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County guide 02/12/09
Bremen City Schools had a 93 percent graduation rate in 2007. And 65.6 percent of Oconee County’s 2007 graduates were eligible for the HOPE scholarship.
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Dry January 02/11/09
Georgia’s temperatures were close to typical last month. Most weather stations reported mean temperatures of only 1 degree Fahrenheit above normal.
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Walk Georgia 02/06/09
Georgians all across the state are getting in shape, eating better and working toward a healthier lifestyle with the help of UGA Cooperative Extension fitness program Walk Georgia. In the spring and fall 2008 programs combined, over 6,000 participants walked their way to better health.
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Q&A: Salmonella 02/06/09 April Reese Sorrow
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration advise consumers not to eat peanut products made with peanut butter or peanut paste made at the Peanut Corporation of America facility in Blakely, Ga. More than 1,300 products ranging from cookies and ice cream to trail mix and pet food have been recalled due to a nation-wide salmonella outbreak connected to the facility.
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Severe weather 02/05/09
The first week in February is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Georgia. The coming months are often the ones with highest rate of tornadoes in the state.
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Healthy relationships 02/05/09
Research shows that individuals in healthy marriages are physically healthier and live longer. They get sick less, are hospitalized less and experience shorter hospital stays. They have lower rates of heart failure, cancer and other diseases, too.
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Fighting carpenters 02/05/09
University of Georgia scientists are using DNA technology and old-fashioned animal instinct to find the best ways to control wood-destroying carpenter ants.
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Scholarships 02/05/09
When Ron Walcott talked to high school students at a recent Georgia Daze breakfast, he had five new ways to entice them to come to the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – five, full-ride scholarships for minority students.
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Sorghum genome 01/29/09
Southerners may best know sorghum as sweet, biscuit-topping syrup. But the small grain’s uses range from a dependable, drought-tolerant food crop to biofuel source, says a University of Georgia researcher.
Peaches hang in a south Georgia orchard July 2009. This year's cold winter has benefitted the state's peach crop. CAES News
Frost monitor 01/29/09 April Reese Sorrow
In Georgia, you can pretty much count on cold weather from October to March. People can protect themselves by staying indoors or wearing warm clothes. It’s not as easy for crops. Accurate temperatures and weather readings are vital to farmers.