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The finish line   05/23/12 - 12:04am

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About 1,500 Columbia County high school seniors became high school graduates during seven commencement ceremonies held Saturday.

Perhaps the more bittersweet and poignant of Saturday’s graduations was the one for Harlem High School at James Brown Arena, where all public high schools held ceremonies.

For the tradition of moving tassels from one side of their caps to the other as a mark of a graduate, Harlem High seniors swapped their traditional red and black tassels to those colored orange and blue.

 

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Jake Ivey scholarship given   05/20/12 - 1:42am

 

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Business openings   05/20/12 - 1:43am

 

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Editorial cartoon   05/16/12 - 2:09am

 

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   05/16/12 - 12:07am

Vendors sought

The annual Rotary Club of Columbia County yard sale will be held 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Colum­bia County Fairgrounds on Columbia Road. For vendor spaces, call Connie Redmond at (706) 863-5500. Admission is free; parking costs $2.

Concert

The ensemble Rivien will perform in concert at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, 3551 Wheeler Road, Augusta. Tickets cost $10 and are available by calling (706) 736-4575.

MOWW meets

 

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   05/16/12 - 12:07am

Officers wait tables for a cause

 

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   05/16/12 - 12:06am

Earth Fest brings buzz to Evans

 

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Commissioners approve Gateway facility construction   05/15/12 - 7:50pm

Columbia County commissioners approved a more than $7 million bid Tuesday to build a new exhibition hall in the Gateway shopping center near Grovetown. Augusta-based McKnight Construction Co. won the nearly $7.3 million project to build the multi-purpose exhibition hall that also will house a Family Y facility. Construction should start during the first week of June and is scheduled to be completed by early 2013, said county Construction and Maintenance Services Director Matt Schlachter.

 

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Gallery: Draw Your Mom Contest   05/14/12 - 10:36am

View more than 175 photos in a gallery of Draw Your Mom contest entries.

Gallery: Click here to see the Draw Your Mom Contest entries

 

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Adoption spotlight   05/13/12 - 2:11am

 

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