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Police have arrested a person who was found to have a gun in his car in a high school parking lot Thursday, the Cherokee County School District reports.

The Rotary Club of Canton has presented its annual community service awards to two longtime leaders.

The Cherokee County School District has approved a deal with Cherokee County that could allow the county to build a new fire station near Ball Ground.

The Cherokee County School District plans to hire its own custodians again for next school year after 10 years of outsourcing custodial services, Superintendent Brian Hightower announced.

There were many smiling faces at Knox Elementary School STEM Academy Monday, as students returned to start the academic year.

On Easter Sunday 1971, a large crowd congregated in Clonbroney Cemetery to see Joe Clarke, a veteran of the 1916 Rising, unveil a monument to two of Longford&rs...

The school board hopefuls were described in a ProPublica story detailing how Cecelia Lewis was attacked in both Cherokee County and neighboring Cobb County by white parents making baseless claims.

Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT groups — had other plans.

Reply Clark Creek Elementary School STEM Academy teacher Karen Garland was named a 2021 Excellence in Teaching About Agriculture Award winner. (Provided by Barbara Jacoby) CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA — A Cherokee County School District teacher is a top agriculture teacher in the nation. Clark Creek Elementary School STEM Academy teacher Karen Garland was surprised March 10 with the announcement that she is a 2021 Excellence in Teaching About Agriculture Award winner, one of only eight educators honor...

CANTON - The Cherokee County Board of Education has approved the $7.7 million purchase of 88-acres that could see Cherokee High School move from the west side of Canton to the east side later this decade. When the current building at 930 Marietta Highway opened in the 1950s, Cherokee High was the only high school in Cherokee County, which had a population of less than 25,000 at the time. Since then, five other high schools, along with new middle and elementary schools have been built as the cou...