Five Charleston County neighborhood schools will receive academic makeovers, preparing to open next fall as magnet-like schools. District officials gave the go-ahead to Chicora Elementary in North Charleston, Haut Gap Middle on Johns Island, Laing Middle

Monthly art exhibits will go on as usual throughout the month of October at the Community Arts Center. But this month the Second-Level Galleries will be host to a juried community exhibit sponsored by Boyle County's Friends of the Library.

MARION — Artists help us to interpret our past, understand the present, and envision our future through various mediums of color, form, language, sound, and movement.

Local artist Terry Shepherd and Enstrom Candies are the 2008 recipients of the annual Champion of the Arts Awards given out by the Grand Junction Commission on Arts and Culture.

BOSTON - A state agency is releasing nearly $9 million in grants for organizations, communities and schools across the state including about $1 million in three counties in Western Massachusetts.