University of Georgia Armstrong Atlantic News

Novelist Julie Otsuka's acclaimed When the Emperor Was Divine has been adapted for the stage by Peter Mellen of Armstrong Atlantic State University, and the college's Masquers theater troupe is performing a staged reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov.

Editor's note: Today marks the fourth installment in a series of profiles on the 2009 teachers of the year, by school.

The final chapter in a monthlong study of the Federal Writers Project, a Great Depression initiative that brought jobs and paychecks to such future literary fixtures as John Steinbeck, Studs Terkel and Richard Wright, will unfold Thursday at the Jepson Center for the Arts.

New Covenant Social Hall, formerly the Epworth UMC Social Hall, 2201 Bull St. The Epworth Community Players will present the musical.

With a performance of The Katrina Project: Hell and High Water , the Savannah Arts Academy Theatre Department will perform in the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland next summer.

The park bench made famous by "Forrest Gump" now sits in the Savannah History Museum.

Armstrong Atlantic State University and the AT&T Foundation have teamed up to help at risk students in our area.

News last week that Brewton-Parker College is closing its Liberty County campus was disappointing, It was especially disappointing with reports from many schools that the current economy has driven hordes of laid-off workers to colleges seeking new work skills.

Mikki Garcia, senior director of the Savannah-Chatham public schools' Department for Exceptional Children, was awarded the 2009 Phil Pickens Leadership Award by the Georgia Department of Education's Parent Mentor Partnership on Oct.

The proposed city ordinance that would reduce the number of licenses for taxi cabs in Savannah represents an exquisitely timed and perfectly appropriate 'teachable moment" for the students in my Public Choice economics class this term.

The local unemployment rate decreased slightly in September from the previous month, but economists warn there still may be increases.

Savannah/Georgia Scottish Rite Masons have united in a statewide initiative to help children with speech and language disorders.

Clyo resident and Armstrong Atlantic State University student Julian Pace was the winner of the 2009 Youth Songwriting Competition at the Savannah Folk Music Festival.

Bonnie Camp, a fourth-grade math and science teacher at Walker Middle School in Ludowici, was among 29 Georgia teachers to receive New Teacher Assistance Grants from Georgia Power.

'Tis the season when people begin saving up for the holidays and two Savannah universities are helping students find work.

U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today announced their offices will host a statewide federal grants workshop on Monday, Oct.

Bradwell Institute senior Natalie Sharp, at 16, is one of the youngest in her class, but her age isn't reflected in her stellar academic record.

Volunteers welcomed people in wheelchairs and their friends and families to the annual wheelchair cleaning fling Sept.

One of the photos from the WPA scrapbook that's now part of the collections of the Georgia Historical Society.

Editor's note: Today marks the second installment of a series of profiles on the 2009 teachers of the year, by school.