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ACHS  alumna earns
 law degree
Shana Bowen, a 2006 Anderson County High School graduate, recently graduated from Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in Montgomery, Ala., earning her Juris Doctorate degree.
Upon graduation Bowen was inducted into the Public Interest Law Society and awarded the Merit of Pro Bono achievement for her volunteer work in the legal community, according to a press release. She was the president of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity and was an active board member for the Women’s Legal Society and Student Bar Association.

Janice Meredith will begin her new position in the district as the Ezra Sparrow Early Childhood Center principal starting July 1 for the 2013-14 school year.
According to Superintendent Sheila Mitchell, Meredith has 21 years of experience in the Anderson County School District in special education at the elementary and middle school levels, as well as experience in administration.

Given the choice, I’d prefer to lick envelopes than type e-mails.
Letter writing, to me, can still be an art form.
That’s all it is now, really.  
You sit down with a carefully chosen piece of stationery and your favorite smooth-inked pen.
You reflect on the week’s events and write them down unhurriedly, mostly because you’ve now forgotten how to hold a pen.
You are a modern calligrapher, you tell yourself. Your seasick, unreadable cursive letter will one day be kept behind plated glass, a symbol of a bygone era.

Judge-Executive John Wayne Conway will probably have to cheat.
Again.
Brian Stivers, the property value administrator who couldn’t hit the ocean from a boat, probably won’t even bother to show up, not after his embarrassing rubber-armed performance last time.
In fact, I’d be more worried about getting dunked by bunch of 5-year-olds who got cut from a pee wee league team than Stivers or Conway, neither of whom could dunk me the last time I sat in a dunking booth for a good cause.