Fast fingers
     Morika Grubbs shows off how fast she can pull peanuts from the vine during her class's visit to the Southeast Georgia Research and Education Center in Midville last Wednesday. Grubbs said she has had plenty of practice picking peanuts with her granddaddy, who likes to boil them each fall. All of the...
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Third-graders visit GSU Wildlife Center
     Edmund Burke Academy third-graders recently took a field trip to the Georgia Southern University Wildlife Center in Statesboro. This field trip was a follow up to a science unit on animal habitats and included a hands-on guided tour and a showing and discussion of live animals such as alligators, sn...
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"F" is for football
     Waynesboro Primary preschoolers scored big Friday when their teachers, Cindy Rhodes and Deborah Wallish, helped them have a little fun with the "F." The preschoolers celebrated learning the sixth letter of the alphabet with "Football Friday Fun with Fathers" - an afternoon of game-day songs, footba...
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BES Character Students for August
     Blakeney Elementary School Character Students for the month of August are, from left, Colton Utley, third grade, Kayla Winfrey, fifth grade, and Kayla Burns, fourth grade. These students were chosen based on teacher observation of the studied traits of punctuality, respect for self and respect for o...
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Students donate stuffed animals
     The Burke County High School Chapter FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America and HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) recently completed their first community project. FBLA and HOSA collected new stuffed animals to benefit DFACS, and the Waynesboro Police and fire departments in an effort ...
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