Georgia Southwestern State University News

Looking down the barrel of a looming deadline, and faced with state budget cuts, with possibly more to come, the Sumter Board of Education adopted the tentative FY 2009-2010 budget at their meeting on Tuesday night.

If you have ever driven through the campus of Georgia Southwestern State University you have probably seen Oris Bryant's car cruising by.

As reported in Tuesday's edition of the Times-Recorder, officers from the Americus Police Department responded to a call of what appeared to be an apparent homicide.

Navy Ensign Allison E. Withers of Savannah recently graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and was commissioned to her current rank in the Navy.

Some of you may have seen a report last night on WALB-TV in Albany concerning residents living in the Georgia's West Central Health District who contracted the A H1N1 virus .

Hundreds flocked to Georgia Southwestern State University for the Boys and Girls Club 11th Annual Steak and Stake Dinner.

Neva Carter sits in her office chair surrounded by a dizzying array of papers, pens and pencils.

In recent months, many questions have risen about the process by which several local governmental entities run their meetings.

The STEM program at Georgia Southwestern State University will host an Academy for Future Teachers June 21-30. Twenty area high school juniors and seniors who have strong backgrounds in science and mathematics and who have indicated an interest in becoming teachers have been accepted into the Academy workshop.

Adults who need to return to school for college studies will soon have greater options to earn credit for what they already know.

Circle your calendars because Paula Deen is coming back to South Georgia and tickets are still available.

Stemming from a trip last fall to India by Academic Affairs Vice President Brian Adler, five students from North Gujarat University visited Georgia Southwestern State University recently for six weeks.

Five faculty members from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College are part of a 15-member statewide education group which will study in Brazil through July 3 as a result of a Fulbright-Hays Grant in the amount of $76,425 awarded to ABAC by the U. S. Department of Education Office of International Education.

Area youth to be taught writing as avenue of expression Becky Holland AMERICUS - Gaston Bachelard, writer, said, "A word is a bud attempting to become a twig.

Georgia Southwestern State University has a new Financial Aid director, Angela Bryant.

Most kids will groan at the notion that learning can be fun. Most parents are eager to give their children some kind of stimulation aside from TV during the summer months.

Each year the Pilot Club of Americus honors a student or students with the Nancy Fullard Scholarship.

The Georgia Southwestern Foundation and Georgia Southwestern State University announce the 2009 winners of the Dr.

The 2009 Boy Scout Merit Badge Camp began 6 p.m. Monday with a course in personal fitness.

Barrow Regional Medical Center has officially selected Blake Watts to serve as the hospital's new Chief Executive Officer by the BRMC CEO Search Committee.