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The 2013 regular season is completed as far as Georgia high school football in concerned, and several local teams are now moving on to the state playoffs.
The Sandy Creek Patriots locked up first place in Region 5-AAAA two weeks ago with a win at Carrollton, then rolled 56-0 over last-place Columbus Saturday afternoon. The defending AAAA state champions and ranked first in the state since the start of the season, the Patriots will host Cedartown, the fourth seed in Region 7-AAAA, this Friday in Tyrone.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-12-2013/football-playoffs-start-friday

In a faraway kingdom, an ogre shows up to rescue a feisty princess. Throw in a donkey who won’t shut up, a bad guy with a short temper, a cookie with an attitude and over a dozen other fairy tale misfits and that’s “Shrek The Musical.”

Starr’s Mill has assembled a cast of 50 student actors, singers, musicians, and dancers, some making their stage deput in the show.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-10-2013/starr%E2%80%99s-mill-high-school-goes-green-fine-arts-department-presents-%E2%80%98shrek-musical

During October, Rotarians are encouraged to focus on Vocational Service. The Fayetteville Rotary Club held its annual recognition program for Vocational Service on Oct. 7, 2013, where it presented awards to four outstanding individuals.

As part of Vocational Service Recognition Month, each recipient received a Certificates of Appreciation and joint gifts from the Fayetteville Rotary Club and Frank’s at the Old Mill. Restaurant Manager Darlene Psomas was honored to participate in the presentations.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-10-2013/rotary-club-fayetteville-honors-men-and-women-fayette-county

The Starr’s Mill Varsity Cheerleaders won the McIntosh Chief Cheerleading Classic on Saturday, November 2. Not only did Starr’s Mill win the 5A division, but they were named Grand Champions for the entire competition. They will compete next Saturday, November 9, at the Region Finals in Columbus.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-08-2013/champion-cheerleaders

A former administrative assistant with the Peachtree City Police Department has been awarded $300,000 in a settlement of her sex and disability discrimination case against the city and Police Chief H.C. “Skip” Clark.

The settlement for Lisa Ficalore includes $5,000 in back pay awarded by a vote of the City Council Thursday night and $300,000 that is being paid by the city’s risk management carrier, the Georgia Interlocal Risk Management Agency (GIRMA).

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-10-2013/ptc-settles-discrimination-lawsuit-300k

The job isn’t over for Peachtree City voters, who will need to choose between Vanessa Fleisch or Harold Logsdon to be their next mayor in a runoff election Dec. 3 since no one in the five-candidate field got more than 50 percent of the vote.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-10-2013/haddix-out-runoff-set-ptc-mayor%E2%80%99s-seat

The votes were cast Tuesday night and the recount came on Thursday. When all was done, incumbent Tyrone Councilman Ken Matthews beat challenger Pota Coston by a slim margin of six votes in the race for the Post 3 council seat.

Matthews won the contest taking 659 votes while Coston received 653 votes. A total of 1,317 votes were cast, representing a 29.8 percent turnout of Tyrone’s approximately 4,000 registered voters.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-10-2013/coston-loses-tyrone-incumbent-6-votes

Peachtree City Councilman Eric Imker decried the loss of a sales tax vote that would have put a 1 percent levy in effect for two years and provided $14.2 million to pay for road and cart path repairs in the city.

At Thursday’s council meeting, Imker pointed out that the tax only passed one of the city’s 12 precincts, and if failed countywide with 57 percent of voters saying no to the sales tax.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-10-2013/imker-decries-sales-tax-failure-polls

The Starr’s Mill High School Debate team has gotten off to a strong start, with multiple wins at Griffin, Roswell, and Warner Robins, with an exceptionally strong showing at the Johnson High School tournament, reports Amanda Nails. The results were as follows:

Novice Public Forum: Darius Cooper and Liam O’Connell, 4th Place; Liam O’Connell, 3rd Place Speaker Award.

Varsity Public Forum: Maud deGroot and Vicki Justice, 2nd Place; Maud deGroot, 4th Place Speaker Award; Vicki Justice, 3rd Place Speaker Award.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-09-2013/starr%E2%80%99s-mill-debate-team-strong-start

The Landmark War Eagles came home from Carrollton Saturday afternoon with the Georgia High School Association’s Class A Private state championship in boys’ cross-country.

It was the boys’ eighth state championship in cross-country since 1995. The team has also finished as state runner-up five times.

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via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-10-2013/landmark-takes-boys%E2%80%99-team-title-foreman-wins-girls%E2%80%99-crown