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The Madison County School District will conduct the Georgia Milestone exams to students in third through 12th grade later this spring. According to the Georgia Department of Education, the Georgia Milestones Assessment is an exam designed to “provide students with the critical information about their own achievement and their readiness…

Officers arrested the 51-year-old male suspect accused of armed robbery, kidnapping and sexual assault just 45 minutes after receiving a 911 call by the victim on Feb. 28. The caller had been finishing her work duties for the night when she became the victim of a sex crime. While this…

  Members of the Barrow County School System community are voicing their concerns over the recent decision from the federal Department of Education to require standardized testing during the COVID-19 pandemic for the state of Georgia.  “I can tell you every single teacher I have spoken with was very disappointed…

  When Chris and Rhonda Luther planted their first blueberry bush in 2007, neither of them had ever grown blueberries before. Now they have more than 1,200 thriving blueberry bushes of eight different varieties in Union Point, Georgia. These bushes provide blueberries for them to make jam, jelly, and juice…

Long before Wes Blankenship was hosting a podcast for the University of Georgia Athletic Association alongside former Bulldog quarterback D.J. Shockley, he was a sports anchor for WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia. Even back then, Blankenship’s faith in social media was as strong as it is today. “Even while I was…

For local news organizations, being engaged with the local community is essential to finding out what local residents want from their news and what they need to know. However, new media models such as news aggregators and those that include local residents in the journalistic process, are increasingly being used…

  Will Ruff of The Family Recipe discusses with Liam Monast the way his jazz-rock fusion band was affected by COVID-19 and the members’ plans for the post-pandemic future.     Liam Monast is a junior majoring in journalism and minoring in business in the Grady College of Journalism and…