One unknown soldier

By Christine Anne Piesyk | January 4, 2007 |

He had short, shorn hair, sunkissed blond, and didn’t look old enough to be out of high school. Light skin, pale skin. Blue eyes. His faced was peppered with healing scabs on one side. Shoulders that should have been energetically squared off were instead slumped, as if shouldering burdens the rest of us could not imagine.

He leaned back against the wall, a bright blue wall that looked like sky. His eyes, those blue eyes, looked out across the room, but they didn’t seem to see; instead they held a vacancy, a distance, looking far away and anywhere but where he was. He looked old, in the way that only someone who has experienced great loss can look old. «Read the rest of this article»

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Exit 1 traffic update for January 2007

By David W. Shelton | January 4, 2007 |

There’s good news and there’s bad news about the traffic congestion at Exit 1. After several weeks’ worth of conversations, emails, and phone calls, I think it’s appropriate to update everyone on this rapidly worsening traffic debacle.

The bad news is there’s no money for improvement of Tylertown Road. Both Mike Frost, county highway supervisor, and Jim Durrett, street department head for the City of Clarksville, both said this. More on this issue later. «Read the rest of this article»

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Director of Schools to Speak at Minority Students & Parents Forum

By Terry McMoore | January 4, 2007 |

The Urban Resource Center raises the question: Are Black and Hispanic Students Getting a Fair and Equal Education? Why are The Suspension & Expulsion Rates for Black and Hispanic Students Higher Than White Students? Why Aren’t More Minority Students Being Placed in Advance Placement (AP) Classes? Is Everything Being Done to Close the Educational Gap for Minority Students?

Get the answers to these questions and more at the:

Meet the Director of Schools forum
With Special Guest Michael Harris
The Clarksville Montgomery County Director of Schools

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