Cartersville tennis player Elliot Jordan won 399 points playing singles tournaments in the junior Boys’ 16 category of the United States Tennis Association by the week ending May 28.
As construction and excitement continue to grow about The Grove at Towne Center, Development Partners CASTO and MidCity Real Estate Partners, along with the City of Snellville and the Downtown Development Authority, are excited to announce the addition of Northside Hospital to The Grove. In a transaction that closed at the end of May, Northside Hospital will occupy two buildings in Phase II of Snellville’s new City Center.
The Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce has officially announced that a well-established global national youth entrepreneurship program is coming to Cherokee County. Known as Lemonade Day, the program teaches leadership and business skills by encouraging students to launch a lemonade business in their community. Since 2007, more than 1 million students have learned about business ownership by participating in Lemonade Day.
Keith McGreggor, Georgia Tech professor of the practice in the School of Interactive Computing, and director of VentureLab, has been named a Fulbright Specialist, one of only nine from Georgia Tech since the program began in 2001.
Reflecting an expected post-Memorial Day holiday slowdown, U.S. hotel performance fell from the previous week, according to STR‘s latest data through 4 June (percentage change from comparable week in 2019*):
Two Dalton Public Schools teachers recently received a $3,000 Fine Arts Consumables and Equipment (FACE) Grant from the Georgia Department of Education. Courtenay Cholovich, theatre teacher at Hammond Creek Middle School, and Clay Fissel, music teacher at Roan School, each received a grant that will be used to increase arts education quality during the school day.
Expanding on its commitment to strengthen health care resources in the Gwinnett region, Northside Hospital held a ceremonial crane christening and groundbreaking event June 7 to mark construction of a new patient tower on its Northside Gwinnett campus in Lawrenceville.Hospital leadership joined representatives from the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation, Hospital Authority of Gwinnett County, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and the local community to celebrate the continuing, rapid growth of the region’s health care resources.
Joyce Rodgers served on Piedmont Henry Hospital’s Board of Directors for three terms and currently serves as the Chair for the Hospital Authority of Henry County. A former nurse and county nurse manager for the Henry County Health Department, Rodgers knows the importance of people serving the community in the field of healthcare. On Wednesday, Piedmont Henry presented several students pursuing careers in healthcare with Joyce Rodgers Healthcare Scholarships.