Libby Hobbs
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Visual Journalism
Cleaning the Chattooga: Improving Through Effort, Looking for Collaboration
Pete Roe, a resident of Rabun County, has been cleaning up the Chattooga River and the surrounding Earls Ford Road for the past 15 years. In the beginning, he would take back two entire truck loads worth of trash. Now, he’s only picking up about half of a bag a…
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Athens-Clarke County
Clarke County Schools New Literacy Program Goes Back to Phonics
Clarke County School District (CCSD) is going back to the basics with its new curriculum that supports science of reading and is teaching kindergarten through third-grade students how to read with phonics and syllables. The program, which was implemented in August 2023, aims to build on foundational skills that previous…