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Elementary school student broadcast wins statewide award
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Clarice Griffith positions the teleprompter as Ashlynn Mullis steadies the camera for Blacks Mill Elementary Schools Tuesday morning WBME broadcast. - photo by Michele Hester Dawson County News
"Good morning, Black's Mill Elementary," anchors Shanna Morgan and Emma Walls said in unison during WBME's daily video broadcast Tuesday. The girls are among more than a dozen fifth graders that skip out on recess each day to prepare for the next day's morning announcements that are filmed live and shown in every classroom. They research the news and weather, write the scripts, set up the cameras, cue the lighting, run the computers, man the sound and do whatever it takes for the show to go on each morning.
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Graduation rate in Dawson County remains above 95 percent
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Despite the turmoil over the last year, as classes were canceled and pushed online due to COVID-19, the graduation rate in Dawson County for 2020 remains one of the highest in the state, according to Dawson County Schools Superintendent Damon Gibbs.
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