Arts Center Names New Director

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2.  on Friday in a head-on collision in Pickens County, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

3. Nearly nine months after left the executive director's post at the , a successor has been named, according to the Cherokee Tribune. Artist Mary Martin Akers of East Cobb begins on Friday.

4. House , the failed charter school amendment that would have restored the state's power to approve charter schools. Sophie Loghman, the communications director for the Georgia House Democratic Caucus, has details. 

5. The . The new school is .

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