On Wednesday, March 22, 54 James A. Shanks Middle School students graduated from Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office’s Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program. The 10-week curriculum allowed students to participate in various topics and receive a certificate of completion. Topics included the following: Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other dangerous drugs. Capt. Anglie Holmes also covered…
With just five games into the 2023 baseball season the Robert F. Munroe Bobcats team is just getting started! Head Baseball Coach Greg Mullins is working with a young athletic team this year of several seventh, eighth, and ninth graders on the roster. The young Bobcats are weighted down with four losses and only one…
The Cooperative Extension System is a partnership between state, federal and county governments to provide scientific knowledge and expertise to the public. We operate through land grant universities, such as the University of Florida and Florida A&M University and in partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture. Our mission within Extension is to provide…
Sneads Head Baseball Coach, Andy Shelton, is leading a very impressive winning season with his Pirate team this year. They have won a total of nine out of eleven games thus far and still have twelve more listed on the schedule to go. The Pirates first game and win of the season was against the…
Talquin Electric Cooperative selected twenty-four high school juniors from Gadsden, Leon, Liberty, and Wakulla Counties to participate in the Talquin Youth Tour in February. Each student who participated in the Youth Tour received a scholarship for college or post-secondary education and a visit to Florida’s state capitol for a two-day, overnight conference. Students were selected…
Mother Tanya Scheff, the Rector at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Quincy, made a seven day pilgrimage to Israel in January of this year. “This trip was actually a gift from our bishop.” Scheff explained. “The Episcopal Diocese of Florida paid for new clergy to make this trip. Any new clergy person in our diocese…
Last week Colonel Robert Barkley spoke to a group of Gadsden High Students about the Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office Substance Abuse and the Mental Health Grant programs. The programs are in conjunction with the Mental Health and Substance Abuse state initiative led by Casey DeSantis’(Governor’s wife). Also on the panel were Gadsden County School Board…
Students and faculty throughout the Gadsden County School District and Gadsden Technical College in Quincy will join others across the nation during the month of February to celebrate Career and Technical Education Month. Career and Technical Education Month is recognized to celebrate and highlight the value of Career and Technical Education and the achievements and…
State Representative Gallop Franklin and State Senator Corey Simon took over the Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners chambers for a delegation meeting last week. The legislators heard from elected officials and citizens alike. Gadsden officials brought up the need for more high-paying industrial jobs in the county. Commissioner Brenda Holt pointed out Gadsden County…
The Gadsden County Sheriff’s Office relaunched Its Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program this school year. Eight Chattahoochee Elementary School fifth graders graduated from the program on Friday, December 16. Those students are Jor’Dyn Travis, Skylor Streeter, Kamiley Rozier, Zamiah Pyles, Kloee Murray Farrah Moon, Ahraya Gibson, and Zaydiin Carter. After the graduation ceremony, the…
