Students on the Unicoi County 4-H GPS team are leading customers to the doors of local businesses â literally.
The GPS team is working on creating a map of businesses in the area to highlight some community favorites and help encourage those visiting the region to patronize the locations.
âYou can Google things to do in Unicoi County, but we thought just to have a little bit more of a community tie as well, maybe we can have a map that can highlight a lot of favorites in the county,â said Chris Mackey, Unicoi Countyâs University of Tennessee extension director.
America s Cup 2021: Beyond the Cup tracks Team New Zealand amid top-speed rumours
24 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM
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Dockside chat has suggested that Emirates Team New Zealand has been hitting speeds of 57 knots so Beyond the Cup s Cheree Kinnear teams up with Whisper Technologies to try find how fast Te Rehutai is sailing. Video / NZ Herald
Dockside chat has suggested that Emirates Team New Zealand has been hitting speeds of 57 knots so Beyond the Cup s Cheree Kinnear teams up with Whisper Technologies to try find how fast Te Rehutai is sailing. Video / NZ Herald
Cheree Kinnear is a sports reporter for NZMEcheree.kinnear@nzherald.co.nz
This is the second part of a two-part story on Jared Panther s heart journey.
SHREVEPORT, La. Jared Panther had major open heart surgery on Sept. 8. He got a new aortic valve replacement, an aneurism repair and a double coronary bypass.
Post surgery, he developed fluid around his heart, and then around his lung. Once that was fixed, it was on to cardiac rehabilitation.
âRight before I started rehab, I wasn t going too far. I would walk probably to the end of the driveway, to the mailbox,â said Panther.
So, he had a long way to go. But he had a specific goal in mind. Prior to surgery, Panther and his wife scheduled a trip to their happy place Disney.
Theyâre keeping tabs on students who are struggling with remote learning.
Itâs all about intervention and itâs paying off.
An army of Blue Dragon educators huddled at Middletown High School on Wednesday.
âWe know that students who are successful their freshman year are more likely to graduate on time,â said Assistant Principal Dawn Brookes, Middletown High School.
The Connecticut RISE Network, a non-profit supporting education, also knows this. It recently published a report on hybrid and remote learning in our state.
âSo, what the researched revealed is that students who have chosen to be remote are more likely to be disengaged than their peers who have chosen to either be hybrid or in-person,â said Nichelle Woodson, CT RISE Network.