By Jonathan Duty
Colby Peeler was named the new head football coach at Colleton County High School Friday as he signed his contract at the school in Walterboro.
Taylor McIntyre, a Greer High School student, won in the Mixed Media category of the Converse College “Young Women in Art” competition with her work “We Can Do It”.
McIntyre’s entry was inspired by propaganda posters of World War II.
Four area students have been awarded the Crusader Fellows Scholarship by North Greenville University.
Olivia Bennett, Haley Thackston, Hannah Hall and Kelly Wynn Cross have been awarded scholarships on the basis of their academic achievement, school, church, and community involvement. With satisfactory academic progress, the scholarships will guarantee the full cost of tuition, room and board for four years of attendance at NGU.
Kira Reed and Ryan McCullough, art students at Greer High School, are winners in the South Carolina PTA Reflections contest.
Reed's drawing, "I'm an Open Book" won the Excellence Award. Ryan McCullough's painting, "Mapping Out My Possibilities" won the Merit Award.
Thomas Williams of Blue Ridge High School and Victor Rutledge of Riverside High School attended a formal dinner at The United States Military Academy at West Point.
They are in their plebe year at West Point in the same company.
Kayla “Birdie” Barbare of the University of South Carolina Upstate will be honored as Major of the Year by SHAPE America.
The award celebrates outstanding undergraduate students in the health, physical education, recreation and dance professions who are nominated by a faculty advisor or professor. Barbare will be receive her award on Thursday during the SHAPE (Society of Health and Physical Educators) awards ceremony in Boston.
The 11th Annual Spartanburg versus Greenville Fellowship of Christian Athletes All-Star Basketball Challenge for high school senior boys and girls players will be held at Dorman High School on Saturday, March 11.
The girls game begins at 6 p.m., and the boys game will be at 8.
By Jonathan Duty
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