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Carver Elementary honor roll
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The fourth nine weeks honor roll for Dr. George Washington Carver Elementary School.

4th grade
Aaliyah Acosta, Michael Ahearn, Hope Ainsworth, Alayna Al-Awaj, Jonathan Altman, Donavan Ambrose-Robbearts, Lexi Antczak, Nicolas Arroyo, Tyler Atkins, Charlie Austin, Fisher Avery, Maggie Baker, Ruth Basie, Jordyn Bausch, Arjun Bhatia, Laurel Bixler, Diamond Blige, Luke Boone, Ryan Booth, William Bradley, Zackary Brown, William Brown, Aaron Browning, Emily Buerger, Kelly Byler, Andrew Carter, Emily Carter, Claudia Casaine Valentin, Ansleigh Cheaves, Thomas Clements, Ava Clymer, Michael Coffie, Jason Coverdale, William Cox, Alivea Cox, Hayden Crawford, Annalin Crawford, Jackson Crawford, Thomas Crippen, William Curry, Samantha Cuson, Bodie Custer, Leah Dah, William Daly, Caleb Davis, Hailey Decarreau, Aubry Deczynski, Kaylee DeLoach, Emily Dickerson, Celeste Diggins, Emily Dobson, John Durham, Caleb Durham, Katelyn Edmunds, Logan Ellis, Jahzara Elm, Ethan Evans, Ryane Fadness, Ruthy Fang, Zachary Farmer, Kaleb Farmer, Amelia Fausto, Samuel Filyaw, Avrey Fisher, Margaret Fontaine, Jett Frame, Ryan Fruchtl, William Galland, Ethan George, Alexander Gerlach, Maya Giorgianni, Jonatan Gonzalez, Jayden Gremm, Lauren Groneck, Landon Gunnels, Sadie Hamilton, Ian Hammett, Noah Harper, Annabelle Hartley, Savannah Hayes, Trinity Heindl, Cody Hendrix, Palmer Hendrix, Trevin Henry, Emma Highsmith, Sydney Hilaski, Kelila Holder, Eliana Holiday, Jashona Hollis, Mason Hook, Audrey Hudson, Jackson Huff, Lydia Ingerson, Faith Ingerson, Kenyon Johnson, Anja Johnson, Stephen Jones, Gabriel Jones, Gabrielle Jones, Allison Kapheim, Frederick Kehrer, Micah Kelley, Pooja Kormath, Hannah Kozlowski, Christopher Kramer, Mariah Kramer, Joshua Krichten, Alexis Krupp, Seth Laster, Na’Kira Lawrence, Karis Le, Savannah Legg, Kyle Lewis, Jordan Lim, Kyra Lopata, Evan Lowrimore, Kevin Ma, Owen Magness, Sarah Maples, Nathaniel Marshall, Cecilia Mateo, Ayden Mathews, Benjamin McDaniel, William McFarland, Willow McGinley, Kennedy Middleton, MacKenzie Miller, Madison Mills, Nora Minor, Faithe Mitchell, Madison Moore, Sadie Morgan, Larissa Mori, Gracyn Murguia, Camdyn Newberry, JustinThien Nguyen, Corbin Nichols, Nicolas Nunez Liman, Jooyoung Oh, Vitor Okada, John Olmr, Eric Ott, Emily Patselas, Davis Perry, Kate Pflieger, Lucia Pham, Zhamira Phillips, Justin Pollard, James Prewitt, Alysha Ramsey, Keith Rascoe, Robert Reagan, Grace Reddington, Ella Redman, Christopher Reed, Rachel Rey, Summer Richards, Colby Riley, Lauren Riner, Ethan Roberson, Nikolai Rodriguez, Isaiah Rothwell, Julia Rybin, Tyler Schell, Lillian Schrein, Seth Schulte, Stephen Sherman, Drew Shores, Dominique Shouse, Jordan Smith, Roman Smith, Brandon Snyder, Samuel Song, Landon Speer, Ryan Steele, Richard Steinbach, Frank Stephens, Lillian Stubblefield, Pawin Thangtaveekool, Bryson Titlow, Cassadi Torres, Samantha Toth, Madison Tuttle, Keagyn Ure, Joseph Urso, Hailey Vandiver, Chase VanGinkel, Manuel Vila, Rei Voight, Amy Ward, Kyleigh Wheeless, Mason Whittenberg, Ryan Wiebold, Zahirah Williams, Dymuhn Williams, Mackayla Winkworth, Helena Wolfe, Noah Wood, Kaya Yawn, Hannah Zoufal,

5th Grade
Corey Adamski, Anthony Allen, Gabriel Alonso, Magnus Anderson, Jennifer Arlow, Mariah Arnold, Noah Atkinson, Jodie Austin, William Ayers, Magnus Bamman, Kaylee Barcley, Isabelle Barnes, Margaret Batson, Nathan Bellafiore, Carson Belville, Kenneth Benard, Grace Benbrooks, Kellie Bigbie, Megan Black, Cale Blocker, Chandler Boothe, Taylor Boram, Taiyvin Boudreau, Joel Bowlin, Ava Bowling, Paul Brooksher, Taylor Brown, Nicole Brown, Lauren Brown, Willow Browne, Ella Burgstiner, Nathan Burns, Jackson Cantele, Garner Casella, Tye Cassady, Timothy Cella, Austen Chambers, Benjamin Clark, Hunter Collins, Hailey Comette, Grace Conn, Benjamin Cooper, Ethan Correa, Sophie Corson, Kylie Costello, Jake Coulter, Olivia Cowart, Aubrey Cowart, Jackson Custer, Kaden Dalal, Giana DeGirolamo, Andrew Demers, Lukas Dierking, Katelynn Dixon, Bryce Doherty, Devin Dudley, Preston Durham, Logan Eaker, Njilefe Ekwese, Zachary Ellett, Zachary Ellis, Johnathen Estep, Nasean Etheredge, Kieffer Eubank, Tate Evans, Kaleigh Faldowski, Ethan Falls, Nelson Fernandez, Carl Fettes, Kaylee Fisk, Gabriella Flaherty, Savannah Flanagan, Andrew Foley, Pedro Fonseca, Benjamin Foy, Caleah Frazier, Greggory Freightman, Wesley French, Kase Frohmann, Emily Fromme, James GaNun, Erin Gavin, Felicity Gentry, Mei-Ling Gessler, Taylor Goldhill, Daniel Gregory, Jason Grubb, Sterling Guess, Joshua Gutierrez, Morgan Hadley, Hadana Haile, Nathaniel Hambrick, Alexander Harris, Stephanie Harter, Emily Hartson, Tristen Hawkins, Ivy Hayes, Krista Hewitt, Asya Hightower, Bailey Hitzing, Abigail Hodgdon, Logan Hodges, Emily Holland, Regan Houck, Alexander Ichikawa, Kaleb Ingerson, Matthew Ingram, Abigail Irby, Oliver Irvin, Abbigale Jarrard, Caleb Jay, Tyra Jennings, Maurice Johnson, Azaria Johnson, Adam Jones, Nicholas Jones, Blakeleigh Jones, Dashiell Jorgenson, Alayna Kamentz, Brooke Kessler, Keith Kim, Daniel Kim, Charles Kitchens-Hayes, Camille Knight, Lindsey Knussmann, Jacob Koehler, Damien Kozel, Connor Krompak, Meghan Krull, Ashlynne Kuklok, Brandon Langley, Walter Lanier, Ruth Lee, Ebony Lewis, Leonel Lopez-Vela, Brena Loveless, Elizabeth Macdonald, Geoffrey Mahaffey, Julia Maike, Jonathan Malone, Adam Marshall, Jackson Martin, Peyton Martin, Ryker Martin, Matthew Martinson, Anthony Matias, Ryley Mayberry, Theodore Mazel, Kiersten McKenzie, Christopher McLeod, Isabella Melton, Alexis Merry, Sophie Miller, Manjot Minhas, Jamin Minyon, Genevieve Morea, Madeline Morrow, Sofia Mosteller, Kamdyn Munro, Tanay Mure, Layla Murray, Christopher Nagel Fitzhugh, Emily Nguyen, Felipe Oliveira, Olivia Ortiz, Bayla Osden, Shelby Osteen, Jason Padgett, Ariana Page, Madeline Palmer, Antonio Pantigoso, Alexia Paredes, Jeeya Patel, Li Payne, Sophia Peak, Vanessa Peres, Thomas Petrino, Jenna Pierre-Louis, Zephora Pinete, Bridgette Popov, Molly Quinney, Briana Reese, Angela Rice, Dustin Rice, Georgia Richards, Sierra Roberson, Anna Roberson, Cannon Romans, Jarianna Romero, Aleisha Rosa Lopez, MaKayla Ross, Hunter Ruehling, Robert Russell, David Rybin, Trysten Sanders, Rachel Sargent, Zachary Sawyer, Angel Scott, Jacob Sehl, Brent Shepherd, James Shin, Hannah Shockey, Garrett Small, Kaiya Smith, Hannah Smith, Ainslie Smith, Jaylen Smith, Elijah Smith, Isabel Soto, Denise Stafford, Jacob Starnes, Margaret Stem, Rashad Stepney, Quinn Stone, Lauren Stratton, Alexis Stump, Samantha Styer, Jordan Sullivan, Christopher Tate, Dominic Taylor, Taye Tedla, Dylan Thoman, Liam Thomas, Mackenzie Thompson, Laci Tiner, William Tompkins, Joseph Tuttle, Charles Tuttle, Michael Uetz, Manuel Vasquez, Peter Vatistas, Landon Vernon, Nathan Vickers, Alexana Voudouris, Jacob Wacha, Taylor Wade, Ammon Waite, Ava Walden, Samayya Walters, Madeline Ward, Aiden Warner, Maddison Warwick, Kevin Washington, Regan Waters, Taylor Watkins, Jacob Welch, Jaylen Wells, Juliana Wiley, Jordan Williams, Britton Williams, Alden Williams, Bria Williams, Rylie Williamson, McKenna Winbon, MacKenzie Winkworth, Morgan Wood, Taylor Wrenn, Aaron Yarborough, Justin Yu, Gabriel Zwicker,

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Later yall, its been fun
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This is among the last pieces I’ll ever write for the Bryan County News.

Friday is my last day with the paper, and come June 1 I’m headed back to my native Michigan.

I moved here in 2015 from the Great Lake State due to my wife’s job. It’s amicable, but she has since moved on to a different life in a different state, and it’s time for me to do the same.

My son Thomas, an RHHS grad as of Saturday, also is headed back to Michigan to play basketball for a small school near Ann Arbor called Concordia University. My daughter, Erin, is in law school at University of Toledo. She had already begun her college volleyball career at Lourdes University in Ohio when we moved down here and had no desire to leave the Midwest.

With both of them and the rest of my family up north, there’s no reason for me to stay here. I haven’t missed winter one bit, but I’m sure I won’t miss the sand gnats, either.

Shortly after we arrived here in 2015, I got a job in communications with a certain art school in Savannah for a few short months. It was both personally and professionally toxic and I’ll leave it at that.

In March 2016 I signed on with the Bryan County News as assistant editor and I’ve loved every minute of it. My “first” newspaper career, in the late 80s and early 90s, was great. But when I left it to work in politics and later with a free-market think tank, I never pictured myself as an ink-stained wretch again.

Like they say, never say never.

During my time here at the News, I’ve covered everything that came along. That’s one big difference between working for a weekly as opposed to a daily paper. Reporters at a daily paper have a “beat” to cover. At a weekly paper like this, you cover … life. Sports, features, government meetings, crime, fundraisers, parades, festivals, successes, failures and everything in between. Oh, and hurricanes. Two of them. I’ll take a winter blizzard over that any day.

Along the way I’ve met a lot of great people. Volunteers, business owners, pastors, students, athletes, teachers, coaches, co-workers, first responders, veterans, soldiers and yes, even some politicians.

And I learned that the same adrenalin rush from covering “breaking news” that I experienced right out of college is still just as exciting nearly 30 years later.

With as much as I’ve written about the population increase and traffic problems, at least for a few short minutes my departure means there will be one less vehicle clogging up local roads. At least until I pass three or four moving vans headed this way as I get on northbound I-95.

The hub-bub over growth here can be humorous, unintentional and ironic all at once. We often get comments on our Facebook page that go something like this: “I’ve lived here for (usually less than five years) and the growth is out of control! We need a moratorium on new construction.”

It’s like people who move into phase I of “Walden Woods” subdivision after all the trees are cleared out and then complain about trees being cut down for phase II.

Bryan County will always hold a special place in my heart and I definitely plan on visiting again someday. My hope is that my boss, Jeff Whitten (one of the best I’ve ever had), will let me continue to be part of the Pembroke Mafia Football League from afar. If the Corleone family could expand to Vegas, there’s no reason the PMFL can’t expand to Michigan.

But the main reason I want to return someday is about that traffic issue. After all, I’ll need to see it with my own eyes before I’ll believe that Highway 144 actually got widened.

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