Topic: New Providence

APSU Literature Department continues grant-funded reading program for local middle schools

June 23, 2009 |

For a second consecutive year, the Austin Peay State University Department of Languages and Literature has received a grant to help middle school students improve their reading.

The grant from the Student Academic Success Initiative will help APSU to continue the Readers 2 Leaders, a program started in 2008 in which APSU collaborates with local middle schools to engage students in the “shared inquiry” method of reading literature, said Dr. Tim Winters, professor of classics at APSU.

“The goal is to deepen the understanding of a text for the middle school student, helping that person to become a more astute reader,” he said. «Read the rest of this article»

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Groundbreaking planned for Fort Defiance Interpretive Center

December 3, 2008 |

The City of Clarksville will break ground on an interpretive center planned for Fort Defiance Park on Tuesday, December 9 at 3 p.m.

Fort Defiance Park, located at 120 A Street in New Providence, is the site of a Civil War-era fort used by the and later occupied by the Union Army. Today the earthworks (mounds) of the original fort are all that remain. The new interpretive center will illustrate through images and artifacts the story of Fort Defiance and the significance of the fort’s position as a controlling point on the Cumberland River.

The interpretive center will also feature exhibits depicting the history of the New Providence area starting with the Frontier Era (1780-1819), to the Steamboat Era (1819-1843), The Civil War Era (1861-1864), and through the Reconstruction Era (1865-1876).

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Gas hits $4.25/gal in Clarksville; demand has some stations running on empty

By Bill Larson | September 16, 2008 |

On the global market, gas prices are falling. Locally, they are on the rise — if you can get gas. On September 12, at 9.m., Clarksville Online staff bought gas on North Second Street where a sign on the pumps limited gas sales to 10 gallons per customer at $3.61 a gallon.  At 9 p.m. that night, gas had topped out at a high of $4.17 a gallon with the uncertainty and panic buying as Hurricane Ike raked the Gulf coast.

At Mapco (left) in New Providence, any gas that’s left will cost $4.25 for regular unleaded.

At the Kangaroo Mart in New Providence, an employee, Latoya, said  that her boss hadn’t raised prices; she wasn’t sure why, but they had experienced much higher than normal gas traffic as a result. «Read the rest of this article»

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