Regional Leaders to Discuss Transportation

1. The Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable’s executive committee will meet at 1 p.m. Tuesday to discuss "roadway, pedestrian and aviation projects for the draft constrained list to be funded by the Transportation Investment Act regional transportation referendum," Atlanta Regional Commission spokesman Jim Jaquish said. The meeting will be held at the Atlanta Regional Commission, Loudermilk Center for the Regional Community, 40 Courtland St. NE, Atlanta. The draft list, which can be viewed as a PDF on this page, contains projects in Cherokee. Leaders will meet again on Thursday to adopt a final version of the list.

2. The first day of school at Cherokee Charter Academy is next Monday and 56 parents chipped in to help set up for the big day. Holly Springs-Hickory Flat Patch has a photo gallery of the volunteers. View it .

3. Just when you thought the drama surrounding the county's first charter school was over, the Cherokee County Republican Party is calling on Cherokee County Board of Education members who to reconsider their positions or renounce their GOP affiliation. Click for details.

4. Canton-Sixes Patch is looking for its next . 's Connolly Huth was . If you think your child, student or protege is worthy of this honor, email rodney.thrash@patch.com. The winner's photograph and mini-bio will appear on the site at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

5. Save the date, parents. The PTSA is sponsoring its annual "Freshman Parent Breakfast" at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the school’s cafeteria. PTSA president Valerie McClendon and Creekview principal Bob Eddy are scheduled to speak and answer questions.