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Alzheimer’s Bingo at the Mary Brown Library
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] The September meeting of Senior’s Social at Lake Butler’s Mary C. Brown Library featured a presenter who educated the group about Alzheimer’s. Donna Lee, the program manager for the Central and North Florida Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, said she had intended to drive the organization’s brain bus to the September … Read more
Practical nursing program sets enrollment record – Most come from outside Bradford County
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] The Practical Nursing Program at North Florida Technical College set a record enrollment this year with 41 students out of 47 applications. Instructors Becky McCord and Lynn Dickinson said they have been promoting the program to community groups over the past year, pointing to their program’s perfect passing rate on the … Read more
Brooker Community School welcomes new principal
BY CAROL MOSLEY Special to the Telegraph Brooker Community School is preparing for the new school year with lots of changes in the works, including the addition of sixth grade. The charter school also hopes to add voluntary prekindergarten. Enrollment is twice that of last year with about 80 students expected this year thanks to … Read more
Update: Free food for youth over the summer
Three new sites added! Bradford County School District will be serving free breakfasts and lunches to students over the summer at several locations throughout the county. The schedules vary from site to site, but here is a roundup of what the district has to offer. Bradford High School 581 N. Temple Ave. in Starke Breakfast … Read more
Van Zant: remember the families of fallen service members
BY DAN HILDEBRAN [email protected] The new city manager of Keystone Heights gave the address at the city’s Memorial Day ceremony, organized by AMVETS Post 86. The former Army helicopter pilot told the crowd about two men he knew personally who gave their lives for their country. The first was the father of Ethan Chapman. Ethan … Read more
KHHS’ Cunningham receives $2,500 Avril Family Foundation Scholarship
BY CLIFF SMELLEY [email protected] Recent Keystone Heights High School graduate Amber Cunningham was the first recipient of the Cliff Avril Family Foundation Trade School Bound Scholarship, which she received during on May 23 at KHHS. Cliff Avril, a 2004 Clay High School graduate who played linebacker in the NFL, presented the $,2500 scholarship to Cunningham, … Read more
