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  • Keeping Quincy reading

    When Monica Watkins-Clay and her family moved from Chattahoochee to Quincy, she knew she couldn’t leave behind her Little Free Library. Little Free Library is a nationwide non-profit organization which, through sponsors like Watkins-Clay, is able to provide a free book exchange in the neighborhoods where they are located.

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  • Setting up for success

    A local teen is headed to Edward Waters College on a volleyball scholarship.  
    Emoni Bittle, who lives in the Scottstown community, is the first person in Gadsden County to receive a volleyball scholarship in 25 years.
    Bittle said she’s been playing volleyball since the sixth grade.  The Godby High School graduate said she knew she wanted to attend an Historically Black College or University (HBCU) so she called Edward Waters about two months before going to tryouts.

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  • A long run: Theater managers plan retirement after more than 30 years at QMT

    After more than three decades at the Quincy Music Theatre, Bill and Jane Mock are retiring.  The two met at the theatre 33 years ago.
    “We were buddies for a while before we ever went out,” Jane said.
    Bill said back then they were both volunteers.  
    “I was building sets, and she was the artistic painter,” Bill said.  “We also starred in several shows
    together.”

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  • TCC to lend helping hand to Gadsden students

    Tallahassee Community College announced the launch of the Gadsden Learn Scholarship Program on Thursday, June 8.
    The program aims to help fill the gap between financial aid and tuition expenses for any Gadsden County students who graduate with a 3.0 or higher, and have completed the FAFSA.

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  • Stirring up business sense

    Business was booming at First Chanze Lemonade on Saturday.  
    Tallahassee’s Lemonade Day is always the second week in June, and this year organizers extended it into Gadsden County.  
    Lemonade Day is a national youth entrepreneurship training program teaching K-12 youth how to start a business using the classic lemonade stand model.  
    This past Saturday, lemonade stand tycoons Ry’enn and Logan set up shop in the parking lot outside Walgreens in Quincy.

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  • District reveals unified high school’s name

    The school formerly known as East Gadsden will re-open as Gadsden County High School this fall.
    After hearing the top choices from the committee headed by EGHS’ principal, Superintendent Roger Milton said school board members voted unanimously on the school’s name.  They also voted to have the new school’s colors to include those of both East and West Gadsden — navy blue, Carolina blue, maroon, black, white and silver.   They will also keep the (formerly East Gadsden) Jaguars as the mascot.  

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  • Pieces of the past

    In a little building next to her home on State Road 12, two miles southwest of Greensboro, Lynda Britt runs a fabric store and quilt shop.
    Inside the shop is a collection of beautiful quilts and vibrant, colorful fabric — all made of cotton.
    Britt opened her first fabric shop in Grand Ridge, where she is originally from, about five years ago.
    She said she, her sister and her husband had been talking about it for years.  Her sister used to have a flower shop, and the two decided to use the same building as a fabric shop.

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  • Mural, mural on the wall

    The renaissance has begun.  The new mural being painted in downtown Quincy is only the beginning of turning the city into a multi-ethnic arts and cultural destination, said Joe Munroe, director of Quincy Main Street.
    Charlie Johnston traveled more than 1,800 miles from Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada to paint the piece of art  titled “Keepers of the Hippocratic Oath.” It honors three of Gadsden County’s most prominent
    African-American physicians.

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  • Gadsden deputy injured in Leon County crash

    A Gadsden County deputy was seriously injured in a crash Friday night.  
    According a Florida Highway Patrol report, the wreck happened just after
    8 p.m. on North Meridian Road at the intersection of Lakeshore Drive in
    Tallahassee.
    According to troopers, 20-year-old Oskari Hiltunen made a left turn on Lakeshore Drive and collided with 27-year-old
    Gadsden County Deputy Maximilian Sander’s motorcycle.
    Sander was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital in serious condition.

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  • Quincy: Commissioners at odds over alcohol

    At their May 24 meeting, the Quincy Commission was deadlocked on the first reading of a proposal to revise the city’s distance requirements for the location of alcohol-related businesses.
    Commissioner Keith Dowdell said the city has purchased the Kelly lot since proposing to change the ordinance, which might prohibit alcohol sales at downtown events such
    as Quincy Fest.
    He also said he wanted to add a clause about pending applications on file that weren’t approved because they weren’t in compliance with the current alcohol ordinance.

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