benefits
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Health
Getting Happier with Horticulture: The Healthy Benefits of Gardening
From planting gardens to baking bread, the COVID-19 lockdown took some interesting turns in the name of boredom. Now, not only are plants continuing to flourish from our nation’s new interest in gardening, people have also begun witnessing the positive changes horticulture has to offer for mental health. According…
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Education
Residents See Benefits, Drawbacks to Hope And Zell Miller Scholarship
Over the last four decades, the cost of college has increased nearly three-fold, rising 5to 6 percent about the rate of inflation. Many students in Georgia depend on the HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarship to help with academic costs, but a new study says these scholarships are disproportionately out of…
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Northeast Georgia News
One Weekend With Two Races to Raise Thousands of Dollars
 — Reported by Lindsay Tuman Runners take your mark! The races were off this weekend with AthHalf and the Athens AIDS walk. Thousands of people put on their running shoes and sprinted all for a good cause. The streets were flooded with runners this weekend. There were two different…