...595-1553? Wednesday, April 17: Symphony Orchestra Augusta Making Music Connections series; 1 p.m. Dearing Elementary school, 500 North Main St., Dearing, Ga.; free, open to public; (706) 986-4900? Thursday, April 18...

...Serving last year as an assistant principal for Evans and Grovetown middle schools, Hughes also was principal of Dearing Elementary School in McDuffie County."I'm just in the process of figuring out the best way to make it work, and what things...

The first day of school is Thursday, Aug. 19 for students in the McDuffie County School System.Open house is Tuesday, Aug. 17:From 4-6 p.m. for all elementary schools - (Norris Elementary has been relocated to the old Thomson Middle School building across from the Brickyard on Main Street)From 5-7 p.m. for Thomson-McDuffie Middle School (6-8th grades at the former junior high school building on White Oak Road across from the high school).From 6-8 p.m. at Thomson High School (9th - 12th grades).

...Lane, Martinez; (706) 210-4027MAYFEST ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 1, Dearing Elementary School, U.S. Highway 78, Dearing; free; parade, arts and crafts, rides, hamburger cook-off and more; exploremcduffiecounty...

...542-9092, gheusner@uga.eduMAYFEST ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 1, Dearing Elementary School, U.S. Highway 78, Dearing; free; parade, arts and crafts, rides, hamburger cook-off and more; exploremcduffiecounty...

...there for Zach: baseball. "He plays the game like there's no tomorrow," said his mother, a nurse at Dearing Elementary School. "He gives his all in every game. He wouldn't have it any other way." There's a blurry picture of Zach...

...drawing, her dad leaned close to her and said above the applause, "Happy birthday." The 10-year-old Dearing Elementary School fourth-grader was one of the children chosen March 7 at the Clear Channel House Family Y in North Augusta...

...new lottery will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the school administration office.Results of the lottery for Dearing Elementary School were not affected. That school received 41 completed packets in application for 40 slots .

...standoff Officers from multiple agencies surrounded a home in a rural section of McDuffie County just north of Dearing Elementary School on Wednesday night after a man fired shots at a deputy responding to an emergency call at his girlfriend's...

...event because it is under investigation. With Mr. Kitchens barricaded in the house about two miles north of Dearing Elementary School, McDuffie County sheriff's deputies, Georgia State Patrol troopers and SWAT personnel from Richmond County...