Another title in Catoosa

Catoosa County’s Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School won the 2017 PAGE Georgia Academic Decathlon (GAD) State Championship. It was the seventh time the high school has captured the top honor in the event. Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe will represent Georgia in the annual U.S. Academic Decathlon April 20-22 in Madison, Wis. At the state championship, Feb. 24 and 25 at Berkmar High School in Gwinnett County, the team scored the most points in Division I and II, smaller schools, and won the Howard Stroud Championship Trophy. The state competition is sponsored by the Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE), the Chickfil-A Foundation and Oglethorpe Power. Kennesaw State University hosts and provides expert speakers for the GAD Fall Workshop and provides and coordinates the more than 200 volunteers needed during the state championship competition. The Gwinnett County Public Schools system serves as host.

Academy dancers to perform in N.Y. festival

Woodward Academy’s Upper School Dance Ensemble will perform in the Locust Performing Arts Center of Stamford’s Contemporary Dance Works Festival and Concert in New York City April 21-24. The festival is a weekend of dance classes, shows and a final performance. Upper School Dance Ensemble members include Ryan Phillips, Colleen Gramlich, Aasha Patel, Gildea Katz, Kavya Paladugu, Arnae Cottle and Rebecca Hart. In January, they spent one week with Jimmy Locust, artistic director and owner of the arts center. Locust has worked with celebrities including Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul. He is founder and director of Harmony Nation, an anti-bullying education program that performs at schools in and around New York City.

Cherokee schools honor media specialist

The Cherokee High School media center’s transformation from old-school library to a modern, collaborative learning space has earned Anne Nechvatal the honor of Cherokee County School District 2017 Media Specialist of the Year. Nechvatal, who sees the center as “the largest classroom in the school,” was surprised with the award on Monday by School Superintendent Dr. Brian Hightower and school board members in front of the school’s faculty and her husband. She will represent Cherokee County schools in the statelevel competition. The presentation and reception that followed were sponsored by Northside Hospital-Cherokee. Hightower praised Nechvatal’s dedication to digital learning, telling her, “You’ve turned the media center upside down to make sure it’s relevant for your students and teachers.”

City Hall offices move to Crabapple District

The movers are coming today to relocate Milton government offices to a newly built City Hall at 2006 Heritage Walk in the Crabapple District.

The 32,000-square-foot building is on a new street and can now be located on Google Maps, but for those whose GPS devices don’t cooperate, just know it’s directly behind the Olde Blind Dog Irish Pub on Crabapple Road. The parking lot can be reached via Itaska Walk to Lecoma Trace.

Staff will be working Friday and through the weekend so that City Hall can open for business Monday morning. Its phone number will remain the same: 678-2422500. The Police Department and Municipal Court will remain in the former City Hall at 13000 Deerfield Parkway.

The new municipal complex includes offices, City Council chambers, meeting facilities and a town green for community events. The Council approved a $10 million revenue bond to fund construction in May 2014, and ground was formally broken in December 2015.