Candidates for several local races in the Nov. 4 election were grilled Sunday afternoon by citizens at The Gathering Place in a forum hosted by the Senior Adult Council of Peachtree City.

Former Solanco School District superintendent Jon Rednak has been named interim director of Lancaster County Career & Technology Center.Rednak, who retired from Solanco in 2007, will lead the center until a permanent director is hired in early 2009.Rednak

A chance encounter with Kim Mitchell gave Heather Eichelberger, 20, a second chance. Eichelberger, who bounced in between Longview and Mississippi most of her whole life, was trying to get a fresh start in Longview this spring after struggling with drug u

I was hired as a career center coordinator at Morristown High School in 2002 and the position was eliminated in 2004. In 2002, the school also had four business education teachers. As of this writing, one teacher remains.

The number of students enrolling at university has grown by a third in the past ten years, driven by the compelling public policy assumption that more education is good for individuals and for society as a whole.