Jim Thompson
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Six civil lawsuits target Barrow schools, principal over Apalachee shooting (opens the original)
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The Barrow County School System and Apalachee High School Principal Jessica Rehberg are facing six civil lawsuits in connection with the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting at Apalachee High School that claimed the lives of two teachers and two students and injured several other people. The legal actions are seeking jury trials and significant monetary damages. Also named in the lawsuits are as-yet-unidentified Barrow County School System employees and other generically identified defendants who, while yet
Statham gas station rezoning draws heated opposition (opens the original)
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A requested rezoning that could put a gas station and convenience store, along with some type of drive-through restaurant, on 1.2 acres at the intersection of Sunset Drive and Atlanta Highway in Statham, drew heated opposition at the Statham City Councilâs Sept. 1 meeting, as the council gears up for a possible Sept. 15 vote on the request. While the property backs up to a storage yard, and is immediately across Sunset Drive from another storage yard, there are residential properties adjacent
Winder-Barrow community rallies to keep graduation at ‘the 50’ (opens the original)
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The Barrow County Board of Education faced some impassioned resistance at its most recent meeting to an Aug. 4 decision that moved Winder-Barrow High Schoolâs graduation exercises to Akins Ford Arena in Athens. The change means students will miss the cherished decades-old tradition of graduates accepting their diplomas at the 50-yard line of W. Clair Harris Stadium, focal point of the WBHS campus. The phrase âMeet me at the 50â is a motto for the school, and as early as fifth grade, studen
After 15-year sentence, Colin Gray asks court for new trial (opens the original)
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Colin Gray, father of convicted teenage Apalachee High School shooter Colt Gray, has filed a motion seeking a new trial in his own case. Colin Gray, who bought the gun used in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting as a Christmas gift for his son, was sentenced to 15 years in prison during a one-day sentencing hearing on July 30 in Barrow County Superior Court. Gray, who had sole custody of Colt Gray and his two siblings, apparently bought the gun to bond with his son over hunting, as his own father had do
Back to BOLD equips 2,000 Barrow students with backpacks, school supplies (opens the original)
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This yearâs annual âBack to BOLDâ event at Apalachee High School, an effort to provide Barrow County public school students who may need them with free backpacks filled with school supplies for the start of the new school year, and to link them and their parents with services and other opportunities, distributed 2,000 backpacks on Friday, according to Nicole Valles, the Barrow County School Systemâs director of communications and engagement. Conducted with broad community support, this y
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