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Holding their awards are (L-R) Lucas Nyman, Richard Yang, Jodie Stone, Didi Stone. Photo/Submitted.
Quartet le Petit, a chamber ensemble group comprised of Starr’s Mill High School Orchestra students, took home the top School Award and Second Place overall in the acclaimed Franklin Pond Chamber Music Competition this Memorial Day weekend.
The string quartet comprising violinists Didi Stone (15) and Lucas Nyman (16), violist Jodie Stone (17), and cellist Richard Wang (16) received over $1500 in cash prizes to continue their music studies.
The triumph brings the Fayette County ensemble full circle. In 2017 and 2018, Quartet le Petit placed in the prestigious competition’s middle school division while students at Rising Starr Middle School.
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Master plan of the proposed rezoning and development on Widget Drive. Graphic provided by the Planning Commission.
Despite having been stripped of their voting power by the City Council, four members of the Planning Commission and an alternate gave the equivalent of a no-confidence no-vote Monday night to a 20-acre rezoning request.
Michael Link, chairman of the Peachtree City Planning Commission. Photo/Cal Beverly.
The proposal by property owner Mike Hyde included a first-phase $80 million construction of 308 apartments and a 2-acre central park on a portion of a 20-acre site in south Peachtree City. Later phases would bring an upscale restaurant, some mixed-use retail residential and possible commercial and office units.
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Three advance to international competition
Science students are not letting the pandemic and virtual presentations derail them from demonstrating their knowledge and love of the subject. All 44 students (31 high school and 13 middle school) and 35 projects that advanced to the Griffin RESA Regional Science and Engineering Fair earned placements with 24 students earning first place honors.
High school (senior division) and middle school (junior division) first place winners will represent the region at the Georgia Science and Engineering Fair that will be held virtually March through April of 2021. Both of Fayette’s high and middle school students took 90 percent of the first place awards in their divisions.
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Fayette County Schools weekly Covid report from Jan. 30 through Feb. 5. Graphic/Fayette County School System.
Slightly fewer new Covid cases were reported among students and school staff in the past week, but more persons had to sit out quarantines after exposures, the Fayette County School System said Feb. 6.
The number of positive cases plus quarantined students and staff members totaled 557 as of Friday afternoon, Feb. 5, the system report showed, an increase of 78 persons over the previous week.
There were 17 new Covid cases among staff members and 34 students newly infected during the past week, for a total of 51, according to the report. That compares with 18 students and 36 staffers for a total of 54 positives the previous week.