not excuses. "Do something, make it happen. Otherwise, what was the point?" Pratt said. *Listen to full interview above. -Bre'Anna Tinsley, Michigan Radio Newsroom. Detroit Public Schools misses out on $4 million in Head Start funds By Stateside Staff • Jun 11, 2014 Mercedes Mejia / Michigan Radio Listen Listening... / 7:43 When you are a school district where more than 80% of your students live in poverty, every penny that helps those students is critical. And that's why there has been a collective gasp of disbelief, even anger, with the news that Detroit Public Schools has lost $4 million in Head Start funding. The reason DPS lost the money is because they missed the application deadline. A school spokesperson blamed a technical problem in uploading the application. Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley joined us on our show. *Listen to our conversation with Rochelle above. Senior prank season in full swing at Michigan high schools By Mark Brush • Jun 4, 2014 The end of the school year is upon us. It puts high school administrators on high alert. Sometimes they don't have to worry about much. Even though their seniors try it, no, their high school won't be sold on Craigslist. Seniors at Skyline High School in Ann Arbor gave it a go. As did seniors at Freeland High School in Mid-Michigan. This kind of prank is harmless and fun. Even the more mature members of the community can appreciate this type of prank – as this news segment shows: A look at how we fund schools in Michigan By Stateside Staff • Apr 30, 2014 Sarah Hulett / Michigan Radio Listen Listening... / 10:24 The way Michigan schools are funded is complex and emotionally charged. Proposal A was passed in 1994. It was a new system for funding schools. It stopped the use of local property taxes as a source of school funding. Instead, it created a new state education tax, and it boosted the state sales tax from four to six cents on the dollar. The extra two cents goes to the school aid fund. Twenty years after the changes, one thing many Michiganders agree on is that it's time to overhaul Proposal A, but there are many views on how to do that. This week, Bridge Magazine is featuring a series of reports by Chastity Pratt Dawsey looking at how we fund schools in Michigan. Dawsey joined us today. *Listen to our conversation with her above. School districts get leeway in making up snow days By Mark Brush • Apr 21, 2014 Mark Brush / Michigan Radio LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Michigan is giving school districts more flexibility in making up for snow days this academic year. Districts that had scheduled more than the required 174 days of school can now hold just that number if they still meet the required 1,098 hours per school year. Schools that exceeded the six canceled days allowed under state law may not need makeup days. Schools that need to add more days to the end of the school year can receive state funding as long as they have 60% of students in attendance on those days. That's down from the regular 75% attendance requirement. Gov. Rick Snyder recently signed legislation allowing for the changes after record snowfall and harsh temperatures this past winter. Muskegon Heights school system continues its struggle to meet payroll, asks state for more money By Lindsey Smith • Apr 10, 2014 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Muskegon Heights Public School Academy System is asking the state to front $191,000 to cover paychecks that are set to go out this Tuesday. It's the second time this month the district has asked for an advance. The advance would come out of the district's state aid payment April 20. Earlier this month the state advanced $231,000. State treasury officials say the district typically gets roughly $455,000 a month after debt obligations. School board officials have previously declined requests for comment from Michigan Radio. Reports out today say board members also declined to comment to reporters at the special board meeting today, which lasted approximately five minutes. Charter company Mosaica Education is running the district. The company's CEO has not returned repeated requests for comment this week. Mosaica's Regional VP of Operations Alena Zachery-Ross says advancements for struggling school districts aren't completely uncommon. She says the district is working on a plan to meet payroll for the rest of the year but couldn't comment on the details of those negotiations. Pages1 2 3 4 5 next › last »


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I hate Desmond Howard.
Wal-Mart sells monkeys??
Probably made in China.
Such lofty expectations will come with even more hilarious failures. Can't wait!!!
Medicore son??
Not if he's born in Ohio!!
That's how he maintains this...
This might be my favorite 11W piece... EVER!
Bravo DJ - Happy New Year everyone!!
Disagree - he took a job in his home state with limited expectations and in a weak conference that he could put his stamp on - MENSA move imo. I would like to think he'd eventually replace Urban, but I see him coaching the Longhorns in the near future.
Durkin and Smart are qualified by the way. Both are proven.
More women's volleyball pics please.
Mike Hart - I remember that guy lol
UV for naming your kid after Brax!!
I am only brave enough to name pets Woody & Crafty!
WOW - I would love to see the Buckeyes kick the snot out of ND (again)!
Its top shelf quality content like this that makes me LOVE 11W.
I've been laughing and laughing - Thank you for sharing this!!!
...like a mixture of Tom Brady and Herschel Walker.
That is exactly how it felt that day watching that '07 game. It was hard watching the better team lose that day.
They just dropped 3 in a row to Utah... let that sink in Michigan Men. Now we'll have to hear "Wait til he gets a couple recruiting classes of his OWN guys". Urban won 24 in a row without his OWN guys... even (Michigan Man) Hoke went 11-2 in his first year.
This is nothing more than a dumpster fire of a has-been program selling its former glory but barely delivering MAC level football. Did that look any different than last year's team - tell me where the improvements are? Peppers & Butt are players.., but NO running game?? Nice kicker too!? Seriously Michigan you are embarrassing the B10.
I was praying the dude would drop a heisman pose on that pick six, otherwise it was very enjoyable to watch Jimmy lose.
...the SEC pics get better & better
Love that SEC pic... great choice!
Sounds like a beautiful place... but its not THIS.
Got my tattoo there too!! True Story.
I would like to point out one very special person on the OSU DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR-ATHLETES list... Taylor Ford. Being on this list is awesome, excelling in neuroscience makes you super smart but her smartest move was leaving AA for tOSU. Go Bucks!
Red Right Hand reminds me of Peaky Blinders. Thankful for the wise man's advice on that one - GREAT show!
Ahhh - I see why the Barnes kid is transferring. FUGLY!
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Regents approve six new doctoral progrms
The state Board of Regents added six new doctorate programs Friday.
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Coverage in the city of Springfield is pretty good, but once you get outside the city limits, it's poor. Saving money by switching to T-Mobile is tempting, but don't do it. I went right back to AT&T and am very happy. Also, there is a big disconnect between what they tell you in the store and what customer service tells you. Trust me, stay away!Was this review helpful to you?
Awful coverage recently. Used to be good, but they must have changed a tower or something.Was this review helpful to you?
Very seldom get 4lte anywhere and if I'm in a place of business I can forget getting much of a signal at all. Only way I can get much done is when connected to wifi. Leaving Sprint as I write this review.Was this review helpful to you?
Having a condo in Florida, I found I enjoy driving mostly. I can tell from my experience. I only lose coverage around the Arkansas state line, a 14 mile area. Not bad for a 1200 mile trip. Working around truck drivers all day, they will tell you the same. Most people don't use their heads when buying a phone. A lot of people think they most have these big screen fancy phones which is lacking for picking up a tower. If you really think about it the free phone that comes with the service plan is the best one for getting better service. Since phone companies don't want a phone that won't pick up a tower correctly. They will give you the best one for their service to keep the account... ... ..Was this review helpful to you?
forced to purchase in house booster; only helps for outgoinng calls ; never helps incoming call receptionWas this review helpful to you?
There are MANY consistent dead zones inside the city of Springfield. Traveling out toward Lebanon on I-44 there are several dead zones; same thing traveling toward Joplin on I-44; traveling to Buffalo down US65 or Bolivar on MO13 again, several regular dead zones. Heading down 60 toward Seymour / Hartville several regular dead zones. Don't even think about heading toward Ava, Gainesville, Theodosia if you want to use your phone at all. The "good" thing is that you learn quickly where you can't use T-Mobile because it is the same places all the time. The strangest part is on I44, MO13, and US65 it is when you get close to a cell tower that the signal drops. It almost feels like, in those cases maybe it's a phone issue but I honestly have not been able to investigate with a different phone, just my Nokia (don't laugh I buy cheap phones and go no-contract on purpose lol :-) ). To be fair I doubt any carrier has great coverage south of 60., but I am not satisfied with the coverage in Springfield Metro at all and I can't think of a good excuse for that. I wasn't thrilled with Sprint's metro coverage either. AT&T was good but we'd had a falling out over my package being "discontinued and no longer available" so I left them (that was probably 6 years ago). I still have Verizon and US Cellular to try so hooray!Was this review helpful to you?
Have had Verizon for years without much issue. Bolivar, Willard and all around MO. Just moved to the Dollar General area of W. Kearney. Have next to no coverage in my home even with the extender they sent me.Was this review helpful to you?
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Talk about a hidden Gem! I knew little of US Cellular but referred by a co-worker who always seemed to have coverage where I didn't (AT&T). We're in the service industry and literally travel to every area of SW Mo. Unbelievable! Was just in HURLY and had 4 bars AND 4G! I've never had a glimpse of service there with anyone! Sparta, Reeds Spring, Fordland, So of Nixa - all areas I couldn't get coverage with AT&T are AWESOME with US Cellular. Plus, lower rates and great people! No more waiting in line! Highly recommend!Was this review helpful to you?
Sprint service is extremely inconsistent in the Springfield, MO area. If you spend any time at all in the South East shopping district (Battfield Mall down to Home Depot), expect no data service whatsoever. This is unexceptable, and I will never do business with Sprint again.Was this review helpful to you?
Switched to T-Mobile from Verizon and couldn't be happier. We have great LTE coverage all over town, other than inside buildings occasionally (more a GSM than T-Mobile problem though). Inside our house our coverage drops a little bit, but with wifi calling it doesn't matter anyways. Faster LTE than we had with Verizon. Super impressed. Give them a shot!Was this review helpful to you?


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Hephzibah charter school application denied
Updated: 10/31/2013 - State commission denies application for Hephzibah charter school.
Updated: 10/31/2013 - State commission denies application for Hephzibah charter school.
Updated: 10/30/2013 - For weeks, angry students have been contacting News 12 by the dozens. They tell us Denmark Technical College has been withholding their financial aid reimbursement checks for far too long.
Updated: 10/25/2013 - A strange, accidental shooting lands a college student behind bars. It all went down on a basketball court inside the gym at a local college campus. Voorhees College is just 50 miles east of Augusta in Denmark. News 12's Chad Mills went there to find out what happened.
Updated: 10/23/2013 - Their crimes range from drug trafficking to aggravated assault to murder. Some served just a few months, others were locked up for years, but each one has the same message.
Updated: 10/22/2013 - Aiken County School Board members are drawing up the plans for a possible penny sales tax. On Tuesday night, board members voted unanimously to schedule a meeting with local state representatives and senators to get the ball rolling.
Updated: 10/08/2013 - The board made a goal a few years ago to keep every school around 85 percent full, but they say some have fallen well below that number and closing them could save a lot of money. They've hired consultants to do research and give recommendations on potential closings.
Updated: 10/02/2013 - A News 12 investigation is shining the light on a flaw in the hiring policy at Richmond County Schools. Parents want to know how a fired custodian accused of touching multiple girls inappropriately was allowed to keep working in local schools.
Updated: 09/28/2013 - She got pregnant at age 13. He dropped out of high school at 16. But just last month the mother and son walked across the stage together, earning their PhDs. It was a day they never thought they'd see.
Posted: 09/26/2013 - Georgia's average score on this year's SAT college entrance exam was unchanged from last year, mirroring a national trend as scores were generally stagnant for a third year.
Updated: 09/23/2013 - Some Richmond County School bus drivers are saying this might be the end of the road for them after learning of a pay cut. Williams says four bus drivers have resigned since getting the news.
Updated: 09/18/2013 - Reginald Price is accused of hugging the girls and inappropriately touching their buttocks. He was also accused of this same thing in an Aiken County school. Now the mother of an alleged victim is saying the second incident never should have happened.
Updated: 09/10/2013 - The Richmond County Board of Education has yet to take up the issue, but the group pushing for it continues to develop their plan. At Monday's city commission meeting the group unveiled architectural designs for the Hephzibah Charter School. Tuesday, they will go before the State Charter Commission.
Updated: 09/03/2013 - Officials say a school bus driver is at fault for failing to yield in an accident that happened at the intersection of Wire Road and Rudy Mason Parkway Tuesday morning.
Posted: 08/30/2013 - Some students say there is not enough parking even in remote campus lots to support the increase in student population this semester, but we obtained numbers from campus police that seem to tell a different story.
Posted: 08/30/2013 - Most university students in the area are getting into the swing of school and many are still struggling to get textbooks for the semester. USC Aiken has started a new program to offer a cheaper option to students and we're on your side with ways college students can save.
Posted: 08/30/2013 - Just over a week ago, a man fired shots at an Atlanta school. Here in our area, Columbia County has been working to up school security with buzz-in entries in most schools.
Updated: 08/28/2013 - Several parents reached out to News 12 after one Burke County mother spoke out about being fed up with her daughter getting in trouble because of what she was wearing. Now, the district is responding.
Updated: 08/27/2013 - The semester has just started, and already, one local college is investigating a stabbing on campus. Tuesday, the victim of that alleged attack is speaking out, and she's showing video of the incident exclusively to News 12's Chad Mills.
Posted: 08/27/2013 - Many schools work to keep up with new technology in the classroom. Now, Aiken County is pushing a new tech program that's putting an iPad in every third grade student's hand.
Posted: 08/27/2013 - One Burke County mother is fed up with her child getting punished for dress code problems.
Updated: 08/25/2013 - 50 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Gave a speech that was a stepping stone to end segregation. And while thousands are in dc to re-live that special day--one woman has a piece of history right here in Augusta. News12 spoke to her on Saturday and saw the original paper program from the historic speech she kept it for two reasons. First, to never forget where she came from but more importantly to honor her brother who was there for the speech and helped the movement--right here in Georgia.
Updated: 08/23/2013 - Several snakes have been spotted at one local high school and that has students and parents talking. A number of them have been caught and killed at Wagener-Salley High School in Aiken County. But should parents be concerned?
Posted: 08/23/2013 - Recently released numbers show South Carolina high school students did better on the ACT this year. In our area, Aiken County did well and Aiken High School had the highest score.
Posted: 08/22/2013 - School officials at Georgia Southern University have released information about a potential health threat on campus involving a man who is HIV positive.
Updated: 07/15/2015 - Now that everyone is back to school in our area, there may be some adults who are looking into continuing their education. Aiken County's Adult Education program is offering classes for adult learners free of charge.


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Cities And Towns Demand Big Money From Medical Marijuana FacilitiesIn the four years since Massachusetts voters gave the green light to medical marijuana, only six facilities have opened across the entire state--and it may be because cities and towns are demanding big money to approve them.
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