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Granville Middle School seventh graders interviewed two-time Paralympic discus thrower Jessica Heims and will make a podcast series from it.

Granville Education Foundation funded eight projects throughout the Granville district during its winter cycle.

The food drive was created by two students in a new experiential learning course implemented at the school.

Adkins announced April 16 he intends to resign at the end of his contract, which is up June 30. School board members met Tuesday afternoon to discuss next steps, grappling with hot-button issues like whether Adkins could finish out his remaining 64 days and how to move forward with a timeline for replacing him. Board members stepped slowly through the conversation, taking consensus votes with a sign of a thumbs-up, thumbs-down or a live-with-it sideways thumb vote to signify their positions. Adkins was not present for the discussion. Anyone who takes on the district’s top role, regardle...

Greg Adkins stepping down as Lee County schools' superintendent He announced his plans to retire in a message to district staff Friday morning. Adkins, 56, has served as superintendent since 2015, making his tenure the second longest in recent history behind James Browder, who served from 2003 to 2010. "Serving as superintendent in Lee County for the last five and half years has been truly an honor and privilege beyond my highest expectation," Adkins wrote in the message. His tenure as chief of schools is marked by successes he enumerated in the letter to employees, but his leadership was qu...