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It&#8217;s getting more expensive to attend college, and the price of textbooks is part of the problem.
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Caitlin Johnson was writing away in Moneyville on Tuesday morning. Johnson wrote in a classroom journal about the lessons she&#8217;s learned about money during a four-week enrichment course.
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OZARK &#8212; The aircraft industry in Alabama is a bright spot in a down economy, offering good-paying jobs to Wiregrass residents. Enterprise-Ozark Community College&#8217;s aviation campus is helping lead the way in helping this industry continue to grow by providing a well-trained work force.
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Bill Lovrich has made an art out of teaching science.           ]]></description>
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OZARK &#8212; Ozark City and Dale County school systems are in a joint venture to help cut costs and promote better learning environments.           ]]></description>
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Nuclear energy: it can power our homes, provide an alternative to fossil fuels and put students into a coma-like sleep when discussed in class.           ]]></description>
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Stormie Andrews&#8217; philosophy is that if you don&#8217;t get involved, you can&#8217;t complain.
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Local teachers learned the art of making science more interesting Wednesday at Troy University&#8217;s Dothan campus.
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A Dothan City Schools principal facing misdemeanor charges is being transferred to a job in the system&#8217;s central office.           ]]></description>
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OZARK &#8212; City school board members approved plans to move forward with selling Flowers Performing Arts Center to the City of Ozark at Tuesday&#8217;s special called board meeting.           ]]></description>
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A candidate for the Dothan City School Board chairmanship says the letter he wrote to the state parole board, saying that a former teacher convicted of sex crimes against teenage girls had changed, shouldn&#8217;t be taken as an endorsement for his release.           ]]></description>
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Elba City School Superintendent Danny Weeks is calling it a career.           ]]></description>
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Beverlye Middle School will soon have a new asphalt track for students and the local community to use, thanks to the coordinated efforts of municipal and state leaders.           ]]></description>
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Rising ninth graders in the Dothan City School system are getting a chance to get a leg up in high school, thanks to a new summer bridge program.           ]]></description>
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Jarvis Hayes waits anxiously to stake his claim to one of more than 500 free books being donated to Slocomb Elementary School students on Wednesday.
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Yes We Can! Dothan says the Dothan City School System is moving forward with reforms agreed to by the two organizations.
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          <title>Troy Dothan to revive two degree programs</title>
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Troy University&#8217;s Dothan campus is reviving its degree programs in psychometry and school psychology. School officials hope the move will put the university in a position to help fill slots in a career field facing a shortage.           ]]></description>
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This time last year, all was well for the Big Brothers Group Home in Dothan.
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Summer school and credit recovery classes can help schools boost graduation rates by keeping students on target to graduate on time.           ]]></description>
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A report commissioned by the Wiregrass Foundation to explore how higher education institutions and the Dothan community could cooperate better took Troy University&#8217;s Dothan campus to the woodshed for a perceived lack of local involvement.           ]]></description>
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Dothan parents still have a few opportunities left to get their children into a magnet school.
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          <title>Wiregrass Foundation offering scholarships to Wallace again</title>
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Graduate from a Dothan City or Houston County school? Want to go to college, but aren&#8217;t sure you can afford it?           ]]></description>
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OZARK &#8211; Dreams of a new high school will die for years if a 10-mill ad valorem tax does not pass in the next several months, city and school leaders said in a working meeting on Monday.

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Steve Stokes, who has served as Dothan City School Board chairman since 2005, answered a few questions about his experiences in the office he is giving up late this year.           ]]></description>
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Jennifer Rene&#8217;e Stanley recently received a juris doctorate.            ]]></description>
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Farley Nuclear Plant will hold a science workshop for teachers on June 25 and 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m           ]]></description>
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Dothan City Schools students should read the novel(s) listed under the grade in which you will enter during the 2009-2010 school year           ]]></description>
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Harry Wayne Parrish recently turned in qualification papers to run for the Dothan City School Board chairmanship.            ]]></description>
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Wallace Community College is accepting applications for the Dothan Service League Scholarship for fall term 2009.           ]]></description>
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Titus Johnson bounces around on an inflatable playground at Grandview Elementary School.
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The items collected in the clothes closet will be made available to students if they have a hygiene accident while at school or if their family is experiencing financial difficulty.
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The Houston County School Board hired five teachers Wednesday, taking advantage of a glut in the labor market to snag some quality teachers, Superintendent Tim Pitchford said.           ]]></description>
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Girard Middle School is pleased to announce the newly inducted students to the National Junior Honor Society.           ]]></description>
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Charlene Roney of the Houston County Farmers Federation Women&#8217;s Committee presented to Cottonwood librarian Carolyn Wozow, the book, &#8220;Oh, Say Can You See?&#8221;            ]]></description>
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Kenton James of Dothan recently completed his engineering senior design project at Alabama A&amp;M University.            ]]></description>
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The &#8220;Discovering Ancient Egypt&#8221; LinC class at Kelly Springs Elementary presented a play &#8220;The Point of the Pyramid&#8221; on May 15 to the parents and students of Kelly Springs.           ]]></description>
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Dennis Coe, superintendent of Henry County Schools, was recently elected by the School Superintendents of Alabama to the governing board of the American Association of School Administrators.            ]]></description>
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Nikki Cochran&#8217;s pre-kindergarten students play a game of alphabet bingo Friday afternoon as they wait for their parents to pick them up from the HeadStart center.           ]]></description>
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The Henry County Board of Education recently adopted a new cell phone policy for students that addresses their use by students, including the trend of &#8220;sexting.&#8221;           ]]></description>
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Barbie Nelson has helped guide Melissa Pearson&#8217;s steps since Pearson was 3.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Got stress?           ]]></description>
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Aneta Walker may be living proof of the (five minutes) old saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t write checks with your mouth that your mouth might have to cash.&#8220;
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Honeysuckle Middle School Principal Patsy Slaughter has been placed on paid administrative leave pending a Dothan City School system investigation of criminal charges against her.           ]]></description>
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The Dothan City School Board approved a major shake up of system personnel Monday, just weeks after non-renewing more than 60 teachers and support personnel.           ]]></description>
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MONTGOMERY &#8211; Governor Bob Riley on Monday signed bills that prevents convicted sex offenders from living with 2,000 feet of a college or university and raises the school dropout age from 16 to 17.           ]]></description>
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A representative from the Small Business Development Center at Troy University will visit the Fort Rucker Area Chamber of Commerce Thursday, June 11, to provide free counseling.           ]]></description>
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Four Wallace Community College students placed in the Alabama SkillsUSA State Championship this month, with two bringing home top honors.            ]]></description>
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The Junior. Art Club of Houston Academy, composed of seventh and eighth grade art students, began a recycling program on their campus this year           ]]></description>
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Kelly Springs Elementary recently enjoyed its annual Learn-A-Thon. With &#8220;Planes, Trains, and Automobiles&#8221; as the theme, they were able to raise more than $10,000 for the school.           ]]></description>
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Wallace Community College is offering a new program aimed at providing quality health care educators for the state.
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While some of us got our bachelor&#8217;s degrees on the five-year program, Lonnie Brannon took it a step or two further, getting her associate&#8217;s degree on the 13-year program.           ]]></description>
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ASHFORD &#8212; It started at a single place and then spread across the community at viral speed.           ]]></description>
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Dana Howell is tired of her son coming home from school with sunburn.           ]]></description>
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The Dothan High School Choral Department will present &#8220;Take a Bite out of the Apple ... Tunes from Broadway!&#8221; on May 21, 22 and 23 at the Cultural Arts Center in Dothan.           ]]></description>
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Eric Cox, a Holly Hill Elementary School student, wrote an essay that won first place honors in the Breaking Barriers Essay Contest.            ]]></description>
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Martha Delayne (Layne) Spivey was recently awarded a presidential scholarship by the University of South Alabama for 2009-2012.            ]]></description>
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Cloverdale Elementary School will soon receive a United Health HEROES grant, administered by Youth Service America and funded by United Health Care.           ]]></description>
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Troy University&#8217;s History and Political Science Department at the Dothan Campus recently initiated two students and a faculty member into the Iota Mu Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the nationwide history honor society.
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 It looked like prom, with medals and swords. Gearing up for what may be their last hurrah, members of Abbeville High School and Headland High School&#8217;s NJROTC units met at The Gathering Place in Headland on Friday night for an annual military ball.            ]]></description>
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A bill that would have let Henry County voters decide by a simple majority in a special election whether to renew an expiring ad valorem tax has died in the Alabama Legislature.           ]]></description>
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Portable classrooms are sort of like bell-bottom pants or wayfarer sunglasses; a trend that goes away for a while, only to make a comeback later.           ]]></description>
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MONTGOMERY (AP) &#8212; The Alabama Legislature has found that resolving financial problems in the state&#8217;s prepaid college tuition program is as hard as making money in the stock market.           ]]></description>
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BIRMINGHAM (AP) &#8212; The University of Alabama at Birmingham is getting a $5 million donation courtesy of an anonymous donor.           ]]></description>
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WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; Education Secretary Arne Duncan is a man on a mission: to hear what teachers, students and parents in at least 15 states think about No Child Left Behind, the controversial education law championed by former President George W. Bush.           ]]></description>
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Girard Middle School seventh grade students were challenged by social studies teacher Lynda Mauldin to bring in pet food, pet toys and accessories to benefit the area Humane Society.            ]]></description>
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Officials at Troy University on Monday confirmed that a student attending school on its Troy campus is the latest &#8220;probable&#8221; case of the swine flu reported in Alabama.           ]]></description>
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Alabama&#8217;s efforts to improve elementary school reading are a model of success that should be adopted by other states and expanded to middle and high schools, according to a recent report by the Southern Regional Education Board.           ]]></description>
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The Dothan City School Board cut 61 jobs Monday night, non-renewing teachers and terminating support employees.           ]]></description>
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Matt Humphrey plans to rebuild Dothan High&#8217;s image, starting today.

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Northview High School recently chose the following:           ]]></description>
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Highlands Elementary placed second in the state in the Knowledge Master Open Contest. The students had to answer 100 challenging questions from 13 curriculum areas, and were scored on the speed and accuracy of their responses.
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A bill to give the voters of Henry County an opportunity to renew a longstanding ad valorem tax by a simple majority appears to have run into a legislative delay.           ]]></description>
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A Rehobeth High School student was assigned to alternative school on Thursday after two guns were found in a truck he drove to school.           ]]></description>
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HEADLAND&#8212;Joe Caine felt rudderless before joining the NJROTC.

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Sarah Elizabeth Caskey, salutatorian, DHS class of 2009, was awarded the Outstanding Student for English/Literature/Reading Award on April 21 at the Wallace Community College 2009 Honors Convocation.           ]]></description>
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Connor Eggleton, a seventh-grader at Carver Magnet School, is the state winner for Alabama in the 2008-2009 Geico Safety Poster Contest.           ]]></description>
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Twenty Beverlye Middle School students qualified to participate in Duke University&#8217;s Talent Identification Program (TIP).           ]]></description>
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Girard Middle School participated in Dothan Leisure Service&#8217;s Special Olympics on April 16.            ]]></description>
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Attitude can help open doors for job seekers, and the most outward expression of a good attitude is a smile, Jack Sasser told 29 GED graduates Sunday at Wallace Community College.

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The struggling economy may be making it tougher for some high school seniors to graduate on time.
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A Dothan business owner hopes to do well by doing good.
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For teachers of gifted students, the hard part isn&#8217;t getting the students to keep up with the lessons, but rather getting the lessons to keep up with the students.           ]]></description>
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Midland City Police Cheif Keith Rinehardt has been in the woods in the Mabson community to teach Dale County and Ozark city youth about snake safety and preservation.            ]]></description>
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Catina Breedlove shows her first grade students the roots of a willow oak tree they&#8217;re about to plant.           ]]></description>
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Northview High School&#8217;s band director hasn&#8217;t been asked to return for the next school year, leaving some parents angry.           ]]></description>
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The Dothan City Schools on Monday voted to approve a new dress code for its teachers and staff. The new dress code bars certain items of clothing and 
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Faced with declining revenue, Henry County School Superintendent Dennis Coe is moving forward with a previous school board decision to shutter the system&#8217;s two NJROTC programs.           ]]></description>
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Henry County School Superintendent Dennis Coe on Monday announced the system would close its NJROTC programs at Headland High School and Abbeville High School at the end of this year.           ]]></description>
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Houston County District Attorney Doug Valeska had a solid case against Andrew Sewell.           ]]></description>
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Local elementary students got a taste buds-on lesson about groundwater at Wallace Community College on Friday.           ]]></description>
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The usual hub-bub at the Boys and Girls club was held in check Friday by the game of chess.           ]]></description>
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Michael Wynhoop and Trey Sullivan were among 10 two-person teams that competed to diagnose and correct problems on identical vehicles in the annual Ford/AAA Auto Skills Competition in Talladega.           ]]></description>
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Reagon Carter wrote and illustrated a short book titled &#8220;Animal Band&#8221; for a contest he saw advertised on PBS&#8217; &#8220;Reading Rainbow.&#8221;&nbsp;            ]]></description>
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S, A and AB honor roll students           ]]></description>
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A and AB honor roll students.           ]]></description>
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On Friday, Selma Street Elementary School will host the 2nd Annual Dothan Elementary School Team Chess Championship. The all-day event will be held at the Boy&#8217;s &amp; Girl&#8217;s Club, located on South Alice Street, Dothan.           ]]></description>
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The Samson High School Student Government Association is holding a campus workday on April 25.           ]]></description>
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The Truck Renting and Leasing Association Scholarship Program recently awarded Karson Brooks, a senior at Dothan High School, with a $5,000 scholarship.            ]]></description>
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The students were entertained and educated as they took a &#8220;space shuttle ride&#8221; with Interplanetary Janet, met all the planets, and learned why scientists no longer consider Pluto a planet.            ]]></description>
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Northview High School&#8217;s indoor drumline has chalked up an impressive set of competition victories this year, an inspiring feat for an organization in its first year.
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