Cherokee Basketball Schedule Released

1. The 2011-12 varsity basketball schedule was released Wednesday.  and open their seasons against Pickens. The Creekview-Pickens game is scheduled for Nov. 11 while the Cherokee-Pickens game is scheduled for Nov. 15. starts the 2011 season against on Nov. 11. Open the PDF for the complete schedule.

2. The Canton City Council meets at 6 tonight at City Hall. If you can't attend the meeting, log on to Canton-Sixes Patch at 6 p.m. for our live video feed and minute-by-minute blog.

3. Wednesday, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (CASI) recommended the for reaccreditation as a Quality School System. "The recommendation will be considered by the SACS Commission in January," district spokeswoman Barbara Jacoby said. Patch reporter Cady Schulman was at a called Board of Education meeting where the announcement was made. Read her minute-by-minute account of the meeting .

4. was one of eight campuses that did not meet annual student progress goals when the . Wednesday, it became one of five Cherokee schools that came off of that list. Click for the full story.

5. Only 4.64 percent of Canton's registered voters have cast a ballot since Oct. 17, the day early voting began, Supervisor Janet Munda told Canton-Sixes Patch. To view sample city and county ballots, voting day information and 2009 municipal election statistics, click .

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