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EDUCATION GUIDE 15-28, 2017
High school TV : Student broadc asters link local scho ols to the world
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A: North Spring School studen s Charter High t Amari Mosby right, interv , iews Hanna Quillen.
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B: Westminster students WilliamSchools Bennett Porson Turton and Ireland in Augusbroadcast from t 2016. The Westminster varsity footba team travele ll d to play in the AmeriDublin to can Football Classic.
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C: At Holy Innoce nts’ Episcopal School, Hollis Brecher, left, Faith Wrigh t broadcast fromand the studio while and Katie Smith Jack Wood work behind the scenes.
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A BY DONN A WILL IAMS LEWI S Students are The AV Tech live streaming lab at North assemblies, plays, holida Springs Charter High Schoo y pageants and l crackled with concerts and producing featur creative energy on a recent es that will afternoon as be emailed, played on closed students produced stories circuit televis for their biweek ion systems, or posted on ly news show. Arnardo Vargas Facebook, YouTu , 18, worked be channels, school tro and ending on an inwebsites and streaming netwo for his video Relatives can featuring the rks. school’s Sparta get ns football player great views ations from of graduJaylan McDo s. Seniors across the countr nald and Paris y. (Check out The Westminster Talbert search apps for “positi ed Schools’ 2016 ve” background graduation on YouTube.) their New Teache music for r segment. Parents don’t Senior Matan have to agoniz Berman spliced e ing over their kids’ sportin misshis feature, video for “Stereotypica g events. They l Students,” watch them Amari Mosby can on their phone and , 16, searched s. among the six Westminster iting rooms edsophomore for equipment Turner Cravens knows to film an interview about last first-hand how spring’s school parents rely WCAT, the school trip to Spain, Portugal and on ’s Morocco. station. He recalle student-run online TV Local high school d dealin g s with increasingly was worried a dad who coming broadc are beabout wheth asting and er the station nitely was going filmmaking breeding groun defito cover a basket ds in a state he couldn’t attend with a boomi ball game film industry. ng .
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Feeding the forest
Broken hydrants a focus of water debate
INNOVATION Mount Vernon ’s ‘sc a school’ tackle hool within s real-world projects
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LUNCH MONEY School district s develop policies for unp aid meal bills
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BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net
Water streamed from a broken fire hydrant on Kayron Drive all summer, digging a miniature riverbed along the curb as it flowed about 400 feet away. While the region was under state water-use restrictions due to drought conditions, the leak saturated neighboring lawns into muddy sponges. “I just can’t believe the amount of water,” said resident Richard Cross, pointing out the stream flowing into his lawn and driveway on a September afternoon See BROKEN on page 14
Crowd joins call for new North OUT & ABOUT Springs High PHIL MOSIER
Shannon Hawthorne wheels a load of mulch during Volunteer Day at Lost Corner Preserve on Brandon Mill Road on Sept. 9. She and other volunteers joined the city park’s master gardener, Diana Wood, in tending to plants and making beds of azaleas.
COMMUNITY Residents, visitors cope with historic storm Irma
We have the individual and collective responsibility to let it be known that DACA recipients are brave human beings who are making this nation extraordinarily great.
Southern culture and crafts at History Center
Maritza Morelli Executive Director of Los Ninos Primero,
a nonprofit organization that helps underserved Latino children
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BY JOHN RUCH johnruch@reporternewspapers.net The group advocating for a new North Springs Charter High School building drew about 60 people to its debut meeting Sept. 6 in Sandy Springs. The next step: Trying to draw a similar crowd to a future Fulton County Board of Education meeting to push for a fresh review of the school’s condition before the district starts spending $18 million on still more renovations. “We won’t accept anything less than a new school,” said Jody Reichel, one of the five founding members of Citizens for a New North Springs (CFANNS). Reichel is
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